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Contra

by Konami

1987
ShooterPlatformArcade

Boss Battles · Military · Pixel Art · Sci-Fi

50
Mixed

About

In Contra, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth. Details of the game's setting varies between supplementary materials: the Japanese versions sets the game in the year 2633 on the fictional "Galuga archipelago" near New Zealand, whereas the manual for the American NES version sets the game during the present in an unnamed South American island. The American storyline also changes the identity of "Red Falcon" from being the name of a terrorist organization to the name of an alien entity.
Publisher
Konami
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Warfare
Perspective
Third person, Side view
Age Rating
E10+ — Everyone 10+

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Release History

Feb 1987Arcade
Feb 20, 1987Arcade
Mar 1987Arcade
Also Known As
魂斗羅

Language Support

1 languages
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
English