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Arcade version - contains 10 levels. All versions below are ports of this version.

Amstrad CPC - contains 7 levels and uses flip-screen instead of scrolling

C64 - contains 6 levels

DOS - contains 9 levels

ZX Spectrum - contains 7 levels

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Alternate Titles

"魂斗羅" -- Japanese spelling

"魂斗罗" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

"Kon To Ra" -- Japanese gikun phonetic title

"Gryzor" -- European Arcade/Computer title

"Arcade Archives: Contra" -- PS4 / Switch title

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In the year 2631, a small meteorite has fallen into the Galuga archipelago, located 20km northeast off the coast of New Zealand. Two years later, a terrorist group known as Red Falcon has seized the island in preparation for an alien invasion. The earth's marines sent two members of their elite Contra unit, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, to neutralize the terrorists.As either Bill (player 1) or Lance (player 2), the player must get to the end of each stage, shooting everything in sight, while avoiding enemy fire themselves. The player can upgrade their standard-issue rifle into one of four different weapons, including the powerful spread shot.The game contains some differences depending on the platform:

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ACE October 1988 (issue #13) - Included in the Top-100 list of 1987/1988 (editorial staff selection)

Game Informer August 2001 (Issue #100) - #13 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll



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The protagonists illustrated on the front cover (Bill and Lance) were both borrowed heavily from two different Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator - directed by John McTiernan, 1987) poses.On August 31, 1988,was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games The ending environment is very similar to the movie. Also, the cover of the American release features two soldiers who are slightly modified and repainted images from the movieThe English title ofcomes from the way the title is phonetically displayed in Japanese, using the characters "Kon To Ra". The literal meaning behind these characters seems unimportant: "kon" means "spirit", "to" means "battle" and "ra", means some sort of cloth. Literally this would translate to something similar to "Battle Spirit Cloth". An alternate source of translation claims that the title translated is "Soul Big Dipper Gauze".Regardless of the literal meaning, the title seems to have been written as a "gikun". What that means is that the phonetics of the title are more important than the actual meaning itself.It has been suggested by some that the intent behind the name is even more complicated than that. "Kon To Ra" purposely chosen to sound like "Contra", a term popularly used to describe armed guerrilla forces in Central America during the 1980s.