

You can customize the way the graphics are displayed within each game and each game has unique display options (Image by Skip Owens) But rather than just giving you the original graphics and aspect ratios they also give you the ability to customize both the frame artwork surrounding the game (if the game aspect ratio doesn’t fill your screen) and the graphic style being displayed. Konami could have just done a simple port of these games and called it a day.

Super Probotector: Alien Rebels (SNES, 1992)īut the content doesn’t stop with just these games.Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES, 1992).

The Contra Anniversary Collection is comprised of ten different Contra games: You have to visit the Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch and buy and download the game digitally. Game artwork from the Anniversary Collection (Image from )įor Nintendo Switch the Contra Anniversary Collection, at least for now, is only available as a digital download. The primary content and features are very similar across all the platforms. I am specifically covering the Nintendo Switch edition of the Contra Anniversary Collection, but in addition to Nintendo Switch it was also released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Steam.

Slap your favorite 80’s rock cassette tape into your Walkman, don a pair of those cheesy yet comfortable padded foam headphones and get lost in the world of an additively fun side-scrolling shooter game. But Contra was one of those games that you could come back to again and again. It also didn’t have the best graphics or most gripping storyline. It wasn’t the best NES game ever made, not by a long shot. I can safely say that this game on NES was the game I spent more time playing than any other. I spent many afternoons and weekends playing Contra for NES as a kid. Title screen from the Contra Anniversary Collection (Image by Skip Owens)
