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Contra [a] is a video game series produced by Konami composed primarily of run and gun-style shooting games.The series debuted in February 1987 with the Japanese coin-operated arcade game of the same name, which has since spawned several sequels produced for various platforms.
Contra III was released in Japan on February 28, 1992, and North America on March 26. In Europe, the game was retitled Super Probotector: Alien Rebels and released on September 12, 1992. [ 1 ] : 14 In Super Probotector , the gameplay and story remained mostly the same, but the designs of the player characters were changed to resemble robots.
The Japanese version, titled Contra: The Hard Corps, is significantly easier than its overseas counterparts due to the addition of a life gauge that allows the player to take three hits from an enemy before losing a life. The Japanese version also features unlimited continues, in contrast with the American version, which only allows the player ...
Contra: Shattered Soldier, originally released in Japan as Shin Contra (真魂斗羅, Shin Kontora), is a video game that is part of the Contra series by Konami. It was developed by Team Kijirushi, a group of staff members within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo .
Contra was released for the Famicom in Japan on February 9, 1988. While the gameplay remains identical to the NES version released around the same month, the Famicom version has a custom-made Multi-Memory Controller that Konami produced called the VRC2 (in contrast to the UNROM board used by its NES counterpart).
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Super Contra, known as Super Contra: The Alien Strikes Back [a] in Japan, is a run and gun video game by Konami, originally released as a coin-operated arcade video game in January 1988. [2] It is the sequel to the original Contra and part of the Contra series .