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The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra. The code has been used to help novice players progress through the game. [10] [12] The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius for the NES.
The NES version of the original Contra used the Konami Code (previously featured in the NES version of Gradius) to start the game with thirty lives instead of the usual three. Most of the subsequent console games in the series only featured these extra lives codes in their Japanese releases, such as Contra Spirits (the Japanese version of ...
The NES version of Contra is included in the video game compilation Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra for Microsoft Windows, released in North America in 2002, which also includes Super C and the three Castlevania games released for the NES. The NES Contra and Super C are included in the Nintendo DS game Contra 4 as unlockable ...
The Konami Code from the original Contra was not included in this game. A different code was added which gives out thirty lives in the Famicom version and ten lives in the NES versions. Like in the Famicom version of Contra, the Japanese Super Contra has a stage select code that was removed from its NES counterparts. All three versions contain ...
The Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of 1376 [a] officially licensed games released for the Japanese version, the Family Computer (Famicom), and its international counterpart, the NES, during their lifespans, plus 7 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 187 were released ...
From October 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Lawrence W. Kellner joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 29.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 29.7 percent return from the S&P 500.
A rerelease, called Contra 4: Redux, was released for Android in 2011. Contra 4 serves as a direct sequel to 1992's Contra III: The Alien Wars for Super NES, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the franchise. [5] It was the first original Contra game released on a portable platform since 1991's Operation C for Game Boy.
According to research by Dr. Michael Slepian, who is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia University, the average person keeps around 13 secrets ...