My Top 100: #24 – Operation C

  This is the greatest Contra game ever made, and you’ve probably never played it before…  but that’s okay.  I forgive you! Although it was released almost a year after Super C, I considered it a port of… Read More

My Top 100: #38 – Contra III: The Alien Wars

  There was a time that sequels didn’t have to blow your mind to be successful.  All they had to do was deliver;  just create a game with more of the same, only bigger and better-looking, and call it a day. … Read More

My Top 100: #47 – Contra

  I’m finding it somewhat difficult to come up with posts about games I’ve already written about – my first non-countdown post about Contra is here, if you’re interested – so I’m about to go a bit off topic for this… Read More

Operation C (Game Boy)

For me, the best Contra game is not the original, nor is it Super C, or even The Alien Wars.  Despite my reluctance in the past to acknowledge hand held games as memorable ones (even though, I know… Read More

Super C (NES)

This might not be that vivid a memory to cling to, but I am reminded of it every time I drive home! It wasn’t obvious to me at the time, but Super C is indeed a sequel to… Read More

Contra (NES)

A handful of franchises come to mind when talking about early NES standouts, and this is most definitely one of them. Contra was one of those games that had actually been ported from the Arcades, but the NES… Read More