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Contra: Hard Corps, released as Contra: The Hard Corps [4] in Japan and Probotector in Europe and Australia, is a run and gun video game released by Konami for the Sega Genesis in 1994, making it the first game in the Contra series released for a Sega platform. Set five years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars, a terrorist group led ...
Contra. (series) Contra[ a] is a video game series produced by Konami composed primarily of run and gun-style shooting games. The series debuted in February 1987 with the Japanese coin-operated arcade game of the same name, which has since spawned several sequels produced for various platforms.
In 2008, the University of Calgary professor Tom Keenan cited "the hideous Custer's Revenge game", 26 years after its release, in an op-ed piece about current video game violence issues for the Calgary Herald. [5] That same year, the game was credited by Australian PC Magazine as being one of the worst games ever made. [6]
Single-player, multiplayer. Contra [a] is a run and gun video game developed and published by Konami, originally developed as a coin-operated arcade video game in 1986 [5] [6] and released on February 20, 1987. [7] [8] A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, along with ports for various home computer formats ...
Hard Corps: Uprising is a run and gun video game developed by Arc System Works and published by Konami for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The game was released digitally on Xbox Live Arcade on February 16, 2011 [1] and on the PlayStation Network in March 2011. [2] In Hard Corps: Uprising, the player assumes the role of an elite soldier ...
Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) [1] [2] are a sub-genre of action games.There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of character movement, while others allow a broader definition including characters on foot and a variety of perspectives.
The port was titled Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX and released in November 2002 in Japan and North America, [51] [54] [56] and February 2003 in Europe. [57] The secondary weapon slot and bombs were omitted from the port, and the Mode 7 stages were replaced with side-scrolling stages from Contra: Hard Corps.
Contra 4. Contra 4 [a] [1] [2] is a 2D action game published by Konami Digital Entertainment in the United States and developed by WayForward Technologies. It is the eleventh overall installment of the Contra series, and was released in North America on November 13, 2007 for Nintendo DS. [3] A mobile port was released six days later on November ...