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“Hard” in gaming is relative. What I might think is easy, you might think is not. What you might is a piece of cake, I may find impossible.
What if you could play the original Super Mario Bros with other classic video game characters, controlling just as they did in their own titles? Well now you can, with Simon Belmont, Link, Samus, Mega Man and Bill from Contra.
Video games aren’t just about the games, the story or the graphics. Oh, no. Music is so incredibly important. And often, long after you have finished playing, it sticks around, lingers in the back of your brain.
Out.com, the online presence of the gay lifestyle magazine Out, has selected its “Gayest Video Games.” This is like pouring jet fuel on a thermite-and-napalm salad, but these are games that trip their gaydar, not ones straight people call “gay.”
The PSP version of Army of Two: The 40th Day looks to have much more in common with old-school arcade shooters like Contra and Commando than it does with its console big brother.
Machinima put this up last week, following the Castlevania and Mario reconstructions in Half-Life 2. Anyone who’s ever played Contra – that should be all of us, right? – will want to watch this start to finish. More than once.
There’s no Contra in Duck Hunt, but let’s imagine there was. Let’s fantasy. Let’s.
The old-school gamers at Nerdballoon sat down with a slightly uncommunicative 11-year-old and asked him to describe his first experience ever with a platform shooter – the beloved Contra. Predictably, he hated it.
