Contra: Shattered Soldier, while maintaining the side-view perspective of the 2D games, features fully polygonal 3D graphics. : 40–41 Only the Appaloosa-developed installments in the series, Contra: Legacy of War and C: The Contra Adventure, as well as Neo Contra, deviated from the series' mainly side-scrolling perspective (although C: The Contra Adventure does feature two side-scrolling stages). In addition to the side-scrolling stages, the original Contra (among others) also features 'pseudo-3D perspective' levels where the player must move towards the background in order to progress, while subsequent titles, such as Super Contra and Contra III: The Alien Wars, feature overhead stages as well. The majority of the Contra games are side-scrolling shoot-'em-ups where the player takes control of an armed commando who must fight all sorts of extraterrestrial monsters and other kinds of futuristic menaces.

While it is unclear whether the game was deliberately named after the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, the ending theme of the original game was titled ' Sandinista' ( サンディニスタ, Sandinisuta), after the adversaries of the real-life Contras. The arcade version of Contra was released a few months after the Iran–Contra affair was made public. The series debuted in February 1987 with the Japanese coin-operated arcade game of the same name, which was has since spawned several sequels produced for various platforms. Probotector, Hard Corps, Contra Force, Contra ReBirth,Ĭontra is a video game series produced by Konami composed primarily of run and gun-style shooting games. The Contra logo as it appears on the title screen of the 1987 Contra arcade gameĪrcade, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, IBM PC, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX2, Amiga, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Mega Drive/Genesis, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Network, Game Boy Advance, Mobile, Xbox Live Arcade, Nintendo DS, WiiWare, Virtual Console, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

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