Contra

Contra - 1987 run and gun action game. This video game is the 771^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 389^th most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Contra” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.14 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Contra”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 908 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Contra is on the 389^th place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 771^st place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 705 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4724 in December 2011
• Global: #11069 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6788 in October 2020
• Global: #34706 in June 2008

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		66.1965
2	Indonesian (id) Contra (permainan video)		42.6494
3	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		38.6986
4	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		38.0934
5	Finnish (fi) Contra (videopeli)		32.0141
6	Japanese (ja) 魂斗羅		26.195
7	Russian (ru) Contra		24.2616
8	French (fr) Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)		23.3893
9	Vietnamese (vi) Contra (trò chơi điện tử)		23.2417
10	Portuguese (pt) Contra (jogo eletrônico)		22.6535

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Contra" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		4 335 038
2	Japanese (ja) 魂斗羅		557 457
3	Russian (ru) Contra		489 511
4	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		472 428
5	Polish (pl) Contra (gra komputerowa)		112 584
6	Italian (it) Contra (videogioco)		96 504
7	Portuguese (pt) Contra (jogo eletrônico)		85 030
8	French (fr) Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)		70 746
9	Thai (th) คอนทรา (วิดีโอเกม)		33 332
10	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		28 548

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Contra" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		15 391
2	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		1 432
3	Japanese (ja) 魂斗羅		1 290
4	Russian (ru) Contra		1 113
5	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		613
6	Simple English (simple) Contra		403
7	Portuguese (pt) Contra (jogo eletrônico)		375
8	Polish (pl) Contra (gra komputerowa)		349
9	Italian (it) Contra (videogioco)		335
10	Vietnamese (vi) Contra (trò chơi điện tử)		277

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Contra" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		364
2	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		92
3	Russian (ru) Contra		89
4	French (fr) Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)		55
5	Italian (it) Contra (videogioco)		39
6	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		35
7	Dutch (nl) Contra (arcadespel)		34
8	Polish (pl) Contra (gra komputerowa)		28
9	Czech (cs) Contra (videohra)		21
10	Ukrainian (uk) Contra		20

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Contra" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		7
2	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		1
3	Arabic (ar) كونترا (لعبة فيديو)		0
4	Czech (cs) Contra (videohra)		0
5	Greek (el) Contra (βιντεοπαιχνίδι)		0
6	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		0
7	Persian (fa) کنترا (بازی ویدئویی)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Contra (videopeli)		0
9	French (fr) Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)		0
10	Galician (gl) Contra (videoxogo)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Contra" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Contra (video game)		172
2	Japanese (ja) 魂斗羅		87
3	French (fr) Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)		69
4	Italian (it) Contra (videogioco)		56
5	Russian (ru) Contra		48
6	Spanish (es) Contra (videojuego)		35
7	Portuguese (pt) Contra (jogo eletrônico)		33
8	Ukrainian (uk) Contra		27
9	Arabic (ar) كونترا (لعبة فيديو)		22
10	Chinese (zh) 魂斗罗 (游戏)		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كونترا (لعبة فيديو)
cs	Czech Contra (videohra)
el	Greek Contra (βιντεοπαιχνίδι)
en	English Contra (video game)
es	Spanish Contra (videojuego)
fa	Persian کنترا (بازی ویدئویی)
fi	Finnish Contra (videopeli)
fr	French Probotector (jeu vidéo, 1987)
gl	Galician Contra (videoxogo)
he	Hebrew קונטרה (משחק וידאו)
hy	Armenian Contra
id	Indonesian Contra (permainan video)
it	Italian Contra (videogioco)
ja	Japanese 魂斗羅
ko	Korean 콘트라 (비디오 게임)
nl	Dutch Contra (arcadespel)
pl	Polish Contra (gra komputerowa)
pt	Portuguese Contra (jogo eletrônico)
ru	Russian Contra
simple	Simple English Contra
sv	Swedish Probotector
th	Thai คอนทรา (วิดีโอเกม)
tr	Turkish Contra (video oyunu)
uk	Ukrainian Contra
vi	Vietnamese Contra (trò chơi điện tử)
zh	Chinese 魂斗罗 (游戏)

Best Rank

Simple English: #6788 10.2020

Global: #34706 06.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #4724 12.2011

Global: #11069 11.2005

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