The hardware for Konami’s game Contra #Gaming @nicole_express
Contra is a good example of a game whose original got completely overshadowed by the theoretically technically inferior NES port. Arcade Contra is from 1987. So, how did Konami put this game together?
System16.com reports a “Contra-based hardware” family, but as we’ll see, it’s only a very loose term. Here it is: the Konami GX633 motherboard, used for Contra and nothing else. Unless you count Gryzor as a different game, which you really shouldn’t.
The CPU powering the show is the Hitachi 6309. Hitachi took Motorola’s well-regarded 6809, used in the Vectrex among other machines, and upgraded it to CMOS, as well as adding some nice performance improvements.
Read more about the unique features of the hardware and how the software took advantage of it in the post on Nicole Express.
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