Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)

            Series : Contra
         Developer : Konami
            Genres : Run and gun
                     Local Cooperative Gameplay
            Themes : Alien Invasion
                     Post-apocalypse

The style of this cool game is, like many other arcade games from this era, reminiscent of 80's post-apocalyptic sci fi movies, e.g. Escape from New York. There are top-down stages switching to a reasonably well-implemented multi-directional shooter that rotates the screen instead of your guy. This is the best use of Mode 7 graphics I have seen, and the gameplay actually works quite well.