So the secret was using the flamethrower. No wonder I could never beat it; Contra had conditioned me into believing all flame weapons sucked.
I played this game before I saw the movie, and remember wondering why all the aliens looked the same and where were the flying and spinning and puddle ones?
Uh .. you guys do realize the entire point of an arcade game like this is to complete it on one credit? Why so much butthurt over people who play these the way they were designed? The "OMG THEY'RE SUCH LOSERS LOL" attitude is pretty pathetic.
The entire point of a game like this is to kill you a dozen or so times so you put more money in. I'm impressed, but I'm the sort of person who watches video of other people playing video games.
There were few arcade games designed to be impossible to complete on one credit. Most are very, very difficult .. but not impossible. They may seem impossible, but aren't.
5-starring my own video is a dick move, but I use MAME to play that AvP game, and it's three at once, not four like the Simpsons game. I must have an excuse, and that's it.
Predator Warrior will always be my favorite. Most versatile character in the game. Even more than the katana bitch with the charge-up Guile-esque Sonic Boom plasma-blast-cut-through-anything-attack. Even more that the guy with the robot arm who can swing a mean lead pipe.