RE: OMG How Many Guys Know This Game ?

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OMG How Many Guys Know This Game ?

in game •  8 years ago 

Extra trivia: In the Japanese version developers thought it was too violent so they made the characters robots instead of humans.

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That was actually the European version, not the Japanese version, which shipped as Probotector in some areas due to concerns about games depicting violence against humans.

You can see a side-by-side comparison of the JP/NA and PAL releases here:
https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/19/contra-vs-probotector/

The Japanese and North American versions had a number of differences though. The JP version of Contra included a map screen, small cut-scenes between levels explaining the next mission goals, a longer ending cutscene, and an extra chip that allowed for animated backgrounds (the trees sway in the back of the first level, for instance) and foregrounds (it snows in the Snow zone, for example).

Hummm