Sunday, March 22, 2015

Lethal Enforcers

One of the cool things about the Super Nintendo is that there were actually two different light guns for the system.  The official one from Nintendo, which most people know about, is the Super Scope.  But there was another light gun released by a third party company - Konami - called the Justifier.

 
The Justifier came bundled with Konami's SNES port of their arcade shooting game, Lethal Enforcers.  Like Mario Paint and Earthbound, this game came in a big box, which collectors are now starting to eat up (they think big boxes are really cool).  This is making it harder to find, but I managed to snag a complete copy in good condition.




I recall playing Lethal Enforcers in the arcade back in the early '90s, but I don't think I've ever played any of the home console ports (it's on the Sega Genesis and Sega CD as well). 

One of the major reasons I decided to get this game was because it actually supports two simultaneous light guns, something that neither the NES Zapper nor the Super Scope could do.  However, to do this, you need to pick up the pink player two Justifier, which is actually system neutral (it'll work with the SNES, Genesis and Sega CD). 

I managed to find the pink gun on eBay in its original box.  This is fairly difficult to find because these pink guns had to be mail ordered directly from Konami.  They weren't sold in stores.

The pink gun actually uses a phone line to connect to the bottom of the blue gun.  So the guns daisy chain off each other, similar to the Panasonic 3DO controller.  I'm not sure why they had to do this instead of simply using both controller ports on the SNES.



I'm looking forward to recording and posting a two-player playthrough of this game.



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Goldeneye

I bet some people have been wondering how I can own a Nintendo 64 (and even Perfect Dark) but not Goldeneye.  The simple answer is that Perfect Dark made every other shooter irrelevant for me back in the N64 era. 

However, I finally got around to picking up Goldeneye, and I'm looking forward to playing through the game and also uploading some footage.  I haven't played this game since the late '90s, so it's going to feel new again.

The box is in good condition and just has some slight crushing on the back.