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Shooter Platform

Contra

Konami

Friday, May 26, 198937.2 years ago

Release

Friday, May 26, 1989

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Inside Contra

What it is

Contra is a run-and-gun shooter video game developed and published by Konami. It is one of the many ports of the homonymous arcade game. The MSX2 version was later re-released for the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console.

Play styles

Single player

Perspective

Side view

Themes

Action · Science fiction

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Who made it

Konami
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Platforms

Wii
Gen 7
Wii U
Gen 8
MSX2

Release history

May 26, 1989MSX2
Feb 10, 2010Wii
Oct 15, 2014Wii U

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ActionScience fictionSingle player

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