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Staff Reviews

Contra by Marc Golding
Contra’s weapons don’t blow their loads in retarded, premature fashion as is the case with other games in the genre. These weapons kill hard and die harder. The Laser rips through anything in its path, the Machine gun eats up alien troops like Fruit Loops, to say nothing of the Spread. The Spread? you query, clearly curious. The spread cuts swaths through hopeless, hapless oncomers. full review...

User Reviews

Summary	Rating	User
ENails	[10.0/10.0]	drella
Those confounded aliens have their claws in everything, don’t they?	[7.0/10.0]	overdrive
One of the greatest shooters ever, obviously.	[9.0/10.0]	psychopenguin
Contra is known as the best 3rd person shooter, and there is a reason. This game is no exception to that boast.	[8.0/10.0]	ratking
It's legendary and all that other cheesy stuff.	[9.0/10.0]	sclemmons
(No description available.)	[10.0/10.0]	sgreenwell

FAQs/Walkthroughs

Description	System	User
FAQ/Walkthrough	NES	LSomers
FAQ/Walkthrough	NES	pseudonym
FAQ/Walkthrough	NES	RobG

Codes/Passwords/Secrets/Unlockables

Codes

30 Lives

Stage Select

Steal coplayers Lives

Unlimited Lives

Unlockables

Harder Game

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	Staff Score (Avg): 10.0 User Score (Avg): 8.8 Press Score (Avg): 8.0 Reviews: 7 Guides: 3 Cheats: 5 Ratings: 12 High Scores: 0 Screenshots: 8 Videos: 0
Title: Contra Genre: Shooter (Run 'n Gun) Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Release Date: February 8, 1988 ESRB: N/A Save: N/A Platforms: GG, Arcade, MSX, NES

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