This ver­sion of Contra was de­sig­ned for the Nin­ten­do En­ter­tai­nment Sys­tem (NES), which was an eight-bit vi­deo ga­me con­so­le ma­nu­fac­tu­red by Nin­10­do while in the many years 1983 - 2003. In that point, it had been the best-sel­ling vi­deo ga­me con­so­le for which mo­re than seven hundred li­cen­sed ga­me