After Contra: The Shooters and Battle Games on This Site
Paint Strike, Recoil, Temple of Boom, Bloons TD, GoBattle and the two-player games — what each one takes from Contra and what it does differently.
Contra Blog
Notes from a lot of one-hit deaths: the stages, the spread gun, the code, and what to shoot next.
Contra Weapons, Capsules and the Konami Code: What Actually Helps
The five weapons ranked, what the barrier and rapid-fire capsules really do, and the code that turns a first run into a finished one.
Contra Stage by Stage: The Patterns That Get You Through All Eight
Jungle, Base 1, Waterfall, Base 2, Snow Field, Energy Zone, Hangar, Alien's Lair — what each stage throws at you and the one habit that beats it.