Yeah can we stop a moment to realize how clutch all this shit was? He got a life out of nowhere (points maybe?), that apparently gave him another bomb and only because of that he managed to kill the mob circle of death + Invincibility frames bought him enough time to land more shots and barely beating that brain. And he had no continues. That was awesome!!
At 25:21 and 25:51 he gets an extra life from x00 each time (so that's two extra lives in the span of 30 seconds), and both in the same way, using a bomb during the spinning brains maneuver of the boss (and the second time the cut starts with him falling after the using the bomb). There are three cuts/edits during that 30 seconds period skipping to different boss attack patterns. And he only makes a comment expressing surprise at being alive over the second extra life. All the evidence points to save state usage. I actually wish I hadn't noticed since it kind of ruins my image of Ryu and how genuine he often appears to be.
@@megavolt67 Bruh, [facepalm] the only ''evidence'' find here is that you don't know much about this game. There's nothing suspicious about him getting an extra life a little after killing those giant eyes(even with the time gap); that the giant eyes phase is super rewarding in the matter of points and generally, it is purposely triggered by players in order to fast farm extra lives: one life each time if you're good, more if you know what you're doing. Ryu didn't get any during the phase but accumulated enough points to gain an extra life in the next one. You judged Ryu without knowing what you were talking about, shame on you man, lol. The good news for you is that you can retrieve your confidence in him
This is surely one of the best games ever made, and my favourite of Contra series. It's a really tough game to play without knowing all the tricks, but you learned really fast how to beat each boss and remembered the golden rule of Contra games: when in doubt, use scatter shot! The ending was super intense but you were able to clutch it, I'll be looking forward to your stream of the hard mode on this game!
Seriously brings back since great memories of being a kid playing Nintendo on the weekends with a friend of mine. Good lord, that was almost 40 years ago for me. But I'll never forget those good times!
"we are now riding a helicopter.... we are NOW riding a missile.. that the helicopter shot." I lost it at that part. Gotta love Contra. it is the epitome of ridiculousness lmao and Ryu just makes it sm better with his non chalant commentary
Ryu, your channel is great. It's like being couch-locked next to your friend while he's playing video games, and you don't dare interrupt because you're not on his level, but you're just cool to chill and watch. Very nice USP.
Aaaah, the old classic “just kill everything crazy alien shit moving around“ ... i love it, and the graphics are awesome (also the music at the silver dragon side boss)
Blaster master is tough. I've never played it enough to actually get anywhere, but the maze-like levels and "secret" doors(if I remember correctly?) kind of drove me nuts. It does look like a pretty cool game though. But definitely tough.
I gotta say even though I grew up with the battle toads games and watching TMNT, I think this looks like the best SNES game I've ever seen (aside from maybe mario lol)... Such great boss battle concepts, lots of action, a few ways to dodge, meaningful weapon choices... This game was way ahead of its time, but in a good way! I'd be happy to see you play anything else in the Contra series!
Ryu, Love this play thought but you really need to play this on hard to experience the true final boss that climbs up as you are flying out on the helicopter. Keep up the great work as you are my favorites retro gamer. 👍
Ryu, that was awesome! I look forward to your stream on Hard mode! Super Pro-tip: holding R or L (I forget which one) locks your character in place, allowing you to fire in 8 directions without moving. That is super handy in a lot of fights. Good luck! :D
It might be because I played this game to death (literaly, many times) when I was younger but this one isn't really all that bad too. Once you learn how to use your weapons efficiently this isn't that bad. Even the C weapon I never liked before, I learned the hard it was actualy a GOOD weapon, when used correctly. Love that game :D Edit : And yes there's another form of that final boss on the hardest difficulty for the true ending. You have to fight him while escaping with the missile chopper.
Played this game to death as a kid (well the Super Probotector: Alien Rebels EU version anyway). What a game, aged well. Had no idea it had such a reputation for difficulty I think I completed it even back then as a kid. Of course I have the benefit of hindsight, but watching Ryu consistently using the worst gun selection / strat possible in several scenarios was painful. Man powered through it with pure skill and no tactics though, props. Also there definitely was a pretty badass intro if you don't press start too early, unless that was only in the European version.
i've when i was younger, i think it's more annoying than hard, like the first stages are really funny but after 20mins playing it kinda gets just irritating
One of my favorite games growing up. I don't remember if I ever beat it solo but beat it quite a few times playing with my dad. Brought back a lot of memories.
Hagane (SNES) was a fun platformer. Super tough as well. Worth checking out. Wings of Vi (Steam, maybe others) is an awesome challenging precision platformer, focusing (as far as I could go anyway) on jump timing. Dead Cells (Steam) is currently my favorite metroidvania/roguelike/speed run game. It is phenomenal! I'd say its the most important game to check out. Art, music, tight controls, badass weapons and stages, it has everything. Freedom Planet (Steam/other) is a sonic series homage that nails the feeling, and imo kinda does sonic better than he does. Lots of talking though. It would be neat to see you do a La-Mulana (maybe speed) run. Tough metroidvania, neat puzzles, annoying and fun. That's all I can think of that would be right up your alley and engaging as a video for your viewers. Have a good one!
I beat this when I was young.. but.. that was with Konami's well-established code. Gonna watch this when I get back home. Thanks ryukahr - love this series! (Edit: - re: Konami code -- I thought this was Contra 1 - but I like AW better anyhow!)
Ah, that explains it. Though there is a way to farm lives if you can make it to level 3. Thats the only way I've beaten Contra 3. The farming takes forever. too. I literally clamped down the shoot button and changed the input on my TV to watch a show then came back to 30 lives.
Duuuude LOL I remember using a cheat on the original Contra... Taped down something hard onto the shoot button on my controller (the old square Nintendo controller, the ones that left permanent indentions in your hands and were basically indestructible lol) and kept my guy on the right hand side of the screen, which allowed him to kill everything that came into view. I left it overnight, went to school, came home, and had basically an infinite number of lives when I finally resumed playing 🤣 LMAO!
HUGE fucking respect for beating this (seemingly) so quickly on normal! Well done, man. Now for hard mode, I'm sure you're already planning on it or already have but you need to learn some of the speed strats. Mainly the dual shooting technique where you furiously tap and constantly switch between your weapons. Looking forward to watching you tackle it!
In the difficult mode the final boss has another phase, acquire some arms and start climbing and attacking XD how many memories of wasted hours you brought me, Greetings from Honduras 💪😎🇭🇳
I always think of my best friend growing up when I see this game. I would go to his house to play SNES with before I got my own (and after). I never saw past the boss where you're jumping on the missiles...until today.
Fun Fact: This game was censored in Germany. They switched out the sprites from the main characters and all human enemies with robots. (Because when robots shoot each other it is ok???) They even renamed the game to "Super Probotector". So when I first heard of the Contra series I was like: "What is Contra?" :D
Wow, the first two levels actually had me thinking people were exaggerating the difficulty of this game. Things really went up a notch from level three onward.
I'm sure someone has already told you this, but you can stand still and aim down or diagonally by holding the shoulder button. Extremely useful in many fights.
I tried playing this recently on the SNES classic. I stopped after trying the 2nd stage because I was getting motion sick with the awkward map controls. I was thankful you blasted through that stage before I got motion sick watching.
while watching these videos I was trying to think of a hard SNES game and kept thinking of zombies ate my neighbors. but I would then think maybe it was only hard cause I was young. glad to see it made a top 10 list and im not complete poop at vids lol. you should do more of thee videos. maybe top 10 for each console. or hardest games of the last decade.
I miss old games, or at least the difficulty of old games. I got the NES right when it came out and used to play Contra for hours just to get to the waterfall stage and die. Even with the cheat code I couldn't get to the end. They had to make games much harder back then because you weren't getting expansion packs or dlc it was whatever came on the cartridge and they couldn't fit much on those cartridges so in order to make the game playable for longer they made them really hard
I love how young this guy must be. I killed this game in the first few tries. Although he gone way more game than me on other games but I would kick his ass in this game
I bought an SD card online with ever Nintendo, super Nintendo, game boy, Sega, etc. game, a bunch of N64 games, etc., and Batman was the one game I wanted to play more than any other. And it was literally the ONLY game that didn't work. I was so pissed.
From the start of the game..all the way to the end there is no story, Intense gameplay, awesome soundtrack, and FULL of Action! FUCK YEA! I love "Contra 3: The Alien Wars" and I still have the Super Nintendo cartridge and box =D
I put more time into this game than I care to think about. I got it to the point that I'd start on easy and clear it. Then it would restart on Normal with however many lives you had left; clear it again and then repeat it on hard all on one life. I don't know if I should be proud of that or ashamed of the amount of time it took to learn it inside and out like that. Watching you not hold L or R to stop moving so you can aim while standing still had me yelling at the monitor though lol
Seeing this brings me back... Need to play this again soon... Way back when me and a friend used to race by seeing who could beat it the fastest, which brings me to a question; why do people in general consider this as a hard game to beat? I love the Contra games! :)
Yeah can we stop a moment to realize how clutch all this shit was? He got a life out of nowhere (points maybe?), that apparently gave him another bomb and only because of that he managed to kill the mob circle of death + Invincibility frames bought him enough time to land more shots and barely beating that brain. And he had no continues. That was awesome!!
At 25:21 and 25:51 he gets an extra life from x00 each time (so that's two extra lives in the span of 30 seconds), and both in the same way, using a bomb during the spinning brains maneuver of the boss (and the second time the cut starts with him falling after the using the bomb). There are three cuts/edits during that 30 seconds period skipping to different boss attack patterns. And he only makes a comment expressing surprise at being alive over the second extra life. All the evidence points to save state usage. I actually wish I hadn't noticed since it kind of ruins my image of Ryu and how genuine he often appears to be.
@@megavolt67 Welp that actually explains it, that's sad.
@@megavolt67 Bruh, [facepalm] the only ''evidence'' find here is that you don't know much about this game. There's nothing suspicious about him getting an extra life a little after killing those giant eyes(even with the time gap); that the giant eyes phase is super rewarding in the matter of points and generally, it is purposely triggered by players in order to fast farm extra lives: one life each time if you're good, more if you know what you're doing. Ryu didn't get any during the phase but accumulated enough points to gain an extra life in the next one. You judged Ryu without knowing what you were talking about, shame on you man, lol. The good news for you is that you can retrieve your confidence in him
@@megavolt67 Listen to tuazul
@@GoldenHeartNecklace No, no it doesn't
24:42 The pure essence of gaming
"Yay I did it!!!"
"....no. Aw fuck."
>clutches like only Ryu can clutch
"Yay I did it!!!"
Fuck Yeah!!!
This is surely one of the best games ever made, and my favourite of Contra series. It's a really tough game to play without knowing all the tricks, but you learned really fast how to beat each boss and remembered the golden rule of Contra games: when in doubt, use scatter shot! The ending was super intense but you were able to clutch it, I'll be looking forward to your stream of the hard mode on this game!
I thought it was called Spreadshot, not scattershot?
Yep, This game is fucking epic!
One note thought! THAT IS NOT THE REAL END!! DX
@@danballe TRUE!!!! I remember the brain getting a crab-like body and chasing you up the shaft under the helicopter!
it was just too hard for me as a kid tbh. I want to love it, but, it was too hard. I preferred the NES contra!
Ah, this brought back memories. My dad and I played this game but only got to level 3 after about 3000 tries. Thank you ryukahr
yo what up john cena
quad op hey
me and my mom used to play it, and max we've reached was the beginning of the last level, we've never knew it was indeed the last level
Seriously brings back since great memories of being a kid playing Nintendo on the weekends with a friend of mine. Good lord, that was almost 40 years ago for me. But I'll never forget those good times!
Wait, scatter shot? I've been calling it spread for 25 years.
That's ok. 9 out of 10 dentists agree it's called spread.
So to be sure I looked it up in the manual and it's definitely called the spread gun.
It's a shotgun. But I'll die before I say anything other than spread.
Spray shot?
When I was a kid I thought it was "Six shooter"
"we are now riding a helicopter.... we are NOW riding a missile.. that the helicopter shot." I lost it at that part. Gotta love Contra. it is the epitome of ridiculousness lmao and Ryu just makes it sm better with his non chalant commentary
Screw the "Standard settings rule" This game is though as nails, GET THE FREAKING 7 Lives, you gonna need each and every single one of them!"
Ryu, your channel is great. It's like being couch-locked next to your friend while he's playing video games, and you don't dare interrupt because you're not on his level, but you're just cool to chill and watch. Very nice USP.
Aaaah, the old classic “just kill everything crazy alien shit moving around“ ... i love it, and the graphics are awesome (also the music at the silver dragon side boss)
God, this game is such a 90s kid's dream. Very creative, tons of guns and explosions, alien look creatures, missiles, etc. So 90s. I love it.
3:30 heat seeker is drawn towards lava. It is a cleaver deterrent.
I love going back on Ryu's channel to hear him swear
6:25 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! "It doesn't fuck you over for no reason..." Epic foreshadowing.
Nice job. But hard mode is where it's at. Also, Blaster Master for NES is a great game for this series.
Blaster master is tough. I've never played it enough to actually get anywhere, but the maze-like levels and "secret" doors(if I remember correctly?) kind of drove me nuts. It does look like a pretty cool game though. But definitely tough.
23:08 "Who are you?" It's the final boss of the second Contra, Super C.
Bad ass ryu. Mario has prepared you for games you never thought your skills were needed in. Thumbs up for sensei Mario.
4:18 the boss is shooting out little croissants
13:25 Turbo Tunnel flashbacks
I gotta say even though I grew up with the battle toads games and watching TMNT, I think this looks like the best SNES game I've ever seen (aside from maybe mario lol)... Such great boss battle concepts, lots of action, a few ways to dodge, meaningful weapon choices... This game was way ahead of its time, but in a good way! I'd be happy to see you play anything else in the Contra series!
Seriously, wow, what a playthrough. This game looks absolutely amazing, I can't believe I never played it at all as a kid or adult.
Ryu, Love this play thought but you really need to play this on hard to experience the true final boss that climbs up as you are flying out on the helicopter. Keep up the great work as you are my favorites retro gamer. 👍
I love "the game doesn't fuck you over. You do not get killed by invisible objects." Then he starts stage 3. I said oh man you spoke too soon lol.
Ryu, that was awesome! I look forward to your stream on Hard mode! Super Pro-tip: holding R or L (I forget which one) locks your character in place, allowing you to fire in 8 directions without moving. That is super handy in a lot of fights. Good luck! :D
love these vids. keep it up. like your spin of things I've seen 100 times over.
this game was amazing. i used to play it all the time with my dad when i was a kid. i love contra III!!!
It might be because I played this game to death (literaly, many times) when I was younger but this one isn't really all that bad too. Once you learn how to use your weapons efficiently this isn't that bad. Even the C weapon I never liked before, I learned the hard it was actualy a GOOD weapon, when used correctly. Love that game :D
Edit : And yes there's another form of that final boss on the hardest difficulty for the true ending. You have to fight him while escaping with the missile chopper.
Played this game to death as a kid (well the Super Probotector: Alien Rebels EU version anyway). What a game, aged well. Had no idea it had such a reputation for difficulty I think I completed it even back then as a kid.
Of course I have the benefit of hindsight, but watching Ryu consistently using the worst gun selection / strat possible in several scenarios was painful. Man powered through it with pure skill and no tactics though, props.
Also there definitely was a pretty badass intro if you don't press start too early, unless that was only in the European version.
Zombies ate my neighbors is quite hard as it goes along
Daniel k it's like over 100 stages
Yeah but its super fun !
i've when i was younger, i think it's more annoying than hard, like the first stages are really funny but after 20mins playing it kinda gets just irritating
Dude I LOVE this series.
As soon as you didn't grab the flamethrower at the beginning of stage 3 I knew you were in for a bad time
One of my favorite games growing up. I don't remember if I ever beat it solo but beat it quite a few times playing with my dad. Brought back a lot of memories.
Definitely a classic whose gameplay holds up today. I'd say Battletoads too.
Hagane (SNES) was a fun platformer. Super tough as well. Worth checking out.
Wings of Vi (Steam, maybe others) is an awesome challenging precision platformer, focusing (as far as I could go anyway) on jump timing.
Dead Cells (Steam) is currently my favorite metroidvania/roguelike/speed run game. It is phenomenal! I'd say its the most important game to check out. Art, music, tight controls, badass weapons and stages, it has everything.
Freedom Planet (Steam/other) is a sonic series homage that nails the feeling, and imo kinda does sonic better than he does. Lots of talking though.
It would be neat to see you do a La-Mulana (maybe speed) run. Tough metroidvania, neat puzzles, annoying and fun.
That's all I can think of that would be right up your alley and engaging as a video for your viewers. Have a good one!
What an insane game. Loved this video. You had me laughing out loud!
You know a game is hard when Ryu is constantly going "Stop it!"
7:29 LMFAO OMG
And 8:23 LMFAOOOOOO "hello" then YEET!!!! 😂😆😂😆😂😆😂😆😂😆😂
This brought back old memories. Good luck with hard, It ramps up a lot.
I beat this when I was young.. but.. that was with Konami's well-established code.
Gonna watch this when I get back home.
Thanks ryukahr - love this series!
(Edit: - re: Konami code -- I thought this was Contra 1 - but I like AW better anyhow!)
BarnesThe3rd the Konami code does nothing in Contra3
Devin Gallagher you're right! Thought this was the 1st one from the quick glance I had. (Still haven't watched it)
Ah, that explains it. Though there is a way to farm lives if you can make it to level 3. Thats the only way I've beaten Contra 3. The farming takes forever. too. I literally clamped down the shoot button and changed the input on my TV to watch a show then came back to 30 lives.
the code works on the japan version tho
@@Devgal89 bro don't make me smack you
I need to go back and play this game for sure!
This game has so many terrifying-looking enemies. Some of those bosses are nightmare-inducing
2:42 that's what she said
0:33 please play “Super R-Type” Ryu! That game is known for its difficulty!
I've recommended this every video so far :(
dnguyen253 I’ve brought it up several times as well :( but I will keep recommending it!
Difficult but also very good.
Duuuude LOL I remember using a cheat on the original Contra... Taped down something hard onto the shoot button on my controller (the old square Nintendo controller, the ones that left permanent indentions in your hands and were basically indestructible lol) and kept my guy on the right hand side of the screen, which allowed him to kill everything that came into view. I left it overnight, went to school, came home, and had basically an infinite number of lives when I finally resumed playing 🤣 LMAO!
Ahh I remember playing this game for nights with my friends when we were innocent kids in elementary school :)) Best game for SN
HUGE fucking respect for beating this (seemingly) so quickly on normal! Well done, man. Now for hard mode, I'm sure you're already planning on it or already have but you need to learn some of the speed strats. Mainly the dual shooting technique where you furiously tap and constantly switch between your weapons. Looking forward to watching you tackle it!
In the difficult mode the final boss has another phase, acquire some arms and start climbing and attacking XD how many memories of wasted hours you brought me, Greetings from Honduras 💪😎🇭🇳
That was the clutchiest clutch that ever clutched!!!
I always think of my best friend growing up when I see this game. I would go to his house to play SNES with before I got my own (and after). I never saw past the boss where you're jumping on the missiles...until today.
Fun Fact: This game was censored in Germany. They switched out the sprites from the main characters and all human enemies with robots. (Because when robots shoot each other it is ok???) They even renamed the game to "Super Probotector". So when I first heard of the Contra series I was like: "What is Contra?" :D
We even wondered "What is Contra?" here in the US. Was it named after the Iran-Contra scandal of the time, or what?
DarkHanswurst ah Germany.. where drawing a swasitka will get you prison time, but they want to legalize incest.
Australia too!
10 year old me was laughing at you. 38 year old me was super impressed (and also surprised how much of the game I remembered.)
Wow, the first two levels actually had me thinking people were exaggerating the difficulty of this game. Things really went up a notch from level three onward.
Contra III is great. Lots of fun, even on hard. If you have a friend play with you, it's even better and the patterns are simple enough.
I must say, that beard is looking god-like!
He gets wiser as his beard grows longer. He's gonna reach Gandalf levels of wisdom if this continues.
I'm sure someone has already told you this, but you can stand still and aim down or diagonally by holding the shoulder button. Extremely useful in many fights.
Yoooo, this brings back many memories! Honestly my favorite Contra game!
I tried playing this recently on the SNES classic. I stopped after trying the 2nd stage because I was getting motion sick with the awkward map controls. I was thankful you blasted through that stage before I got motion sick watching.
This was the first console game I ever played. Glad to see it get some love.
The reactions were priceless. I loved it. 😂
This game is hard though. Like dayum... 😮💨
This game kicked my ass for my entire life. One day Contra. One day.
I'm glad too watch you play this my controller would be in little pieces all over the floor.
you can also shoot down, and I think hold a button to place yourself while shooting at an angle if I remember correctly... total nostalgia, baby!
love your new partly-invisible cap XDDDD
and the bomb soun sounds like drwho intro
Those Mario skills really translate well to contra
while watching these videos I was trying to think of a hard SNES game and kept thinking of zombies ate my neighbors. but I would then think maybe it was only hard cause I was young. glad to see it made a top 10 list and im not complete poop at vids lol. you should do more of thee videos. maybe top 10 for each console. or hardest games of the last decade.
You've got to be kidding me. I never knew you could hold two weapons at once and switch between them.
Thanks for the content Ryukahr! Love this series :)
I played this alot as kid. My brother and me made it through on normal after so many hours and failures. We were so proud.
Everytime I watch you play...I find more respect for you as a gamer lol
Hard mode adds another final boss fight after the brain wakes back up while flying up on the helicopter.
I love how animated Ryu is during this gameplay lol.
Man what a throw back!
Woow dude i playes this game on the snes and i couldnt remember the name of the game .ty for bringing some nostalgie back bro you made my day. Haha
That's a turtle homeboy.
actually, that's a tortoise..... turtles don't walk on land...
I miss old games, or at least the difficulty of old games. I got the NES right when it came out and used to play Contra for hours just to get to the waterfall stage and die. Even with the cheat code I couldn't get to the end. They had to make games much harder back then because you weren't getting expansion packs or dlc it was whatever came on the cartridge and they couldn't fit much on those cartridges so in order to make the game playable for longer they made them really hard
I love how young this guy must be. I killed this game in the first few tries. Although he gone way more game than me on other games but I would kick his ass in this game
One of my favorite games of all time
Great game! We rented it from an old video store and powered through it on a weekend. Classic
That was one of the most clutch final boss ever
Super R Type!!!
I got my SNES and spent countless hours dying. Loved it
MC Kids needs some love. That game was long and ridiculous. Spent lots of hours trying to find everything in that game. Also AVGN had an episode on it
Love this game, and enjoying this series. You should do Batman NES.
I bought an SD card online with ever Nintendo, super Nintendo, game boy, Sega, etc. game, a bunch of N64 games, etc., and Batman was the one game I wanted to play more than any other. And it was literally the ONLY game that didn't work. I was so pissed.
This version was just like the game boy one. Classic.
From the start of the game..all the way to the end there is no story, Intense gameplay, awesome soundtrack, and FULL of Action! FUCK YEA!
I love "Contra 3: The Alien Wars" and I still have the Super Nintendo cartridge and box =D
I put more time into this game than I care to think about. I got it to the point that I'd start on easy and clear it. Then it would restart on Normal with however many lives you had left; clear it again and then repeat it on hard all on one life. I don't know if I should be proud of that or ashamed of the amount of time it took to learn it inside and out like that.
Watching you not hold L or R to stop moving so you can aim while standing still had me yelling at the monitor though lol
fire works really well against the winged bug things
The unstoppable Ryukahr strikes again. 👍 excellent video, excellent game. Thank you for expanding from the NES.
In my opinion, this is the perfect Run n Gun game.
So clutch! Much win!
Glad you liked it. I think you got used to the patterns for this one more easily than GNG, but SGNG might be hard enough and still more fun
Easily one of my favorite childhood games
This was my first SNES game... and I got really good at it too. Finished it a few times.
this game looks so fun but I still gotta beat GnGR before I buy the collection in switch
Dude, you played soooooo well at the end of stage 6. You were one with the game!
Seeing this brings me back... Need to play this again soon... Way back when me and a friend used to race by seeing who could beat it the fastest, which brings me to a question; why do people in general consider this as a hard game to beat? I love the Contra games! :)
Best game ever! Hard AF too
12:15 iconic moment in SNES gaming :)
Absolute classic game and a joy to watch someone discover it (even though sounds like he had played it before)
That final continue is so satisfying
Dude, your talent is patience
1. It's spread shot
2. It's flamethrower
3. It was INFURIATING to watch you play this
This is the best Contra!!