{"id":6723,"date":"2022-09-12T20:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/poll-whats-the-best-contra-game-rate-your-collection-and-help-us-find-out\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T20:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:19:45","slug":"poll-whats-the-best-contra-game-rate-your-collection-and-help-us-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/poll-whats-the-best-contra-game-rate-your-collection-and-help-us-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: What&#8217;s The Best Contra Game? Rate Your Collection And Help Us Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Run &#8216;n&#8217; Rank!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week marks the 30th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/contra_iii_the_alien_wars\">Contra III: The Alien Wars<\/a> (or <strong>Super Probotector: Alien Rebels<\/strong>) on the SNES in Europe. That&#8217;s <em>crazy<\/em>, right? Despite Konami&#8217;s rather lacklustre attempt to revitalise the franchise with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/contra_rogue_corps\">Contra: Rogue Corps<\/a> in 2019, we here at Nintendo Life still have a spot in our hearts for the run &#8216;n&#8217; gun shooter series.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/contra\">Contra<\/a> 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&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/contra_anniversary_collection\">Contra Anniversary Collection<\/a> for the Switch goes a long way to rectifying this).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/poll-whats-the-best-contra-game-rate-your-collection-and-help-us-find-out\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Poll: What&#8217;s The Best Contra Game? Rate Your Collection And Help Us Find Out<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Run &#8216;n&#8217; Rank!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week marks the 30th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/contra_iii_the_alien_wars\">Contra III: The Alien Wars<\/a> (or <strong>Super Probotector: Alien Rebels<\/strong>) on the SNES in Europe. That&#8217;s <em>crazy<\/em>, right? Despite Konami&#8217;s rather lacklustre attempt to revitalise the franchise with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/contra_rogue_corps\">Contra: Rogue Corps<\/a> in 2019, we here at Nintendo Life still have a spot in our hearts for the run &#8216;n&#8217; gun shooter series.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/contra\">Contra<\/a> 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&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/contra_anniversary_collection\">Contra Anniversary Collection<\/a> for the Switch goes a long way to rectifying this).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/poll-whats-the-best-contra-game-rate-your-collection-and-help-us-find-out\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}