{"id":261008,"date":"2025-05-28T04:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/arcade-game\/arcade-heroes-konami-releases-contra-burst-to-round1usa\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T04:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:09:29","slug":"arcade-heroes-konami-releases-contra-burst-to-round1usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=261008","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Heroes Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video redemption game by Konami under the name of Contra Burst<\/em>.<\/a> This quietly appeared on location test at Round1USA<\/a>\u2018s flagship Puente Hills Mall store, although all we had to go off of was a photo of it being set up<\/a> and another taken from after it went into operations. Nothing else was said on it following this, with no news coming through of any other tests, but early last week, AH reader projectatlantis1 alerted us to it being set up at a nearby location. As per Ryte from Round1USA, it turns out that the game is now slowly rolling out to all their venues, and following some scouting from Ted we have the first look at it below\u2026<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Ryan Little for grabbing all the media and information here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Contra Burst<\/h2>\n

For a quick refresh on the basics, Contra Burst<\/em> brings Konami\u2019s classic arcade run and gunner back to its original home for the first time since the rare China-only arcade edition of Evolution.<\/a> To get this out of the way first, it is not a game in the exact same mold of those \u2013 here, we instead have a video redemption (or videmption) piece, where up to four players blast through five levels with mounted guns for tickets.<\/p>\n

This is being made to convert the Bomberman Arcade<\/em><\/a> cabinets released to Round1USA several years back, which apparently haven\u2019t performed very well (Ryan says they saw most use at this location as makeshift tables for DDR players to sit on :P). As you can tell, the conversion kit changes the shape of the machine dramatically, making it more vertically elongated and adding the gun stations:<\/p>\n

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From the looks of the below attract\/demo mode video shot for us by Ryan, all of the action takes place on its new large upper screen (which seems to have increased in size since the first test, alongside a few artwork changes), but there is also a second, smaller monitor below it displaying neat touches like level map information and general gameplay instructions. According to him it plays like Nerf Arcade<\/em>, however you can see some perspective shifts that change things up, and a few classic Contra<\/em> bosses can be spotted appearing to boot. These are battled as a final bonus stage, and change depending on your score.<\/p>\n

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