When it comes to Contra, very little beats the original. The game was one of the biggest success stories on the NES and became a must-play. Many of us writing for the website have wasted months worth ...

It was a strange time in video game history when Contra first hit NES. International rules forbade content of too violent a nature – if it contained humans – and all blood was highly, highly pixelated ...

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Konami confirmed the final lineup for its upcoming Contra: Anniversary Collection on Tuesday, revealing that the collection will pack in 10 titles, including the Probotector games released in Europe.

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The original Contra on the NES is the stuff of legend - going far beyond what the arcade original did in terms of reaching a fanbase, it has become iconic. Anyone who grew up in that era at least ...

After all, the first Contra is where a lot of fans got introduced to the series, and has become one of the staples from the NES era, mainly due to its classic “Up Up Down Down” code, as well as its ...

The action genre is a fairly nebulous one, with plenty of minor examples and riffs that stand out from other styles of gameplay. The most famous is likely the shooter, which serves as the ultimate ...

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

The Contra series, like any great and popular videogame franchise, has been spun-out into sequels almost at a bi-yearly rate since the creation in the arcade two decades ago. Contra games have been ...