Contra

Contra (also known as Gryzor in Oceania and Europe) is a 1987 run-and-gun action game developed and published by Konami. It originally launched as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. The game received multiple ports, including versions for various computer formats, and several Contra ...

In Contra, players control one of two armed military commandos—Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer or Lance "Scorpion" Bean—sent to neutralize the Red Falcon Organization, a terrorist group planning to take over Earth. The setting differs across supplementary materials: Japanese versions place the game in the year 2633 on the fictional Galuga archipelago near New Zealand, while the American NES manual sets it in...