#SuperC 

You’re like the Bob Ross of playthroughs, awesome

Man, i remember when this came out, i asked my grandparents for it for my birthday solely because the commercial for the game was awesome, one of the few times a game from back then lived up to the commercial and the hype

Wow been playing for years and never knew Fireball could be charged.

It's hard to believe one person could be so good at so many nes games. Very impressive

The dog at the beginning of these videos always makes me smile.

You missed a big secret in stage 2. When entering the boss room you can walk around behind the tank and kill the back middle gunner instantly.

Dang, the enemies have hilarious names in this game.

What if I told you, this channel rocks. What if I told you this channel will grow.

The name is so stupid. I LOVED Contra as a kid. I played it through so many times. And yet somehow I thought Super C was some weird spinoff. I didn't learn the truth until Contra 3 came out. I still haven't gotten around to playing Super C.

The second boss, you can sneak behind him asap. That way you can kill him faster. The forth boss, you can break the middle lasers and stay under it. You will be safe under that blind spot and then eventually take out the lasers from middle toward left and right. Always keep the right and left most laser last for safety. On the last boss. I did quite the same except walk from the ground toward the leg without climb up. When you kill it, you can quickly climb to the top right of the screen. There you can see your character floating mid air during the ending. When play on emulator, you can put both player the same button layout and select 2 players. With the same control, you can combine 2 characters to become one with double the fire power. Sometime I call the laser gun light saber when fire it very fast.

I generally preferred the Fireball gun over Spread in this version, as it could deliver massive damage with the charged version (9x damage) followed quickly by a regular shot (5x damage) when the timing is mastered. A Fireball player with a Spread partner just wrecks the game as one can expect. On the other hand, a fun challenge is not just beating the game on one life, but also picking up every power-up, even if it downgrades the current weapon. It’s trickier than it sounds, as some power-ups spawn in hard-to-reach places at times, especially in the final levels. I made a video a while back that demonstrates this challenge, along with the rules in the description if anyone is interested in trying it out.

I can honestly say I beat both Contra and Super C without the codes

One of my nerdy party tricks is being able to beat Super C without dying once. It was my favorite game as a kid and its like muscle memory. lol.

In stage 2, there is an easier way to progress. After you get the last 2 turret before you go to the bridge, if you have the spread shot, you can line yourself in the middle and continually shoot and walk forward. Don't stop. The spread will take out most if not all of the soldiers and the turrets you pass won't be able to target you in time. You can get all the way to the door like this. When you get to the boss, you have enough time to get all the way behind him and shoot the main soldier directly, and their shots won't be able to touch you.

Damn. Did you literally never die?

One thing I always liked to do on the Laser Chandelier was to start attacking the center. If you knock out the lasers in the middle, you can stay safe in the middle, since the boss never scrolls the still intact lasers off screen.

I always wanted to know if the characters en the early levels they were robots, humans or aliens in disguse

The kinda high pitched sound effect of enemy bosses taking hits is my favorite sound in life.

I always run behind the area 2 boss. You can kill him in just a second or two if you do that

I remember back in the day really liking contra force, the first boss looks like Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead.

One thing that is worth noting with the spread gun, though it seems counter intuitive, is not using a turbo setting and spacing the timing of your shots. The reason for this is that the spread gun only allows so many bullets on the screen at a time per player so if you are rapid mashing or turbo setting on the fire button, you get a less effective (not as wide) spread.

Yessssssss i love this video and I'm old so i have most contra games on all of my game systems - P.S. the last stage with the flamethrower aimed at the dropping ceiling emits a small radius of flame too detroy the orange aliens eggs pretty decently.

Are you going to do a video on playing Fester's quest?

Honestly, when I was a kid I needed the Konami code, but as I got older I was able to beat Contra no problem without the code. I'm currently trying to get a no death run and I'm pretty close. The game isn't that difficult once you know whats going on.

Super Cool guide! Super C was an absolute nightmare from my childhood, as the one hit and your dead concept was a bit too much to ask for from me at that particular point in time, much like Battletoads of course hahaha! I got up to Area 4 before getting TERMINATED during the elevator shaft boss battle. That being said, despite the harsh difficulty, I really enjoyed Super C's awesome music and kick ass action, which led me to reacquire and play this game again years later as an adult (lent the game to a friend back in 1992 and never got it back, unfortunately!). Anyway, long story short, just finishing Super C was not enough, so I decided to put myself through a single player 2P mode (letting the aliens kill off 1P Bill on purpose right off the bat, so that 2P Lance is left with even more enemies to deal with, but normal bosses/while most video games make the bosses take more damage while on 2P mode, Super C does not, surprisingly enough!) no items no deaths run. I opted to give 2P Lance (the red hero John Rambo clone, or Rance as he goes by in Japan) a chance, as most single player runs feature 1P Bill (the blue hero, Alan "Dutch" Schaefer clone): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C64vQKtG7gI.html Yeah, that final boss is such a letdown and is one of the most anticlimactic final battles in video gaming history hahaha! However, Vigo from Ghostbusters II on the NES remains the most anticlimactic, as the game literally beats him for you and his painting pathetically melts into oblivion hahaha! And for the record, Super C for the NES was the first Contra related video game that I ever played/finished and remains my favorite to this day, on that nostalgic basis :).

I came here after watching your Contra video! I actually never owned the original Contra as a kid, but I did own Super C. Also, for some reason, Super C was available on the Wii Virtual Console (as well as Contra 3), but the original Contra was never on there. I got Super C and Mega Man 3 for Christmas one year. What a holiday! I think that I kind of prefer Super C to the original. I like how much of a graphical improvement Super C is. In particular, I like the selection of colors used in each stage. The sprites seem a lot more detailed. I also liked how the level design wasn't just straight left-to-right, or bottom-to-top. Some levels, such as Levels 5 and 8, have you moving both horizontally and vertically in the same stage. I agree with you that one of the reasons that this game wasn't as possible as the original may have been its name. I think that for a lot of people, "Super C" didn't immediately signal that the game was "Contra 2". I also think that the lack of the 30 lives code may have been a factor, because Super C's first level is a lot more difficult than Contra's, and a lot of players may have never been able to get past the first two levels on just 3 (or even 10) lives. By the way, I never knew about the trick that you showed for defeating the Level 3 mid-boss (the multi-leg walker thing)!

Slowdown with a lot of enemies on the screen of the original contra was a FEATURE to be enjoyed with friends. Like combining the wow factor of the 360 matrix scenes (a decade+ earlier) with the heightened urgency to concentrate in avoiding obstacles. Therefore its removal in subsequent titles should not be classified as improvements as argued at 0:58.

Still own it. At the main screen press select,start,A, and B at the same time for a list of all the sound effects and music

On the laser chandelier, I find it's helpful to take out the 2nd and 3rd lasers from the left first, then you have a nice umbrella to stand under to avoid laser fire, as you take out the remaining 'middle lasers', saving the end ones for last. When you leave the end lasers for last, it's not able to scroll offscreen, keeping your umbrella intact.

I beat super c without dying. W/ witness! Booyah

Dude, you're doing these _every week_?! This is like a month of work at least! Love the content, but don't burn out on us. Can't wait for Guardian Legend. (Figure of speech, I can totally wait, just excited)

Loved the original, of course it was harder to beat so u needed the 30 men, super c wasn't as fun but was easier to beat, even without the 10 men code, never played part 3.

Agree, I do think Super C is superior to Contra in a number of ways. It's a bit more polished, gameplay is a bit more fluid, the difficulty is a bit more balanced, and although Contra's soundtrack is great, Super C's is just rockin' - one of Konami's best on NES.

As a kid, I always thought of the jungle mission in Contra as some kind of homage to the movie Predator, given that they ripped off Arnold's likeness on the box art (later found out both characters on the art are Arnold, one with added hair.)

Hmm. How did I miss this one? I never actually played super C growing up. Quickly! To the man cave! Emulator power up! We got a game to beat!

@U Can Beat Games The best method for taking out the Level 4 boss is to get directly under the laser array then use the spread gun to chew the center out of the laser emitters and continue shooting them from the center line out, you'll have to stay in the dead spot you created but it is very fast and very safe.

Level 7 - Never thought those were skulls before, I thought those were eggs like from Aliens! Now I can't unseen the skulls.

There are a bunch of games that I wish were included in my NES mini!! Contra, Batman, Robocop and Bionic Commando to name a few. What is the best way to input more games into my NES mini??? If possible please let me know. thank you!!!

These games were mega hard. I did manage to complete Super Contra IV on the the SNES eventually, but only on emulator with save states, so that's kinda cheating.

Dude.. your a savage lol

I beat this game so many times and I still enjoy playing it! Keep up the good work!

Does he change his pants between act 1 and 2?

I love the dramatic reading of the really stupid localized names they gave the enemies and bosses in this game. Unless those were their names in the Japanese Version too.

The original Contra aka Protector here in the UK is one of my fav games ever!! I knew nothing about it but went out on a limb and splashed out £40 of my very hard earned 12yo cash and I was not disappointed!!

I remember the first time i beat this game, i was so disappointed with the ending, all that effort for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time with this game, but the ending was... meh.

I've been playing this game since it came out and never knew about the super fireball until now... like, my mind is a little blown. It's also like CRAZY powerful! I tried some cheat codes that force you into a specific weapon, and the super fireball takes bosses out in like three shots, lol!

There's easier ways to kill some of those bosses. But all works.

It wasn't after the internet came out that I learned that nearly everyone cheated in these games. I only did when I played 2 players with someone who insisted which didn't bug me because they always ate my @%@ing lives anyway. I find it mind-boggling that everyone admits to cheating at this game cuz it was too hard, and yet m any of the same people pretend (I can't believe they actually liked it) to think Battletoads is some kind of great game. It's impossible in 2 players due to poor design/lack of testing, and it's barely a beatemup. It's mostly just a big 1 hit kill obstacle course memorization puzzle game. Anyway I loved Super C, more than the original Contra, and I didn't even use the Spread gun. My fave was the F (in super C, in the original F was hot garbage). That thing curb-stomps everything that has a decent number of hitpoints, it also spreads a little bit w ith its explosions, and if you are getting swarmed up close, a jump and shoot down will take em out at a relatively safe distance. But yeah, that thing 1 shots all the helecopter turrets, 2 shot its final weak spot, and 1shot lots of other things that takes many shots to kill if you charge it (which btw, doesn't have a charge timer, it's just hold the button down for like 1/4 of a second and let go and it's charged). *done watching video*. Yeah F is prob not as good as S for stage 6, but I don't think stage 6 is hard at all except for those mouth things which can kinda screw you over regardless of weapon, but for stage 7. it's about as good as S for breaking thru the green stuff as long as you charge shot when you shoot down, and more importantly, it's much better at taking out the hatchers afterwards not only in terms of speed, but it can get the ones the 'S' can't reach at all due to its explosion being able to access them at angles the floor otherwise blocks.. I didn't know you could kill the horns on the boss though, lol. F is also good for the final stage with the ceiling coming down on your head p art because the explosions from F aren't blocked by walls, so you can get those homing egg things thru the wall at a much safer distance even when the ceiling is in the way. I imagine I'm not going to convince anyone who swears by 'S' to change at this point, but even if you are, F is very much a top tier weapon too, so you should be able to proceed fine with it instead.

When the cheat code only gave 10 lives you knew sh*t was about to get real.

I prefer Super C over the OG. Though I loved the OG as well.

Omg how did I forget about super c thanks man you have really given me a trip down memory lane

I have OG contra Arcade on my Pandoras Box 6 it's HARD AF!!! I actually prefer the Nes one (i have that one on my Nes classic mini) and Super C is awesome also but difficulty is ramped WAY up!! I also have Contra Alien Wars (on my Snes classic mini) 💀 I play them all every great once in awhile and it's INSTANT nostalgia every time even though i don't make it very far these days 😂 I was WAY better as a kid 😢

I used to play this game all the time as a kid. I could never beat the 4th level. Those damn bubbles though! You make it look easy! I'll have to dust it off and beat this right after I finish playing through Link2 with your other video. Great content!

I always preferred the fire gun in Super C, because it had so much more range in those top-down levels.

I'm addicted to your channel. Please consider doing an Super Nintendo channel as well please!😊

What if I told you that you help me beat lot of my old school game #nes

Dude, your introductions to each game are just as entertaining as the main content.

5:26 Holy shit thats intense

I have scored over 1 million points on SuperC and I have reached over 6 million, and approached the 6,999,999 score limit on Contra. All without codes.

I have never played any of the Contra games, but now I understand why this and the Turrican games are always compared to each other :)

8:37 you can can never attack it from the side, you'll do less damage that way. Just shoot straight. The bullets that come out the tank shoot in three different directions leaving an opening for you to avoid them.

*Fun Fact:* The sound made by the dynamite that drop in 3s during Area 1 of Super C, is the same sound made when Foot Soldiers either break doors open in Scene 1-1, or smash up through the floor in Scene 6 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game for NES *Fun Fact 2:* If you successfully - *Yes, it can be done!* - avoid dying and move behind the Magnetically Powered Heavily Armored Magnus, you can shoot the middle gunner & take it down *WAY* faster!!

I love this game. Probably more than the original. And it wasn't that difficult. It was just perfect. Enough challenge, but with practice, even me at 9 was able to beat it consistently.

You gotta teach me how to beat the 16 bit contra games.

I used to beat this often when I was a kid. I picked it back up recently and couldn’t believe that I knew the first 4 levels like I had never stopped playing it 😂

15:30 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oFs3lOqr1UE.html the link is relevant, i swear!XD

I like your concept of offering some history and general information before you play the game.

There are a few problems: -I agree with you that the spread gun is one of the best in the game, however, there are several places where it is weaker than the Fire Gun. Most Notably levels 7 and 8. In the former, you can kill the purple pods below you by firing at the floor, though one of the requires charging it. In the latter, it makes the section where the ceiling drops safer, as you can destroy the "alien eggs" by just shooting the ceiling. It also gets more range in the overhead levels, and to me, the things that shoot at you from far away are a greater threat than the random spawns. -In level 3, there's actually an easier and safer way to deal with the orb launchers, simply scroll the screen slowly and stop the instant they fire. You can then move to the back of the screen to avoid getting hit, you'll have to jump over some explosions, but it's overall safer. For the miniboss, many find it safer to just jump on it, wait for it to fire, jump off, shoot it up, then jump back on. Your strategy, while solid, requires precise positioning. -On the level 4 boss, it's WAY safer to take out the MIDDLE turrets first, then carve your way outward. This gives you a safe place to be until there is only one turret left. Also, the blue orbs at the beginning DO stop spawning, so you can just shoot them until that happens instead of running under them. -You don't have to kill Jagger Froid's Dragon. It actually travels a set path no matter your position. Just stand a distance in front of Jagger Froid, and it'll circle around you, while still leaving you enough room to destroy his shots, then exit left. -It's actually possible to jump to the slope above the spit statues in level 8 right about as they start firing. It's risky, but arguably less so than ducking while hoping not to get flanked by the runners.

I had super C. So I was stoked it was on classic. I liked it more

Even if there was a hundred lives code, Super C is not being beat by me. I can beat Contra with 1 life but Super C….hell no

Im sorry but thats almost the worst playthrough of contra 2. So much mistakes. Almost because you didnt died

On the second boss, dont stop walking around the left side while the boss id frozen still. Get behind the boss and hit the center guy point blank in the back. You will save time.

Thats a very nice guide but two problems. We old people can finish the game with closed eyes and young kids prefer fortnite. so idk for who you made this guide

I play both Contra and Super C the whole game with the spread gun,these 2 games in the seires are pretty much almost a cake walk. They got harder on contra 3 snes playing on hard and hard corps on genesis. Are you ever gonna do snes or genesis games on the channel? Btw love the videos and im still catching up,but you need to bring the audio up a bit on your videos. Other than that great job and the channel. I love to watch people my fav games and see their strategies.

"If you enter the konami code its like you enter the arcade with a bag of quarters" Funny you should say that as Contra and Super Contra don't give you the ability to continue indefinetly.

I played the hell outta Super C when I was younger. I was garbage at it, of course, but I always came back to it, no matter what. My brother and I would play coop. I never got Spread, 'cause I would always - without fail - lose it immediately. :D I personally love Super C more than the original Contra, but that's just rose-colored glasses. Some of these bosses though... the hell were they smoking when they named them? My favorite has to be the Babalou Destructoid Mechanism (Love his design, too.)

I have a Super Contra clone cartridge, manufactured in Brazil by a company called CCE which was sold under the name of a subsidiary company called Audax. In this cartridge, when entering the 30 lives code, we receive 200, simbolized by (K1) and there is still another curiosity, if we gain one more life, the amount changes to 100.

What kind of video capturer are you using? These NES games videos look quite nice

for the boss at 24:45, the red balls cant hit you if you keep standing on the ground. They go right over you. So I just ignore them. Also the purple balls are easy to jump over if the fall on the ground, so I don't bother shooting them.

Fun fact! "Jagger Froid" 's actual name is Emperor Demon Gava, they renamed him in engish because here in the states, we have ridiculous rules.

Super Contra just didn't do it for me. Never owned it. Borrowed it from a friend. Even though I thought it looked great, it didn't have enough of a different feel, I suppose. I also think the music isn't quite as good as the original. Maybe I just wasn't interested in run-and-gun games by that point? I was more into Genesis at that time and playing a lot of Phantasy Star II, Mystic Defender, and Revenge of Shinobi. It's not that I thought Super Contra was a bad game, it just didn't have the same impact the original did.

I'm playing on a "250 games in 1" cartridge for NES and the 4th boss glitched and was invisible 😳 thanks to this, I beat it anyway 👍

I don’t think you need 30 lives to beat super c. Just a little time. Very fair and lovable nes game, right up there with jackal. Which by the way makes my blood boil😂

Super C is a phenomenal game. In my opinion, better than Contra as well. It’s also way more challenging than the first entry, which makes it just that much more fun for me. Every kid of my generation played Contra and for this reason it’s highly nostalgic. I hypothesize that Super C gets overlooked because it lacks this nostalgic connection for most players.

Anytime you see a difficulty change or code removal in the American version of an old game, it’s usually because of the US rental market. Rentals weren’t really a thing in other regions; people tended to buy their games. In the US, the fear was that if a game was too easy, people would rent it and beat it during the rental period, which would discourage them from purchasing the game.

We have a grocery store named Super C in Québec Canada. That really fucked up the game here. But still my 2nd favourite contra game. Snes contra iii being the best still today

My favorite channel. I am impressed i just wait for the day i see that guy playing SMASH TV on Snes like in chillmode. That game is mercyless.

lol, You sure are flexing with that picture of the games at the beginning. All the Contra games weren't enough, had to put all 6 Mega Man games in there, didn't ya? :P Just jokin' around though, love the channel. What game is that in the top left corner?

Super C is my goto game on the NES since it came out

Spread gun is the most convenient gun to use - but F is objectively more powerful in terms of pure damage output. R upgrade appears to stack - so if you stay alive and keep collecting them, you will end up with some nicely buffed weapon. Area 4 bubble spawners at the start are not infinite - they can be depleted - so do this if you don't feel comfortable moving under them when they still spawn. Dropping barrels can be destroyed once they start falling - easy to do with F gun. There is a safer strategy against that laser chandelier boss - the pattern is easy but it can get you cornered - there is not enough time to move between laser shots - if you are destroying outward guns first, it will keep moving to the border of the screen. Instead of doing that - destroy middle guns first and just stay under it - it will create a safe spot. Area 5 boss can be destroyed easily with F gun, if it has couple of R upgrades on it, before it launches first projectile. Cheesy, but saves you a lot of trouble. Area 6 rotating alien heads will eventually close up on you - do not delay too much with dealing with them Final level - spawning alien embryos in a section with ceiling dropping on you - they can be destroyed through the ceiling if you have the F gun.

Ugh, YUCK! No one talks like this!! How many people did you have to avoid in your life to think that this is an accurate impression of a human?!

I'm pretty sure the reason why the North American version only gave you 10 lives with the code was to prevent kids from renting and beating the game in a single weekend. Game rentals were illegal in Japan, that's why they got 30 lives.

In Contra 4 for DS there's the Museum, which states that indeed, Super C got the Contra taken out of the North American title to distance themselves from the Iran-Contra scandal.

OMG me and my sister played this decades ago and never used the cheat . Maybe cause we beat it so much we quit playing it b4 code was common know. People these days want instant gratification. Like running molten core for months to get a piece of gear , gone are those days. Me me me I want , this generation is a joke.

I vastly prefer Super C to Contra. Contra has alot more mean spirited cheap shots(Like the spike walls that pop up in the hangar or the snipers in the water that wait till you pass to attack at hard to counter angles.) and the enemies attack more aggressively. The enemies in Super C have a much more staggered rate and the patterns are easier to catch even on your first playthru. If it wasn't for the 30 live code I imagine more people would have preferred Super C over Contra. I find the top screen levels far more fun than the lame base stages as those feel like some hold over idea for Metal gear that got dumped into Contra. The arsenal in Super C is far more functional than Contra. Spread the only good weapon in Contra, and it's still far less powerful than it is in Super C. The Fireball is borderline useless in Contra, while it's an all star weapon in Super C. It has parts it shines over spread, as it has greater range on the top screen levels, and can be used to counter the eggs on the last stage. Machine basiclaly fine , as it gives autofire options in both games. Laser still not great in either game, but it does high damage in Super C, and can be used defensively if you learn to control it's firing pattern. Ultimately the arsenal shines best with two players, where one uses the fireball and spread, making so you always have the best response to all situations.

I've never been able to see the final stages of Contra Shattered Soldier. If you don't 100% every level you can't progress. So frustrating.

I really enjoy these and the monster breakdowns too. I think you should expand to the Genesis too. There are loads of difficult games there. For some reason Genesis is like the one platform nobody covers unless its Sonic.

also if you have spread for the laser chandelier it makes sense to take out the center first as the chandelier will never go beyond the farthest non destroyed laser turret.

It’s awesome how we all did these Contra games the same way, there was no internet resources so I don’t know if we had more logic, persistence or word of mouth got around. I remember playing these games as a kid over and over, must have been thousands of times. Definitely got your rental money worth or if you were lucky enough to own it or borrow it from a friend

That's so funny, I actually didn't get super c as a kid because of the name, I exactly thought the same thing you said, it seemed like it was a fake contra instead of part 2, I didn't play it until I was an adult