It's mean, it's intense, it's difficult, and it's a raucous good time. In a nutshell, it's Contra. Contra 4 is awesome. And it is awesome in exactly the same ways as the classic games that bear the ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Contra’s back, and this time it’s on the Nintendo DS. To celebrate ...

Contra 4 brings the Contra series back to its arcade roots with a long vertical screen and throws in a grappling hook with good measure. The E3 demo pushed players in a jungle level where alien troops ...

Contra 4 takes place two years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars. After saving earth from invasion by Red Falcon, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are confronted with a new extraterrestrial ...

Konami announced they are developing Contra 4 (working title) for the Nintendo DS. Contra 4 takes place after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars and introduces a new alien force, the Black Viper ...

It is curious that the unforgiving, one-hit-one-life, Contra-style action game seemed to largely die out along with the uncompromising, muscle-bound 80s action flick from which the genre drew its ...

I’m pretty sure there are more people reading Cat Anus Weekly than Nintendo Power, though I could be wrong on that one. However, this month’s Power revealed an awesome, gigantic Contra 4 poster ...

The Contra series, like any great and popular videogame franchise, has been spun-out into sequels almost at a bi-yearly rate since the creation in the arcade two decades ago. Contra games have been ...

They just don't make them like this anymore. Contra 4 is a game about which that old cliche can be accurately put forth without coming off as selectively nostalgic. In this case, it is a simple ...

It's nostalgia that binds me to the Contra series. Since I first played "Gryzor" in a caravan park's amusement arcade in the late '80s I've been a fan of the series, enjoying a great Amstrad CPC port, ...

Konami’s Contra (AKA Gryzor, Probotector) is one of those franchises that has struggled to make the transition from 2D to 3D. After the excellent arcade and 8-bit editions, lucky SNES and Megadrive ...

Konami's Contra series is known for a number of things -- but foremost, gamers recognize the classic side-scroller action franchise for being hard. Thumb-numbingly hard. Contra 4 for mobile, released ...