If playing Contra III on the Virtual Console is too inauthentic an experience for you, then these versions of Contra would no doubt make you backflip to death. Youtube user iniche has compiled videos of Contra variants, from the official (Ocean Software's ports of Gryzor, a.k.a. Contra, for various underpowered European computers, like the Spectrum 128 version seen here) to the spectacularly unofficial (a Famicom remake of Contra III).
Especially notable is a (sort of) original fake Contra game called Super Contra 8. That's, like, four more Contra than the last official Konami Contra game -- and it's super.
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3-30-2008 @ 1:15PM
hvnlysoldr said...
You can't even tell where the bullets are!
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3-30-2008 @ 1:57PM
Serious Kano said...
And the shooting sounds make my ears explode...
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3-30-2008 @ 2:04PM
Mike said...
Haha, I love it.
The music reminds me of playing Contra on my Commodore 64. I loved that game when I was little. The joystick I used had only one button to shoot so I would use my foot to press the spacebar to jump.
Good times!
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4-15-2008 @ 6:54PM
Iniche said...
I'm rather surprised that my videos are being spoken of more than I expected. Thanks for the article. I have put a lot of videos of Contra recently.
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4-15-2008 @ 6:59PM
Iniche said...
By the way, I have plenty more Contra games in mind to post up.
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