Metal Slug Series

[Mister Phes]

Metal Slug... One of the greast platform games in existence. I prefer the 2D side scrolling platform games over the myriad of 3D games that have been released since the mid 90's.

Metal Slug series entered the arcade gaming scene in 1996 and became a instant classic. The first two sequels were brilliant, each better than the last. But alas, by Metal Slug 4 things began going down hill.. 5 wasn't really an improvement over 4...

They have been released on some console systems, but they're probably not quite as good as the arcade originals. Which of course can be emulated in Windows.

Has anyone played any of the Metal Slug games?

[Sarg_Kulo]

Metal Slug is ace. I was thinking about getting the GBA version.

[Mister Phes]

I haven't played the GBA version, probably becaus I don't own a GBA and I have yet to seen a Windows emulator for it.

I've seen screen shots of MS GBA and it looks like Metal Slug 5 except the levels are different. I'm curious to know what its like.

[Sarg_Kulo]

No one else play metal slug?

[Mister Phes]

I first playing Metal Slug 2 then X back in 1999 when my friend Morgs was playing it in the RMIT cafeteria arcade. We started playing two player games and I quickly became adicted. I was no good at it back then, but now I can get to the end of level 4 without dying once. Or could when I was playing it every day.

[Sarg_Kulo]

I played it in 1999 in Jersey in this arcade room. Itshared a machine with another game so after I had played it I put another 50 in only to get this otehr crappy game come up. Great.

[Mister Phes]

Cabinets sharing games? Never encountered that before! No matter, since then I've discovered MAME...

[Sarg_Kulo]

It was shared with a completly different game aswell. It was a puzzle game where you had to get some balls the same colour next to each other. Some girl trash liek that :P

[Mister Phes]

How does sharing work anyway? Not too effectively if you accidentally selected the wrong game. Unless you were that young were also too dopey to know what you were doing...

[Sarg_Kulo]

How does sharing work anyway? Not too effectively if you accidentally selected the wrong game. Unless you were that young were also too dopey to know what you were doing...

It was a combination of both I think. I was only about 7 or something.

Anyway it basiically showed a video from on game and then the other. Wateva video was playing when you put your money was the game you played.

[Mister Phes]

That doesn't sound like a reliable method of selecting the game. Were these people too cheap to afford two cabients?

[Sarg_Kulo]

That doesn't sound like a reliable method of selecting the game. Were these people too cheap to afford two cabients?

I wouldn't say too cheap, more like to lazy

[Mister Phes]

Cheap and lazy! Have these people no shame?

[Sarg_Kulo]

It was in a cheap hotle that was trying to look expensive ;)

[Mister Phes]

What were you doing in a cheap hotel? Or shouldn't I be asking?

[Sarg_Kulo]

Most expensive hotel in Jersey. It was just cheap in some places though ;)

The junk food was deeeeelicious.

Anyway metal slug owns

[Mister Phes]

And you remember this so vividly... Like it was yesterday? Or the day before?

[zero1312]

I've played every Metal Slug game except the 3D and handheld ones. ;-)

They're kickass. *wub*

[AgentRick]

Metal Slug, what a classic. Beat through the 4th one in the arcade when I was about 11 8-

[Plural]

I've wasted a lot of money on these games. And yet I still don't care. I own the anthology on my PSP and I ofen play it when I'm in a nostaligic mood.

[Brickadier General]

Definitely one of the greatest arcade game series ever. I have the 1st game for Sega Saturn and the Anthology for PSP and enjoy playing them from time to time.

[steelharbingerofdeath]

i have played all the arcade versions but i prefer the psp anthology i love the walker from metal slug five the one that can actually turn around and has:

cannon,

sword/spike,

machine gun,

turn-into-tank-when-crouch-ness,

if anyone can get me a picture of it i would love you forever. well not really but it sounds nice.

steel...

[zero1312]

i have played all the arcade versions but i prefer the psp anthology i love the walker from metal slug five the one that can actually turn around and has:

cannon,

sword/spike,

machine gun,

turn-into-tank-when-crouch-ness,

if anyone can get me a picture of it i would love you forever. well not really but it sounds nice.

steel...

Too bad they don't put more of them in the game. :-D :-D

[BlueBard]

I played MS I, II and III at that old video-games machines when I was younger and I finished the three! LOL

BTW, does anyone know where can I download it without spywares and without downloading a lot of software or things like that?

[Norrington]

Yeah, there's a skiing resort my family goes to, and it has a machine with all the Metal slug games! Very fun way to spend 20 dollars in about 30 minutes!