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Backbone Entertainment
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Konami
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[Xbox Live Arcade] The Red Falcon organization is plotting to conquer the Earth and two commandos,
[Xbox Live Arcade] The Red Falcon organization is plotting to conquer the Earth and two commandos, Lance and Bill, must infiltrate their base. Travel through eight stages in the jungle armed with a machine gun and the ability to capture upgraded weapons including a Fireball, Laser, Rapid Fire gun and a Spread Gun. Lance and Bill are all that stand in the way of Red Falcon and their plans for global domination. [Konami]
Developer:
Backbone Entertainment
Publisher:
Konami
Genre(s):
Action
Shooter
Platformer
Shooter
Scrolling
2D
Scrolling
Shoot-'Em-Up
Horizontal
Number of players:
2 Online
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Starring:
Steve Snake Carolyn Cudmore George Phillips
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X-ONE Magazine UK
"It's gone slightly crusty and yellowed with age but the sheer difficulty ensures this remains as addictive a challenge as ever before. [Issue 14, p.116]"
"Contra on the XBLA is well worth a look for Contra completists and other fans of side scrolling shooters, but most people will get their fill with the demo download."
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"Despite all the caveats, fans of the better-known Contras should find the original arcade game an enjoyable curiosity, and it's also pretty cheap at only 400 Microsoft points."
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"The co-op mode has the potential to give the game a decent replay value if they ever get around to patching it, but for now you'll have to stick with the challenging eight levels that will make for a decent arcade gaming experience."
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"Contra deserves more than one play-through, but the bugs make it one of Xbox Live Arcade's black sheep. Hopefully, Konami will pull out all the stops for a version of "Super Contra.""
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"The arcade version of Contra was never as well-loved as its NES counterpart, so the choice to port it to the Xbox Live Arcade seems questionable...but not nearly as much as the dodgy online co-op implementation."
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"Contra is a fairly typical example of one of those games from the period that's too unforgiving to be truly enjoyable, and suffers from too many annoying design conventions that were taken for granted back then."
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Oct 1, 2007
Definatley not the NES version but a great arcade title none the less. This is what old school shooters were like.....Hard.
Sep 29, 2012
Nov 26, 2006
I hated contra (Arcade version), if it was NES version, I would have rated a 10.
