{"id":7069,"date":"2022-09-18T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/guide-best-contra-games-on-nintendo-systems\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:21:23","slug":"guide-best-contra-games-on-nintendo-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/guide-best-contra-games-on-nintendo-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: Best Contra Games On Nintendo Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compare and Contra-st.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contra<\/strong> is one of a handful of franchises that have become completely synonymous with gaming; indeed, chances are if you haven&#8217;t <em>played<\/em> any Contra games, then you&#8217;ll have at least <em>heard<\/em> of them. Konami&#8217;s shoot-em-up behemoth may have lost a lot of its lustre in recent years (pretty much par for the course with Konami these days, it seems, save for some excellent retro collections), but its earlier iterations have become iconic in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>From the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/contra\">Contra<\/a> in 1988 all the way up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/contra_rogue_corps\">Contra: Rogue Corps<\/a> in 2019, the series has rarely strayed from its relatively simple formula \u2014 run through a bunch of linear levels and shoot up a bunch of bad guys \u2014 but this is arguably its biggest draw. In an age where gaming is more complex than ever, Contra is a fantastic reminder that you don&#8217;t need a boatload of features to make a cracking game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-contra-games-on-nintendo-systems\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Guide: Best Contra Games On Nintendo Systems<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Compare and Contra-st.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contra<\/strong> is one of a handful of franchises that have become completely synonymous with gaming; indeed, chances are if you haven&#8217;t <em>played<\/em> any Contra games, then you&#8217;ll have at least <em>heard<\/em> of them. Konami&#8217;s shoot-em-up behemoth may have lost a lot of its lustre in recent years (pretty much par for the course with Konami these days, it seems, save for some excellent retro collections), but its earlier iterations have become iconic in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>From the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/contra\">Contra<\/a> in 1988 all the way up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/contra_rogue_corps\">Contra: Rogue Corps<\/a> in 2019, the series has rarely strayed from its relatively simple formula \u2014 run through a bunch of linear levels and shoot up a bunch of bad guys \u2014 but this is arguably its biggest draw. In an age where gaming is more complex than ever, Contra is a fantastic reminder that you don&#8217;t need a boatload of features to make a cracking game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-contra-games-on-nintendo-systems\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7070,"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\/7069"}],"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=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}