My score wasn't very high at first when I gave it a try either, I'm sure if you've known the game somewhat in the past, with some more attempts you should be able to achieve much higher scores. Of coarse for me it had only been a couple years since I had last played, but then also while I was this time I had to get used to using a different controller than the NES, also playing with a moderately high fever and burning eyeballs. Thankfully I'm feeling quite a bit better, but still, score does go a bit too high in this game, even if I wanted 1st place victory for the contest on this one, because I could most likely do it, I still don't think its worth that much effort, would be at it for hours straight, not looking to kill myself over it.

I used to think this game was much harder than the first Contra, its not as hard as it used to be for me, how I don't know, but it took me forever to beat this game for my very first time some years ago, my brother had actually beat it before me, then somehow right after watching him do it, then I finally played it well enough to beat it, which was odd for me, and then now for the contest after a few practice runs beating it was kind of effortless. Still like the first Contra better, the 3D stages more interesting than the overhead ones, also some of the traps and other interactive stuff in that one gave the game more varied challenges.

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I was on fire for my first run!!! Got killed in the stage with those eggs spitting out those scorpins!!!

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I did this one earlier in the week.  Looped it 7 times and got halfway through my 8th loop before I just gave up because my arm was getting really sore.  I tried to give this another try today to see if I could top this, but I lost power for a while because of a wind storm.  It came back on a short while ago, so I won't have time to give this another serious run.

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