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Crime Fighters

Crime Fighters - Japanese Title

Crime Fighters - marquee

Name: Crime Fighters
Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 1989
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: JAMMA
Settings: Crime Fighters Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 4
Maximum number of Players: 4
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [Punch/WeaponKick]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard (258 pounds - TNT Amusements)
Crime Fighters


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Crime Fighters Description

Crime Fighters was produced by Konami in 1989.

Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Crime Fighters was produced include Gradius III, M.I.A. Missing In Action, Cue Brick, Bottom Of The Ninth, Block Hole, '88 Games, Chequered Flag, Akumajou Dracula, Crazy Cop, and Contra (PlayChoice).

It's you and your friends versus the street gangs beat them up and kick 'em when they're down. Pick up steel pipes, knives and guns to eliminate your foes quicker. Fight the boss enemies at the end of each level.

Crime Fighters - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.08 (5 votes)

 Personal Impressions Score: 3.42

     Overall 'Like': 3.50
     Fun (Social): 3.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.50
     Collector Desire: 4.33 
Technical Impressions Score: 3.05

     Gameplay: 3.50
     Graphics: 3.20
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard (258 pounds - TNT Amusements)

Conversion

This game was released in both dedicated cabinets and as conversion kits for either The Main Event or Gauntlet cabinets. The game is pin-for-pin compatible with The Main Event, including the additional third and fourth player wiring connections.

Game Introduction

A typical street fighting game that takes place at various locations in a city. The object of the game is to rescue the girls who have been kidnapped by the city's crime boss. Your character can punch and kick any enemy, but once your foe collapses to the ground, you can kick him until he either gets up again or is defeated.

If an enemy carries a weapon, you can pick it up and use it against other bad guys. Once you get hit, however, the weapon disappears. The only exception to this is the gun which remains available until all the shots have been used up.

The end bosses each have different vulnerabilities. There is a different technique used to defeating each one, but some bosses just seem to require a lot of health to defeat them. Health points are received by dropping in quarters and are also rewarded for completing each level.

After you defeat the final end boss and rescue the kidnapped girls from the official crime boss, the credits roll and the game moves on to a special bonus round. You are placed in the ultimate quarter-pumping scenario: a street filled with all the end bosses and characters found throughout the game! Afterwards, the game starts over, but if you progress through all the levels again, the game will end.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Crime Fighters Census

There are 12,097 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,507 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 159,185 machines (6,676 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 95 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 34 of these machines are owned by our active Crime Fighters collectors. And of these, 4 are original dedicated machines, 4 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 26 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Crime Fighters machine for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Crime Fighters circuit board for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 29 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Legacy

  1. Crime Fighters (1989)
  2. Vendetta (1991)
  3. Violent Storm (1993)

Manuals

  1. Instruction Manual  16 Pages, 3.2 MB File.

Additional References
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  1. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Crime Fighters Flyer #248    
  2. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Crime Fighters Flyer #3346    

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Crime Fighters

1. CRIME FIGHTERS 2 uncensored Upgrade kit

Auction ends in: 1 week, 2 days

 FixedPrice
 
$20.00
 
2. Original Konami Crime Fighters Arcade Board P.C.B. - tested and working!

Auction ends in: 3 days, 3 hours

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$125.00
 
3. Konami Crime Fighters Arcade PCB *WORKING*

Auction ends in: 1 week, 5 days

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$300.00
 
4. CRIME FIGHTERS pcb 4-Player Upgrade Kit

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$20.00
 
5. KONAMI CRIME FIGHTERS JAMMA ARCADE PCB GX 821 ARCADE VIDEO COIN Tested Working

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$169.99
 
6. Konami Crime Fighters PCB & Full Harness

Auction ends in: 3 weeks, 7 hours

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$195.00
 
7. Crime Fighters Translite Arcade Game Marquee, Atlanta #240

Auction ends in: 3 days, 14 hours

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$25.00
 
8. CRIME FIGHTERS pcb 2-Player Upgrade Kit

Auction ends in: 3 weeks, 5 days

 FixedPrice
 
$20.00
 
9. Crime Fighters 2 Board PCB Konami

Auction ends in: 2 weeks, 4 days

 FixedPrice
 
$500.00
 
10. CRIME FIGHTERS-Konami WORKING ORIGINAL [email protected]@K!

Auction ends in: 4 weeks, 1 day

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$185.00
 
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