You know how you keep missing the exploding bridge jump on the first level? You gotta stop shooting the machine gun while you jump. Makes you go a little further.
This is fucking gold lol, nice share. Snow fields, get ready!
That was a hard game I’ve never beat.
I only ever beat it with a friend in 2 player. He really carried me, it probably would have been much easier for him in 1P!
Spread is brokenly good, but I like playing with Laser too. It feels good to land the entire beam on a boss. Especially in the arcade version, laser kills bosses fast.
they made it so Spread was the best choice almost alway, i recall a boss for which Laser was best, using memories from 35 yeats ago tho
I too, am older than 35 yeets
But they said yeats…
Well, obviously, it was a typo. No one is 2,555 years old.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Is that like those two yoots?
The boss with the big LED panels
“Flamethrower” (the wavy path ball gun) is perfect for a couple parts of the game where you can lay down. You fire and ever shot hits, and you are never in the path of enemy bullets or mobs.
Does it do this better than the spread? I’m trying to think of what part of the game this advice would work…
MUSHA has this with the orb circle shield/weapon thing (I never learned the name). I used to think this was bad game design but even if it was an accident it’s interesting trying to bend your way around a game to keep from picking up stuff you dont want.
MUSHA has a killer soundtrack.
This is a masterpiece. Good find!
It warms my heart that people are still making memes about decades-old games.
Vampire Survivors, the breakout hit game on so many platforms now, has a full DLC based on Contra. It’s still very much on the minds of everyone who loves this stuff.
aaaaaaand the music is now stuck in my head again.
https://youtu.be/gp4_GcI-atg?si=DE6K30H1wwmwpfgM
You’re welcome.
I love this, this has to be the best version of this meme I’ve ever seen.
I personally won’t start over if I lose spread, but lose all my powerups in something like Gradius or Lifeforce and it probably isn’t worth it to keep going. It is the Konami way.
That’s actually part of why I didn’t enjoy Gradius and Life Force. At that point it’s not a fun challenge, it’s just bullshit. In Contra you can do pretty good with the starting weapon, even if it’s not ideal.
I’m amazed that I get the meme, despite not really ever having played Contra. I never had it or knew anyone with it, and it was always stacked in the arcade.
I had to settle for all the random knock-offs that didn’t even have the Konami code :(
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Tsk tsk. You forgot the start button at the end. Or select then start, if you have friends.
Start it is
I won’t start over. But, I’ll hate play until I get another one.
Spread gun is even better if you manage to offset the spread. It can only have x bullets active at once, so if you stack the bullets it will turn into the highest DPS machine gun in the game
