Awesome / Contra

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• Completing the original Contra without the use of the Konami Code. Now that has to be a reward to an experienced gamer.
  • For bonus points, try fighting Red Falcon with only three lives.
• Contra III's Stage 4 consists of a Battleship Raid against Red Falcon's gigantic airship. How is this Stage awesome? When you attack the airship's core, your helicopter launches a series of missiles with you climbing on top of each missile as you attack the core.
  • The final stage is a Boss Rush of six or seven bosses (depending on the difficulty level), with half of them being the final bosses from the previous games. Hard as Hell, yes, but awesome.
• Getting an S rank in Shattered Soldier and Neo awards you with these two Funny videos: this and this.
  • Let's not forget that the latter video has Jaguar taking down hordes of enemies then destroying a giant robot that literally causes the entire Earth to explode. Complete with a Fist of the North Star-like finisher.
• The final battle with the Relic of Morai in Shattered Soldier and the final battle with Master Contra in Neo Contra.
• The entire intro to Neo Contra. Cutting a plane in half without budging, killing dozens of enemies, riding missiles & dinosaurs, and killing giant robots with the power of teamwork? Hell yes.
• This remake of Shattered Soldier intro.
• Having Contra music composer Hidenori Maezawa hear and appreciate the metal version of the Contra Jungle theme by VertexGuy for the first time feels like a major achievement in and of itself. The composer himself said this version is what he had imagined when he was creating the music.

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