That game is awesome, I beat it on easy of course, it is the meaning of extreme. I believe the only reason I won is due to a strange glitch. At the end of level 4 I beat the boss and as he was exploding one of his missle things hit me, my lives were at 0, than went to 99 once i was hit. After beating 4 missions I unlocked a portable version of the nes contra, pretty cool to play on the run. DOes anyone know if contra 3 can be unlocked.

I had a similar glitch on that boss....he just stop shooting at me and I could blast the shit out of him. I was on my last life and was about to die and he just stopped doing anything.
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I played a lot of that game on my vacation a couple weeks back, but didn't get all the way through it. So I have to beat 4 missions to unlock the NES Contra? That's really the only thing I want to do. The game is too hard for me.