Vintage Gaming: Contra

A multi-video tribute to all my favorite classic video games!

Title: Contra
Developer: Konami
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
Year: 1988
Description: In the year 2631, a small meteorite has fallen into the Galuga archipelago, located 20km northeast off the coast of New Zealand. Two years later, a terrorist group known as Red Falcon has seized the island in preparation for an alien invasion. The earth's marines sent two members of their elite Contra unit, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, to neutralize the terrorists.

Contra is an arcade game released in 1987 by the Konami corporation. The player controls a commando who battles waves of enemies including humans, machines, mutants and aliens to reach his ultimate goal. Much of the game's popularity came from its two-player simultaneous gameplay, which was an uncommon feature in video games at the time of Contra's release. While successful in the arcades, the game became and remained widely popular and remembered when it was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. Contra was voted #1 by gaming website IGN.com as being the "Toughest Game to Beat". (I guess they never played Ghosts'n'Goblins...)

Notes: "Spread Gun--the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every muthaf***a in the room, accept no substitute."

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Entertainment

Tags:

• vintage
• gaming
• contra
• NES
• shooter
• 1988

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