LaunchBox Logo Back to Home Page
Illustration of The Contras

The Contras

Overview

Contras is a clone of the arcade hit Contra, although with some differences. Like the arcade, you can have two players simultaneously, but unlike the arcade, you only have one improved weapon to get, which is rapid fire. The bonus shapes you shoot to get the extra weapons seem to be based on the extra weapon types from the arcade original, but due to the history of the game, it looks like not everything was completed as originally planned.

It was one of the most ambitious Coco 3 games attempted, making use of multi-voice music and sound effects, horizontal scrolling, large maps and dual player modes with graphics very close to the Nintendo version. Unlike the arcade version, the 3-D segments are not in here, but the later levels are actually different from the arcade as well (the first level is pretty well identical).

Publishers
Sundog Systems
Genre
Action
Alternate Names
No information available
Wikipedia
No information available
Video
No information available

Media

Box - Front

The Contras - Box - Front (World) - 813x1191
World -  813 x 1191