Run ‘n’ Rank!
This week marks the 30th anniversary of Contra III: The Alien Wars (or Super Probotector: Alien Rebels) on the SNES in Europe. That’s crazy, right? Despite Konami’s rather lacklustre attempt to revitalise the franchise with Contra: Rogue Corps in 2019, we here at Nintendo Life still have a spot in our hearts for the run ‘n’ gun shooter series.
Starting with the original Contra back 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 these are known by different names in Europe, it can often be a bit tricky to know exactly where to start (although Konami’s own Contra Anniversary Collection for the Switch goes a long way to rectifying this).
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