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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :(
30 Comments
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y
This is a masterpiece. Good find!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
It warms my heart that people are still making memes about decades-old games.
NOPper@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
I too, am older than 35 yeets
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Is that like those two yoots?
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Lookorex@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
But they said yeats...
InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Well, obviously, it was a typo. No one is 2,555 years old.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
"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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
The boss with the big LED panels
hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
midori@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
MUSHA has a killer soundtrack.
frunch@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
Tsk tsk. You forgot the start button at the end. Or select then start, if you have friends.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Start it is
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
That was a hard game I've never beat.
maxprime@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
I used to play with a friend. But we were young. Wonder if it would seem any easier now? Haha.
_lilith@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
This is fucking gold lol, nice share. Snow fields, get ready!
zod000@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
aaaaaaand the music is now stuck in my head again.
https://youtu.be/rLlW40mJ0zs?si=kt_pbuTqGAhlFnK0
natecox@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
tehmics@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 1y
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 :(