Picked on September 2, 2026

Contra: Hard Corps 1994

Released: September 14, 1994
Genres: Shooter · Platform
Platform: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Developer: Konami
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Where to buy

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Is it still worth playing?

Konami's 1994 run and gun game for the Sega Genesis, for one or two players at once, set five years after Contra III: The Alien Wars. A terrorist group led by Colonel Bahamut steals an alien cell, and the Hard Corps task force goes after it. Four characters can be picked, never the same one twice in a two player game. Each has its own weapon slots, up to four weapons plus bombs, and a lost life costs the weapon in hand. Movement has options of its own: you toggle between running free and standing still to aim in eight directions, and you can slide while invulnerable. The side view stages are mostly on foot, with some on the Motoroid hoverbike, and decisions in the story open branching paths to several endings. Different characters and different routes still give each new run its own shape today.