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 peripheral for the Mega Drive manufactured by Konami produced specifically for Lethal Enforcers. Versions for the Super NES and the original PlayStation were also produced.
The 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 Menacer, as Konami wanted accurate light guns for the console ports of the game. This was not much of an issue in Japan, where the Menacer was never sold. Lethal Enforcers and its sequel are only compatible with The Justifiers.
The Mega Drive supports a maximum of two Justifier guns 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 was only sold directly by Konami via mail order. 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, The Justifier relies 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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