This is the 435th original article of the Old Boy Game Box. Author @后草文
Before talking about today's game, let everyone guess who the protagonist in today's article is: it is an FC game with a magnificent opening animation, the two protagonists are red and blue, and each level has a very rare simulator voice dubbing on the red and white machine platform at the beginning. It is a comprehensive shooting game with a grand scene. The size of the BOSS of a certain level is even the best in the FC game. Can you think of this game?
The answer is the classic game "The Final Mission" developed by NATSUME. When this game was introduced to China by a pirated merchant, it changed its name to "Contra in the Air". The reason why
has such a translation name is because the two characters operated by players in "The Final Mission" are very similar to the real "Contra" protagonists Bill and Lance. They are also in a blue and red color combination, and their shape, gun holding posture, leg flexion, and even the high light spots on their pants are very similar. The cover of the game that Ben Cra saw for the first time when he was a child was written with the big "Contra in the Air". Not to mention doubting at that time, even if the King of Heaven came, I would say that this is "Contra in the Air"!
"Contra in the Air" story tells that one day in 20XX, an unknown alien fleet attacked, countless cities on Earth were destroyed, and aliens set up space orbit elevators connecting the universe base.
Through inter-star ships and orbital elevators, aliens continuously transport invading weapons to the earth. The resistance of people on Earth has never stopped. The Resistance Army secretly trained two super soldiers, ARNOLD and SIGOURNEY, and issued the ultimate mission to destroy the enemy's flagship and space base.
The scene that shocked me in the game is the third level (the US version is the fourth level), and the entire level is a super huge battleship of the enemy. At the beginning of the game, we can also see the alien fleet approaching the earth. The largest flagship surrounded by many medium and small ships should be the giant warship that the two of us heroes need to be completely destroyed from beginning to end. It is equivalent to a single-handed battle against the giant in "Wanda and the Colossus".
When I was a child, I felt it was amazing when I challenged this level. The entire warship had various turrets one by one, and there were many missiles and laser defense facilities. Multiple hatch doors would release enemy small aircraft to attack us. There were also detailed bridges and pipelines, all of which showed the ambition and imagination of the production team. Although the final ship jet propulsion imported BOSS is not very difficult to fight, it will definitely leave a deep impression on players.
Since then, Ben Cai has been very curious about how big the real size of this warship is? After the unpacking of the game ROM by the FC gallery master sosovipp, we were able to estimate the size of the battleship by measuring pixels, and then convert the height of the pixel point through the approximate height of the characters, and finally find the approximate length of the battleship in the real world. Let’s explain this question to you at that time.
First, the conclusion is that the total pixels of the super warship are 2912x1116, while the maximum solution of the red and white machine is 256x240, which means that the ship's total length is more than 11 screen widths and a height of 4.65 screens. Since the height of the characters in the "Contra in the Sky" game is 28 pixels, the original protagonist ARNOLD data shows that it is 6.4 feet, which is about 2.1 meters high. If the leg curvature is calculated based on the character's 1.9 meters, it will be converted to 197 meters in length and 75 meters in height. This should be considered the largest boss among all the games in FC games. In Lao Cai, no boss can surpass this battleship in my memory.
Comparing the real warship data in reality, we can know more vividly how big the warship in the third level of "Contra in the Air" is.The first aircraft carrier of our motherland, "Liaoning", is 306 meters long. In the game, this 197-meter alien aerospace warship is considered a younger brother. The one that fits its size should be my country's 055 "Blade Sea-class" destroyer, with a total length of 174 meters and can take 310 crew members. It was the favorite of the bureau at that time, so it was very awesome.
If you expand your attention to the ACG world, the warship in the third level of "Contra in the Air" is probably the same as the 198-meter-long "Salamis-Modified" cosmic cruise ship in "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083", and the two are also similar in shape.
Although the record of the largest boss in the subsequent gaming industry has been refreshed, such as Gaia in " God of War ", and the planet-sized reincarnation king in "Wrath of Shura", the deep shock of witnessing the huge battleship of FC "The Final Mission" for the first time when he was a child, he kept in his mind. Finally, the complete picture of the ship is attached. Because the size is too long, you can put your phone horizontally to watch.
Author of this article: King Crab
Editor: Xiao Lei
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