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Download and relive the excitement of the iconic Contra series! Battle your way through relentless waves of enemies, wield powerful weapons, and fight for survival in the ultimate test of skill and endurance. Are you prepared to face the challenge and conquer the world of Contra? Your action-packed mission starts now!

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Contra is a series of run and gun games, mostly set in the distant future, featuring the fight between humans and aliens.

The name “Contra” is explained as a super soldier with incredible, almost superhuman combat and tactical abilities; this actually represents the basis of the game, as the story is mostly inconsistent between installments, or the changes in the setting are so major that it really doesn’t matter if it’s one character or another. After all, the series is famous for its gameplay, not its storyline.

The first game features Bill and Lance as main characters, but, due to errors in translation from the Japanese version, the action takes place on Earth, in contemporary times, while the sequel takes place in the far future, resulting in the characters being renamed and presented as being descendants of the original heroes. Later they make an inexplicable comeback, although other times their reappearance is explained. The plot drastically changes in the European release, as depictions of war and conflicts between humans were not allowed, so enemies were redesigned as either aliens or robots.

The gameplay of the Contra series is a simple but chaotic run and gun style. Enemies swarm in from different directions and your only goal is to kill them all before they kill you. Enemies come in different shapes and sizes and you must use various power ups to defeat them as quickly as possible. Power ups include spread shot guns and flamethrowers with continuous jets. Between versions, these have been tweaked, receiving an increase or decrease in power, but all done for the sake of balance. In Contra Force, for example, you have control over the power up you want to receive by means of a bar with a cursor. You collect items which can move the cursor and, when it is positioned on the upgrade that you want, you can select it.

Depending on the game, the levels can be either shown from a side perspective or an overhead perspective, but the ultimate goal is the same: reach the end of the level and defeat the boss that awaits your arrival. In Contra: Hard Corps, there are different bosses based on decisions made throughout the game, with a total of six possible endings, if you count siding with the villain an ending; when making that choice, the screen displays “game over”.

Even with its inconsistent and sometimes confusing storyline, the Contra series is held in high regards by gamers because of its appealing and challenging gameplay, although chaotic at times. To this day, sequels are still being made, ironically keeping the tradition of not following the original storyline.

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Sega Genesis
Welcome sweet Super Contra. The Mega Turrican is hardly any different. The same running, and shooting but the graphics and sound are a lot better.

C: The Contra Adventure

After Contra: Legacy of War, fans of the long-running Konami series were itching to get a game that captured the classic feel.

Contra III: The Alien Wars

Contra III: The Alien Wars is the third console iteration of the Contra series, following the original Contra and Super Contra.
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SNES

Contra: The Alien Wars

Those brave, elite warriors known to you and me as the Contras, are back and ready for some more alien butt-kicking.

Joint Task Force

Most of the time, I'm of the mind that gameplay is what really sells any given title.

Neo Contra

Contra games have been around for some time now and many of us have fond memories fighting through hordes of enemies trying to reach the end of a stage.

Operation C

The spectacular NES game - Contra is now being converted to the GameBoy.

Super C

In the classic NES game, Contra, the evil alien Red Falcon got blown out of town by Super Commandos Mad Dog and Scorpion.
NES

Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces

Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces is a Super C for Europe and Australia.
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Time Slip

The gameplay resembles that of Contra III: The Alien Wars, albeit with simpler moves and nine lives, but not continues (as opposed to most games of this genre).
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