Game:

Contra (1987)

Duration: 13:36

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Author's comments:

After so many spread gun-runs I had a nice time running the game with the default gun too. It was troublesome to stay alive the hole run but finally I barely made it. The high light of this speedrun If I say it myself would be the waterfall boss.
But the biggest improvement over older submissions is The boss in Base 1. Those two highlights made up for some of the mistakes during the run.

Finished attempts: 20
unfinished attempts: 224

Total attempts: 244

Thankfully the default gun is limited to 4 shots on the screen and you can shot about 5 (?) bullets each second. In other words; not that tiresomefor my arm compared to a spread gun-run. Even so DK28 counted to 1729 shots fired in his old submission. I am probably not far away from that amount.

Stage 1
I got lucky and did not have to dodge any bullets on the boss. Usually I did accept a few seconds of dodging.

Stage 2
Now and then room number 2 and 4 killed a run. The moves you have to do is a little bit tight and I did not take the risks this time. Sometimes I got bad timing with the bullets on the boss but this time I got the boss just as I wanted so I am satisfied so far. This boss fight is probably the biggest improvement over the old run by DK28.

Stage 3
I got the last grenade dude. Even so I failed to reach the last moving platform early. But I did a hell of a boss fight instead. Killed him the second time he shows his big black mouth. I almost can not believe it. This is the second time ever I do that with the default gun.

Stage 4
Room 5 and 8 I was slow. The boss fight went about as fast as planned. I screwed up a little on the right eye when I was one bullet short but I was very lucky that I could kill the left eye after it did separate instead.

So far the run is as fast as I want it.

Stage 5
Doing the tight bomb jumps for my spread gun-run is hard enough. So I spare it this time and take it safe. The tanks was a little bit slow. In the end I am glad that I was lucky enough to kill the boss in the first round.

Stage 6
The boss did start to jump like a maniac which is bad. But I finally got him down and did kill him fast enough.

Stage 7
all the way up to the last enemie went well. but when I whould jump over the last two red bullets I jumped a little bit to early so I had to turn left and land and duck immidietly. I thought I should die when the random enemy showed up. And after that one came another one. It was cirkus in a couple of seconds but I finally made it =)

Stage 8
This Stage is easy if you have the right strategies.

I think I can see around 20 seconds of improvable material. I might improve this one if someone try to best it. otherwise I will leave this one as it is. I am pretty sure of it.

Thanks goes to Jeremy "DK28" Doll and Ray "Croc Doc" Cullen for their earlier submissions.
And to the Crew of SDA for the job that has to be done.

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