RETROspective: Contra

Ask me to name the most memorable video game I’ve played and I’ll probably follow my answer with, “Remember ‘up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a’?”. To those who haven’t clued in to the title of this post or the hint I gave above, that game is Contra, Konami’s side-scrolling action shooter that was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988.