Games You (Probably) Should Have Played – C

The Console Wars are in full swing. To celebrate, I’m taking this time to go back and pick the best games of all the previous generations that I think You (Probably) Should Have Played, one letter at a time.

Check out all the other entries in the Games You (Probably) Should Have Played series if you haven’t already.

Contra (NES – 1988)
If yesterday’s entry was hard, this game was simply impossible. If anyone tells you they beat this game in 3 lives, punch them right in the face, because they are filthy liars. It was so hard in fact, they had to make “The Code” to give you 30 lives, and even that wasn’t always enough to make it through the game. (Yes, I know the Konami Code was first used in Gradius, but Contra popularized it).
 

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