Super Contra (Arcade) - 1 Credit Challenge
2It's been a long time since I did a 1 Credit Challenge video on this channel. So I decided to bring this series back and this time I'll be playing Super Contra for the Arcade. This game was developed and published by Konami, it was released in the arcade on December 29th, 1987. Super Contra was also released on other platforms, such as: NES (Super C), Commodore Amiga and IBM PC MS-DOS. A direct emulation of the arcade Super Contra was released on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 in 2007 and features enhanced graphics, remixed music and cooperative gameplay via Xbox Live. The arcade version was rereleased on June 12, 2019 on the Contra Anniversary Collection for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Steam and Nintendo Switch. Super Contra (also known as Super Contra: The Alien Strikes Back in Japan) is a run-and-gun shooter and is the sequel of the first Contra game. The plot goes like this: A year after the battle with the Red Falcon Organization, Bill and Lance are sent on another mission. This time, the alien forces have taken over an allied military base, possessing most of its troops. Bill and Lance must not only fight against their former comrades-in-arms, but also a new mutated form of the same alien creatures they fought during their previous mission. Like in the original Contra, the game can be played by up to two players simultaneously. The left player controls Bill (who wears green in this installment), while the right player controls Lance (who wears purple). The game retains the side-scrolling format from the previous game, discarding only the pseudo-3D and fixed screen segments. Instead, Super Contra features vertically-scrolling stages played from an overhead perspective, in which the player can move in eight directions. The controls remain mostly the same during the side-scrolling segments, with the only difference is that the player can now control the height of their jump by holding the joystick upwards or downwards while pressing the jump button. The player can replace their default gun with one of four possible weapons by destroying the flying item capsules that appear throughout each stage. The available weapons include a machine gun, a spread gun, a bomb gun and a laser gun. This time, weapons can be upgraded by picking up the same power-up twice in a row, resulting in greater destructive power. The power-ups in Super Contra are represented by the actual guns the player's character wields instead of the Falcon-shaped letter icons from the previous game. During overhead stages, the player can also pick up a "hyper shell" item that destroys all on-screen enemies, which can be launched at any time during these stages by pressing the jump button. The player can store more than one hyper shell at a time and the count is carried over between overhead stages. The game consists of five stages, which are set in a military base, a jungle and the alien's lair. Stages 1, 3 and 4 are played from the standard side-scrolling perspective, while Stages 2 and 5 employ the top-down perspective. Throughout each stage, the player must fight their way through the enemy's line of defense (including a few mid-bosses) until they reach the final target waiting at the end. After running out of lives, the player is not allowed to continue up to five times before the game is entirely over; this depends on the DIP switch settings. Unlike the predecessor, each player can now continue at any time, with no need to wait until the other player runs out of lives. About my run on Super Contra: The game is not easy, just like the first game of the series. After a lot of practice, I got to stage 3 (Jungle) and I'm really happy when I reached this level on one credit. Unfortunately I got game over on this stage, but I'm okay with the end score I achieved. Overall, Super Contra is a fun, but tough run-and-gun shooter from Konami. If you haven't played the arcade version of this game before, then I recommend to give this one a try. I hope you enjoy this 1 Credit Challenge video of Super Contra for the Arcade and thanks for watching!
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