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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a masterpiece. Good find!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It warms my heart that people are still making memes about decades-old games.

[–] NOPper@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Vampire Survivors, the breakout hit game on so many platforms now, has a full DLC based on Contra. It's still very much on the minds of everyone who loves this stuff.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

they made it so Spread was the best choice almost alway, i recall a boss for which Laser was best, using memories from 35 yeats ago tho

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I too, am older than 35 yeets

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that like those two yoots?

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, obviously, it was a typo. No one is 2,555 years old.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Flamethrower" (the wavy path ball gun) is perfect for a couple parts of the game where you can lay down. You fire and ever shot hits, and you are never in the path of enemy bullets or mobs.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it do this better than the spread? I'm trying to think of what part of the game this advice would work...

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

In very narrow cases, yes. If I remember, spread has a specific rate of fire which is fairly slow compared to flamethrower, so you can clear very specific targets faster with flamethower. Again, 99% of the time Spread is going to be better.

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 7 points 10 months ago

The boss with the big LED panels

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

MUSHA has this with the orb circle shield/weapon thing (I never learned the name). I used to think this was bad game design but even if it was an accident it's interesting trying to bend your way around a game to keep from picking up stuff you dont want.

[–] midori@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

MUSHA has a killer soundtrack.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tsk tsk. You forgot the start button at the end. Or select then start, if you have friends.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Start it is

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was a hard game I've never beat.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I only ever beat it with a friend in 2 player. He really carried me, it probably would have been much easier for him in 1P!

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I used to play with a friend. But we were young. Wonder if it would seem any easier now? Haha.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You know how you keep missing the exploding bridge jump on the first level? You gotta stop shooting the machine gun while you jump. Makes you go a little further.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Spread is brokenly good, but I like playing with Laser too. It feels good to land the entire beam on a boss. Especially in the arcade version, laser kills bosses fast.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

That's the dream team in 2P- one with a spread & one with a laser. AOE damage and directed high DPS.

[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago

This is fucking gold lol, nice share. Snow fields, get ready!

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love this, this has to be the best version of this meme I've ever seen.

I personally won't start over if I lose spread, but lose all my powerups in something like Gradius or Lifeforce and it probably isn't worth it to keep going. It is the Konami way.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

That's actually part of why I didn't enjoy Gradius and Life Force. At that point it's not a fun challenge, it's just bullshit. In Contra you can do pretty good with the starting weapon, even if it's not ideal.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Spread gun is even better if you manage to offset the spread. It can only have x bullets active at once, so if you stack the bullets it will turn into the highest DPS machine gun in the game

[–] 108@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I won’t start over. But, I’ll hate play until I get another one.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

I'm amazed that I get the meme, despite not really ever having played Contra. I never had it or knew anyone with it, and it was always stacked in the arcade.

I had to settle for all the random knock-offs that didn't even have the Konami code :(