Crime Fighters (Arcade) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Konami's 1989 beat 'em up arcade game Crime Fighters.
Played through on the default difficulty setting.
Everyone knows that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a smash hit, but it didn't just come out of nowhere. It followed about seven months behind Crime Fighters, and given the similarities between the games, it's clear that Crime Fighters was a test bed for many of the ideas that ended up turning TMMT into such a megahit.
Crime Fighters is no slouch itself, though. It's a beat 'em up that goes for a somewhat gritty, realistic feel, making it feel something like a midpoint landmark between Double Dragon and Final Fight. The graphics are sharp and detailed, and backgrounds look awesome for such an old game. The game isn't afraid to show its sense of humor, either. Getting whacked in the dong makes for an amusing bit of slapstick, as does being flattened by a billboard showing a topless woman. I also crack up at the way you can plug the stage eight boss right in the face. The music is fantastic as well, and it sounds a lot the popular TMNT soundtrack thanks to the overlaps in the games' staffs.
The game play is solid, but it's important to note that there are two major versions of the game. Now,, remember how games like Bayou Billy and Haunted Castle had two versions, one of which was so hard that the difficulty actually ruined it? With Crime Fighters, that would be the US version.
I'm playing the world release here, and it is this one that I would recommend playing. It's tough without being unfair (usually), and even when you're totally surrounded, the game gives you a fighting chance.
The US one, however, does everything it can to vacuum the coins from your pocket. Enemies take far more hits, your back attack has been removed, guns have limited ammo, and your health constantly drains. I honestly don't find it worth playing at all in that state.
But overall, if you want a fun beat 'em up with a great presentation and a minimal amount of depth, Crime Fighters does the job well. It was the foundation upon which TMNT was built, after all.
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16:12 - You know a street gang is bad when even Freddy Kruger wants to be a member!
Freddy "Wow these guys are cool! Where do I sign up?"
So is Jason Voorhees (Level 2 Subway Train) and Leatherface (Stage 4 Construction Site) are in the game as well! Not just Freddy Krueger!
The only beef with this game is the sprites are *too small.* All these great boss designs inspired by horror movie villains too! Konami should remake this game!
Yeah, the sprites are laughably tiny for a 1989 arcade game. Final Fight came out that same year!
CF feels an awful lot like TMNT with a few guns tossed into the mix, and that soundtrack is killer!
This is also a prequel to vendetta as well.
😁 Hey look! It's one of a few old-school *_"Konami"_* published titles that I missed out on!
It Indeed *_does_* look like a watered down *_"TMNT"_* Beat Em' Up, but I noticed that the typical *_"Konami"_* flare is here. Good graphics, good music, and the gameplay seems enjoyable.
Might look in to it someday.
Yup cuz both Konami games
Of course the music kicks ass, this is old *KONAMI!* (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons Arcade, X-Men, Rocket Knight Adventures) Great memories growing up!
And because of Crime Fighters, TMNT almost gave the turtles the ability to use a laser gun. This is cemented even more as there's a voice clip that says Zappy, which implicated that at one point, you could pick up a laser gun
18:20 - Man, that homeless dude scratching his butt in the background really has no shame. 😂
these games always had great personality. same now too with the new sega genesis game paprium but not as creative as these guys hehe
Back when games had "character'
Must not have wiped very well.
Ha. I like how they introduced the story here: Some douche stole some girls, beat him up.
That's all the plot I need!
Eh, sounds more like a rip-off of the first *_"Double Dragon"_* game to me. Sadly, no ridiculous gut punching here...
@@Dorian_Scott
Thinking about it, most beat em ups at the time had the same plot of "saving person from bad gang".
The Simpsons, Final Fight 1, Streets of rage 2 are examples of this.
double dragon 1 is my favorite. guys beat up my girl and i gotta get her back. nothing will best that!
@@SoulStreak64 Wasn't *_"The Simpsons"_* Arcade like, _"Smithers stole Maggie... Who is also housing a diamond. Now, Go get her back!"_ ?
@@Video-Games-Are-Fun Even though that trope is used in *EVERY BEAT EM' UP, EVER!* ... It's a classic one.
damn that dude beat up freddie krueger, mike tyson, ghost rider, jason, leather face, ivan drago, and simon phoenix jesus
Let's see Mario do all that to get Princess Peach!
The stage 7 boss looks like dolph lundgren and Guile before Guile existed. Watch this death animation; guiles hair!!!
@@benjiroberts4434 That boss is a shout-out to the movie _Platoon._
I think the Simon Phoenix lookalike was modeled after Mike Tyson (this wasn't the only time Iron Mike was spoofed by Konami since he was parodied as Black Stallion in 1988's The Final Round)
@@figment1988 Damn, you're like the Konami Trivia Buff! 👏
The sequel Crime Fighter 2 or Vendetta is much more superior, although the sequel retain it's "My balls!" animation
I never heard of this game, but I believe Vendetta was probably either a sequel or spiritual successor to it.
KT Johnson That is indeed correct. Vendetta is called Crime Fighters 2 in Japan.
You'd think the boss who was literally chugging gasoline like it was a Big Gulp of 7-Up "The Un-Cola" would've exploded apon defeat. Also 89 cents a gallon man wish gas was still that cheap.
*_"Un-Cola"_* (😡 Ugh....)
I forgot that it was the slogan for *_"7-Up"_* . You even have to spell it out in *_"Cool Spot"_* ... well... except for the PAL release.
Puns aren't funny, people!
@@Dorian_Scott Well it was less of a pun more a description of the product itself. I like it, because it describes 7-Up perfectly. It is indeed the opposite of cola. Bubbly, light, and sits smoothly in the gut. Like champagne but more refreshing and it won't leave you drunk. When it comes to citrus pops it's my favorite, though I do love the taste of Squirt as well. "Expecially the Mexican Variety." I expecially love the cherry flavor myself.
@@larrylaffer3246 Makes sense. I actually prefer *_"Sprite"_* over *_"7-Up"_* , but I still love me some *_"7-Up"_* .
The Cherry variety is fine, just not my favorite. I prefer *_"Strawberry Sunkist"_* , though.
@@Dorian_Scott Ah yes strawberry pop. The underappreciated variety. As long as it isn't green apple "or even worse watermelon" I'm usually ok with most fruit pops. Seriously I can't stand anything green apple and expecially watermelon flavored. Why MTN Dew thought releasing a new flavor based on the worst of all the flavors of them all is something I'll truely never understand.
@Dorian Scott No just can't stand the taste. Much like I can't stand the taste of red licorice. "Yes really I can't stand both Twizzlers or Redvines." Though I do like black licorice and/or Anise the flavor it's derived from.
Just to say, I absolutely love your write-ups in the descriptions. Always excellent, intelligent and fun.
Tyvm! :)
YES i remember that train moving attract mode!!this game is REALLY entertaining because of the characters and the backgrounds. this is just so hilarious and SO new york city 1980s with thugs and crime everywhere. today we have crime in new york (i live in new york city) but it is mostly mentally ill people. petty theft isn't that high, nor is attacks for stuff, but you have insane ppl. walking around clocking you in the head for no reason. look at the headlines. sample here nypost.com/2021/01/14/muggers-fracture-mans-jaw-in-broad-daylight-nyc-attack/
0:48 - Something tells me DownTown Insurance Co. got a lot of business with that ad...
Back when advertisers knew how to draw in the customers!
Sadly the company who made their sign used subpar materials. Stand under it and it'll fall on top of you. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The music in this game is awesome.
If you went on the New York Subway in the 90s there was a 50/50 chance of a beat em up breaking out..
Or, you run into the guys from *_"The Warriors"_* .
It's like the level artist and character artist never met.
28:23 first thing you do when you free a harem of 80s hotties is naturally make a cringey line about kidnapping them all for yourself
It's how I spend every weekend.
It's probably why there's an epilogue stage; the girls' boyfriends caught wind of that horrendous comment, and now they want the main character dead. Doesn't help that the main character looks like Zach Morris...
Looks a little generic even for Konami standards but fun. Don't ever recall coming across it in the wild as a kid growing up
it's crazy, bcuz I didn't remember seeing this game coming up as well neither.
@@Gen965 I ran into one years ago before the KI Sawyer AFB closed down, they had the machine in there for a while before the base closed down. It was quickly replaced with a Street Fighter II cabinet which was WAY more popular as you can imagine.
Remember playing this game in 1990 at 7-11 Cali
A no good fat dude kidnapped some girls, so go out and beat up him and his thugs. Pretty much was this game is all about. There are two particular songs in the soundtrack that stick out to me when I heard them. Stage 3/Stage 7 music sounds a lot like the basis for the Red Planet stage in NES Bucky O' Hare, and Stage 4/Stage 8 track definitely was the main inspiration for the Technodrome stage in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)!
5:50 Love how the dude is just going to town with that handgun...no f*cks given whatsoever lol
It's also pretty great how Jason just sort of twitches. Everytime he gets shot it looks like he just whacked his head on a low ceiling.
I imagine the obscene difficulty of the US version didn't make it a particularly popular machine.
It was decent, but the moment TMNT 1989 showed up, Crime Fighters was more of a sleeper hit
When Konami was awesome, absolutely amazing arcade games. Check out Vendetta as well:)
I love videos
I remember playing this in the arcade. Loved it. And hated it. Cheap enemies that would make you take damage no matter what.
Why is the health bar not numbers? This the American version? Also the difficulty must be set to ultra easy. Enemies die way too quickly
Edit. Nevermid I read the description.
The numerical hit point system was for the 4 player versions. The 2 player variant uses a more traditional double dragon style life system
Arcade Archives needs to bring this on the switch
and PS4
They should also bring Vendetta and Violent Storm on Switch as well.
@@GenericUser379 and ps5
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder which also should be on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, & Xbox series X too
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder it's now available for switch and PS4
Konami should release another Arcade Anniversary Collection one day, and this is one of those games it should feature.
It's now available to the Switch and PS4.
2 years later...
And given how popular Mini cabinets are becoming thanks to SNK's Neo-Geo Mini, Taito's Egret II Mini, and Sega's Astro City and Astro City Mini V. It would be cool if Konami did the same and have a Konami Windy Mini with this game along with its sequels (Vendetta and Violent Storm).
Part 2 vendetta is also on the PS4 or on the PSN it came out yesterday
At one of the Air Force Bases my family was stationed at they had this cabinet in the Youth Center, basically a place for kids and teens to hang out at that had billiards, air hockey, basketball courts, games and so on. What really bugged me was the button layout as it was reversed with the buttons on the left side of the joystick and the positioning of the 4 players (on a 2 player sized cabinet no less) was not evenly spaced. Never thought I would see this game pop up anywhere again after all these years.
Ah, I remember youth centers. My dad was in the Navy. Good ol' MWR :)
Punkest arcade game of all time
is this available on switch?
It's now available
I love the punch and kick sounds in this game. They're so solid and crisp.
My childhood right there 👆🏻
So many bosses are horror icons! Why does every game like this make the female baddies S&M with whips or cuffs, though?
This was my shittt
And now you can relive those memories now that this game is finally available on the Arcade Archives for switch and PS4
No tienes idea
I remember playing this as a 10 year old on holiday in Spain 1991. The teenagers were going crazy for it with crowds watching people play. Kids Running to their parents to get more change before the timer ran out!!
This game is fucking BS.
I hate how my attacks go right trough the enemies often. The knife has WAY shorter reach than it looks.
can you recommend a console with CRIME FIGHTERS" by KONAMI in 1989
Hello I have a question to the person that made this video how come when I play crime fighter today it took me 3 hours to complete the whole thing but you 36 minutes?
9:58 the almost Shredder Stage Like Music begins!
This guy, Cody from final fight & Axel from Streets of Rage all av the exact same fashion style = white T shirt & denim jeans! 😃 btw first game in the Konami brawler trinity is this. Check out Vendetta & Violent Storm guys. Av u done those 2 on ur channel Nintendo complete?
Not yet, but they're coming.
I'll give it a try if I find this game on the website named "retrogames".
I remember seeing this in my cousin basement
You play as a guy on his daily commute to work.
I once escaped from the oratory to go and play this game. my mom found out and beat me like a turkey
This is the Japanese version with the unlimited gun ammo and homosexual
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I don't remember the guns in the original game having infinite ammo...
Why would you burn the picture of the guy you want to find
This seems a whole heck of a lot more forgiving than the version I played when I was younger.
I think the difficulty is set on easy lol. people commenting on how the US version was harder, this is the US version because JP lacked the highly crucial back kick move. I wish there was an explanation for why the stage 4/8 music is a variation of the later TMNT 1989 Technodrome music (which blew my 7 year old mind back when that game was new)
@@mecha2001 The US version with 4 players is the hardest due to the health draining system. The US(or some called international-world) version that's 2 players has the traditional health system and lives just like the Japanese version. This game is on Arcade Archives so you can see the differences between the 4 versions(JP 4P version, JP 2P version, US 2P version and US 4P version).
@@mecha2001 Does reading the description cost money? It's free where I am.
3:08 notice the super awesome sports car on the left in the poster and then the hot girl on the right poster. lmao. the PERFECT combination of what a young guy wants!
The gameplay kinda reminds me of Capcom's The Punisher, although this game came out before then.
I gotta say, that seems like a very generously wide subway car, lol. Also, gotta love the random 50's greasers constantly messing with their hair - not sure if the Konami staff on this one did their research. Then there's the fact that the steel pipe somehow downs thugs in a hit or two whereas they seem to take several volleys from a 0.44 at extreme close range, lol.
Konami made the same stupid mistake with Metamorphic Force 4 years later for the US version of that game.
My best friend and I would play the shit out of this game in the arcade. Great memories man.
🤨 Am I the only who sees the protagonist of this game as *_Terry Bogard_* from *_"Fatal Fury"_* / *_"King of Fighters"_* ?
The game is extremely hard!!
BTW, extra props for hanging in there during the boss rush at the end!
I am searching for a game that looks exactly like this only you could pickup automatic guns like M16 and you were on a train. Looked very similar to this.
There was a part 2, or a spinoff I remember
That handgun its the same from de metal slug soldiers.
👍🙏👍💥.
Never had the pleasure of playing this one back in the day. It was either final fight or double dragon. Looks fun though.
It's fun 1and 2 get the Pandora box arcade on eBay it got all the arcade games on there
Reminds me of the old vigilante arcade game
That 🔫 never runs out of bullets 😲
In the 2 player variant of the Japanese version, the ammo is unlimited. There are two cons though - if you have the gun knocked off your hands, it's gone. The 2nd con is that the strength of one bullet is equivalent to 1 kick.
The American and international version's bullets were as strong as a common combo that ends in a knockdown, and as long as there's ammo and the gun doesn't fade out, you can pick it up as much as you desire. But as mentioned, the bullets are limited (13 to be exact - 12 in the clip and 1 in the chamber)
18:59 OMG He killed the Joker!!!
*_"You bastard!"_*
The enemy AI is horrible
As well as the collision detection. But given that this was Konami's first arcade brawler, this gets some forgiveness points.
@@figment1988 Bosses just walk out and do extremely predictable movements and get destroyed lol
@@toomyconne768 the only one that I've noticed that really is tough to beat because he actually puts up a fight is the chainsaw guy