DF Retro: Contra 3 - The Alien Wars! Sublime 16-Bit Shooting!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- DF Retro returns with a detailed look at one history's greatest shooters - Contra 3: The Alien Wars. John goes in-depth on how this classic SNES shooter works, what makes it brilliant and how the astonishing Game Boy port compares. Then it's on to the controversial Game Boy Advance conversion, including its bizarre method of borrowing content from Contra Hard Corps on Genesis/Mega Drive...
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One minor error at 5:09 - I mistakenly swapped Super Probotector and Contra 3 titles for the dates. :|
So sloppy! ;)
That's it, John. You're fired. You're FIRED from being retro.
konami was the bomb back then
John what music did your use for your intro and outro! The FM styled tunes! What were they?
Unsubbed.
Holding both shoulder buttons doesn't just do a cool pose, it also allows you to fire both weapons at once!
While jumping no less!
With style Mr. Squidward, with style...
What!!!
More retro please guys.
This is pure enjoyment for guys who never got to expirience the earlier consols.
Your the best!
Cheers.
This game blew my mind as a kid.
DF Retro? Instant like.
yup, i saw the title, hit like, then i watched the video :)
I hit the like before I had seen the title, that's how good I knew this video was going to be.
I give you that BLAZING CHROME
Instant FAP
factor 5 is just unbelievable
Turrican games are amazing.
@Kaden Overstreet Sony killed them sadly.
Another amazing DF Retro Episode... I would love to see DF Retro of Turrican, Prince of Persia, Flashback and Another World series... these series have so much to talk about.
This video broke my heart. Konami what happened to you?
Yeah, it's sad to see. Konami was literally the best developer in 1992. What a waste.
Kodjima destroy it with his EGO
Game industry, what happend to you?
$$$ P A C H I N K O $$$
They threw away their gaming legacy and turned into 24 Hour Fitness
Continuing to be pretty much the biggest treat on TH-cam. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these John - it’s so appreciated and evident. In a perfect world, I hope you’d make these forever.
Honestly Contra 3 looks incredible, the mode 7 effects look absolutely incredible. Even today. Especially that plane for example, that’s absolutely incredible.
I would love to see a fully remastered version of this game photo realistic graphics and pre-rendered cutscenes and bonus stages… it would be great if they could get Stallone and Arnold to voice the characters not to say the original doesn’t hold up it does but it’s one of those things that when I was a kid I thought what if so yada yada
@@thomashaugh8720 I always thought Lance Bean (the red guy) looked more like Billy from Predator.
The turtle boss use another snes effect that is not very well known, that is the per tile scroll adjust.
It's the same one that is used to do the yoshi island fuzzy effect.
It looks like the GBA doesn't have this effect, instead they used sprites for the head/neck and the "GBA mode 7" to the shell.
I remember the Yoshi Island on GBA also using another trick to make this same effect on Touch Fuzzy Gets Dizzy, like a tile modification.
The SNES version is waaay more smooth.
The shell could be a sprite as well. GBA has this neat trick where it can turn every sprite into a "mini mode 7".
But it indeed has no tile scroll.
Dr_Kachu san That’s really cool, I didn’t know about that.
Those sweet times when Konami actually made amazing games...
You mean back when they actually made games..lol
Videos like this make me actually appreciate the work you guys do. Plz keep the retro stuff coming
Superb video John. You tackled differences and details with aplomb and it was a joy to watch. I so need to watch more of your DF retros! Great work.
Just what my Sunday evening called for. Great as always :)
I hope this series has a long life
Thank you for these series, it’s great waking up on a Sunday sitting back having a cup of coffee and enjoying all your hard work. Keep it up.
Wow one of the most informative and well put together game related videos I’ve seen lately. Great job. 👍🏼
Took a huge trip down memory lane, thanks for that!!!! Best thing on YT EVER, DF Retro!!!!!
Another excellent addition to the series John.
Beautiful video, I really enjoy DF Retro, specially the technical info and graphics about how the games were programmed.
I love Contra 3 and Hard Corps so much. Made for a great childhood
@@youtubesuresuckscock ^ stupidest comment i've ever read
John - I can see you branching off into DF retro full time, as your own offshoot channel. I sincerely love having your content in my feed every monday! Mondays suck for everyone, so having some retro goodness on a monday is perfect.
Thanks for this ! Amazing video.
contra is my childhood man damn it was 25 years ago or something when i first played that game pffff , the other good memory i had it was doom on dos i used to be scared while playing doom and my dad just played 80's song and Celine Dion for me to makes me comfortable lol.
Once again, great episode! Thank you and keep them coming.
Once again an excellent video John! Keep up the great work!
Great work yet again guys, I really appreciate the Retro series.
This is just amazing work John!
Love DF retro, something to look forward too on a Sunday that's for sure! Thanks John for the quality entertainment.
Amazing as always, John! Now, I'm kinda waiting for that Panzer Dragoon Saga & Orta episode you talked about, quite some time ago 😉
THIS!!!! Please.
Panzer Dragoon Saga is a Goat
What I say said! 👍
100% this if you're reading this, John. I love the use of Quads on the Saturn and absolutely loved seeing the emulator disable VDPs to show the nonsense that the devs turned into visual magic. There's also...something about that series, it was the first time as a child playing a game that I could imagine the much larger and real alien world that these people and dragons lived in.
Fantastic work as always, John.
Ashamed to say I'm just now realizing that I've never played the Contra3 on SNES! I need to get it immediately. Looks incredible. Thanks for making this video, it's incredibly well done and very informative.
I always hold L & R on the first stage at the plane mode 7 bit and as that fire jumps over you, did it in the 90's, still do it now, every time...Great video John, thank you!
Brilliant episode, really enjoyed this!
That original GB port of Contra is pretty amazing actually. I did a bit of GB programming back in the day and coding for that thing is no fun.
Brilliant as always, John. One of my favorite episodes! Contra 3 is and always will be pitch perfect.
Amazing video! Thinking back, the Contra 3 was a technical masterpiece
Love these! Keep them coming, Super Probotector was the first game I bought for myself on the snes, totally blew my mind back then and I still love playing it today. I miss 90's Konami!
Another great video John again tugging at the old nostalgic heartstrings bro!
One of my absolute favorites on the system, you simply cannot beat this run & gun LEGEND! the graphics, gameplay, enemy design, and weapons just blew me away as a kid, and will hold up forever because of the beautiful sprite work.
FFS John, you've done it again. Very slick video and great editing and research. Another top notch piece of work. Keep it up!
This is quality content! Keep up the good work :)
I love this DF Retro show, its such a trip seeing how the old game we grew up on, were made and how they work. It also makes me laugh how we gamed at 20fps and below on some games back then and never even noticed.
Man I love DF retro, been watching since the first episode. Keep it up!!
Whoooot! I hit like before even watching it. Looking forward to this half hour!! One of my all time favorite games!
Another great episode, thanks !
Ive played Contra 3 for the first time on the SNES mini and i loved it, ive finished it 3 times already and im definitely going to play it again. Its a really good game, and it looks great.
Lovely video! I still personally think Konami's SNES days were some of the best, with games like Super CV4, Turtles in Time, and this one. Not only were they genuinely great games, but they also showcased the SNES hardware effectively, like the Mode7 scaling in both this game and SCV4.
Those soundtracks too, they were CLEAN for the SNES, the console that usually gets downvoted for its "muddy sound", all a factor of the limited soundchips. They stand right up there among the likes of Mega Man X, Plok!, and Super Mario RPG.
I'd even go as far as to say that the SNES is one of my favourite consoles ever, just so many great games developed for that system.
Please keep up the good work, John. I'm eagerly awaiting to see the next episode of DF Retro!
Big Blue Frontend - You hit it in the head! I grew up with the NES, but the Super Nintendo and GameCube Nintendo are two of my all time favorite Nintendo home consoles with the Nintendo Switch quickly moving up on the charts.
I miss those days of genuine game design and having several AAA titles constantly being release. KONAMI/CAPCOM ruled that era and were consistent.
Fascinating, thanks for the work on this!
My favorite content on TH-cam right here.
DF ... Please do more videos like this ... They're super enjoyable to watch
Another great DF Retro! Great job, John!
A true classic, i used to play Contra 3 over and over again with my brother when i was younger.
More DF retro please!!!!
Best video series within DF as Whole... Awesome!
Great video! The presence of several Treasure games made me wish for a Treasure focused DF Retro sometime in the future.
One of my favorite games on SNES. Still have the original copy from back in the 90's. This is when Nintendo was killing. If only we could get SNES on the Switch.
Agreed, only in its Super Probotector makeover.
@@thebookkeeper3508 right 😂
Nintendo had nothing to do with this game, it was all developed and published by Konami.
@@Kevin-sl3gk yeah I know that. But in the SNES era, they were getting a lot of great games published. That's all I'm saying.
@@dthomasfromnc Nintendo is still killing it with the Switch nowadays.
I get it tho, SNES is an amazing console, but I'd say so are the others Nintendo consoles, but I understand Nintendo received a lot of party 3rd party support during the SNES era.
What's this? Some video about a game that's over a quarter of a century old, with 2D, sprite-based graphics? And it's over half an hour long? Haha... YES, PLEASE!!! (Also, thank you for supplying the song list at the end.)
John I love your setup, pro monitor in the middle, N64 on the right, genesis on the left and snes on top. DF Retro delivers as always!
DF retro talking about Contra? I have never been so psyched about a video
Awesome work, John!
Yes, another episode of DF Retro!
What an amazing video. I love Contra 3 a lot. It was the one that got me into the series. Contra hard corps is my absolute favorite :D
Got this for my B-day back in the day loved it!
Awesome work as always
John please make a RETRO about GBA hardware please... or Mega Drive.
I want to see one about the gamecube
Mega drive for sure
Methinks he focuses on software and development tricks rather than raw hardware
I was never a big fan of Contra, but I really enjoyed the video, especially the technical bits! Thanks, John!
I paid around £90 for the Japanese import of Contra 3 in central London when it first launched in Japan and then spent the next month or so playing it pretty much every day. This was when the Konami name meant something and you could pretty much buy any of their SNES games and expect something great even if you had no idea what the game actually was about. All the titles mentioned in this video were great (actually I could take or leave Gradius) but I'd like to give a shout out to Tiny Toon Adventures which was one of the best looking and most creative cartoon platformers I ever played on SNES.
one of the best episodes ever, thanks a lot John!
Fantastic video, wish DF would make more like this!! 😍👍
Amazing!!! Thank You! one of my favorites games ever!!
The last stage is simply a work of art, the music and the visuals make one experience unmatched by any genesis game
You clearly haven't played many genesis games then
Excellent content as always! Didn't expect to get a semi retrospective on the series. I loved Probotector on the Mega Drive and have enjoyed the Arcade Contra's in more modern times (XBLA releases trying to beat those 1 credit achievements was a worthy challenge XD). I didn't realise I was enjoying entries from the same series. Very interesting!
Now I feel like playing Contra 3 on my mini snes!! Great video!
What a pleasant surprise on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Perfect for this DF Retro. Also, Contra does need the love xD
Great video John, I love the analysis on how the SNES handles sprite layers, I never knew all these years. Really hard to pick a favorite Contra, most of them do great things in their own way.
"...the series was known as Probotector in Europe..." ( 14:11 ). Erm, not quite, my first experience with the series was as 'Gryzor' on the Amstrad CPC 464 (along with the C64 and Speccy versions).
I just made a comment about this! Remember the cover art which was a rip off Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator haha
I believe it was known as Gryzor in European arcades. The computer ports were probably based on that version and the NES version being re-branded as Probotector.
It depended on the platform. The two arcade games were Gryzor and Super Contra (the second game kept the original name in Europe), while the console versions were released as Probotector until Contra: Legacy of War. The C64, Speccy and Amstrad versions were based on the arcade title.
Yeah, the Probotector name was only used for console and handheld releases; computer and arcade versions had other names and no robots. The last time the Probotector name was used to my knowledge was when Operation C was included as part of the Konami GB Classics series on Game Boy Color, though it was Probotector without robots.
Great episode. Funny coincidence: I just got my original japanese cart of this game two days ago (I only ever had the german Super Probotector before that). One of my all time favorite games.
Huhh, I didn't know Factor 5 worked on the Game Boy version. That was neat! In any case, thank you for putting together this video. You really did the game a lot of justice here.
I see a DF retro video, I click like before the DF retro even leaves the screen. Best gaming show on the internet.
Congrants!
My vote goes for a DFRetro about Red Zone in genesis/megadrive, or the bunch of technical marvels made by its creators Zyrinx.
Love U guys!
Another great video john.
Great video John.... Keep them coming, and remember STAY RETRO
This game is epic, best Contra game ever made. Great video!
Considering the hardware and storage limitations of the original Gameboy, that Contra 3 port is pretty incredible.
Found my copy of this game on the floor of my school bus back in high school over 10+ years ago. Amazing game.
Loved it! Contra is my all-time favorite game franchise.
Another great video thank you John. My first experience with Contra was the bizarrely name Gryzor on the Amstrad 464! Never played any of the others for some reason, but this looks a great game.
This is the kind of quality content I sub for.
breathtaking summary of the awesome game! :)
I love Contra III as much as you do!!!
DF is the best. I love it great way to start the morning.
always love to see how talented developers sneak around limitation of early video game console to achieve remarkable visual effects.
Imagine someone like Yoko Taro or Amy Hennig directing a new Contra game using Fox Engine.
Now we need a DF Retro on the entire Contra series!
Awesome review brother. I am St. Croix US Virgin Islands. So we got everything the US did. I remember waking up on Saturday and my friend Kendal coming over to play this back in 1993 or so.
Ahhhhh, when 60 fps was the rule, not the exception. LOVED this game, and i remember being blown away by the visuals and sound when my friend started it up for the first time.
Oh my god, DF Retro on Contra??!! I'm in heaven!
Great video DF, although I was a little disappointed that you didn't mention contra Force. Cheers
Just played this game again after watching this video and really enjoyed it.
Top episode 👍, please more of DF Retro 😍.
This was my Contra game as a kid. It's the first one I owned and is just a superb and gorgeous experience.
I've hear a lot of raving over the years about how great Contra is/was. I really needed a show like this to learn more about it, as I never had a NES back in the day, nor did I play it any more than a brief demo in the shops.
Gryzor was also released on the Amstrad CPC, and many people have fond memories of that as well. Apparently it's the same game, but with flick screen ala Flashback, instead of scrolling.