How to Play Contra NES - Online Instructions and Story
The controls to this game are very simple. To aim your gun up you press Up on the D-Pad. If you press down you duck/lay down. If you press down and B-button you can drop down to a lower platform. Obviously left and right move you left and right.
Press the A-button to fire and B-button to jump. If you hold up/down with either left/right you will shoot your gun in that direction. It is an easy game to pick up. It is also very addictive. The story is a little unbelievable though. It was about these aliens that came crashing down to an island next to South America and two men have to stop them. Bill Rizer and Lance Bean have to stop these aliens turned terrorists (that's what doesn't make sense about this plot). So they land in a jungle in South America.
There are literally only a few ways to play this game anymore. Through X-box Live Arcade, roms (your decision/risk), or an Arcade Machine. Your options are buying the machine itself or a mere quarter. For the X-box Live Arcade option it will cost 400 Microsoft Points or roughly 5 dollars.
The longest stage in the game (Level 5) was broken down into 4 levels when it was imported to the Nintendo Nes. This is also the final stage in the game and in part 4 is the Final Boss to Contra. A note for levels 2 and 4 if the timers runs out you lose a life but that's plenty of time for what you need to do. Level 2 gives you 1 minute 10 seconds and Level 5 gives you 1 minute 50 seconds.
Finally the popular Contra code is
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A
So anyone deciding to play Contra have fun with this revolutionary shooter game.
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