Quick Look: Contra Anniversary Collection

Contra always ran poorly in the arcade, SPECIFICALLY in 2P mode, so yeah, the playing through mud is accurate to the original.

@danryckert@vinny Hard Corps is not running any faster than the Genesis version. You two are misremembering.

Was curious about this myself and did a comparison of This Is The Run and the Quick Look and their fight with the uptown funk robot in both sync up.

http://youtubedoubler.com/sKVT

Great Quick Look!!

@fisk0: It’s because the extra versions were patched in after the game release. Konami/M2 also patched the Konami Arcade Anniversary Collection and Castlevania Anniversary Collection with additional games. At least for Castlevania (the only one I bought so far) they added 7 Japanese version of the 8 total games in the collection. For that collection, they have them at the bottom of the menu was Bonus Japanese games. They left out Castlevania 2 most likely due to it being a Famicom Disc game, which I think is troublesome to emulate, or maybe due to inherit load times with that version?

If anyone was curious which games they skipped, here’s a screenshot of the Japanese versions that were patched in after the game’s release. Dan skipped over them thinking it was the “Japanese Book”.

Little Contra Butts, Spread ‘em

I never played much contra originally but I tried playing this on normal difficulty and it made me realize that vinny and dan are way better than me at contra

Now I get why people don't like the mode 7 levels in Alien Wars. I've only played them single player, where you face the top of the screen and have the full screen to see, rather than this weird constantly facing to the right nonsense in the split screen version.

Oh god this brough some memories back.

Loved the spiky truck feet shooter moment.

I get it, sometimes we all just forget and don't think, but it's weird to me that they never connected the dots that probotector is European... It was in the book and NOT the Japan one, they also all run at 50hz...

Was looking forward to see the differences in Contra for Famicom, but they barely spent 2 minutes on it!

@mstankow: considering they spent most of the time playing the game they already beat in a video series, it wasn't the best quick look ever! I wanted to see more Contra for Famicom.

The excited bark that Dan does when things get hectic is the best. like around 36 mins.

@ebrake said:

Germany, specifically. I don't think other countries had laws or regulations against that, at least for videogames. I remember seeing ads for a reskinned version of Commando where all enemies were robots in German computer magazines, never saw them anywhere else.

There was a brief period when anything with local multiplayer was labelled couch co-op. They've talked about it several times on the Bombcast.

I must have blocked those conversation out of my head. In my circles, I've never heard of it called anything other than local multiplayer unless it was literally couch co-op.

The name of the song Dan was looking for is "pomp and circumstance"

Is Hard Corps: Uprising officially a Contra game?

So Hard Corps at least looked like it was running right. I think since they were coming off of Operation C and Alien Wars, they weren't ready for the speed of Hard Corps.

These are the runs!

Hard Corps is running at the speed it should

It just seems faster because they came off the slower games just minutes beforehand.

I love how adamant Dan is about how fast Hard Corps is and how it definitely isn't supposed to be like that. Though I will admit, even I looked at it and said, Woah that is fast.

I just loaded up an episode of This is the Run and con confirm this is definitely not sped up. It was always like this.

Also, I want another This is the Run! One of these fines games will do fine I'm sure. :)

I wonder the same. I distinctly remember the same "You started the game" jingle as previous games, but like, SO much about the rest of it is very weird and different.

@hobozero:Yeah, the McConnell joke made my night.

Super C bring back memories. Played that on Super Famicom

@madmatt213: I'm really surprised they haven't done it by now...it came out a while back. Maybe E3 got in the way.

I love just how much better Vinny is at Contra than Dan.

Hopefully they'll to another This is the Run soon, possibly featuring another Contra game (or something similar).

It's not that I think that they should remember that Hard Corps plays the same way, it is just how declarative Dan is about it being off when it is exactly the same speed. It is classic Dan.

Surprised Contra Force isn't on here. Looked it up and it was only released in US, so Konami Japan probably don't consider it as a legitimate entry. It's not good anyway and doesn't play like Contra.

Disappointed Konami once again leave out the Rebirth games. I guess those games will be lost to time, especially now that you can't even buy them on Wii shop.

This has probably been said already, but PLEASE DO A CONTRA 3 RUN! You guys would definitely have a blast.

Vinny "clutch" Caravella

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As a European, welcome to my world with EVERY game from the 90s.