
The game features a branching storyline with multiple possible endings. A new task force, known as the titular "Hard Corps", are sent to deal with the situation. Set five years after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars, a terrorist group led by the renegade Colonel Bahamut has stolen an alien cell recovered from the war and now intends to use it to produce weapons. Last modified February 22nd, 2023.Contra: Hard Corps, released as Contra: The Hard Corps in Japan and Probotector in Europe and Australia, is a run and gun video game released by Konami for the Sega Genesis in 1994, making it the first game in the Contra series released for a Sega platform. Know about this game? Add your expertise to help preserve this entry in video game history!Īdditional contributors: PCGamer77, j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】, Trypticon, Jason Smith, Patrick Bregger, Rik Hideto. Content includes game info/descriptions, plot summaries, various kinds of media (images, MP3s, etc.) and links to other Contra-related sites. There is also plenty of screenshots, links and additional resourcesĪ hosted fan "shrine" site devoted to all the games of the Contra series, including the Sega Genesis game Contra: Hard Corps. Information includes release dates, detailed game descriptions, regional differences, lots of trivia and interesting information about the games' developmental stages.

1994 (Vol.3, Iss.1) - Overall Action/Arcade Game of the Year.Right before he comes out, he whips a candle that gives him a fish, which he uses like a boomerang. One of them is a super-deformed Simon Belmont-like robot. There is also a secret area in level 3 (The Junkyard), where you must fight three robots.This is actually a hyped-up, overhauled version of Vampire Killer from Konami's Castlevania. During the sound test, you can find a tune named Simon 1994 AD.There are unofficial patches for use with a ROM file that address this and offer other improvements. This was removed in the American and European releases, resulting in a more difficult game. The Japanese original allows the player characters to take three hits before dying.


Plus, the story has been changed to just some mad robot trying to take over the world. There are no human characters in the European version, for one. The European versions of Contra Hard Corps had been vastly censored and altered.
