Game title
Contra
Japan 1988-02-09 / shoot 'em up /Konami
- #417Japanese release order (of 1239 titles)
- #102Famitsu score (of 367 titles)
- #15How much it is read now (of 942 titles)
- #742Launch price (of 1172 titles)
- 1988Release year
About this game title
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- Japanese title
- Contra
- Japan release date
- 1988-02-09
- North America release date
- 1988-02-12
- Europe release date
- 1990-12-28
- Publisher
- Konami
- Developer
- Konami
- Genre
- shoot 'em up
- Formats
- FC / NES
Players
1 - 2 players (simultaneous)
Officially playable today
Not confirmed
Products sold (1)
Even for the same game title, packs, bundles and budget re-releases count as separate products. Only those listed in the public record (Media Arts Database) are shown.
- Contra
- 5,300 yen / 1988-02-09
More details
Only the details we could confirm are shown.
- Series
- ContraSeries
- Music
- Kazuki Muraoka
- Art
- Kengo Nakamura
- programming
- Satoru Okamoto / Hideyuki Tsujimoto / KOICHI COBRA
- Direction
- Koji Hiroshita
Where it stands today
How much this title is read and edited today. Wikipedia page views and edit history, counted on 2026-8-30.
Readers of the Japanese article
about 1,330 views per month
Readers of the overseas article
about 14,588 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
13 times
Current records (19 of 44)
The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2026-05-05). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.
Stories left about this title
There are 11.Press a card to read the story.
What we still don't know
These details have not been traced.
Copies sold
Explore from here
Links to pages related to this title.
Source: created by adapting the "Media Arts Database" (https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/) of the National Center for Art Research, National Museum of Art
Sources: Japanese and English Wikipedia, Wikidata
Sources: TASVideos (https://tasvideos.org/), speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/)