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Revision as of 11:00, 7 May 2018
Contra, known in Japan as 魂斗羅 [Kontora] and on European computers as Gryzor, is a run-and-gun action shooter developed and published by Konami for the Arcade on 1987-02-20 and is the first in the Contra series. It was later ported to various home computers and special ports that were quite a bit different were made for the NES and MSX2.
I have never actually played or even seen Contra in the arcade. My first experience was with the NES game. When I found out about MAME, I wanted to see what Contra was like for the arcade, assuming it would be like a 16-bit version of the NES game, but I was a bit disappointed.
Contents
Status
I do not own any of the port and haven't beat any.
Review
- Overall: 4/10
- Best Version: Arcade
Good
- The game is a pioneer of the run-and-gun genre and, at least for 1987, pretty impressive.
- Using Giger's art style as adapted to Alien was a great idea.
- Some of the boss graphics are pretty amazing.
Bad
- The colors in the graphics are pretty bad. The backgrounds all have a washed out look, while foreground objects have a much higher contrast. I presume this was done so the players would know where to concentrate their bullets, but it looks awful.
- The player's jumping animation is ridiculous looking.
- The football player boss is lame.
- The various ports are much worse than the arcade game.
Ugly
- Nothing.
Box Art
Documentation
Maps
Credits
Arcade
Role | Names |
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Director | Koji Hiroshita |
Programmers | Satoru Okamoto, Hideyuki Tsujimoto, Koichi Cobra |
Graphic Designer | Kengo Nakamura |
Special Designers | Takashi Jinbo, Passionate Norio |
Music and Sound | Kazuki Muraoka |
Engineer | Rom Yamamoto |
Videos
- youtube.com/watch?v=rD9G7OCmsfk - Arcade pongplay.
- youtube.com/watch?v=5stKSYNk6Z8 - Amstrad CPC longplay.
- youtube.com/watch?v=9TLzIJIKxDs - Commodore 64 longplay.
- youtube.com/watch?v=KT5sZxc0R3s - ZX Spectrum longplay.
Links
- mobygames.com/game/contra - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game) - Wikipedia.