Contra III - The Alien Wars (c) 1992 Nintendo.
The year is 2636. The aliens that lost in battle to the Contras have once again regained their full strength and have begun a large-scale invasion. Humans are nothing but mere rag dolls in the face of their overwhelming resources, scientific capability and powerful life force.
Half a year later, 2 men, Bill and Lance of the Contra team, history's greatest mercenaries, arrive to the devastated city controlled by the aliens.
A heated battle begins once more.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Nintendo Super System hardware
Main CPU : G65C816 (@ 3.58 Mhz)
Sound CPU : SPC700 (@ 1.024 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 1.024 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 32768
Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6

>>> TRIVIA
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Since the instruction manuals for the American versions of Contra and Super C for the NES established those games to be set in present times, yet Contra III featured an obvious futuristic setting, Konami explained this discrepancy by claiming that the main characters of Contra III were Jimbo and Sully, the descendants of Bill and Lance.

>>> TRICKS AND TIPS
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* All Weapons Code : At the player selection screen, press Right, Down, Downright, Right and Start. A scream will confirm the code.
* Level Select : At the player selection screen, press Left, Down, Downleft, Left and Start. A Hum will be heard if you've entered the code correctly.

>>> GAME SERIES
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1. Contra (1987)
2. Super Contra (1988)
3. Operation C (1991, Nintendo Game Boy)
4. Contra Force (1992, Nintendo NES)
5. Contra III - The Alien Wars (1992, Nintendo Super Famicom)
6. Contra - Hard Corps (1994, Sega Mega Drive)
7. Contra - Legacy of War (1996, Sony PlayStation)
8. C - The Contra Adventure (1998, Sony PlayStation)
9. Contra - Shattered Soldier (2002, Sony PlayStation 2)
10. Neo Contra (2004, Sony PlayStation 2)
11. Contra 4 (2007, Nintendo DS)

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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* Visual Designers :
Main and directed : Nobuya Nakazato
Players character : Masayuki Saruta
Assist : Noritoshi Sasaki
* Programmers :
Main & top-view : Yoshiyuki Matsumoto (Yaipon)
Side-view : 1991/Nami
Help-man : K. Horio
* Sound Designers :
Program and effect : Atsushi Fujio
Sound effect : Masanori Oouchi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hirofumi Taniguchi
Music compose : Miki Yanagisawa, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase
Technical adviced : Jun Furano
Package designers : Kenji Shimoide, Hiromi Sumida
Produced by : Kazumi Kitaue

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Nintendo Super Famicom (1992)
Nintendo Game Boy (1994)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002, 'Contra Advance - The Alien Wars EX')
Nintendo Wii (2007, 'Virtual Console' - SNES version)

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.