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In Europe the arcade game was Gryzor, human commandos and all. The robots RD008 and RC011 replaced them on the European NES release, retitled Probotector, and Konami kept them through to Hard Corps on Mega Drive.
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Konami's 1987 arcade run and gun game, played alone or with a second player. In 2633 the Red Falcon Organization sets up a base on the Galuga archipelago. The commandos Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are sent to stop it and find the alien entity behind it. The controls are three: an eight way joystick aims, one button shoots and one jumps, and jumps become somersaults. Most stages scroll sideways, with some in pseudo 3D and some on a fixed screen, and pickups give a machine gun, a laser, a fireball gun or a shotgun. Lives go fast. Contact with an enemy, a timeout or a fall into a pit costs one, and continues are limited to three. The game started the Contra series, and its NES version was one of the early games to include the Konami code, which gave thirty lives. With so few lives, every stage is still something learned by repeating it today, so a run is tense from the first screen.
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