Crime Fighters is nothing more than a street fight. A several levels long street fight, but a street fight nonetheless. You and your team of identical brothers (save for differing pants color) must go along and beat up a bunch of generic thugs until they’re dead.
It’s a touch violent.
You have at your disposal the ability to punch and kick your enemies until they fall down and then kick them some more. Occasionally your character will be kicked in a very tender area, with the appropriate ringing sound, or smacked around by one of the weapons that the thugs decide to bring to the party: lead pipes, switchblades, and pistols. You can punch the Bad Guys and they’ll drop the toys for you to use, although when you get punched and drop whatever you’ve picked up it disappears as soon as it hits the ground.
Each stage ends with an disproportionately deadly boss character who will bash you repeatedly, often resulting in the death of several of your quarters. You then go to the next stage for some more carnage.
The game is pretty fun, hardcore cartoony violence aside, until the very end. At the end of the game you get to fight all the boss characters from all the stages again, all at the same time. That stage hurts. A lot. If you plan on playing the game, I’d suggest bringing lots of quarters. That or a posse.