Every CONTRA Game (1987-1994) | Series Evolution Retrospective (Part 1)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @BurstError
    @BurstError  7 месяцев назад +2

    Part Two is up! ruclips.net/video/oC_L4FUbTLM/видео.htmlsi=nkoTeXwxKtFKFdT5

  • @camuhron
    @camuhron 9 месяцев назад +16

    Another certified Burst Error classic™

  • @Paulyt07
    @Paulyt07 9 месяцев назад +10

    Been really digging your stuff. Keep up the great work.

  • @Koexistence13
    @Koexistence13 9 месяцев назад +3

    The Genesis version is crazy

  • @NESAtlas
    @NESAtlas 9 месяцев назад +3

    Excellent retrospective!!! It has been a blast watching you play through all of the Contra games live on Twitch too

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks man, and kudos again for hooking me up with the sick Contra font logo!!

  • @stringanime
    @stringanime 9 месяцев назад +6

    you can see an alternative evolution of Contra in the Game Gunstar Heroes. Enemies no longer poison to the touch, weapon combinations that evolve your firepower, Melee Attacks, throws, more action and enemies, more more more...

  • @foxhoundautomotivedivision3458
    @foxhoundautomotivedivision3458 5 месяцев назад +3

    I'm 43yr old...all of your content makes me think you're very close to my age! Love the channel man. Brings back memories. Just remembered D&D tower of doom and beating it in the arcade....

  • @DrMooCowz
    @DrMooCowz 9 месяцев назад +4

    I'm still blown away by the Gameboy version of Contra III! I'm impressed by the effort done to get it as close as possible to the SNES. Contra Advance also looks like a trip as a Contra III fan! Well done on this video! Worth the wait!

  • @jakek5417
    @jakek5417 9 месяцев назад +4

    Such a great and thorough video! I need to try out the msx contra.

  • @Idelacio
    @Idelacio 9 месяцев назад +3

    There's even a romhack of Hard Corps that lets you choose from the original version and probotector characters. :D
    I never could get all the endings to that game originally, got so close though. ><
    A great way to end the 16bit generation.

  • @CliveMcGrath-vc5og
    @CliveMcGrath-vc5og 6 месяцев назад +3

    That Contra 3 level 3 music in the beginning 👌~chef's kiss

    • @hieioni3354
      @hieioni3354 6 месяцев назад

      For me personally, I don't like the soundtrack of Contra III, but I like the story, the action and gameplay of it.

  • @michaelsriqui7898
    @michaelsriqui7898 9 месяцев назад +3

    Love this series, didn't discover it until I was in college and could emulate NES games, but I almost immediately fell head over heals.

  • @ThatVSMBro
    @ThatVSMBro 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great video burst! Keep this content coming!!!

  • @jamesbevan4479
    @jamesbevan4479 9 месяцев назад +1

    16:13 thankyou for giving Probotector a good shout out 👍, other Contra videos tend to not mention it's existence.
    I'm from the UK so growing up this is what I and many of us British/euro kids got, I personally prefer the robot aesthetic over the macho guys, but as kids we didn't know any better, to each their own.

  • @markula_4040
    @markula_4040 9 месяцев назад +2

    Something worth mentioning is there is also a hack for Hard Corps that lets you play every level in one playthrough. I prefer this because I can't remember what decisions to make to get every level so now I don't have to. It also makes a single playthrough around 90 minutes while all the previous Contras can be beaten in 30.

  • @sevencastleforest
    @sevencastleforest 9 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome video! It’s really fun seeing all the jank computer ports of the original game ❤

  • @davidagiel8130
    @davidagiel8130 9 месяцев назад +3

    SNES era was a great era

    • @hieioni3354
      @hieioni3354 6 месяцев назад

      NES, SNES and Genesis, really.

  • @kylewavey6206
    @kylewavey6206 9 месяцев назад +2

    2024 is the year of Contra

  • @ZBR_ProXP
    @ZBR_ProXP 9 месяцев назад +2

    getting up in them alien guts LOL

  • @TheT3rr0rMask
    @TheT3rr0rMask 7 месяцев назад +2

    Started with Famiclones for me, my dad grabbing a Superjoy plug n play shaped like a 64 controller. Contra and Super C were my most played games on the various models I'd go through (due to the shoddy build quality). When I got into emulation in the XP era I tried Contra 3, and eventually got Operation C at a GameStop. These days I go for Super and Operation C the most.

  • @dimviesel
    @dimviesel 4 месяца назад +1

    Up2, Down2, L,R,L,R, B,A,B,A, (select 2players) Start🤙🏾

  • @HallelujahHotdog
    @HallelujahHotdog 9 месяцев назад +1

    That intro was eyegasmic. Great editing my friend.

  • @DB-ek5kd
    @DB-ek5kd 9 месяцев назад +2

    This is excellent. Do castlevania next!

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад +1

      strongly considering it! Thanks for watching :)

  • @CozyCoffeeLofi
    @CozyCoffeeLofi 4 месяца назад +1

    Contra - Timeless classic !❤

  • @jaquiox
    @jaquiox 9 месяцев назад +1

    let's goooo
    great retrospective ❤
    THEND

  • @SPac316
    @SPac316 9 месяцев назад +2

    First played Contra at a friends house as a kid. He had a little b&w tv in his room, sadly. But still had fun.
    Contra is a fun series, even if it can get challenging. I would often use the 30 lives code to make progress.

  • @MegnaMan
    @MegnaMan 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for another great video

  • @giselletorres4156
    @giselletorres4156 9 месяцев назад +1

    Yay new video! My brother when he was a small child in 2011 (I was 13) got one of those knockoff emulator games on the swap meet where there's over 80 NES games in them and we would have fond memories playing Super Contra.

  • @EddieJorgeDrummer
    @EddieJorgeDrummer 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great video. Subscribed!

  • @hieioni3354
    @hieioni3354 6 месяцев назад +1

    I love the Contra series and Contra, Super Contra and Contra III are some of my fav childhood games (I don't remember playing Hard Corps as a kid, but I watched a playthrough of it around 2016, and played it as an adult on the Contra Anniversary Collection for the PS4 around 2019. And it became my most beloved Contra game) :D

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  6 месяцев назад +1

      it's so good! playing through it again for this video made me appreciate it a lot more than I used to.

    • @hieioni3354
      @hieioni3354 6 месяцев назад

      @@BurstError Yeah, the only word that fits that game is "frantic". It's bonkers and so much fun! I love the personality that it has, all the details and efforts in it and the absolute banging soundtrack!

  • @rareplaygaming7109
    @rareplaygaming7109 9 месяцев назад +1

    Another awesome video 👌

  • @TitansTracks
    @TitansTracks 7 месяцев назад +1

    WOW! (flips and drops to the ground)

  • @bombfog1
    @bombfog1 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great video!
    I’m guessing that you and I are about the same age as the Nintendo version was also my introduction to the series. As much as I love this game, Super C, Operation C, and Contra III, my favorite is hands down Hard Corps Uprising for the Xbox 360.
    Had no idea there were any computer ports.

  • @WheeledHamster
    @WheeledHamster 4 месяца назад +1

    Contra for the NES, you know you're boss when you did the 3 lives run and not died once.

  • @BurstError
    @BurstError  9 месяцев назад +4

    Channel support appreciated if you enjoy what I do! www.patreon.com/burst_error

    • @ultraspinalki11
      @ultraspinalki11 9 месяцев назад +1

      Please don't forget Hard Corps Uprising in the later part(s).

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад

      @@ultraspinalki11HCU definitely will be covered! excited to play through that one again :)

  • @RJBadman
    @RJBadman 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for pronouncing ZX Spectrum correctly. :D Wow, that Amstrad version looks great. Much better than the C64 version. My beloved C64 is capable of so much better.

  • @sweetgrump
    @sweetgrump 9 месяцев назад +1

    Appreciate your positive vibes even when being critical. There's too much real and faux hate in retrospectives/reviews and you take a more measured approach.

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад

      thank you! that's a big goal of mine in making this stuff :)

  • @ivonnatrolue6747
    @ivonnatrolue6747 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great video

  • @derekv4552
    @derekv4552 7 месяцев назад +1

    Its funny you mentioned remembering where you got your copy of contra as a kid because I also distinctly remember my dad picking it up from a local k-mart

  • @wonderguardstalker
    @wonderguardstalker 9 месяцев назад +1

    Excited to hear yer thoughts on Contra 4. I’m no Contra aficionado but it’s my favorite of the ones I played. 3 might have it beat if it weren’t for the top down sections

  • @gameoverhell
    @gameoverhell 9 месяцев назад +1

    Very well done! My favorite memories of Contra are watching other people play the games, because I don't attack agressively enough and suck at them.
    I'm so disappointed at the Amiga version. Surely that game must've been using only 10% of the Amiga Power™

  • @Thumperor
    @Thumperor 9 месяцев назад +1

    Wake up babe, new Burst Error just dropped

  • @godrilla5549
    @godrilla5549 9 месяцев назад +2

    Well I was going to go to bed, but I think I'm going to grab a snack, a glass of grog, a pipe and sit back and relax.

  • @SolCresta3405
    @SolCresta3405 9 месяцев назад +1

    You know, now that Operation Galuga is out, I hope we get a sequel that remakes and combines the Alien Wars and Hard Corps. The only thing I don't want in the sequel are the branching paths that Hard Corps had.

  • @BoanergesTWELF12
    @BoanergesTWELF12 7 месяцев назад +1

    The pirated Contra Spirits for NES got a mod with loads of qol choices and in english

  • @NinjaRunningWild
    @NinjaRunningWild 9 месяцев назад

    Great retrospective! 👍🕹️
    One nitpick though : It’s *“by accident”.* Publishing circles will automatically reject manuscripts without this proper usage, the other of which arose from uneducated internet circles.

  • @Prizrak-hv6qk
    @Prizrak-hv6qk 9 месяцев назад +1

    Wow! What a great series overview and a pleasant RUclips find! You definitely deserve more subs and views. You'll certainly have mine. I look forward to the second part.

  • @meziembamara4004
    @meziembamara4004 9 месяцев назад +1

    Contra Hard Core- Best !

  • @badtzmzo
    @badtzmzo 2 месяца назад

    Gunstar Heroes was an early Genesis release while Hard Corps came much later. I don't think anyone that left Konami to join Treasure came back to Konami years later for Hard Corps.

  • @thehorrorarchivers7347
    @thehorrorarchivers7347 9 месяцев назад

    when will you make the video for homebrew horror genesis games?

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад

      someday :)

    • @thehorrorarchivers7347
      @thehorrorarchivers7347 9 месяцев назад

      @@BurstError Oh kool because your horror themed collections were very helpful in getting some nes horror themed games to my channel.

  • @thebeetlejoose
    @thebeetlejoose 9 месяцев назад

    up up down down left right left right B A select start

  • @DemiCalavera
    @DemiCalavera 4 месяца назад

    Probotector is Contra? OMG

  • @RJBadman
    @RJBadman 9 месяцев назад +1

    I wonder if the level clear jingle is a conscious rip-off of God Blessed Video by Alcatrazz? 🤔

  • @MasterMewtwo239
    @MasterMewtwo239 9 месяцев назад

    Crusher Missiles? Cluster Missiles.

  • @MasterMewtwo239
    @MasterMewtwo239 9 месяцев назад

    Gryzor hurts my eyes.

  • @DB-ek5kd
    @DB-ek5kd 2 месяца назад

    The Contras in Nicaraga weren't revolutionaries. They were counter-revolutionaries. That's why they were called contras.

  • @viciousvictortee1298
    @viciousvictortee1298 9 месяцев назад

    50Min!!! Part1!....U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A, Select,START!

  • @markhovscrch4050
    @markhovscrch4050 2 месяца назад

    Contra Stage 2 = Bagsakan by Parokya ni Edgar.

  • @alexshadowfax1119
    @alexshadowfax1119 9 месяцев назад +1

    I won't even try the Genesis contra, even though it looks awesome, I know I won't last longer than 20 seconds, get frustrated and turn it off.

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад

      could always try the JP one!

  • @sheets75
    @sheets75 3 месяца назад

    If my ears and memory aren't deceiving me, the C64 version recycles the intro music from the original Alien game...

  • @chucklos391
    @chucklos391 9 месяцев назад

    I think the characters were influenced by Arnold and Stallone.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 9 месяцев назад

      They're both Arnold pics neither one is Stallone in the box art. One is Arnold from Predator and the other is a shot of Arnold from Commando

    • @chucklos391
      @chucklos391 9 месяцев назад

      @@lutherheggs451 I saw that in the video of the pictures. Perhaps the dark haired one is Stallone but modeled after Arnie aesthetics?

  • @joseluki
    @joseluki 3 месяца назад +1

    Hard Corps is the best.

  • @JC-kl3uc
    @JC-kl3uc 9 месяцев назад +2

    Hard Corps, Alien Wars and Shattered Soldier are the holly trinity of Contra games.
    Recent Operation Galuga is not bad either, but the levels drag for way too long, platforming sections are pure cancer and art direction is just terrible.

    • @BurstError
      @BurstError  9 месяцев назад +1

      I just finished true ending on Shattered Soldier earlier tonight... it's so freaking good