[TAS] Arcade Contra "1 player" by EZGames69 in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2023-05-09
Contra is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery and infinite ammo, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon.
EZGames69 ( tasvideos.org/... ) defeats the aliens in record time.
We also have a 1 player TAS of the NES version ( tasvideos.org/... ).

[@ammiebaker2911]

Somehow the NES version just looks and sounds way better than the arcade! Even more proof that NES Contra is a flawless game.

[@Ngamer01]

Those jumping/flipping sprites of the player character. 😂

[@Asterra2]

I will never not laugh at people who insist that the NES version is somehow better, either visually or particularly with regards to the music. It's the most profound specimen of rose-tinted glasses I am ever likely to witness. I personally saw the arcade game long before the NES version, and even as a child, I found myself disappointed but unsurprised that the NES version was not able to do the arcade game justice. It was a good NES game for its year of release, and did its best with its triangle and pulse waveforms to approximate the rich, many-voiced and _stereo_ arcade music by Konami at their absolute apex, but nope.

[@moe7659]

I like how beating the final boss rewards you 14 extra lives.

[@ironbowtie]

As a kid playing the NES version, the final boss always looked like a throbbing set of nuts instead of a heart.

[@deathblowringo4168]

Defeating the final boss awards 1000000 Points, that means 12 lives. The 1st extra life is awarded that 20000 points and then every 80000 points (assuming this is the default settings).

[@wraithcadmus]

When I first played the arcade version in an emulator I didn't realise it had a multi-way joystick, making the Stage 2 boss way harder than it needed to be, oops. Also glad to see Konami got to re-use those facehugger sprites when they did Aliens three years later 🤭

[@Koettnylle]

Yeah I can't believe aliens copied so much from contra

[@XenoGuru]

Sometimes I forget how great the arcade versions of Contra were.

[@denniswoycheshen]

It makes you realize how good of a job they did porting this to NES.

[@XenoGuru]

@@denniswoycheshen They really did.

[@denniswoycheshen]

@@XenoGuru I fucking loved playing contra as a kid.

[@fushigiman140]

Arcade version make game shorter by have only 5 stage and put Snowfield,Energy Zone,Hangar and Alien Lair in same stage

[@SinclairPoppins]

That wacky paramilitary force at it again

[@Zachary-l5u]

The NES version seems to be more well known.

[@acl2856]

All that and it couldn't beat the leaderboard screen...

[@MrMegajuniorx]

Muito ruim esta versão!!!!! Nes wins!!!!

[@Carthunder1983]

The fact the nes is better than the arcade is amazi

[@somefries3101]

how can the graphics of the arcade contra look so barebones oh god

[@solarflare9078]

1985-1989 arcade games often went for a desaturated look to them, Contra included

[@XenoGuru]

​@solarflare9078 Indeed. Even the arcade cabinets had graphical and CPU limitations back then. We saw how Double Dragon 1&2 on arcade both had slowdown in movement at times.

I just hope we can stay in a "Friendly zone" and keep both my TAP and this official TAS visible, i don't want this to happen like how it went with the Super Monkey Ball DS.

[@rafterscott]

Does anyone know if the European version of this also had robots instead of Bill and Lance?

[@megajr1616]

I never liked how this game looks

[@solarflare9078]

You won't like how almost every arcade game from the mid to late 80s looked then.

[@megajr1616]

@@solarflare9078 Nah, there are several that I like a lot, but specifically this one and its sequel seem a bit ugly to me

[@zulisnthere]

wowie contra

[@СашкаТвёрдый-й2ь]

МОЩА!!!!