Contra

Plot

Contra is a 1 or 2 player game that is basically a side scroll game. It revolves around the adventure of 2 military commandos named Bill and Lance , who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist organization called Red Falcon that is secretly planning to take over the Earth. Details of the game's setting varies between supplementary materials: the Japanese versions establishes the game's setting to be a fictional Oceania archipelago of Galuga in the futuristic year of 2633, whereas the manual for the American NES version sets the game during the present in an unnamed South American island. The American storyline also changes the identity of "Red Falcon" from being the name of a terrorist organization to the name of an alien entity.

Gameplay

The main character is equipped with a rifle with an unlimited amount of ammunition. The player can also jump, move and fire in eight directions, as well as move or jump simultaneously while firing. A single hit from any enemy, bullet, or other hazard will instantly kill the player character, and also discard the current weapon from the player's disposal. There are a total of four weapons the player can retrieve from flying weapon capsules or pill-box sensors: a Machine Gun, a Laser Gun, a Fire Gun, and a Spread Gun. There also two additional supplemental power-ups: a Rapid Fire power-up which increases the player's firing speed, as well as a Barrier that will grant the player temporary invincibility for a few seconds. All the power-ups in the arcade version are represented by Eagle-shaped letter icons with the exception of the Machine Gun and Laser.

 

Thoughts

This is the very essence of nostalgia for me next to Mario. It relives those childhood days where I would play it in my cousin's house nearly everyday wanting to beat our best score and proceed to the very next level. It was a very nice experience whereby gaming brought us close together as cousins. 

Graphics

The graphics are very reminiscent of the good old days that makes u in awe of how good it looked back then. Of course incomparable to today's graphic nature, Contra's graphics was enough to make you sit in front of the tv for countless hours. 

Though they looked like crap, they sure did kick some ass! And i ll surely kick yours at this game. Try me.