Crimefighters

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{{Infobox game

| name = Crimefighters

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| designer = David Cook

| publisher = TSR

| date = {{release date and age|1981}}

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| random_chance = Dice

| playing_time = Varies

| genre = Crime

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| skills = Improvisation, arithmetic

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Crimefighters is a TSR pulp-themed tabletop role-playing game created by game designer David Cook.{{cite journal|authorlink=David Cook (game designer)|author=Cook, David|title=Crimefighters|date=March 1981|journal=Dragon|issue=47|publisher=rollenspiel-almanach.de|url=http://www.rollenspiel-almanach.de/wp-content/uploads/Crimefighters.pdf}}{{cite web|url=https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=39bb1bf6cdff86f3&id=39BB1BF6CDFF86F3%21302|title=Crimefighters|website=onedrive.live.com|access-date=2015-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126102218/https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=39bb1bf6cdff86f3&id=39BB1BF6CDFF86F3!302|archive-date=2015-11-26|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/15/crimefighters/|date=June 15, 2009|title=Crimefighters!|website=stargazersworld.com}} Crimefighters was originally released in issue 47 of the March 1981 edition of Dragon magazine.{{cite web|url=http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=10125|title=Dragon #47|website=rpg.net}}{{cite web|url=http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=22036|title=Crimefighters|website=rpg.net}}

This issue of Dragon magazine also contained an introductory Crimefighters adventure called The Case of the Editor’s Envelope.

The game featured artwork by artist Jeff Dee{{cite web|url=http://paratime.ca/v_and_v/art_jdee_rpg.html|title=The Jeff Dee Gallery|website=paratime.ca}} who also drew the Crimefighters game character Dark Night Dan.

Crimefighters was included in the Dragon Magazine Archive, a collection of five CD-ROMs comprising the first 250 issues of Dragon magazine.{{cite web|url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_2584.phtml|title=REVIEW OF DRAGON #47|date=December 2, 1999|author=Coffin, Bill|website=rpg.net}}