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...
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....
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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™
Wow! What a great series overview and a pleasant UA-cam find! You definitely deserve more subs and views. You'll certainly have mine. I look forward to the second part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Part Two is up! ua-cam.com/video/oC_L4FUbTLM/v-deo.htmlsi=nkoTeXwxKtFKFdT5
Another certified Burst Error classic™
Been really digging your stuff. Keep up the great work.
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...
Excellent retrospective!!! It has been a blast watching you play through all of the Contra games live on Twitch too
Thanks man, and kudos again for hooking me up with the sick Contra font logo!!
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....
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!
Such a great and thorough video! I need to try out the msx contra.
That Contra 3 level 3 music in the beginning 👌~chef's kiss
For me personally, I don't like the soundtrack of Contra III, but I like the story, the action and gameplay of it.
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.
The Genesis version is crazy
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.
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.
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.
Awesome video! It’s really fun seeing all the jank computer ports of the original game ❤
Great video burst! Keep this content coming!!!
That intro was eyegasmic. Great editing my friend.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for another great video
Great video. Subscribed!
Contra for the NES, you know you're boss when you did the 3 lives run and not died once.
WOW! (flips and drops to the ground)
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
it's so good! playing through it again for this video made me appreciate it a lot more than I used to.
@@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!
let's goooo
great retrospective ❤
THEND
Another awesome video 👌
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.
This is excellent. Do castlevania next!
strongly considering it! Thanks for watching :)
Contra - Timeless classic !❤
Up2, Down2, L,R,L,R, B,A,B,A, (select 2players) Start🤙🏾
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
2024 is the year of Contra
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.
SNES era was a great era
NES, SNES and Genesis, really.
getting up in them alien guts LOL
Great video
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
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Please don't forget Hard Corps Uprising in the later part(s).
@@ultraspinalki11HCU definitely will be covered! excited to play through that one again :)
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.
thank you! that's a big goal of mine in making this stuff :)
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™
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Wow! What a great series overview and a pleasant UA-cam find! You definitely deserve more subs and views. You'll certainly have mine. I look forward to the second part.
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.
The pirated Contra Spirits for NES got a mod with loads of qol choices and in english
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.
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.
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.
Contra Hard Core- Best !
up up down down left right left right B A select start
when will you make the video for homebrew horror genesis games?
someday :)
@@BurstError Oh kool because your horror themed collections were very helpful in getting some nes horror themed games to my channel.
Probotector is Contra? OMG
I wonder if the level clear jingle is a conscious rip-off of God Blessed Video by Alcatrazz? 🤔
Crusher Missiles? Cluster Missiles.
The Contras in Nicaraga weren't revolutionaries. They were counter-revolutionaries. That's why they were called contras.
Gryzor hurts my eyes.
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.
could always try the JP one!
50Min!!! Part1!....U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A, Select,START!
If my ears and memory aren't deceiving me, the C64 version recycles the intro music from the original Alien game...
Contra Stage 2 = Bagsakan by Parokya ni Edgar.
Hard Corps is the best.
I think the characters were influenced by Arnold and Stallone.
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
@@lutherheggs451 I saw that in the video of the pictures. Perhaps the dark haired one is Stallone but modeled after Arnie aesthetics?
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.
I just finished true ending on Shattered Soldier earlier tonight... it's so freaking good