·The Konami Corporation, known for popular video game franchises like Castlevania, Dance Dance Revolution, Frogger, and Metal Gear was established in March of 1969 by Kagemasa Kozuki as a jukebox rental and repair business. 

·The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was a console released by Nintendo for U.S. Markets in 1985.² 

·The NES was launched in New York City in October 1985, Los Angeles in February 1986, and the rest of North America in September of 1986.  Nintendo sold 61.9 million NES units worldwide. 

·Konami of America was established in the US in November of 1982; the company began to manufacture games for NES in 1985. 

·The NES system was sold new in the United States until it was discontinued in 1995. 

·Konami released their first home console game, Strategy X, for the Atari 2600 in 1981, in 1985 they would release their first NES game with their arcade to console port of Antarctic Adventure. 

·The original arcade incarnation of Contra, released in 1987, was named by Amusement Expo as one of the top four grossing arcade machines of 1987. 

·“Contra” began as an arcade machine released by Konami in February of 1987; it was ported to the NES in 1988.  While the original storyline, as described in Japanese editions, set the game’s events in New Zealand in the year 2633, the US version had a revised narrative.  The NES storyline placed the protagonists, military commandos Bill and Lance, in South America in modern times doing battle with aliens.  

·Cover artist Bob Wakeland saw Contra as “a Predator/Alien rip-off is what the game appeared to be, so I supplied a Predator/Alien style pic - with ripped Arnie Predator poses.”  The cover art is known to look like the Arnold Schwarzenegger publicity photos from the film Predator. 

·Contra popularized the “Konami Code,” sometimes referred to as the “Contra Code” on NES machines.  If the sequence “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start” was entered in at the correct moment, the game player would receive significant “power ups.” Konami developers created the code to make play testing easier.  It was especially popular when playing Contra, which is known to be one of the most difficult NES games to master.  The code gave the player 30 lives. 

·Contra was featured in the very first issue of Nintendo Power Magazine. 

·IGN ranks Contra number 8 on their list of the best NES games of all time, calling it “the console's definitive multiplayer experience.” 

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·In June of 2019 Konami released The Contra Anniversary Collection, which includes the NES version of Contra.  It receives generally positive reviews from sites such as Metacritic. 

·As of August 2021, Contra proves to be a prolific franchise; there have been 14 different Contra titles released on several different platforms since the original 1987 release. 

·The Underlying Asset is 1988 NES Contra Video Game graded Wata 9.6 A+ with certification number 580937-001. 

Notable Features

·The Underlying Asset is a 1988 NES Contra Video Game graded Wata 9.6 A+. 

·The Underlying Asset is 1 of 3 1988 NES Contra Video Games graded Wata 9.6 A+ with 2 graded higher of its variant. 

Notable Defects

·The Underlying Asset shows signs of wear consistent with its condition grade from Wata Games. 

Details

Depreciation

The Company treats Memorabilia Assets as collectible and therefore will not depreciate or amortize the Series 1988 NES Contra Video Game going forward.

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