Most children of the 80's remember the "Konami Code" to get 30 lives and make the NES game beatable. You play a pair of "Rambo" inspired soldiers gunning for countless faceless enemy soldiers, robots, and H.R. The Contra series (which began in arcades and gained widespread fame and fortune on the NES) is notorious amongst gamers for its difficulty.
They can get very tough, but they all have a pattern.Ī great shooter, the last 16-bit installment There are sometimes three bosses per level. you lose whatever gun you have when you die, but then again same as the other Contra games. The Japanese version supposedly had a life bar, but the left that out of the American version. One hit will kill you just like the other Contra games. You can only get up to 3 lives and 5 continues. At the end of level one, you can choose two different paths which will give you different story endings. + Levels are fun and inventive, lots of robots to fight. Ray and Fang are alright, but the other two have the best guns. Browny the robot is one of the best and Sheena is pretty great too. + 4 different characters with different sets of weapons. None of the cheats work on this version, so good luck! I ended up playing it on an emulator but still couldn't get past the last boss. i played it for 6 hours straight and only go to the 4th stage. This is hands down the hardest Contra game EVER. You'll even battle aliens while riding a motorcycle and while perched atop a flying spacecraft.Īfghanistan, Africa, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Middle East, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe You'll run, jump, slide, climb (on walls and ceilings) and shoot your way through cities, jungles, alien space and other exotic locations. The game has a certain degree of nonlinear play in that there are a number of different pathways to take, storylines to follow, and game endings to achieve. Contra: Hard Corps lets you team up with a friend through more than 10 levels, some of which are hidden. The available weapons depend on which character you are controlling. Browny is a robotic intelligence tool who packs a laser.Each character has a standard machine gun, bombs and four possible weapons pick-ups, including Spread, which fires in five directions at once, Shower Crash, which rains down exploding shells, and Gemini Scatter, which returns like a boomerang. Brad Fang is part wolf-man, part cyborg, with a Gatling gun grafted onto his left arm. Sheena Etranzi is a jungle girl especially skilled in guerilla tactics.
Raised in the city slums, Ray Poward is an expert combatant. Contra: Hard Corps lets you play as one of four different members of the Hard Corps team.