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NES Contra is spot on for controls. Just picking it up for the first time, it’s so responsive and the movement feels good pretty much immediately. The arcade version of the game had weird jumping movement that feels clunky, but the NES version just feels so much better. It’s also not as hard as its reputation makes it out to be.

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VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Absolutely. Contra may be the easiest on this list. But Contra with just 3 lives…

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- moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ve definitely played through the game multiple times in a row on just those three lives. You gain more lives at certain score levels anyway. If you play through the entire game without dying, you’ll have around 10 lives left. And if you sit through the credits, the game continues from the beginning, only it gets harder after every loop. After 4 or 5 consecutive runs, the basic enemies that usually just run and jump actually start shooting at you.
  
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  - VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’ve gotta be talking to Bill Rizer’s alt account right now.
    
    You’re making me want to break out Contra and get as practiced as you.
    
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