Contra Anniversary Collection
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The Contra Anniversary Collection brings this classic Run and Gun franchise back to modern platforms and a new generation of players. Grab power ups and blast your way through waves of menacing enemies and bosses that will put your reaction skills to the test. Also included is a digital Bonus Book with tons of concept documents and sketches, the official chronology of the franchise, an exclusive interview with the veteran producer of the series, and more! Alone or with a friend, Contra provides hours of nail biting action. In a pinch; make sure you know the code!
Game Discussion
Steam User 29
Overall a complete collection of contra during it's early days. A bit disapointed that some of the games still get slow downs on today's computers. I remember being able to run those game an an emulator all the way back in 2007. How this is not able to run smoothly today is a mistery really.
Worth 5 dollars or less, but definitely not 20$.
Overall still positif
Steam User 8
It's definitely a nostalgia trip considering I loved the original Contra from the NES era. Biggest problem that I hate about this version is that I can't spam my bullets without turning on turbo mode; compared to the original NES version you could spam the bullets by mashing the B button but now you can only shoot 3 bullets at a time. Not bad, just the small change really makes it less appealing nowadays.
Steam User 4
The pure juice from the 80s and the 90s, just feels good.
Several versions from diverse Plataforms like Arcades, NES, SNES, Mega Drive and even a portable version from Game Boy.
This collection includes 10 games and 6 Japanese versions; The emulation is competent, I strong recomend the use of the digital pad for a better gameplay, the save option is a really nice add, there is several screen modes, but I missed a 4:3 mode without the scanlines.
I strongly recommend for the lovers of the 80's.
Rate: 8.0/10
Steam User 4
A perfect collection for the classic ultimate side scroller shooter.
The soundtracks are perfect, it'll make you coming back for more.
Too bad the Remote Play feature is not working properly. And there's no Online Play, can only be play locally together.
Steam User 5
In general, I admit that playing this compilation is a nice experience. I feel that the control is responsive enough and simple. I can use the keyboard instead of the gamepad (my personal preference) and still enjoy games from this compilation. Of course having all "emulation" features like saving the game at any moment, and choosing display "type" is a nice thing, although I can't help for having the feeling, that I don't have such freedom in those options as in any standard emulator - even with such trivial things, as changing control (by some bizarre reason, you can only change the action connected with key, but can't change the key used for the control).
As for the choice of games - I'm very happy with the fact that we have both NES games (Contra and Super Contra), plus Contra III from SNES and Contra: Hard Corps from Mega drive. In my opinion, those four games are the main attraction of the collection. Arcade versions of the first two games are a nice addition (especially since they look and play differently), but I would personally prefer to have instead of some simple GB game or two Probotector games (that are basically reskinned Contra III and Contra: Hard Corps) for example Contra Force - I know, it's a spin-off, but still, I would prefer to have more "separate titles" instead of variations (or have all variations in one position, to switch between them). And ATM I feel like the "list of titles" is a bit artificially bloated. I'm perfectly fine with the Probotector variant, but it doesn't give much in terms of gameplay.
Steam User 3
Full Disclosure i haven't beaten every single game to its fullest. But I feel i got the most out of it so maybe i'll come back later to finish the rest off.
This is a really solid collection of contra games. They all feel good and are inanely addicting to try out. I really just wish there was more variety.
I assume there must be technical reasons the ps1 and 2 games aren't included but the other ones (Contra Force, Contra 4, and rebirth) feel missing from the set.
Because of this your paying for a collection that's really only 5 games and several ports of said games.
You get:
-Contra (and the nes version and the japanese version of the nes version)
- Super contra (and Super C which was the nes version)
- Contra III
-Contra: Hard Corps
- C: The Contra Adventure
and the two probotector games which were the European releases of Contra 3 and hard corp. So reallistically if you want to be technical, most of the collection is the same game but with differences.
All the games are really damn good though except the arcade games fuck those they suck.
Steam User 3
I used to play Contra all of the time on the Nintendo, but when they released the Nintendo Classic they included the sequel to the game instead of the game I am good at playing. I decided to buy this collection when it was on sale for a low price just so I could have the original game.