Around 2 hours 6 minutes to beat. Alot of pausing to activate the jump glitch , as well as summon allies and check what was coming up next. Not too many lost continues. You basically have 8 lives between the characters. Stages are pretty long but you have unlimited continues , which start you back at the beginning of a stage. Review coming soon.
Unsuccessful continues edited out. One thing that makes this game much harder than it should be is the massive slow down in the game. It makes it so that your bullets rarely come out. Thus I could not play the game as aggressively as I would the other Contra games. This completes the 3 licensed Contra games on the NES.