A playthrough of Konami's 1989 run-and-gun shooter for the MSX2, Contra (魂斗羅).
This video was recorded from the Wii Virtual Console release of the game.
I was one of the very many who were surprised to find that the new DOOM isn't a piece of crap. After the incredibly worrying E3 demo I'd basically given up hope, so seeing actual, proper gameplay was really nice. In honor of this, Hungover Hero requested an arrange of E1M1. Interesting. I've done this song before and it's always kind of sucked, and Mick Gordon already took plenty of liberties with his arrange, so I decided to use the old E1M1 from the original DOOM as a base and basically build on it.
I crammed so much crap into this thing that it would drop samples and shit the bed if I tried using lead guitars as well, so there's hardly any lead sections at all which is seriously unusual for me. I also experimented with some new toys to try to convey that 2spoopy feel, and added two more guitar channels in order to not lose any of the facecrushing violent energy that any sane person would normally expect from an E1M1-arrange. I think the end result is pretty interesting.
Now for the one gripe I have: One of the rhythm guitars shits its pants and randomly start using harmonics when I try to use palm mutes half an octave up. This is only really evident towards the end, and while it certainly does sound a bit strange it's nothing dealbreaking. I decided to ignore it when I realized I couldn't fix it.
Anyway, hope you guys like this one, it was fun to write!
A playthrough of Mindscape's 1988 action game for the NES, Paperboy.
Paperboy is a game doesn't really need an introduction. It's one of the most well-known arcade