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RfC: The Correct Name Of The Video Game (Independent Of The Article's Title)

Foreword: as the section's title indicates, this matter is completely irrelevant to the title of this Wikipedia article.

The concern right now involves the correct title of this video game. One position is C: The Contra Adventure, the other is simply The Contra Adventure. The latter is supported only by the assumption that the large ""C"" in the game's packaging case and manual is nothing more than a ""logogram"" and not part of the actual name.

There is weighted evidence that supports the notion that the official name of this video game is C: The Contra Adventure. Here is a sample of reputable sources, out of a pool of several:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/1998/09/17/c-the-contra-adventure
http://www.amazon.com/C-Contra-Adventure-Playstation/dp/B00002STIG
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/196860-c-the-contra-adventure
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0782031/
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/c-the-contra-adventure-review/1900-2546981/
http://contra.wikia.com/wiki/C_-_The_Contra_Adventure
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/C:_The_Contra_Adventure
http://www.giantbomb.com/c-the-contra-adventure/3030-7454/
http://klustr.net/contra/games/
https://contrapedia.wordpress.com/c-the-contra-adventure/
http://contra.kontek.net/games/games.htm

Further, the other games in the Contra series have a similar design to the name on their packaging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_III:_The_Alien_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra:_Hard_Corps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra:_Legacy_of_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra:_Shattered_Soldier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Corps:_Uprising

They are universally and unanimously accepted as having the colon and the text that precedes it in the official title.

The strongest evidence that supports the title of C: The Contra Adventure is present directly in the video game's instruction manual, on several pages:

http://i.imgur.com/omsJPjm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tXc3J0n.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2Tr2ySt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ON39M6v.jpg
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