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title: "Arcade Archives CONTRA"
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description: "The strongest warrior \"CONTRA\" Bill and Lance will challenge the destruction of the Earth invasion base of aliens, with their passion"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-09-03 00:00:00"
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Arcade Archives CONTRA | Nintendo Switch Releases | NintendoReporters

 [![Arcade Archives CONTRA](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/arcade-archives-contra.jpeg "Arcade Archives CONTRA")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/arcade-archives-contra.jpeg)“CONTRA” is an action game released by KONAMI in 1987.

The strongest warrior “CONTRA” Bill and Lance will challenge the destruction of the Earth invasion base of aliens, with their passion “Toukon” (Fighting Spirit) and their inborn guerrilla tactics.

In this work, the Japanese version and the overseas version of CONTRA are included.

The “Arcade Archives” series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

### Release info - Arcade Archives CONTRA

Release date

 2020-09-03 00:00:00

Publisher

 HAMSTER

Demo available

DLC available

Max players

 2

Age rating

 7

NS Online support

Game code

 HACPAZFBA

Cloud Saves support

Voice Chat support

HD Rumble support

Languages

japanese, english, spanish, french, german, italian

 Genres

action, arcade

### Nintendo eShop - Arcade Archives CONTRA

[EUR 6.99](https://ec.nintendo.com/NL/nl/titles/70010000033469/?utm_source=nintendoreporters.com&utm_medium=releases&utm_campaign=game-price-overview)

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¥8.38

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