R-Type Bosses in Contra 3

[God]

I didn't notice at first, but the stage 4 boss is an R-Type style battle cruiser. And the boss right after looks like their version of "Gomander & Outslay" or whatever they're called.

In the level after that one, there's a dragon with a dobkeratops tail, who is suddenly metallic after being defeated in the previous game...

Maybe this is old news because these are pretty old games.

[sunburstbasser]

Irem and Konami had some similar themes with these games, like the bio-mechanical enemies. Some of it is also hardware limitations. At the time, it was standard practice to use many round sprites to make a tail or snake, so you see lots of similar designs across different games. Ridley from Super Metroid used the multi-sprite tail as well.

Gomander has more vaginas, though.

[lgb]

well Konami and Irem are somewhat of rivals, or at least were