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Contra is awesome even when it's not quite Contra

Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff, Video

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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Virtually Overlooked: Contra Hard Corps

Posted Dec 13th 2007 9:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Virtually Overlooked

Welcome to our weekly feature, Virtually Overlooked, wherein we talk about games that aren't on the Virtual Console yet, but should be. Call it a retro-speculative.

With Contra 4 kicking DS Lites' asses, Contra fans who inexplicably only own Wiis are probably feeling a bit neglected, with only Super C and Contra III: The Alien Wars to play. Oh, wait, those games are awesome. Well, nonetheless, we want to talk about Contra today, specifically the one Virtual Console-eligible Contra game that is not in the direct Contra series progression, and is thus most likely to be underappreciated in the post-Contra 4 world. Consider yourself a hero and jump over the exploding post break.

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Somebody's top ten NES games

Posted Oct 17th 2007 6:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Video

Most "Top Ten NES Games" lists, of which there are two hundred released every second, turn out predictable and entirely skippable, but through the power of creative video editing, ScrewAttack managed to make their tally of favorites something worth the time spent watching it. You don't have to take our word for it! Dun-un, dun!

As expected, their list isn't perfect -- if it were, River City Ransom would occupy at least seven of the spots, leaving just enough room for Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2, and an emergency copy of River City Ransom. But it would be naive to think that any collection of NES games with "Top anything" written in proximity would satisfy everyone, unless, of course, it was a list of Top Gun titles (all two of them). So feel free to comment with your own selection of "Absolutely Best NES Games Ever."

VC Monday Madness video wrap-up 8/27/07

Posted Aug 27th 2007 5:15PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: VC Monday Madness

Wow, what a week for the Wii, eh? First, we're getting Metroid Prime 3 and now we get three stellar Virtual Console games?! Someone killed us and we're typing this from beyond the grave, is that it? Yup, that has to be it: we're dead.

We'll say hello to Ghandi for you.

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Super C headed to Virtual C

Posted Aug 24th 2007 9:45AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Virtual Console

Another less-popular-than-the-original Konami NES sequel is on the way to the Virtual Console. This time, it's Super C, the sequel to the beloved Contra. Super C features Bill Rizer and Lance Bean doing what they do best: picking up weapons that fall out of blimps, and shooting alien after alien in as shirtless a manner as they possibly can. It's not as good as the original, but that's like saying that peanut butter cookies aren't as good as peanut butter cookies with little toffee chips in them: both are completely delightful.

With Contra III: The Alien Wars having been out for a while and this on the way, it appears that Konami is working backwards. Please let that be true, Konami. Put Contra on the Virtual Console soon. Don't try to slip Contra Force in there.

Super Mario Bros. 3 riding a Kuribo's Shoe onto the Australian VC

Posted Jul 16th 2007 2:40PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Virtual Console

Australia getting a Virtual Console game before anyone else? Maybe! We can't be sure when Sonic 3 and Super Mario Bros. 3 will find their way onto the VC, but at least we know they're on their way, thanks to the Office of Film and Classification.

The Aussie equivalent of the ESRB keeps a database of ratings just like the ESRB does. A bunch of games have been added, including a lot that are already out in other regions, and a few, like Mario 3, that are news. Of course, the best part of this for people who don't happen to have Australian consoles is that if a game is planned for one region, it's terribly likely it'll be out soon in others!

Other things on the list that make us happy: Strider (although we don't know if it's the Genesis version or the NES version), Galaga '90, and Probotector II-- which is Super C. The full list of new updates is after the break!

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I am information about I am 8-bit 2.007 [update 1]

Posted Feb 25th 2007 3:13PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff

Game Informer has posted a nice preview of the 2007 I am 8-bit art show, along with some of the art that will be featured. I am 8-bit is an annual art exhibition that celebrates classic videogame culture and iconography, with an emphasis on Nintendo and their NES-era third parties. It's also the source of some amazing game-related art, like the mega-adorable "Mega Man" by Suzuki Shuji. We'd be proud to display any of these paintings, sculptures, or crafts in our own Fancaves.

Just like every year, we'll be gazing wistfully at these previews and cursing our luck for not being Californian or California-adjacent. If you happen to be in the LA area between April 17 and May 12, we urge you to go to Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight and support the very best kind of fanboyism: the kind that manifests in honest creative expression (fanfic excluded).

[Update 1: changed the preview picture to something friendlier.]
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ContraVania: a gaming mashup [update 1]

Posted Jan 2nd 2007 11:35AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Fan stuff, Video

We're no strangers to the work of Jim Welch who, through his website, maintains a strict regimen of drawing daily. His end products are, often, amazing and instill in us feelings of envy and jealousy. We wish we could produce such lovely pieces of art. Instead, our destiny seems to be on the business end of a laptop, captured in a cage and left to blog until our fingers are tiny nubs and the last sliver of light has disappeared on the dungeon wall.

Video has been, as always, embedded into the post past the jump. Update: now with working video!

Past illustrations:

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Contra is awesome even when it's not quite Contra

Virtually Overlooked: Contra Hard Corps

Somebody's top ten NES games

VC Monday Madness video wrap-up 8/27/07

Super C headed to Virtual C

Super Mario Bros. 3 riding a Kuribo's Shoe onto the Australian VC

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ContraVania: a gaming mashup [update 1]

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