Best Contra gun

http://setonstun.com/wp-content/451px-contra_flyer.jpg

I'll have what she's having.

Check out those huge grenades...

spread gun brought the lols back in the day

"two person interactive play"

CONTINUATION

Next time I choose continue, I know what to say..

Spread, of course.

I played through the original NES today (with cheat of course) and the spread was awesome as always but fuck if I could stay alive for more than 30 seconds at a time, so today's judgment is based on very little data. I kept the laser through about half of Base 2 and it went through those doors like butter so it's a tempting choice.

Spread is great b/c of both sexual and scatological lols. Since we (my brother and I) couldn't say "spread" without giggling we usually just called it the spray gun, which isn't much better.

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss293/CronoTII/ContraSpreadGun.jpg

fuck yeah

Spread Gun – Arguably the most famous weapon of the series. This weapon fires five bullets within a 45 degree arc. It allows for a dense concentration of firepower up close (a la shotgun), while having the ability to cover a large area when firing from a distance. Other weapons in the series have come and gone, but the Spread Gun has remained (almost) constant. Contra: Shattered Soldier has no Spread Gun. Gametrailers.com rated the Spread Gun the 8th best video game weapon of all time.

Man, I can't find screenshots of the laser in action anywhere. I did find these:

http://news.filefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/lego_contra.jpg
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/ul/119696-Contra%20Figures%20-%20Main%20Image.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.com/contra_spread_gun_shirt-p235373796558882728t5tr_400.jpg

^^^ tempting

Are Mad Dog and Scorpion looking to take each other down in the Lego scene?

so to speak

Contra slash

The laser is a solid choice. Very useful in many situations. Spread is great but laser is more powerful iirc.

I kept trying to read this thread but then I would just subconsciously scroll back up to the top.

"Gametrailers.com rated the Spread Gun the 8th best video game weapon of all time."

normally I would clown this but to be honest, 8th seems pretty low. You gotta pick the BFG higher, and Link's sword in the first Zelda when you're fully charged and it shoots swords, and the baseball bat in Double Dragon...but the spread is up there.

Flame thrower you 'rods.

the laser was the catalyst for countless fights btwn me and my grade-school bros when we'd play this and they/I would steal it when it "wasn't our turn to get it", but this is obv. spread.

i hate the laser. Know its powerful but too fucking thin. Spread any day of the week. In Super Contra (or, lol, Super Probotector as I played it) the homing missiles were pretty cool, because the H looked slightly like a W my brother and I dubbed the gun "Wishaw" after a nearby town, I have no idea why.

spread, but laser in the pseudo 3d base levels.

Homing missiles got hosed here.

Obviously spread gun. Let's talk about whether there are any better video game weapons though. There are certain games I loved so much I want to nominate ALL the weapons from them, and by "certain games" I mean DOOM 2 although the plasma gun is kind of a letdown. Unreal Tournament was also sweet in this department.

Whip from Castlevania is awesome, especially in the games where you can get a flame whip.

Oh and the DISKARMER (aka "yo-yo") from Rygar, mainly for the soft booshy sound effects.

Does throwing the second player at enemies in River City Ransom count?

DUD: Halo and its sequels, which have a number of cool guns but also seemingly dozens of boring, ineffective ones, none of which can be distinguished by their onscreen icons. Super fun games regardless but the weapons really lack identity.

I still think that the baseball bat in Double Dragon was a great weapon, because it wasn't just some spaceship laser but a weapon you could see yourself using if you were a psycho badass. That and throwing barrels. I think the freedom to pick up objects and use them as weapons, or not, was pretty mindblowing at the time too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

best weapon in video game history is, always has been, and forever will be Kuribo's Shoe

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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i approve of these results.

Me too. In this unjust, crazy world, it's nice to know that we can all agree that the spread gun is by far the best weapon in Contra.

thumbs up, ILG

iirc the laser was also a little slow in terms of firing? like if you tried to shoot it quickly it wouldn't send out beams that far.

http://wii.kombo.com/images/content/news/blurb_contragirl1_1_20090827.jpg

would spread

(i wouldn't, actually, but there it was)