www.longplays.org Played by: Valis77 hmm i dont know about this one. It does not have that Contra feel to it. - Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!
Contra Force doesn't deserve all the crap that it gets. It's not a fantastic game but it does a lot of things right. The gunplay is still decent, I like the dynamic of having different characters who have their own unique weapons, I like being able to call on another character for some short assistance(though why they can be spammed is a mystery to me), and not allowing each character to run out of lives is a decent little mechanic that keeps you monitoring your squad. I'm not sure that I like the Gradius-style upgrade system but then again how would they have handled multiple upgrades and unique weapons per character otherwise? The two striking issues with this game are the constant and slow-to-a-crawl slowdown it suffers from, and the fact that they called it Contra Force. Had they released it under a different name I don't think people would've been so sour at it. I used to own this cart when I was a kid and I played it all the time.
I played a bootleged version of this when I was a kid. Its called Super Contra 6. It had less slowdowns than the original but it had a hack. If you press start and up together, you basically get infinite lives. It sometimes used to trigger accidentally and I, as a kid, could not figure out for the life of me what was happening. But this game is awesome! I have beaten this without cheats and it was difficult...especially later on. Good memories.
Miss Beans time bomb in da game. Feel happy to see it again in this video ^0^. Airplane stage is ma favourite. Screwed physics and realities 🤣. Love when u go through next plane through its wing 🤣. Ho, Valis77 sure make the fight against D.M.N.E. leader become very enjoyable to watch 👏👏👏👏. I am in for a sequel for this game. Yup, it will never happened of course 😆. An enjoyable playthrough from Valis77 here, World of Longplays 👍.
Actually, I consider this canon to the rest of the Contra games in the means that it's actually set many years before the actual Contra events... even the location matches - Neo City.
taking a trip down memory lane right now. This game was one of my favorite NES games...but i was a kid, i didn't know better. haha Contra Hard Corps for Sega Genesis was amazing also.
I remember playing this for the first time( I was 6 y.o) I managed to get to the first boss, but I really had to make a poop. But I didn't know how to pause the game so I kept fighting that boss and when I killed him I ran to the toilet. I made a poop, and when came back to my room, I saw a poop on the floor, which most probably had come out by my pants's leg. Imagine the face of my father.
When i was a kid, i had only two Contra games... original Contra and Contra Force. And out of those two, i always preferred Contra Force. The Boat Level Boss, The Construction Site and Airplane levels sold it for me. Seriously, i'm in love with the Second Boss.
I think the main problem isn’t even that this game is bad, but instead that it isn’t even something that feels right for Contra to begin with. And as a matter of fact, it wasn’t! It was originally called “Arc Hound” when it was going to release in Japan, but the market for new games on the original Famicom has been left in ruins at that point and was cancelled, so naturally they still wanted to release it in North America, not wanting their work to go to waste. It was only renamed to “Contra Force” because they thought that the game would sell poorly regardless and wanted to slap the established Contra brand onto it last minute, A.K.A. greed. It didn’t seem to work though, and if anything, it might’ve actually affected the sales for it even *worse.* It sold extremely poorly, was never advertised again just days after launch immediately calling the SNES game Contra III, and it is now one of the rarest NES games you can have. A legit loose copy goes for a few hundred, and a legit fully boxed copy can easy reach quadruple digits. Needless to say, while it is a very flawed game, and certainly terrible for a *Contra* game, it’s still far from being one of the worst titles that the NES has to offer, it’s just simply frowned upon so much because of the name and the time it was released in. If this was made and released much earlier in the NES lifespan with the name Arc Hound, then it probably wouldn’t have gotten as much negativity and poor sales as it did. It probably would’ve been mostly forgotten either way sure, but at least it would’ve had a chance from a brief market standpoint if nothing else. I don’t think it’s a good game of course, because oh it’s still bad, but there’s definitely much worse games you can play on the same console. No wonder why they didn’t want to put this game on the Contra Collection. The major reason isn’t just because it’s a bad game, but because it’s also not supposed to be a Contra title! They mislabeled it back then and only back then on purpose to try and see if they can get away with it, which fortunately they didn’t… A shame that Konami seems to have forgotten their past mistakes in more recent years to a much more extreme level with games like Metal Gear Survive though.
Whoever played this game did a great job at it. Finding the right spot when dealing with bosses so he can't take a singles hit from them(except the first one, though, bad luck).
It's not a bad game, what really irritates me is the performance, it slows down sometimes... I should say, it runs with normal speed sometimes, that's more true. Framerate issues are horrible. Without that, it would be pretty good and it's much more fun with 2 players.
It's ok, except that it's inevitably going to get compared to Contra and Super C, which is the equivalent of comparing a V6 Camaro to a Lamborghini Veneno.
10 лет назад
Dr.Beef Well, originally, it wasn't even a Contra game. In Japan, it was scheduled as Arc Hound, however, they cancelled it and it came out as Contra Force in North America.
Yeah, I know. Contra and Super C are two of my top 10 NES games, and I can't think of too many that have aged better than those two. It's a shame that this was the final Contra chapter of the Nintendo. It's not even a terrible game or anything. It's halfway decent, which isn't surprising, considering it came from Konami. It doesn't compare to the first two, though. Bring it over to the states and name it Arc Hound. It makes more sense.
not bad ? this game is so fun and easy, I completed it so many times
9 лет назад+1
After a long time, I found an emulator called NESsim. Very simple emulator, lacks of many features but has CPU overclock feature and does miracle with this game. The game is much more fun without slowdowns! (well, it's obvious)
Looks cool. Don't think it's my style. You are right Mr. 77. Doesn't even look like a Contra game. Konami just bit off of TMNT3. My thoughts, anyway. Thanks for the gameplay!
I used to play this amazing game with my young uncle all night long...now almost 20 years is passed and it's a few years my young uncle has gone from this world forever... fuck this worthless life...
This is the time period in gaming when top down was the closest thing to '3D' lots of companies wanted to make a game towards being 'next level gen', but the technology & know-how wasn't just there yet. Another period of gaming that sucked was the PS1 & N64 era where the industry was pushing for everything really 3D but backgrounds were ugly blurry-detailess, with polygon square edges on sprites. Funny how those games today look outdated, but the older games on the SNES look amazing and still hold up today.
And yet in games where the gameplay was well crafted I for one didn't give a damn about the backgrounds being blurry or skitchy. Ape escape is still one of my favorite games ever and it has that PS1 era thing going on in spades.
This game is really not nearly as bad as people think; nothing mind-blowing but worth a play through. If it wasn't called Contra people would go a lot more easy on this one. The soundtrack is also amazing.
I used to think that this game was too hard from the very first level until I was aware that you can change your hero and save lives. Then if you do well you have 8 lives every level. This and the fact that you can call again and again a partner for help... (several bosses can be beaten this way, you can hide yourself and your partner should do the dirty job), I realise that the game can be easily completed. The infinite continues help a lot as well.
This is one I paid $24 about a couple years ago (worth more now), it's not Contra no, but then again it wasn't originally supposed to be. The game is pretty cool and quite challenging (even this longplay got a Game Over on it), and the music is the usual Konami standard (which back then was quite high, this game is no exception). If I had to buy it again 2 years ago for the $24, the answer would be yes. I did talk the guy down about 5 bucks from his original asking price at a pawn shop. I have zero regrets about owning this game in my collection.
i was stuck at the pace where the that block comes floating down, but it wont come again unless you go back a little and come back. i didn't know about it when i played it years ago. feel bad. thanks for the walk through
@dezm101 that's EXACTLY what this game is... but the Heads at Konami (at that time) were like " nah, this game just ain't gonna sell on its own wings; let's strap our good ol' 'Contra' moniker on it and it'll sell like cakes & we'll be raking in da dough, fo' sure!" I could only imagine their faces when that didn't work as planned, LOL!
It's a mishmash of proven mechanics from other games, tied together with a proven label from other games. Clearly lovingly crafted by a corporate committee. but the actual designers did a good job making their besuited overlords a good game to go with their corporate kitsch.
What im curious about is why did they gave us and ending like that, the mistery wasnt solved, i was hoping for a sequel back then.....too bad it didnt had one
If this game ran at the speed of an actual Contra game, the runtime on this longplay would be half of what it is now. Not a "bad" game, but not a true Contra game either.
That's because it was supposed to have been called Arkhound. The game's Japanese release was canned, so possibly Konami in the US thought the game would sell with the Contra name on it alone, it didn't (the SNES was already out, and gamers had already moved on to the SNES, or the Genesis.
I honestly don't give a crap how a game looks, as long as the game is good. But I always hated it when a game got delayed just because a new console was coming out, and they wanted to make it for that instead, even though the game was almost finished. I mean, who gives a shit! just give us the damn game!
That's because it is Arkhound, or would've been called that in Japan had it not gotten cancelled there. Konami in the US meanwhile, placed this one far in the past from the actual Contra and aliens timeline.
The "plot" still makes no sense all these years later. The ending makes it even worse. I'd always assumed Fox was the guy who appears to be dead in the opening and Burns is chasing the killer or something like that. But you have lines like "You survived? CONGRATULATIONS!" and "This is a great place to relax." Not super impressed with Valis on this one, but the game itself is a chore to play with the slowdowns so I can't exactly blame them for messing up at times.
I remember a year or two ago I saw this in a pawn shop. I managed to haggle the shop owner down to $24 for a cart only copy of this (got him down $5 total). I had already known through years on the internet that this was no Contra, but by no means is this a horrible game. If one can look past the Contra name slapped on the cart, and play it for what it is, it isn't really bad at all. Kinda sluggish pacing likely turned some folks off, not to mention it's difficulty.
hmmm, I had a blast to enjoy Contra Force as a kid even I overlooked the game's fatal flaw. the music is outstanding. I like character selection with each one has unique attack. The upgrade system is straight outta Gradius. However, gameplay ... well ... shit ... where do I even begin? The game run awful. Not only it's not smooth, but also slowdown whenever it feels like it ... like ... 90% of the game. The storyline here is you gotta rekt crime syndicate instead of aliens (a commander took several hits to down, but 1 hit and you died). There is no Konami Code in Contra Force, and it's hard as shit. I'm so glad they fix all those problem in Contra Hard Corps.
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Everyone, remember: it's not slowdowns- it's bullet times B-) .
Epic game, epic soundtrack !
watch?v=fiUULx6S_Xk
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This game did have an interesting feel to it though...felt like a mix between metal gear, contra and Bionic Commando.
Thumb up for this and agree to it personally 👍.
Contra Force doesn't deserve all the crap that it gets. It's not a fantastic game but it does a lot of things right. The gunplay is still decent, I like the dynamic of having different characters who have their own unique weapons, I like being able to call on another character for some short assistance(though why they can be spammed is a mystery to me), and not allowing each character to run out of lives is a decent little mechanic that keeps you monitoring your squad. I'm not sure that I like the Gradius-style upgrade system but then again how would they have handled multiple upgrades and unique weapons per character otherwise?
The two striking issues with this game are the constant and slow-to-a-crawl slowdown it suffers from, and the fact that they called it Contra Force. Had they released it under a different name I don't think people would've been so sour at it.
I used to own this cart when I was a kid and I played it all the time.
The music sounds pretty great too, I think the main problem is the slowdown
I agree!The slowdown and the name are its only problems.
Totally agree. In fact, i do really like this game.
Overall, I think its biggest problem is probably the word "Contra" in its title. It's not great, it's not terrible, it's not really Contra.
Man i still love this game.. it has issues.. but still one my fav
I remember we couldn’t continue playing this amazing game because it glitches when mine blows unfortunately.
Best contra I have ever played :)
the sound when you press start EPIC !!!!!!!!
Said nobody ever.
U think? What about Contra Alien's war
@@wordman3624 maybe he only played this one xD in which case it would be the best and only one
To bad it’s not really a contra game but another game rebranded contra
such a beautiful soundtrack. addictive gameplay as well. loved it. still do.
Smith!
This should have stayed as Arc Hound instead of Contra Force.
And it would be blamed for trying to Rip-Off Contra...
I love this game, but looks like it was cursed...
Nah, the name Contra Force is good.
@@darkcelta3592 The name isn't the only thing they changed
I played a bootleged version of this when I was a kid. Its called Super Contra 6. It had less slowdowns than the original but it had a hack. If you press start and up together, you basically get infinite lives. It sometimes used to trigger accidentally and I, as a kid, could not figure out for the life of me what was happening. But this game is awesome! I have beaten this without cheats and it was difficult...especially later on. Good memories.
I also remember this as Super Contra 6
Miss Beans time bomb in da game. Feel happy to see it again in this video ^0^.
Airplane stage is ma favourite. Screwed physics and realities 🤣. Love when u go through next plane through its wing 🤣.
Ho, Valis77 sure make the fight against D.M.N.E. leader become very enjoyable to watch 👏👏👏👏.
I am in for a sequel for this game. Yup, it will never happened of course 😆. An enjoyable playthrough from Valis77 here, World of Longplays 👍.
7:15 that OST !!!!
That "character select" music is pure gold man.
Iron?
It's like Battlefield Bad Company 2 on NES - a team of four players, tunnel-like gameplay and destructible environments.
Holy slowdown, Batman.
Actually, I consider this canon to the rest of the Contra games in the means that it's actually set many years before the actual Contra events... even the location matches - Neo City.
Sriram Jeostarzz
I’m aware this is what it actually was
Contra- 2633
Super C- 2634
Operation C- 2635
Contra 3- 2636
Contra 4- 2636
Hard Corps- 2641
They should not have put the contra name on it
they should of called it COLLEGE BROS
Given that it was a NES game released in 1992, the Contra was probably the only way they were going to shift any copies.
my 1st shooting game ever and after playing this I was never the same lol
taking a trip down memory lane right now. This game was one of my favorite NES games...but i was a kid, i didn't know better. haha Contra Hard Corps for Sega Genesis was amazing also.
У меня в детстве была такая👍только называлась super contra 6
I remember playing this for the first time( I was 6 y.o) I managed to get to the first boss, but I really had to make a poop. But I didn't know how to pause the game so I kept fighting that boss and when I killed him I ran to the toilet. I made a poop, and when came back to my room, I saw a poop on the floor, which most probably had come out by my pants's leg. Imagine the face of my father.
Thank you for that riveting tale.
I think bringing dad into it really sells the story
That must've been...
*puts on sunglasses*
...A shitty situation!
YYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Look who it is
When i was a kid, i had only two Contra games... original Contra and Contra Force.
And out of those two, i always preferred Contra Force. The Boat Level Boss, The Construction Site and Airplane levels sold it for me.
Seriously, i'm in love with the Second Boss.
Holy jesus 29:13 is that A10 Warthog lol!! Contra is so even bad ass xD
Second boss looks scary as hell
I think the main problem isn’t even that this game is bad, but instead that it isn’t even something that feels right for Contra to begin with. And as a matter of fact, it wasn’t! It was originally called “Arc Hound” when it was going to release in Japan, but the market for new games on the original Famicom has been left in ruins at that point and was cancelled, so naturally they still wanted to release it in North America, not wanting their work to go to waste. It was only renamed to “Contra Force” because they thought that the game would sell poorly regardless and wanted to slap the established Contra brand onto it last minute, A.K.A. greed. It didn’t seem to work though, and if anything, it might’ve actually affected the sales for it even *worse.* It sold extremely poorly, was never advertised again just days after launch immediately calling the SNES game Contra III, and it is now one of the rarest NES games you can have. A legit loose copy goes for a few hundred, and a legit fully boxed copy can easy reach quadruple digits.
Needless to say, while it is a very flawed game, and certainly terrible for a *Contra* game, it’s still far from being one of the worst titles that the NES has to offer, it’s just simply frowned upon so much because of the name and the time it was released in. If this was made and released much earlier in the NES lifespan with the name Arc Hound, then it probably wouldn’t have gotten as much negativity and poor sales as it did. It probably would’ve been mostly forgotten either way sure, but at least it would’ve had a chance from a brief market standpoint if nothing else. I don’t think it’s a good game of course, because oh it’s still bad, but there’s definitely much worse games you can play on the same console.
No wonder why they didn’t want to put this game on the Contra Collection. The major reason isn’t just because it’s a bad game, but because it’s also not supposed to be a Contra title! They mislabeled it back then and only back then on purpose to try and see if they can get away with it, which fortunately they didn’t… A shame that Konami seems to have forgotten their past mistakes in more recent years to a much more extreme level with games like Metal Gear Survive though.
Whoever played this game did a great job at it. Finding the right spot when dealing with bosses so he can't take a singles hit from them(except the first one, though, bad luck).
the games now need graphics more than gameplay. this cam can be run on a wooden PC but still is so much addictive still! hats off
I usually played NES games in Japanese so this kind of videos now tells me what were those games actually about :D :D
You didn't play this one in Japanese for sure, it never got released over there.
@@Bloodreign1 yeah, I spoke in general
My dad showed me this game. We played the original Contra and finessed it. This one was far more difficult.
double dragon 3 and contra force one of the best NES multiplayer games...
dayyym i miss my friend
This is my childhood day of nes long play
I remembered playing this!
ohh i remember that game ... it wos my favorate game when i wos jong :)
nice gameplay
That first boss is brutal.
Anyone else who just kept flying in this game with the somersolts. One of my favorite childhood games
The planned title was Arc Hound.
It's not a bad game, what really irritates me is the performance, it slows down sometimes... I should say, it runs with normal speed sometimes, that's more true. Framerate issues are horrible. Without that, it would be pretty good and it's much more fun with 2 players.
It's ok, except that it's inevitably going to get compared to Contra and Super C, which is the equivalent of comparing a V6 Camaro to a Lamborghini Veneno.
Dr.Beef Well, originally, it wasn't even a Contra game. In Japan, it was scheduled as Arc Hound, however, they cancelled it and it came out as Contra Force in North America.
Yeah, I know. Contra and Super C are two of my top 10 NES games, and I can't think of too many that have aged better than those two. It's a shame that this was the final Contra chapter of the Nintendo. It's not even a terrible game or anything. It's halfway decent, which isn't surprising, considering it came from Konami. It doesn't compare to the first two, though. Bring it over to the states and name it Arc Hound. It makes more sense.
not bad ? this game is so fun and easy, I completed it so many times
After a long time, I found an emulator called NESsim. Very simple emulator, lacks of many features but has CPU overclock feature and does miracle with this game. The game is much more fun without slowdowns! (well, it's obvious)
For some reason, everybody hates this game, but I loved it!
This game are a human terrorism instead of aliens
Looks cool. Don't think it's my style. You are right Mr. 77. Doesn't even look like a Contra game. Konami just bit off of TMNT3. My thoughts, anyway. Thanks for the gameplay!
Although it originally wasn't a Contra game, its menu screen BGM was used in Contra Rebirth.
damn.i used play this when I was 7-8
This is the year of 1992 when I was born. The games had taken place in 1992.
The best contra ever
These lags, familiar from childhood.
My first low fps.
I used to play this amazing game with my young uncle all night long...now almost 20 years is passed and it's a few years my young uncle has gone from this world forever... fuck this worthless life...
I grew up with the NES and the contra series but I don't not recall this one for some reason.
Most of us had probably moved onto the SNES or Mega Drive by this point! 😆
soundtrack is awesome, best game ever
ohhhh what a nostalgical feeling ...
This is the time period in gaming when top down was the closest thing to '3D' lots of companies wanted to make a game towards being 'next level gen', but the technology & know-how wasn't just there yet.
Another period of gaming that sucked was the PS1 & N64 era where the industry was pushing for everything really 3D but backgrounds were ugly blurry-detailess, with polygon square edges on sprites. Funny how those games today look outdated, but the older games on the SNES look amazing and still hold up today.
And yet in games where the gameplay was well crafted I for one didn't give a damn about the backgrounds being blurry or skitchy. Ape escape is still one of my favorite games ever and it has that PS1 era thing going on in spades.
Thumb up if you also beat the final boss hidding yourself and let a partner do the dirty job.
This game is really not nearly as bad as people think; nothing mind-blowing but worth a play through. If it wasn't called Contra people would go a lot more easy on this one. The soundtrack is also amazing.
I used to think that this game was too hard from the very first level until I was aware that you can change your hero and save lives. Then if you do well you have 8 lives every level. This and the fact that you can call again and again a partner for help... (several bosses can be beaten this way, you can hide yourself and your partner should do the dirty job), I realise that the game can be easily completed. The infinite continues help a lot as well.
This is one I paid $24 about a couple years ago (worth more now), it's not Contra no, but then again it wasn't originally supposed to be. The game is pretty cool and quite challenging (even this longplay got a Game Over on it), and the music is the usual Konami standard (which back then was quite high, this game is no exception). If I had to buy it again 2 years ago for the $24, the answer would be yes. I did talk the guy down about 5 bucks from his original asking price at a pawn shop.
I have zero regrets about owning this game in my collection.
17:00 Lol
Yeah. what a noobish game over on there.
Lol
we have to be stronger..
Well, it originally wasn't a Contra game to begin with. It's a long story and it's everywhere on net.
This game is good
After a good practice I could finish this game in less than half an hour
I remember my school dayz when I come from school I play this game at dat time this my dificult game still I love this game love u sega then ps 2 . 3
Except this was an NES game. O_o
WOW THIS WAS THE FIRST GAME WHICH LET YOU DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT.
finally i can see what the final boss looks like
this was my favorite contra game but i didnt know to swith ammo type
i liked this game, finished it many time, cant remember why but for really long time i couldnt finish lvl 3 :D
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AVGN: Oh It's Shit!! It's Shit!! It's Shit!!
Woah i never saw this intro when i played this game years ago O_o
Savage Music !
(good times )
I love the music 2:40
i was stuck at the pace where the that block comes floating down, but it wont come again unless you go back a little and come back. i didn't know about it when i played it years ago. feel bad. thanks for the walk through
@dezm101 that's EXACTLY what this game is... but the Heads at Konami (at that time) were like " nah, this game just ain't gonna sell on its own wings; let's strap our good ol' 'Contra' moniker on it and it'll sell like cakes & we'll be raking in da dough, fo' sure!" I could only imagine their faces when that didn't work as planned, LOL!
This was originally developed as something else, but I assume you know that by now.
Yes, Ark Hound.
so... this is like the Super Mario Bros 2 of the Contra series
i love the 2nd stage music and the 4th ^^
It feels like a run-and-gun with Gradius mechanics tacked on it.
It's a mishmash of proven mechanics from other games, tied together with a proven label from other games. Clearly lovingly crafted by a corporate committee. but the actual designers did a good job making their besuited overlords a good game to go with their corporate kitsch.
The gameplay slows down like hell when many enemies taking up the screen. But the music is great though.+b++
you definitely didnt play this game much it shows but ggs
What im curious about is why did they gave us and ending like that, the mistery wasnt solved, i was hoping for a sequel back then.....too bad it didnt had one
Contra: Bad Company with Destruction 0.5
najlepsza gra na pegazusa =)
i am seeing stage game plays only because of music and chill
Que nostalgia de quando eu jogava no PolyStation
Go on Smith.
If this game ran at the speed of an actual Contra game, the runtime on this longplay would be half of what it is now. Not a "bad" game, but not a true Contra game either.
That's because it was supposed to have been called Arkhound. The game's Japanese release was canned, so possibly Konami in the US thought the game would sell with the Contra name on it alone, it didn't (the SNES was already out, and gamers had already moved on to the SNES, or the Genesis.
I honestly don't give a crap how a game looks, as long as the game is good. But I always hated it when a game got delayed just because a new console was coming out, and they wanted to make it for that instead, even though the game was almost finished. I mean, who gives a shit! just give us the damn game!
very nice game
I love contra man
The name of the game should be called Commandos: Terrorist Trouble in Neo City, and not Contra Force.
It was supposed to have been called Arkhound.
يا قدم اللعبة ذي قدماااااه!!!! الاربعاء 28 / 10 / 1434
I'm gonna go play this now...........bye bye!
If there is no Aliens then its not Contra....
That's because it is Arkhound, or would've been called that in Japan had it not gotten cancelled there. Konami in the US meanwhile, placed this one far in the past from the actual Contra and aliens timeline.
The "plot" still makes no sense all these years later. The ending makes it even worse. I'd always assumed Fox was the guy who appears to be dead in the opening and Burns is chasing the killer or something like that. But you have lines like "You survived? CONGRATULATIONS!" and "This is a great place to relax."
Not super impressed with Valis on this one, but the game itself is a chore to play with the slowdowns so I can't exactly blame them for messing up at times.
It wouldn't be a longplay if the player used savestates.
has valis77 an own youtube channel ?
arc hound?
I SKIPPED THIS GAME BECUZ MY BUDDIES TOLD ME IT SUCKED ASS. NOW I JUST BOUGHT IT FROM AMAZON.WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
tremendo juego
wwttf??
Mi Contra favorito
they should of called it COLLEGE BROS
I remember a year or two ago I saw this in a pawn shop. I managed to haggle the shop owner down to $24 for a cart only copy of this (got him down $5 total). I had already known through years on the internet that this was no Contra, but by no means is this a horrible game. If one can look past the Contra name slapped on the cart, and play it for what it is, it isn't really bad at all. Kinda sluggish pacing likely turned some folks off, not to mention it's difficulty.
hmmm, I had a blast to enjoy Contra Force as a kid even I overlooked the game's fatal flaw.
the music is outstanding. I like character selection with each one has unique attack. The upgrade system is straight outta Gradius. However, gameplay ... well ... shit ... where do I even begin? The game run awful. Not only it's not smooth, but also slowdown whenever it feels like it ... like ... 90% of the game. The storyline here is you gotta rekt crime syndicate instead of aliens (a commander took several hits to down, but 1 hit and you died). There is no Konami Code in Contra Force, and it's hard as shit.
I'm so glad they fix all those problem in Contra Hard Corps.
There is a code in this game that allows for infinite lives...
Either way, i LOVE the slowdown. It shows that this game is very strong for the system.
not as great Contra or Super C