{"id":2256,"date":"2013-02-04T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2013-02-04T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:34:09","slug":"my-top-100-24-operation-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #24 – Operation C"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the greatest Contra<\/em> game ever made, and you’ve probably never played it before…\u00a0 but that’s okay.\u00a0 I forgive you!<\/p>\n

Although it was released almost a year after Super C<\/em>, I considered it a port of the NES title.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 They did that sort of thing from time to time, and even\u00a0the name was quite similar.\u00a0 From the screenshots I had seen in EGM<\/em>, the game even had Super C<\/em>‘s fancy-looking top-down perspective levels.<\/p>\n

When I eventually picked the game up at Toys R Us in Bangor, I realized that it was much more than just a port.\u00a0 The levels do share a few similarities, and the music is often the same as its NES counterpart, just “Game Boy-ified”.\u00a0 Other than that, though, Operation C<\/em> was an entirely new game; new bosses, new areas, completely new plot – although, really, it was still\u00a0Contra<\/em>, so\u00a0the story\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0drastically different or anything.<\/p>\n

Best of all, all the weapon power-ups\u00a0were back with a vengeance!\u00a0 I hadn’t played much of Super C<\/em> yet, but when I had, I didn’t notice if this was the case or not…\u00a0 but, in Operation C<\/em>, when you pick up a Spread weapon once, it shoots three streams of fireballs; pick up a second Spread weapon, and it fires six streams.\u00a0 I’m still not sure if that’s how it worked in Super C<\/em>, but I definitely liked how it added an extra layer of difficulty on the Game Boy version.<\/p>\n

Finally, this was the first game for the Homing weapon add-on.\u00a0 It didn’t matter which way you were aiming, or if you were frantically jumping away from enemies and projectiles.\u00a0 If you held B for an entire level and avoided getting hit (which still wasn’t easy to do), your Homing weapon would just do all the work for you!\u00a0 Granted, it wasn’t quite as powerful as the others, but hot damn, it was fun to use!<\/p>\n

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