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The Contra Anniversary Collection brings this classic Run and Gun franchise back to modern platforms and a new generation of gamers.

Contra Anniversary Collection is a action, side scroller and retro game developed and published by KONAMI.
Released on June 11th 2019 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 1,310 reviews of which 996 were positive and 314 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified Contra Anniversary Collection into these genres:

Action Side Scroller Retro Classic 2D Platformer Shooter Difficult Arcade Local Co-Op Co-op Shoot 'Em Up Pixel Graphics Singleplayer 1990's 1980s

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 - 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-4160
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4400 (VRAM 128MB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 504 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible
Additional Notes: 1920 x 1080 monitor resolution

User reviews & Ratings

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Nov. 2025

it very fun having all of the old contra games in one place but lets be real..I bought this to play the NES contra! and yes the contra code still works.

Sept. 2025

Could have used just a little bit more polish, like starting the game with full screen and a quit game option. Depending on which game you're playing and using the xbox controller, jump and shoot can be in so many different places. Honestly, they could have made it so much better by setting Jump as A and shoot as X, standardize it from the get go because I had to reconfigure all the controls. So every time you want to play this on say a big TV screen, you need to hit Alt+Enter and to hit the X mark to close the program and to reconfigure the controls depending on which game you're playing. Also two player controls is a little bit jank, it should have been easy plug and play in my opinion. So to have 2-player co-op, you must have the controllers plugged in before booting the game up. Very simple things for a PC game to add from their end, but it didn't happen. The collection has both the North American and Japanese versions of many Contra games, personally my favorite is Contra 3 and the Japanese equivalent if this game. I beat the hard mode on PC and on the original SNES, this one for me is the best because it is hard but fair with the best music. My problem with the collection, is more so on the addition of the save state system as a fail safe for what seems like bad difficulty scaling mostly for the arcade games. The arcade games are supposed to be difficult because they were made with the intention to eat quarters. In particular, they did a bad job with how many lives you're given for Super Contra arcade. I found this game to be the hardest because of how bad controlling the character feels, the NES Super C version of the controls better, better lives count and has a cooler end boss. To make the arcade game feel more rewarding rather than have infinite lives via insert coins, it seems they have capped the amount of lives since you're not using real quarters anymore. Why do that and then add a save-state system into the whole game? When one beats the game and earns an achievement, people won't know for sure whether I beat it fair or used save-states when they own the game, they could have really made those achievements shine better by making it so everyone has to earn them fair. At the end of the day, I can work with those small issues as I'm a huge contra fan and this was my childhood. However, it's 2025 and I think they easily could have fixed things to make this PC release much more final.

Sept. 2025

Classic Contra titles through the mid 1990's, including the Arcade and Japanese versions. This is a killer collection and a must-have for anyone who enjoys these old run-n-gun titles. Note: The Arcade titles suffer from slowdown and glitches, unfortunately. Each of the times I played through them, at some point the sound cut out partially or completely and did not return until I restarted the game from scratch. This includes losing my audio for my entire progress if I used the Save & Load State functions.

Aug. 2025

All the games in the collection are great. Each one takes a few hours to beat. The two best ones in my opinion are Alien Wars and Hard Corps. Pick this up on sale and enjoy your childhood again.

March 2025

Good collection of old game. Got it on sale, can't complain. I use to be able to beat these with no deaths on nes and gameboy when I was younger, now i can't even make it past 3 levels with 30 lives...

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Frequently Asked Questions

Contra Anniversary Collection is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Contra Anniversary Collection is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Contra Anniversary Collection received 996 positive votes out of a total of 1,310 achieving a rating of 7.30.

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Contra Anniversary Collection was developed and published by KONAMI.

Contra Anniversary Collection is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Contra Anniversary Collection is not playable on MacOS.

Contra Anniversary Collection is not playable on Linux.

Contra Anniversary Collection offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Contra Anniversary Collection includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

Contra Anniversary Collection does not currently offer any DLC.

Contra Anniversary Collection does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Contra Anniversary Collection supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Contra Anniversary Collection is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Contra Anniversary Collection.

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