This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of Contra III: The Alien Wars (or Super Probotector: Alien Rebels) on the SNES in Europe. That’s loopy, proper? Despite Konami’s moderately lacklustre try to revitalise the franchise with Contra: Rogue Corps in 2019, we right here at Nintendo Life nonetheless have a spot in our hearts for the run ‘n’ gun shooter sequence.
Starting with the unique Contra again in 1986 as a coin-op arcade title, the franchise has since gone on to spawn a sizeable handful of sequels on Nintendo platforms. Since many of those are identified by totally different names in Europe, it may usually be a bit tough to know precisely the place to begin (though Konami’s personal Contra Anniversary Collection for the Switch goes an extended technique to rectifying this).
So, to assist type the Hard from the Rogue, we’re asking you advantageous of us to price your favorite Contra titles under and assist us compile a rating of the highest Contra video games of all time!
Similar to our different reader-ranked polls, registered NL customers can click on on the celebs under and price the video games out of 10. The ensuing rating, which we’ll publish in the end, is created from these fluid NL User Ratings and is due to this fact topic to alter, even after publication. If you’ve got beforehand rated these video games in our database, thanks! If not, you’ll be able to add your rating to the sport at any time, current or future, and it’ll nonetheless depend and doubtlessly affect the order.
So, seize Bill and Lance and let’s get probotecting contra-ing…
Note. Yes, we have included the Anniversary Collection for completeness’ sake — in the event you’d moderately it weren’t there, merely fake it is not and the rating round it will likely be in precisely the identical order it will be in any other case. Easy!
Also, simply so that you’re all conscious of precisely what you are ranking right here, we thought we might listing the video games which have totally different names in Europe on your comfort:
- Contra / Probotector (NES)
- Super C / Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces (NES)
- Operation C / Probotector (Game Boy)
- Contra III: The Alien Wars / Super Probotector: Alien Rebels (SNES)
- Contra: Hard Corps / Probotector (Sega Genesis)
Rate every Contra recreation you’ve got performed:
Click the celebs under to price out of 10 every Contra you’ve got performed:
Thanks for ranking your favourites and provides us a shout in the event you assume there’s something lacking.
We’ll be revealing the outcomes quickly, however keep in mind: very like our platform Top 50s, the listing can be fluid, so even in the event you miss out on voting earlier than the outcomes are revealed, you’ll be able to nonetheless affect the rating after publication.
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