Contra Arcade Full Playthrough 

It’s nice to know that I am not the only one who listens to background tunes of video games, I think it’s a weird interest lol

Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't hum this from time to time. 😮

​@@WhoJustReplyingU are NOT alone

It isn't. The game is extremely easy.

It is much harder just a shorter game with no cheat code

@@JWBabaYaga Well once you get the knack of it, it's not too tough, but it's a hard road to get said knack.

Yeah the arcade's better but NES is fun too.

Got that right and for obvious reasons

I still enjoy it. But I lost my edge on it since I haven't played in years.

Noo, arcade is better. From the graphics to the sounds. NES was still fun tho. 🙃

@@TeranIcer It had better graphics, but that's it. The balance and gameplay was much better in the NES, not to mention it had more content.

@@MarquisLeary34 All console versions had the advantage of coming after the arcade, so content's gonna be added. As far as overall game play I'm taking the arcade, plus the arcade had no cheat codes so u HAD to be good.

@@TeranIcer The difficulty curve was also absurd at points, because it's trying to get you to spend quarters. You also had to be good to beat the NES version without cheats, and the difficulty was more balanced. I still say the NES version was a rare case of the home version being better.

Same story with all of the contemporary NES arcade titles. They did a great job with the ports, but they had to make cuts in various areas - resolution, color depth, sound/music, overall sprite detail, etc. This was due to a number of factors, but the biggest were hardware limitations in the NES (especially by 1990), and limitations in ROM size.

Looks better visually

LOOKS better, but in terms of gameplay and balance, the NES version has it beat. Also, I played it first in the arcade and still find the NES version better. Also, the soundtrack didn't sound as tinny on the home version.

*by far*

Nes for home gaming, this one is for arcade shop.

That's late 80s arcade games for you.

I noticed that, so much grey. And the graphics quality varied quite a lot. Some areas the water is just flat floodfill of #0000ff blue, other areas it's quite pretty.

It depends on color settings too. Many younger folks only know the NES. I played both, & the arcade is better. Contra 2 is cool also. 😊

Olympics jump 🤣🤣🤣

The game will kill you

I think a lot of the enemies just respawn at certain areas, so you'd die eventually.

Looks and sounds closer to a Mega Drive imo. In fact, the Mega Drive was built around common arcade hardware (most notably, SEGA's own System 16 machine)

I’ve started playing it like that recently. I wanted to beat the game without dying but I would always die once at the end of stage 3 no matter which gun a had… so I wouldn’t get any of the special guns so I could get the barrier and was finally able to beat the game without dying. I can beat the game now without dying and without the barrier but it’s only 50% of the time.

Because we got Contra Hard Corps instead

NES exclusivity and their publishing contracts

Arcade cabinets back then had technical limitations

Nah, arcade is better IMO, especially the sound. 😮

Go sit back on your rocker and age.

And adults.