Contra

ShooterPlatformArcade

Released

Mar 1987

Exact day not announced

Platforms

Arcade

Ratings

IGDB65

Release dates

North America dates

Mar 1987
- Arcade

About

Contra (also known as Gryzor in Oceania and Europe), is a 1987 run and gun action game developed and published by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. The game had multiple ports, including for various computer formats. Several Contra sequels were produced following the original game.

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How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 392 players

Main story: 1 h
Main + extras: 1.5 h
Completionist: 1.5 h

Reviews

Critics (IGDB)50/1000 reviews

IGDB players65/100265 ratings

Game info

Released: 1987 · see every game from that year
Modes: Single player · Multiplayer · Co-operative
Perspective: Third person · Side view
Multiplayer: Local up to 2Couch co-op 2Campaign co-op, Couch co-op

Editions, DLC & expansions

Editions & bundles 3

Other versions

Remakes 1

Contra Evolution2010 · Remake

Ports 9

Studios

KonamiDeveloper · Publisher

Age ratings

ESRBE10+Animated Blood, Mild Violence
PEGI7Fear, Violence
CEROANo content descriptors

Languages

1 language

English

Language	Audio	Subtitles	Interface
EnglishEnglish (US)	–	–

Story & names

In Contra, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean, who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization that is planning to take over the Earth. Details of the game's setting varies between supplementary materials: the Japanese versions sets the game in the year 2633 on the fictional "Galuga archipelago" near New Zealand, whereas the manual for the American NES version sets the game during the present in an unnamed South American island. The American storyline also changes the identity of "Red Falcon" from being the name of a terrorist organization to the name of an alien entity.

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