You’re like the Bob Ross of playthroughs, awesome

It's hard to believe one person could be so good at so many nes games. Very impressive

The dog at the beginning of these videos always makes me smile.

Man, i remember when this came out, i asked my grandparents for it for my birthday solely because the commercial for the game was awesome, one of the few times a game from back then lived up to the commercial and the hype

Wow been playing for years and never knew Fireball could be charged.

What if I told you, this channel rocks. What if I told you this channel will grow.

I generally preferred the Fireball gun over Spread in this version, as it could deliver massive damage with the charged version (9x damage) followed quickly by a regular shot (5x damage) when the timing is mastered. A Fireball player with a Spread partner just wrecks the game as one can expect. On the other hand, a fun challenge is not just beating the game on one life, but also picking up every power-up, even if it downgrades the current weapon. It’s trickier than it sounds, as some power-ups spawn in hard-to-reach places at times, especially in the final levels. I made a video a while back that demonstrates this challenge, along with the rules in the description if anyone is interested in trying it out.

One of my nerdy party tricks is being able to beat Super C without dying once. It was my favorite game as a kid and its like muscle memory. lol.

One thing I always liked to do on the Laser Chandelier was to start attacking the center. If you knock out the lasers in the middle, you can stay safe in the middle, since the boss never scrolls the still intact lasers off screen.

Dang, the enemies have hilarious names in this game.

I came here after watching your Contra video! I actually never owned the original Contra as a kid, but I did own Super C. Also, for some reason, Super C was available on the Wii Virtual Console (as well as Contra 3), but the original Contra was never on there. I got Super C and Mega Man 3 for Christmas one year. What a holiday! I think that I kind of prefer Super C to the original. I like how much of a graphical improvement Super C is. In particular, I like the selection of colors used in each stage. The sprites seem a lot more detailed. I also liked how the level design wasn't just straight left-to-right, or bottom-to-top. Some levels, such as Levels 5 and 8, have you moving both horizontally and vertically in the same stage. I agree with you that one of the reasons that this game wasn't as possible as the original may have been its name. I think that for a lot of people, "Super C" didn't immediately signal that the game was "Contra 2". I also think that the lack of the 30 lives code may have been a factor, because Super C's first level is a lot more difficult than Contra's, and a lot of players may have never been able to get past the first two levels on just 3 (or even 10) lives. By the way, I never knew about the trick that you showed for defeating the Level 3 mid-boss (the multi-leg walker thing)!

The kinda high pitched sound effect of enemy bosses taking hits is my favorite sound in life.

You missed a big secret in stage 2. When entering the boss room you can walk around behind the tank and kill the back middle gunner instantly.

In stage 2, there is an easier way to progress. After you get the last 2 turret before you go to the bridge, if you have the spread shot, you can line yourself in the middle and continually shoot and walk forward. Don't stop. The spread will take out most if not all of the soldiers and the turrets you pass won't be able to target you in time. You can get all the way to the door like this. When you get to the boss, you have enough time to get all the way behind him and shoot the main soldier directly, and their shots won't be able to touch you.

The second boss, you can sneak behind him asap. That way you can kill him faster. The forth boss, you can break the middle lasers and stay under it. You will be safe under that blind spot and then eventually take out the lasers from middle toward left and right. Always keep the right and left most laser last for safety. On the last boss. I did quite the same except walk from the ground toward the leg without climb up. When you kill it, you can quickly climb to the top right of the screen. There you can see your character floating mid air during the ending. When play on emulator, you can put both player the same button layout and select 2 players. With the same control, you can combine 2 characters to become one with double the fire power. Sometime I call the laser gun light saber when fire it very fast.

I remember back in the day really liking contra force, the first boss looks like Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead.

I beat this game so many times and I still enjoy playing it! Keep up the good work!

On the laser chandelier, I find it's helpful to take out the 2nd and 3rd lasers from the left first, then you have a nice umbrella to stand under to avoid laser fire, as you take out the remaining 'middle lasers', saving the end ones for last. When you leave the end lasers for last, it's not able to scroll offscreen, keeping your umbrella intact.

Super Cool guide! Super C was an absolute nightmare from my childhood, as the one hit and your dead concept was a bit too much to ask for from me at that particular point in time, much like Battletoads of course hahaha! I got up to Area 4 before getting TERMINATED during the elevator shaft boss battle. That being said, despite the harsh difficulty, I really enjoyed Super C's awesome music and kick ass action, which led me to reacquire and play this game again years later as an adult (lent the game to a friend back in 1992 and never got it back, unfortunately!). Anyway, long story short, just finishing Super C was not enough, so I decided to put myself through a single player 2P mode (letting the aliens kill off 1P Bill on purpose right off the bat, so that 2P Lance is left with even more enemies to deal with, but normal bosses/while most video games make the bosses take more damage while on 2P mode, Super C does not, surprisingly enough!) no items no deaths run. I opted to give 2P Lance (the red hero John Rambo clone, or Rance as he goes by in Japan) a chance, as most single player runs feature 1P Bill (the blue hero, Alan "Dutch" Schaefer clone): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZxkqbR82a2bl30.html Yeah, that final boss is such a letdown and is one of the most anticlimactic final battles in video gaming history hahaha! However, Vigo from Ghostbusters II on the NES remains the most anticlimactic, as the game literally beats him for you and his painting pathetically melts into oblivion hahaha! And for the record, Super C for the NES was the first Contra related video game that I ever played/finished and remains my favorite to this day, on that nostalgic basis :).

@U Can Beat Games The best method for taking out the Level 4 boss is to get directly under the laser array then use the spread gun to chew the center out of the laser emitters and continue shooting them from the center line out, you'll have to stay in the dead spot you created but it is very fast and very safe.

It’s awesome how we all did these Contra games the same way, there was no internet resources so I don’t know if we had more logic, persistence or word of mouth got around. I remember playing these games as a kid over and over, must have been thousands of times. Definitely got your rental money worth or if you were lucky enough to own it or borrow it from a friend

Dude, your introductions to each game are just as entertaining as the main content.

One thing that is worth noting with the spread gun, though it seems counter intuitive, is not using a turbo setting and spacing the timing of your shots. The reason for this is that the spread gun only allows so many bullets on the screen at a time per player so if you are rapid mashing or turbo setting on the fire button, you get a less effective (not as wide) spread.

My new favorite channel. Great job I love the history and on screen game stats. It all looks pro. 💪👏

Yessssssss i love this video and I'm old so i have most contra games on all of my game systems - P.S. the last stage with the flamethrower aimed at the dropping ceiling emits a small radius of flame too detroy the orange aliens eggs pretty decently.

I gotta admit whenever I think of this game that code is the first thing that pops in my head lol. I’m glad I was an older kid when the NES came out. My parents bought us the system for Christmas but I had a job so I was able to buy an enormous collection of games which I still have to this day. Being older we took really good care of it and it still works perfectly not even any yellowing. I’ve been watching this channel all week and going back an replaying all the games. It’s been a fun week.

Omg how did I forget about super c thanks man you have really given me a trip down memory lane

Super C is my childhood game and I had no knowledge of the 10-lives code, beaten it at age 4. Thank you for making this vid, dude. Game on!

Slowdown with a lot of enemies on the screen of the original contra was a FEATURE to be enjoyed with friends. Like combining the wow factor of the 360 matrix scenes (a decade+ earlier) with the heightened urgency to concentrate in avoiding obstacles. Therefore its removal in subsequent titles should not be classified as improvements as argued at 0:58.

As a kid, I always thought of the jungle mission in Contra as some kind of homage to the movie Predator, given that they ripped off Arnold's likeness on the box art (later found out both characters on the art are Arnold, one with added hair.)

Did beat this one back in the day. Balls of steel. Your videos are so good. Please keep 'em coming.

You're my new favorite youtuber bro..finding a channel of this quality is like finding secret treasure..I want u to blow up but I'm kinda selfish in that I like that not many people know about u yet but that will change soon I know..and you deserve it buddy I'm glad to witness it💯👍🏽

I always run behind the area 2 boss. You can kill him in just a second or two if you do that

9:31 Stage two: Align yourself in the dead center, and go forward without stopping. You can skip the turrets and gunners and looks AWESOME. Developed that strat with my dad when we used to play this in the 90's.

The original Contra aka Protector here in the UK is one of my fav games ever!! I knew nothing about it but went out on a limb and splashed out £40 of my very hard earned 12yo cash and I was not disappointed!!

It's very nice that you provide us with information as well as the game play

Took me back in time. Nice vid bro 👍🏾.

Still own it. At the main screen press select,start,A, and B at the same time for a list of all the sound effects and music

Hmm. How did I miss this one? I never actually played super C growing up. Quickly! To the man cave! Emulator power up! We got a game to beat!

My favorite channel. I am impressed i just wait for the day i see that guy playing SMASH TV on Snes like in chillmode. That game is mercyless.

I've been playing this game since it came out and never knew about the super fireball until now... like, my mind is a little blown. It's also like CRAZY powerful! I tried some cheat codes that force you into a specific weapon, and the super fireball takes bosses out in like three shots, lol!

Your content has helped me so much. Ty

I used to play this game all the time as a kid. I could never beat the 4th level. Those damn bubbles though! You make it look easy! I'll have to dust it off and beat this right after I finish playing through Link2 with your other video. Great content!

I think you're the first I've seen play through without losing a life, and single player at that. Great job.

"what if I told you" man you crack me up. Lol

I used to beat this often when I was a kid. I picked it back up recently and couldn’t believe that I knew the first 4 levels like I had never stopped playing it 😂

I have a Super Contra clone cartridge, manufactured in Brazil by a company called CCE which was sold under the name of a subsidiary company called Audax. In this cartridge, when entering the 30 lives code, we receive 200, simbolized by (K1) and there is still another curiosity, if we gain one more life, the amount changes to 100.

I love the dramatic reading of the really stupid localized names they gave the enemies and bosses in this game. Unless those were their names in the Japanese Version too.

I have never played any of the Contra games, but now I understand why this and the Turrican games are always compared to each other :)

the only channel where the commentaries actually complement the playthroughs

I love this channel!

I like your concept of offering some history and general information before you play the game.

Level 7 - Never thought those were skulls before, I thought those were eggs like from Aliens! Now I can't unseen the skulls.

You've pointed out every reason why I never gave Super C more gameplay. Now I have to go back and play it.

I am not a fan of shooters, but on this channel, I could watch every game. ^^

You dont have to lower your voice to sound cool or epic. Your content is great and format is easy to follow.

*Fun Fact:* The sound made by the dynamite that drop in 3s during Area 1 of Super C, is the same sound made when Foot Soldiers either break doors open in Scene 1-1, or smash up through the floor in Scene 6 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game for NES *Fun Fact 2:* If you successfully - *Yes, it can be done!* - avoid dying and move behind the Magnetically Powered Heavily Armored Magnus, you can shoot the middle gunner & take it down *WAY* faster!!

I always preferred the fire gun in Super C, because it had so much more range in those top-down levels.

You 100% articulated my thoughts on the baffling name choice of "Super C"

The name is so stupid. I LOVED Contra as a kid. I played it through so many times. And yet somehow I thought Super C was some weird spinoff. I didn't learn the truth until Contra 3 came out. I still haven't gotten around to playing Super C.

There are a few problems: -I agree with you that the spread gun is one of the best in the game, however, there are several places where it is weaker than the Fire Gun. Most Notably levels 7 and 8. In the former, you can kill the purple pods below you by firing at the floor, though one of the requires charging it. In the latter, it makes the section where the ceiling drops safer, as you can destroy the "alien eggs" by just shooting the ceiling. It also gets more range in the overhead levels, and to me, the things that shoot at you from far away are a greater threat than the random spawns. -In level 3, there's actually an easier and safer way to deal with the orb launchers, simply scroll the screen slowly and stop the instant they fire. You can then move to the back of the screen to avoid getting hit, you'll have to jump over some explosions, but it's overall safer. For the miniboss, many find it safer to just jump on it, wait for it to fire, jump off, shoot it up, then jump back on. Your strategy, while solid, requires precise positioning. -On the level 4 boss, it's WAY safer to take out the MIDDLE turrets first, then carve your way outward. This gives you a safe place to be until there is only one turret left. Also, the blue orbs at the beginning DO stop spawning, so you can just shoot them until that happens instead of running under them. -You don't have to kill Jagger Froid's Dragon. It actually travels a set path no matter your position. Just stand a distance in front of Jagger Froid, and it'll circle around you, while still leaving you enough room to destroy his shots, then exit left. -It's actually possible to jump to the slope above the spit statues in level 8 right about as they start firing. It's risky, but arguably less so than ducking while hoping not to get flanked by the runners.

I'm addicted to your channel. Please consider doing an Super Nintendo channel as well please!😊

Dude, you're doing these _every week_?! This is like a month of work at least! Love the content, but don't burn out on us. Can't wait for Guardian Legend. (Figure of speech, I can totally wait, just excited)

When the cheat code only gave 10 lives you knew sh*t was about to get real.

I want to see Contra Force!!!!!! That game was tough too! It's underated!

With the facehugger eggs in stage 7, if you use the spread gun and shoot down at the last ones (where you can scroll t so only the tiniest part of the sprite is visible) when the tip of the egg is visible, you can kill it - but with an added graphical glitch where the egg won't "explode," but it will effectively be dead. You can tell that you "killed" it when your shots stop hitting and start passing through, and from that point on the egg will be motionless and harmless in the background, but its graphics will still be there. Try it sometime!

I have scored over 1 million points on SuperC and I have reached over 6 million, and approached the 6,999,999 score limit on Contra. All without codes.

Very underrated channel

I always wanted to know if the characters en the early levels they were robots, humans or aliens in disguse

Are you going to do a video on playing Fester's quest?

I played the hell outta Super C when I was younger. I was garbage at it, of course, but I always came back to it, no matter what. My brother and I would play coop. I never got Spread, 'cause I would always - without fail - lose it immediately. :D I personally love Super C more than the original Contra, but that's just rose-colored glasses. Some of these bosses though... the hell were they smoking when they named them? My favorite has to be the Babalou Destructoid Mechanism (Love his design, too.)

I really enjoy these and the monster breakdowns too. I think you should expand to the Genesis too. There are loads of difficult games there. For some reason Genesis is like the one platform nobody covers unless its Sonic.

Contra series is awesome I'm sure it inspired the Metal Slug series also. Hope you'll review them as well.

I'm playing on a "250 games in 1" cartridge for NES and the 4th boss glitched and was invisible 😳 thanks to this, I beat it anyway 👍

Awesome !

My heart was in my throat! This game was the bane of my existence as a kid! You handled it like a champ! Awesome job! Cheers!

5:26 Holy shit thats intense

Anytime you see a difficulty change or code removal in the American version of an old game, it’s usually because of the US rental market. Rentals weren’t really a thing in other regions; people tended to buy their games. In the US, the fear was that if a game was too easy, people would rent it and beat it during the rental period, which would discourage them from purchasing the game.

Super C is my goto game on the NES since it came out

Other tips that are good to know when you play (Warning, long as hell, but pretty detailed): *General Tips* - If you crouch and press the jump, you will be able to jump (you would have to stand up first in the first game). If you hold down as you are about to land though, and you will instantly touch the ground in your crouch form. Using this ability will make it nearly impossible for the turrets (stage 1) and Jameera/Jagger Froid's Spit Soldier (stage 8) to hit you, and this allows you to attack the enemies that spawn while dealing with the turrets and Jameeras. - Turrets and other machine based enemies in side-scrolling levels have an exploding animation, DO NOT run into them while they explode, they can still kill you if you touch them as they are dying. - The R power-up not only makes bullets shoot faster, it also allows the bullets to travel further in the top down levels. *Tips Throughout The Video* - For turrets in the second level at 9:17, it is best to stand just to the side of the guns on the turret. A good spot would be with the sprite of Bill is to the side of the dots on the tiles closest to the turrets guns (Confusing? Imagine Bill's sprite at 9:17 to be more to the left to where his model is just to the side of the dots he is standing on). This will make the turrets shoot straight, but not hit you, just don't move too close or they can aim diagonally and hit you. - A better strategy for the turrets at 9:39 is to stand in the middle of the bridge and run straight through (sometimes depending on how they shoot, you will need to turn back and run again once they stop shooting). If you want to kill them though then stand pretty much where UCBVG stood at 9:51, and gun them both down. - For the boss at 10:00, there is another strategy you can do which is quicker. The boss will move based off of the verticality of the player. So if the player is higher up, the boss will move up, but the boss can only go so high. So if you take out the red gunners (1 if you want to be quicker but it is more risky), go behind the boss and watch out for the green gunner (and red if you only killed 1 red). Once you are right behind the green gunner, spam your shots, you will shoot faster since your bullets are instantly hitting him and the game cant slow you down with its bullet limit. - For the motor launcher at 11:07, you can shoot the bullets it launches and destroy them if it is taking too long to kill the motor. Don't stand too close to the motor because 1. touching it will kill you (like UCBVG said) and 2. a support capsule (the football looking object) will spawn that has a laser gun. Laser guns suck in this game. You don't want to collect it because you were shooting the bullets and accidentally shot the capsule and was forced to get the gun. - A great strategy for the Outer Defense System is to stand where you gun shoots straight up and right into the purple gun to the bottom of the boss, but your character is a bit to the side of the gun. The bottom and top turrets can't hit you as long as you don't move. The characters hitbox is weird so you will be alright from those 2 guns. The side guns can hit you though. The first shot they shoot will miss but the next one you will need to jump over (note: do not jump over the side guns first shot because the bottom gun is too low and will kill you from jumping into it). Then the when the guns change positions, do the same thing you did last time. If you were spamming your shots fast enough with your spread gun (if you still have it). You will be able to defeat the boss with the guns only changing positions once or twice. - A better way to deal with the bubble guns at the beginning of stage 4 is to just shoot at the bubbles until they stop coming after a while, there is actually a limit to how much each gun can shoot, it will take longer, but it will guarantee you will not get hit by them. - For the barrels on the ceiling at 14:05, if you want you can shoot the ones falling right on top of you and destroy them before they hit you if you got the spread gun and can spam fast enough. If you think you will not hit them in time, just duck and you are okay. - Another strategy for the Laser Chandelier is to shoot as fast as possible to destroy middle lasers. If you destroy at least 3 lasers that are side by side, you can stand right under them and safely shoot the other lasers. The issue with video's strategy is the boss will continuously move to the side until a working laser touches the side, so you could easily get cornered. - For Jagger Froid himself, it is just better to stand right in front of him (in case the perspective throws off how you should aim at him). If the dragon is defeated, them just stand close enough where you can hit him, but far enough where the bullets don't spawn on you. - If you want to make the game feel more creepy and cinematic, the "Alien Skulls" are actually dead Alien Eggs (the entire level is made of them). - If you want to take care of the Bugger Spawners quicker but more safely than jumping down in front of them, you can jump into the underside of platforms and shoot them at an angle (hitting your head on the platforms will not make you fall quicker than jumping without one in the way), just make sure to fall back onto the platform you were on before you fall right in front of the spawners. - The Eggron at 24:32 cannot be killed unless you run off the platform and quickly run back on (your character will be high enough to clip back onto the platform if you are quick enough). For some reason, doing that enough will make the screen scroll low enough for you to kill the Eggron. - For the falling ceiling in Red Falcon's Poison Palace, if you don't have the Spread Gun or aren't comfortable using it to deal with the bubble enemies when the wall falls, then use the fire gun that appears right before it. The cool thing about the fire gun is that it can penetrate walls with its explosion. Making it a piece of cake to deal with those enemies, but that is the last power up that appears, so you will have to use that or your basic rifle against the final boss. - If you want to waste no time when the ceiling falls, jump at the edge of the platform and you can usually make the jump to the next platform. Just don't jump as the ceiling falls, you will get pushed into the pit.

Fun fact! "Jagger Froid" 's actual name is Emperor Demon Gava, they renamed him in engish because here in the states, we have ridiculous rules.

Man I love this series.

Man this takes me back....ahhhhhh

The reason the extra lives code was taken out of the American release is the same reason most releases have the difficulty cranked up here. Since renting video games was only a thing allowed in the us at the time, the thought was by increasing the difficulty and making it impossible for players to beat in one or two rentals they wouldn't see as much of a decrease in sales because of renting.

I never knew about ducking down in the water!

I had super C. So I was stoked it was on classic. I liked it more

I beat super c without dying. W/ witness! Booyah

In Contra 4 for DS there's the Museum, which states that indeed, Super C got the Contra taken out of the North American title to distance themselves from the Iran-Contra scandal.

This game spooked me a bit as a kid.

That's so funny, I actually didn't get super c as a kid because of the name, I exactly thought the same thing you said, it seemed like it was a fake contra instead of part 2, I didn't play it until I was an adult

This was hands down my favorite nes game.

My Dad actually called this Contra 2, because it was the sequel

10:00 Walk around the tank before the guys with guns pop up, then shoot the green guy at the top. It'll take about 5 to 10 seconds (maybe a little less) to beat the boss depends on the weapon you have. They won't shoot you if you're on top.

Contra force for Nes was really good too.No one ever talks about it

also if you have spread for the laser chandelier it makes sense to take out the center first as the chandelier will never go beyond the farthest non destroyed laser turret.

Dude.. your a savage lol

Jagger Froid. Best villain name ever.

8:37 you can can never attack it from the side, you'll do less damage that way. Just shoot straight. The bullets that come out the tank shoot in three different directions leaving an opening for you to avoid them.

nice perfect run

Super C is still my favorite contra game. I absolutely adore it