Virtual Console Mondays

Contra III: The Alien Wars, released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo, continued the sage of the Contra series in the run and gun genre. With the new technology that the SNES provided levels have a higher level of complexity, graphics are more crisp, and interaction with the surroundings increased significantly. One new feature to the game is the ability to carry two guns instead of one, dieing resulted in losing the gun that was currently in use. Sadly there the Konami code in Contra III is nonexistent, but instead the player can select either three, five, or seven lives to play with. One trick to Contra III: The Alien Wars is to remember that the only way to see the true ending is beating the game on the hard difficulty setting.

Players: 2

Cost: 800

Controllers: Classic & GameCube