Contra Menu screenshot

It seems the screenshots are starting to slowly stream in now and Ain’t it cool news has a screenshot of the opening menu of Contra here (you’ll have to scroll about halfway down the page to see it). Looking from the menu it looks like we will be seeing online co-op, as I can’t see any other way that you could play multiplayer Contra!

Can’t wait.

UPDATE: Just to clarify, by multiplayer, I mean a versus mode, by all means this will have local co-op

Written by xblarcade on May 15th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Frogger to be the first Konami game to hop onto XBLA

According to this press release here, Konami has stated that Frogger will be the first of their titles to hit the market place scheduled for (everyone’s favorite) early summer time frame. The other announced titles (including Contra, Time Pilot and Scramble) will be out of that.

One of the best parts of the press release was this line:

…with additional major franchises launching in 2006 and 2007

Written by xblarcade on May 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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