The Justifier
From Sega Retro
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| The Justifier | |||||
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| Made for: Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | |||||
| Manufacturer: Konami | |||||
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The Justifier is a light-gun accessory manufacturered by Konami. There are several variations, including one for the Sega Mega Drive (and Sega Mega-CD).
Konami Justifiers are shaped like revolvers (and are modeled after the Colt Python revolver), but are brightly coloured due to early 90s fears that light guns could lead to gun crime. They are controversial peripherals for other reasons too - namely the fact that they are incompatible with some games reliant on the Sega Menacer, as Konami wanted accurate light guns for the console ports of the game. Lethal Enforcers and its sequel are only compatible with Konami Justifiers, so if you're a fan of light-gun games, you need both controllers to play every game in the library.
The Mega Drive supports a maximum of two Justifiers at once - a blue one, which plugs into controller port 1, and a pink one, which plugs into the blue Justifier with a 6-pin RJ-11 phone cord). The pink justifier used to be obtained by mail order through Konami only. The pink Justifer is compatible with both, the Mega Drive and Super NES models of the blue Justifier. Because of this, the packaging for the second Justifier does not feature branding for either platform.
Like the Menacer and most other light-guns of the era, Konami Justifiers rely on scanlines produced by CRT televisions, making them incompatible with modern day LCD, Plasma or LED sets.
Compatible Games
- Lethal Enforcers (Mega Drive, Mega CD)
- Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (Mega Drive, Mega CD)
- Snatcher (Mega CD)
- Mad Dog McCree (Mega CD)
- Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (Mega CD)
- Who Shot Johnny Rock? (Mega CD)
Gallery
Blue gun
Pink gun
Physical Scans
| Mega Drive, JP |
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