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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.
Contra [a] is a 1987 run and gun video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. [4] [5] A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, along with ports for various home computer formats, including the MSX2.
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.
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, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita in 2017. [3]
The physics are changed, as the game runs at half the speed of the original Contra games, and instead of using the Konami code to get 30 lives, pressing A and Start gives the player 50 lives. [20] The game was later re-released as Super Contra 8 in 1999. [21]
Contra III was released again for the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan and North America in November 2013, [29] [30] and Europe received the unmodified Contra III on the Wii U in January 2014. [31] In May 2016, Contra III was added to the Nintendo 3DS eShop for North America and Europe for exclusive use with the New Nintendo 3DS. [31] [32]
Kazuhisa Hashimoto (橋本和久, Hashimoto Kazuhisa, November 15, 1958 [a] – February 25, 2020 [3]) was a Japanese video game developer, best known for having created the Konami Code, a cheat code used in numerous video games typically granting the player extra lives or other benefits, and which has become often used as an Easter egg in popular culture.
Contra: Hard Corps, released as Contra: The Hard Corps [3] 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.