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The Konami Code was first used in the release of Gradius (1986), a scrolling shooter for the NES [11] and was popularized among North American players in the NES version of Contra. 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 ...
Super Contra. 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. The game stars Bill Rizer and Lance Bean as they are sent to thwart ...
Contra III: The Alien Wars[b] is a 1992 run and gun video game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is the third home console entry in the Contra series after Contra (1988) and Super C (1990) for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). In PAL regions, it was retitled Super Probotector: Alien ...
WW: November 27, 2018. Genre (s) Beat 'em up. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. 99Vidas (Portuguese for "99 Lives") is a retro-styled side-scrolling beat 'em up video game developed and published by Brazilian [2] studio QuByte Interactive. It was first released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in late 2016, followed by PlayStation 3 ...
Contra: Hard Corps, released as Contra: The Hard Corps[4] in Japan and Probotector in Europe and Australia, is a run and gun video game released by Konami for the Sega Genesis in 1994, making it the first game in the Contra series released for a Sega platform. Set five years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars, a terrorist group led ...
In the anime Battle Athletes Victory, a siamese pair of cyborg track runners are defeated when the heroines whisper the Konami code prompting the cyborgs to repeat the code and press the self-destruct buttons on their foreheads (labelled "A" and "B"). [2] (. Can't seem to find a Google video clip of this though.
The character has currently lost 3.5 out of 11 health points – losing all would cost a life. In video games, a life is a play-turn that a player character has, defined as the period between start and end of play. [1] Lives refer to a finite number of tries before the game ends with a game over. [2] Sometimes the euphemisms chance, try, rest ...
Contra. (series) 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.