PC-10 Contra Story...

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So at work someone brought up the UUDDLRLRBA Start code.

I made a comment that without it Contra was impossible.

One of my employees piped up that he could do it and only die once. I told him if he could do it I would give him some free movie passes that I trade the theatre for pizza.

I gave him three lives tonight...he got to the 5th stage, and did well and I could tell he practiced...but alas defeat got him!

Still kinda impressive though, and I think he might be able to do it.
 
i can get pretty far on three lives... at least to level 4
 
It's definitely doable once you have the patterns down. I knew of a guy that could beat it with his feat. :p First time playing the game though (or having not played it for years)...yeah...no way.

Cool challenge though. Next challenge for free pizza should be beating Ninja Gaiden in an hour. :)
 
I've gotten through it on the NES with a gamepad. Since I grew up playing it that way I have a feeling it'd be more difficult for me to play with arcade controls.
 
I've gotten through it on the NES with a gamepad. Since I grew up playing it that way I have a feeling it'd be more difficult for me to play with arcade controls.

That was the excuse he made when he died the 3rd time...he said it was the joystick throwing him off.

He did good, I was impressed but there is just so much random ass shit that can take you out in that game.
 
Contra seems impossible, but it becomes very easy after you play it a lot. I can beat it without dying most of the time, and if I do die, it's only once or twice, and usually in the Hanger. As long as you keep the rapid fire spreader, the game isn't hard at all.

Some people do challenge runs where they try to beat the entire game with only using the pea shooter, now that is hard as hell!!!

I'm going to try to beat it tonight on my PC10 without using the code. I think I'll die a few more times that normal (since the controls are so different), but I should be able to beat it on 3 lives.
 
Contra seems impossible, but it becomes very easy after you play it a lot. I can beat it without dying most of the time, and if I do die, it's only once or twice, and usually in the Hanger. As long as you keep the rapid fire spreader, the game isn't hard at all.

Some people do challenge runs where they try to beat the entire game with only using the pea shooter, now that is hard as hell!!!

I'm going to try to beat it tonight on my PC10 without using the code. I think I'll die a few more times that normal (since the controls are so different), but I should be able to beat it on 3 lives.

Exactly! The spreader gun was always the key to beating it in my opinion...I never knew there WAS a code!!!

How would you use the code on the PC10?
 
Exactly! The spreader gun was always the key to beating it in my opinion...I never knew there WAS a code!!!

How would you use the code on the PC10?

Really?!!!?! You never knew there was a Contra code?! I suppose it's possible- we didn't have the internet back then, just word of mouth. Old school.
 
Exactly! The spreader gun was always the key to beating it in my opinion...I never knew there WAS a code!!!

How would you use the code on the PC10?

I agree with the spreader. Using that gun I can get all the way to the final boss while dying maybe twice but by that point I have maybe 10 lives left from point accumulation. The code is for the NES system only. It does not work on the PC10 or the Konami JAMMA version.
 
Can any of you kill those 4 mollusk-looking things around the heart that pump out aliens before blowing up the heart? I can get all of them but the one in the upper right...
 
Back in the NES days Contra was "my game" (that and Super Dodge Ball)... I could easily beat Contra on three lives with a NES pad, no way I could do it with a joystick, so I agree with your friend.

We had a NES tournament at my school on graduation day (yes we were cool), and the challenge was to see how far we could get on one life... Most people died on world one or two... I made it all the way to stage 8 (alien lair) and when I died, everyone shouted and cheered "go ahead, finish it!" and so I did.

Don't know if I could still do it today though, haven't played in years.

Now Super C is a diferent story, that thing is a beast, and the code only gives you 10 lives instead of 30.
 
I agree with the spreader. Using that gun I can get all the way to the final boss while dying maybe twice but by that point I have maybe 10 lives left from point accumulation. The code is for the NES system only. It does not work on the PC10 or the Konami JAMMA version.

The code works on the PC10 system as far as I know.
 
The code is for the NES system only. It does not work on the PC10 or the Konami JAMMA version.

The code does work on a PC10. I just checked a minute ago and it works no problem. I'll be trying to beat the game tonight.
 
I did beat it on one life on the NES once. And only once. Every subsequent attempt to do it again while recording is a FAIL. :p
 
I agree with the spreader. Using that gun I can get all the way to the final boss while dying maybe twice but by that point I have maybe 10 lives left from point accumulation. The code is for the NES system only. It does not work on the PC10 or the Konami JAMMA version.

Works perfectly fine on the PC-10...I'd be happy to take a pic or a video.
 
So at work someone brought up the UUDDLRLRBA Start code.

I made a comment that without it Contra was impossible.

One of my employees piped up that he could do it and only die once. I told him if he could do it I would give him some free movie passes that I trade the theatre for pizza.

I gave him three lives tonight...he got to the 5th stage, and did well and I could tell he practiced...but alas defeat got him!

Still kinda impressive though, and I think he might be able to do it.

A buddy and me each had Playchoice 10's and he had Contra in his. He would play it every morning and could beat the game on 3 lives.
 
Well I just tried the code on my PC10 game and it worked. Got the lvl 6... first time I've seen that level. I respect anyone who can beat this game with the original 3 lives. lol
 
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