At the time they were certainly popular, and, if you were around at the time, these brutally tough side-scrolling shooters were generally warmly received. Some people might hail the early Contra games as some kind of late '80s arcade treasure, and that's fine. Clearly not everyone's got the concept of 'classic' gaming nailed down. But throwing any old back catalogue rubbish onto Live and calling it a 'retro classic' is, at best, misleading. We even learned to have a modicum of fun with Green Beret after re-learning how to play it. The odd piece of retro crap like Yie Ar Kung-Fu, we can tolerate. And if Microsoft's having a giggle at the public for buying them, Konami must be regularly hospitalised with the endless belly laughs it's having at our expense. Sometimes it's like Microsoft is sat there mocking us with the dire quality of certain Xbox Live Arcade games.
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