Legacy
The arcade version was followed by a single sequel titled Super Contra in 1988. An NES version of Super Contra was released in the 1990, under the shortened title of Super C in North America. The NES versions of Contra and Super C were the first in a series of Contra games for home platforms. Konami would follow their releases with Operation C for the Game Boy in 1991, Contra III: The Alien Wars for the Super NES and Contra Force for the NES both in 1992, and Contra: Hard Corps for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994. During the late 1990s, Konami externally contracted Appaloosa Interactive for the development of two sequels for the PlayStation: Contra: Legacy of War (also released for the Sega Saturn) in 1996, and C – The Contra Adventure in 1998. In the early 2000s (decade), Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo developed two Contra games for the PlayStation 2, Contra: Shattered Soldier in 2002 and Neo Contra in 2004. In 2007, Contra 4 was released for the Nintendo DS, a co-production between Konami of America and WayForward Technologies. Contra ReBirth, developed by M2, was released for the Wii as a WiiWare title in 2009.
The music from the arcade version of Contra is one of the soundtracks included in the video game album Konami Game Music Vol.4: A-Jax, which was released by Alfa Records on May 10, 1988, in CD (catalog no. 28XA-201), cassette (ALC-22922), and vinyl (ALR-22922).
The name of the second Vampire Weekend album is a homage to this game.
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