Fun With Illegal Contra Knock-Offs!

Mar. 30 10:29 PM by Lynxara

Select Button unleashed sheer joy on the gaming internet when it pointed out YouTube user iniche's collection of videos from bizarre bootleg possibly Chinese Contra games.

Now, I'll freely admit I don't like Contra as much as I should. I never had copies of the games or a friend with them, and there was always something dauntingly manly about the games. That said, I don't think any gamer who's not a total jerk lacks respect for the sheer skill a Contra game demands, and the sheer visual panache that rewards a skillful player.

The fact that these hilarious bootleg Contras lack basically every good thing about Konami's classic Contra titles is what makes them so endearing. That, and the mysterious hitboxes, and the Engrish, and... oh god. Look, just go watch the videos. My personal favorite is the run-through of Super Contra X, because as the Contra Dude flies, so does my heart.

Comments

Wow, they even have music that's a sad abortion of the classic stage 1 theme of regular Contra. This is pretty hilarious.

 

It's like the car commercial version of the Contra music.

 

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