Video: Latest Teens React Episode Proves Age Has Done Little To Dull Contra's Insane Difficulty Level

I don't think it proves anything when these guys couldn't even beat Glass Joe, but I know what you mean.

Contra... Contra never changes.

These React videos actually seem a bit fake...not saying they are, I'm just a little bit skeptical.

These 'X' React series feel so fake.

I beat it with only one life once. That's my best gaming accomplishment. No need for trophies here!

They didn't even tell them about ^v^v<><>AB Start...was that the code? Whatever. I could probably beat that level at least without the code.

I don't know what I was expecting.

"Die after one shot? That's unfair... In Call of duty you get shot like ten times!"

Seriously.

Contra is just being a lot more realistic.

@Fee
It's actually ^^ ¡¡<><>BA Start

Wish this was a 3DS vc game ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

If this is their first time, i kinda get it, since its a pretty hard game and its mostly about memory.

Back in my day!... Yeah we died a lot too.

Contra III: The Alien Wars on the SNES is a bit more forgiving... but not by much.

It's ok kids, that first level killed me too many times the first time I played it too

This is also Gryzor right?

My bother and I played Contra all the time. Good times.

This game was easy after you memorize where the enemies come from. get the spreader and you're golden. Finished the game with at least 6 medals.

In b4 videos by certain people saying they suck and/or show a video of them playing the game flawlessly, completely ignoring the fact that these teens have never played the game before, while the person has been playing the game for 20+ years, and probably also died at the first level with they first played the game.

@Jason723 To be fair, I think a lot of people are acknowledging the difficulty of the game. And, yes, Contra is FREAKIN' hard.

I remember losing a lot of sleeps just for trying to beat level 1 of Contra back in the days. Today though, it's a piece of cake. I can feel how these kids felt, same feeling I felt when I first tried this level.

Can't believe they didn't teach them about the Konami code after all that.

lol I remember whe I first played this a long time ago.

Really difficult. Especially with a keyboard...

Eventually I somehow managed to beat it :v

Good times...

I'm 18 and played Contra for the first time this year. It's a hard game, but with enough persistence I managed it. btw I detest the react series, all the ones I've watched are stupid and sometimes offensive

Just kept waiting and waiting to hear their reaction to the Konami/Contra/30 Lives code (man that code has a lot of names thanks to this game). I feel so ripped off that we didn't hear it! It would have been the perfect thing to end it with!

@WaveBoy Yeah I just don't really like these videos. They don't feel genuine at all and it makes me cringe just watching how clueless, incompetent and forcibly dumb these kids are. No one would really be that dumb.

The most wrongly accused of being hard game ever. Here's how you destroy Contra:

*get the Spreadgun and never let it go
*duck during the "3D" levels

That is literally it. No extra lives code, no nonsense. Just spam the Spreadgun. Seriously, the game loops upon beating the last level, I went through the whole thing again and when it looped a 2nd time I shut it off out of boredom. It's a great game but it's not even the hardest in the series.

@Technosphile Ok

This is the stupidest channel and idea I´ve ever seen in my entire life, and that says a lot, considering enlightening things like pewdipie exist on youtube.

This is either with teens that act "URR DURR ME DUMB, ME ACT, IT´S HARD!!!!" or it´s with elderly people that are so damn impressionable by everything in the game like "URR HOW I DID THAT???? URR DURR THAT´S SO BLOODY!!!"

This sucks, there´s nothing more to it.

"Insane Difficulty Level"

Oh come on, Contra is nowhere near "insanely difficult". I'd even say it's among the easier NES games.

@Fandabidozi Yup. Contra in US; Gryzor in European arcades and home computers, Probotector for European consoles and handhelds.

Let them play Contra III instead. It's a much better game all-round and still difficult as hell.

PS. Unlike some people here, I love the 'react' series.

@JakeOfAllTrades

Actually; not really—unless you get shot in the head. I mean most people wouldn't take as many as ten shots but most people don't die or even go down with a single shot either. Not based on some cop program I watched a few years ago where the police officer was explaining that it's not like people see in the movies, where usually people die with a single shot. Then we saw a clip of him shooting some dude like 6 times before he went down (the footage was via the camera on the front of his patrol car).

Ironically this was the first game I ever completed, well its European release Probotector. I just loved that game.

Oh and I never knew about the Konami code.

TBH probably my best gaming achievement, loved being called a "Hero" at the end. As an 8-year ild it really hit home.

I don't know how it's possible, but I find Contra (NES) to be ultimately easier than Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man 2. For me, at least, it is.. And it didn't even require a lot of time to learn the levels. The enemies were easy to shoot down and keeping the 'Spread' power-up really helps. I find Super C to be tougher. And don't even get me started on Contra III: The Alien Wars. I can now do that game on the 'Hard' mode and it's way harder than the original NES Contra.

WOW never seen such horrible Contra playing in my life... WOW

Contra is such an easy game, especially the first stage.

Since games didn't tell you how to play back then they should have top read the manual. Just like we did. These reactions are so fake because that's not how we played those games in the day. We were never just thrown into a game. We read our manuals and knew which button did what

@Radbot42 No, we didn't. But there were just 2 buttons, so it wasn't hard to find out what they did.

spoiled.

@SH007ME Umm.....it is

edit: My mistake, that's Super C

@Kirk
Yes, guns are lethal but not as lethal film make them out to be. When people get medical treat right away the death rate is still at less than 30 percent in even the most crap states and most places it is around ten percent.

OBLIGATORY TIME FOR EVERYONE IN THE COMMENTS TO GET ON A HIGH HORSE ABOVE THOSE DARN "KIDS TODAY"

@Donjwolf: That is hero stuff right there!!! I've been working on beating it without the code, and feel like a beast when I get through the Waterfalls without losing a man. But it all falls apart by that blasted Snow Stage.

"And in other news: people once again feel entitled to be enraged by a new 'Teens React' video. Further research has shown that the world actually DOESN'T exist solely of experienced gamers, or people that have been gaming since the 8 bit era..."
Obviously, if you're young and can't play a game that was made almost 20 years before you were born, you must be insanely stupid...
If you people don't like the React videos, then why not safe yourself the trouble of watching them? I certainly wouldn't voluntarily watch anything that I don't like.
And if you don't watch it, you can also save yourselves the trouble of having to make any negative comments on them. Saves us positive people the trouble of having to read them or skip through them...
But seriously: other than some average teen behavior I literally see nothing in the way of acting or bad acting, so I feel no "super spidey sense" tingling because of things not being "genuine" or feeling "fake". It's just teens, is all...
And please be so smart as to take into account that not everybody on the whole damn planet is a good gamer, or a retro gamer, for that matter, so I'm not that surprised that kids that are used to smart devices and joypads with two sticks and 10 buttons or more aren't all that adept at using a NES controller...
Maybe stop for a minute and mull that over for a while. Might make you post some more thoughtful comments next time...
Cheers

Can't watch kids play so horribly bad.

The "react" series started fresh but now it's being milked to death for click-ads.

@TheRealThanos

Maybe you should stay away from discussion boards if you can't handle negativity. Don't tell me what to think or do.

@Toincoss First of all: everything written before "But seriously" was written as a bit of a sarcastic jest at the expense of all the sour grape folks, so maybe you should reconsider your presence on "discussion boards" if you can't handle that.
And it's not that I can't handle negativity, it's just that I don't like the unnecessary kind...
Secondly, although it also had a bit of truth in it, it was still only a friendly suggestion, not a command, so I wasn't telling anybody what to do.
Happy gaming...

Contra was not even close to the anger I felt towards Ghost and Goblins.

@BigH88 The Arcade Ghosts n Goblins is another thing entirely. (The hardest parts are all much more forgiving on the NES).

This game is fun...But HARD!

The only way I can beat it, is using save states on the Retron 5 :S