How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Xeogred]

Looks like Mike Matei can manage Contra 3 on Hard!

[mas]

Took a quick look on prices
THANK GOD FOR EVERDRIVES!!!!

[ExedExes]

As far as Contra III, you're looking at $30-$50 loose according to VGPC. That's to be expected.

Back in the late 90s, Kay Bee toy store was a great place to get boxed SNES games. In 1998 I was walking past one of their stores and I was able to see a display behind the counter that had boxed games stacked up and I noticed Contra III. I almost passed it up, but I went inside and I got it for around $15 and I am very glad I did.

As for the game, I almost forgot about what those manhole enemies did in stage 2. One of them you have to turn completely around because they won't come out until your back is turned. Great time to have a Homing gun or one of the few "B" shield spawns that sometimes appear there.

I also saw Mike's playthrough. He made the "final" boss a lot easier to deal with.

[Sarge]

I don't doubt I could get through it eventually. I just need to suss out the enemy behaviors a bit better, and not take cheap shots from enemies that shoot ridiculously fast. I'm not entirely sure I'm up for that right now, though. At any rate, I think the bosses I've fought so far don't seem any worse than before.

[Gunstar Green]

Looks like Mike Matei can manage Contra 3 on Hard!

I like that he basically started doing these playthroughs because he got sick of people telling him he sucked at games during the more casual "James & Mike Play" videos.

He showed them.

[Xeogred]

Yeah, Mike is awesome. It seems kind of obvious at this point that he knows a LOT more than James and is probably better at games. I watched the majority of that whole run this morning before work. As usual, watching videos of old games makes them look so easy... but once the controller is in your hand it's a different story.

Are the Contra's easier with co-op? I forget how it works. Shared lives would be a potential handicap. Maybe enemy numbers are higher or have more HP? Not sure.

Anyways I also brought this up in another thread and got nothing, but has anyone here conquered Hagane? I tried it out again recently and quickly saw why it has a hard reputation as well... zero continues.

[Gunstar Green]

I've always found Contra's difficulty to skyrocket with co-op, personally.

[Xeogred]

I've always found Contra's difficulty to skyrocket with co-op, personally.

The 3D World effect.
I'm not surprised.

Man, screw Final Fight! I failed a run on the Sega CD version. So I wanted to get my revenge running on the SNES version, since I could beat that back in the day. Ran the Japanese version to see Poison and Ivy. But I got a game over on level 4, which is typically what happened back in the day too. And... this isn't one that lets you respawn from a game over, instead you have to do the entire level over again. And I just said nope.

Might hit up 2-3 again since those are shorter and easier. I've beaten 1 in the past, but yeah oh well.

[strangenova]

I've always found Contra's difficulty to skyrocket with co-op, personally.

Yes! It becomes much harder to track enemy bullets with a second player to account for, also they always seem to grab the spread gun and then just die with it and then they mash A and TAKE ALL THE EXTRA MEN YOU'VE BEEN BUILDING UP! THANKS ALOT MICHAEL!

[MrPopo]

I'd say any game that scales the amount of enemies with the amount of players easily gets harder with more players because one person is always worse than the other and the better player has to try and pick up the slack.