6 months of work paid off. This was really good dude, everything about it. The editing, the voice over all of it was real good. Metal Slug is one of my favorite series happy people are still talking about it.
This series will always have a special place in my heart no matter what. 60% of my childhood in elementary school was built with playing Metal Slug games on my PSP and PS2, other than Bomberman and GTA. Now we look forward to Metal Slug Awakening!
@MyLazySundae 2d doesn't mean its outdated or old, it's an artistic choice every game has one, 2.5 is not an improvement over 2d its just another artistic choice.
@@kingwouAwakening is for new generations. New generation ‘d puke on pixel stuff. They did a great job. For nostalgic preaks we have Metal Slug Tactics and from the old Nazca, Black Finger Jet. Enjoy
As good as the originals are i found metal slug 5 soundrack to be the best. The mighty electric guitar and in general the metal tracks were immaculate.
Metal slug was an obsession for me growing up. We had a giant metal slug 2 machine at our local bowling alley. That holds a lot of my pocket money. I remember the day my friend said he had them on PC on the neo geo emulator. He became my best friend on the spot and we spent many hours playing haha. Great video, takes me back 25 years
if you say "Heavy machine gun" to any dude from any country in South America, they will smile at you and say "i love Metal Slug" is a religion in South America, we love SNK and Metal Slug
That was an industry standard practice that started back in 1979-1980 at Atari. At first, programmers weren't allowed to put any names on their games at all for fear of headhunters from rival companies. This is something programmers fought against, and in 1980, one of them decided to do something about it. A man named Warren Robinett is responsible for programming the world's first hidden easter eggs when he hid his full name in a secret room in Adventure 1980 Atari 2600. This only emboldened more to act, and several of Atari's very best game developers tried to negotiate with Atari corporate wing for better contracts and being able to attach their names to games they made. The Atari higher ups wouldn't budge an inch unfortunately. So...Larry Kaplan, Jim Leavy, David Crane, Alan Miller, and Alan Whitehead quit working at Atari to form the world's very first 3rd party *Activision. Addendum- I know this was about Japanese developers but I thought you might like to know where it all started.
@@chunkymilk Are you confused? Neo Geo is the arcade. And if you had the home unit you had the exact same experience, hardware and game that was the whole point. And why the hardware and games was so expensive Even the controller was massive and very much like the cabinet. And back then it was all CRT we played on at home so it was very similar to the cabinet.
Few things that i think no games can do is replicate the charm of Metal Slug series art style, the soundtrack, character design, enemy and boss designs, sound designs and finally it's charm. from what i've seen so far Whenever i think of Metal Slug it hurts my heart since it's one of the few arcade games i played with and remembered the most when i was younger and as much as i hate Metal Slug Attack ( the gacha game that shutdown in january 12, 2023 ) i still liked it because of the pixel art style. thanks to youtube for recomending me this and thanks for making this video
I remember playing metal slug for the first time because mortal kombat and killer instinct were both taken. Metal Slug blew my 8 year old mind and I love it to this day.
Metal Slug is my go to games when I'm in the arcade while all my other friends are busy playing KoF, SF, Virtual cop. 1 coin could last me till the last stage. Incredible video that brings back nostalgia.
My family used to go bowling every Saturday night; there was a huge alley not from my childhood home (48 lanes). The alley had a small arcade, which included a cabinet of Metal Slug X. My brother and I beat that game several dozen times during our childhood. He played as Marco Rossi, I played as Fio Germi, and we’d often spend most of the night fighting off rebels and alien octopus monsters. We only ever stopped playing because the cabinet was eventually replaced. I’m somewhat surprised to hear that Metal Slug 3 is considered the best. A Metal Slug game better than Metal Slug X would have to be literally flawless!
Metal Slug 2 was my first game, where I could get to the final mission on one credit. I didn’t even know it was the final mission. Man I was so proud when I finished it. To this day it is probably still my favorite arcade game.
I played this with my brother in Tunisia on family holidays in the hotel arcade lobby with a bunch of kids from the whole hotel in the late 90s. I remember very clearly how like 12 kids were gathered around the one arcade machine and everytime someone died, we switched the player and whoever had a Dinar (the currency), put it in the machine :D good memories
I love this series and am thrilled to have most of the games available on modern consoles. Will never forgot burning through dollars worth of quarters to play the first game over and over as a kid.
This game is still vivid in my memories, in the early 90's, as my mom takes me for groceries, I always ask her if I can go to the arcade area on the 2nd floor of the groceries store (CVC Supermarket Paso De Blas Valenzuela, Philippines) while she's doing her shopping. Since then, for me, it's been advanced hardware and a game that produces pixel art masterpieces of mayhem, while watching behind the grown-ups playing it. Such great childhood...
While It’s hard to argue that metal slug 3 isnt the magnum opus of the metal slug series, if you’ve stood at an arcade machine and played the whole game, you just can’t wait for it to be over. The last stage Seriously drags. Solid game though. Metal slug 2 is my personal favourite.
for anyone reading this: Metal Slug 1st & 2nd Mission on Neo Geo Pocket Color are low-key the best home console games in the Metal Slug series. Don't sleep on them, they're excellent!!
The book also mentioned that MS X was a much more ambitious project rather than simple remix of MS2. MSX was supposed to have branching path feature that was introduced in MS3. A lot of the levels from MS3 actually already exist in MSX's unused data files and they all thematically tie into MS1&MS2's stages. *For ex:* The winery from MS3 was meant to connect to MS1's 4th level bar and all the desert&mummy areas from MS3 were part of alternate or branching paths for MS2. You can even load these levels in an emulator using debug menu.
@@AlFonso-p6p yeah if made today it would have 'the rock' and a purple haired boss girl tht tells the rock how stupid he is every 10 mins and how she got the 'codes' or some shit from some white witch magic or something.
@@Ratkwad Yeah those days are long gone. Old school hit movies are a thing of the past. The only thing left is independent film makers and they rarely have the money to do something big like this or the rights. Besides the political garbage out there these days the new films just don't have that classic film making style anymore like before. Everything today is gonna be dark depressing blue green filtered video with CGi everything and just the lousiest professionals involved guaranteed with a PG-rating and zero blood... Even if it somehow DOES check all the boxes it'll get overlooked and end up on the NETFLIX junk collection because it never got that proper mainstream treatment... Damn...
@@AlFonso-p6p *strokes head* i know...i know...Disney only got 5 years left *strokes bro who rembers the good ol gritty days forehead*.....shit anyone reading this feel more emotion than what we getting outta 'mainstream' shit, i aint even a writer. You guys suck, and thats why yiu going broke
Great video on my favourite Neo Geo game. I used to work in arcades back in the mid 90’s to 2000. When Metal Slug hit, its humour made people talk. It was violent, yet cartoonishly. Which seemed to make it more acceptable to parents for their children to play.
As confirmed by Akio (the MS 1 - 3 pixel artist), this creature at 26:46 was going to be one of the main enemies of MS4.He wanted the plot to be underwater. However, the idea was discarded since the team split up some time later after MS3 was released.
Best action-shooter-platform ever. I just cannot believe how they managed to do everything right in the first game and managed to add new improvements. Music, gameplay even story is the best.
Metal Slug X and 3 will always be my favorite entries. Seeing the protags and rebel army work together for the first time on almost every final mission was so damn cool. And its sound bites and theme is a cult classic.
It will always have a nostalgic heart seeing this game played on PSP And other platforms , At long last , Metal Slug Awakening was released in the mobile platforms to be played !
It’s wild to think about how many quarters my brother and I must’ve sank into the Metal Slug 2&3 and Simpsons Arcade cabinets at our local Pizza Hut, when I was 6-12 or so (before they removed them entirely). It got to the point where my mom would bring a magazine to read, as she’d wait to order ‘til we either finally reached the end, needed to call it quits and run to the bathroom, or got too hungry to continue. For someone who was only there for the last gasp of arcade cabinets in the mid aughts to early tens, I still have tons of nostalgia for them. Playing games on those machines hits different. Hell - my brother and I certainly didn’t stop putting our limited kid money into those Metal Slug cabinets, even after we ended up buying the anthology; along with a lot of other arcade game collections we endlessly played at home
Honestly, brilliant. Metal Slug is the reason I bought arcade cabs, and I now have multiple cabs and every arcade iteration of MS. I’m in deep, I’m often underwhelmed by MS TH-cam videos, and I have to say that this was worth every one of those 52 minutes. Attention to detail, and clearly a lot of research and effort in here. Great stuff. Thanks!
That was amazing! I grew with Metal Slug and I played 1, X, 3 and 4 almost everyday in a nearby arcade here in Brazil. Awesome video, dude. Looking forward to the next one
I am a huge SNK fan that started playing their games long before anyone even knew what a 4-slot MVS cab was. I remember seeing Metal Slug in the arcades right as it dropped and it was love at first sight. I tried to get an AES on multiple occasions as a kid but my parents never bidged. However, by the time Metal Slug came out I had both the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation. I knew SNK was porting games over and it was only a matter of time. I got Metal Slug for my PSX the week it released and I was over the moon even though the PSX port was cut back. Finally, in 2008 I got my very first Neo Geo hardware when I stumbled onto my Neo Geo CDZ in box. I really loved it and wound up getting quiet a few games for it but I still wanted an AES. I got my AES with Samurai Shodown 2 and Ghost Pilots in 2010! From that point forward I started buying AES games like crazy. I was able to get both Metal Slug and Metal Slug X for a cool 150 bucks in late 2010...try that one today. I now own the entire series across multiple consoles. Thank you for making this video. Fun Fact- The Neo Geo Pocket was more powerful than the GameBoy or GameBoy Color. It had a clone 68K 16-bit processor and Zilog Z-80 8-bit co-processor just like the AES/MVS/CDZ. Why SNK didn't try to emulate their arcade games more closely I'll never know.
I love Metal Slug4 and 5. They're so opposed and opposite, but 4 has such tight bosses and level design, and the transformations often mix things up in fun ways, and 5's level design is rad as heck
Metal slug was make me who i am right now . I still remember it when im still kid play it on ps and until now still play it again and again . Even now i have new game that good on battle and gun fight , metal slug was still number one in my live.
Marvelous Retrospective about the Series! I've played the Series even originally on Arcades back at my Hometown spending A LOT of Quarters (MS1-3) While MS1 and 2 were doable, I've spent a lot more on MS3 especially on the Zombie Level with the final Boss :D I regard MS3 still as the pinnacle of the Series (Although the "Final Attack Theme" of MS5 is the best Version which was even picked solely for KoF15!) There were some details though you probably forgot to mention or didn't see as important: -Being Fat: The Weapons morphed too when you were fat by changing slightly their Properties like MG having "round" big sprites when shot covering more space or Laser Beam being more "thick" -Slug Suicide Attack: Slugs could do a Suicide Attack where the player char gets thrown out and the slug crashes into the first enemy with explosion (Camel just bites and then runs away ^^). Due to the Combination you had to input (A+B) it could sometimes lead to misinput when you shoot and jump with your Tank and then initiate Suicide Attack -Ralf's Vulcan Punch: Ralf can also do the "Vulcan Punch" which even could do heavy damage on Tanks with few punches! All in all you did a fine job presenting one of the best "Run 'n Gun" Game Series of all Time. You're dismissed now :D
Metal slug 3 was the first one of these i ever played and it was so fucking cool. I vividly remember that the hotel i was in for a skiing trip ages ago had a ps2 setup like an arcade machine, with one of the games on there being Metal Slug 3. The console didnt have a save card in it, so every time the console was shut down it was back to square one. This meant that most of my free time during the trip at that console, having an great time, until sometime into the second week of the trip i finally managed to get to the final mission. I was so suprised and excited when after you first fight the general shit starts going down, your character gets kidnapped and you blast up into space with the awesome music blaring all the way up. When the music for that mission came on in the video it was such a rush hearing it again. I fucking love all of these games and i would commit unspeakable acts to once again be that kid glued to the screen of the arcade machine as if there wasnt anything more important in the world at that moment. Of course, my parents were less than thrilled when i came to them bragging that i finished the violent shooter game on the arcade machine, but cant win em all i quess. But yeah.. TLDR: Metal Slug is fucking awesome.
I remember when I was on grade school and after I got home... i just put down my bag, grab some coins from my moms coins jar and speed away to the nearest arcade where in that time it only cost Php 1.00 (around US$0.03) per credit. with US$0.40, i was able to play through out the campaign at first since im not good at this type of games. i missed those days with arcades around and hanging out with my friends
I play this game all the time when I was little, and goddamn did this video give me nostalgia for it. Thanks so much, SNK. You made a game that's truly deserving of the title of one of the classics of gaming!!!!
metal slug, and honestly every SNK game in the arcades + capcom arcades, is where I spend most of my free time as a kid, even when I don't have the money to play, it's always fun to just watch others play
25:00 will always be one of the best and most surprising moments in my arcade gaming ever. MS3 is one of my favorite games. And congratulations for such a great job with this amazing retrospective. Very informative with rich content for every entry ~ ✌️
great video dude, lm surprised it doesnt have thousands or millions of views already! You certainly deserve them. MS is one of the games that played during my whole teen age and adult years and l learned a lot about it just with the first 10 minutes of your video. Perfect speech and you go straight to the point and none of that sentimentalistic or dorky or nostalgic tone some youtubers seems to fake many times, men gets me cranky lol Anyways, keep it up men you got much talent for this The only think it lacked, or at least l didnt heard it, is who made the music
Six months of work? It shows. Damn this is one of the best researched retrospectives I've seen. With the quotes from the interviews, a synopsis of the stories.. everything. I really liked the part when you mentioned the prototype neo geo catching fire and the staff asking if the ram was fine but not the developer right in front.
Metal Slug is one of my favorite series, first one i played was X and it was kinf of reluctantly, but as i played it, i loved it and didn't drop it since, this year i just finished the Anthology. Wish there were more of to come.
cant forget that it also greatly contributed as inspiration for many flashgames, things like commando from miniclip, intrusion1 and 2, broforce, alien hominid and others! truly some gems!
8:42 "Set in the far future of 2028..." huh? So you're saying we are 5 years away from being invaded by the Rebel Army? Great retrospective btw. Have alot of nostalgia with Metal Slug lol.
As an SNK fan, I’m loving this video! Great work! I also had no idea that the creators of Metal Slug also created Neo Turf Masters! That game is slept on and strangely fun. I became a big SNK fan because of the fighting games, but I also discovered many other colorful and unique shooting games and others.
What a great retrospective of Metal Slug, without a doubt it shows all the interest and affection that you took in the series, take that break since going through all the 2D games is exhausting so you definitely leave a great documentary, Since you mention Aruze and his low blow that he did to SNK, Metal Slug is a beloved series for those of us who grew up with arcades, here in Mexico it was popular to the point that it had its space in every arcade room, pharmacy, shopping center and place where there was a "maquinita" since that's what we called the arcades, thanks for the hard work, rest assured soldier your mission complete.
Great video. I’ve always loved Metal Slug. In high school, the local college had “Free Play” at their arcade on Friday nights. They tuned all the arcade games to be free for a few hours for $20. My buddy and I spent about an hour on Metal Slug. After about a million deaths, we finally beat the whole thing.
The original lineup of my humble local arcade was TMNT, Simpsons, Dark Seal, Moonwalker and POW. I never really played POW much over the others, but I did beat it once before it was phased out or broke down. They added Metal Slug after a couple of years and that's how I came to know about it.
The first retrospective took me 2 days to get through via supplementing it with full playthroughs recorded by other creatives. Huge kudos, incredible job done 😁🎉
Watching this in anticipation of metal slug tactics! I've only played a handful of metal slug games but I knew there was an interesting history to it all, thank you for this incredibly crafted retrospective!
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6 months of work paid off.
This was really good dude, everything about it. The editing, the voice over all of it was real good.
Metal Slug is one of my favorite series happy people are still talking about it.
This series will always have a special place in my heart no matter what. 60% of my childhood in elementary school was built with playing Metal Slug games on my PSP and PS2, other than Bomberman and GTA. Now we look forward to Metal Slug Awakening!
Metal Slug Awakening look soulless tho, pixel art is a crucial part of metal slug identity, thing Awakening doesn't seem to apprehend
i remember even playing metal slug on the snk arcade machines they had at mcdonalds
@MyLazySundae 2d doesn't mean its outdated or old, it's an artistic choice every game has one, 2.5 is not an improvement over 2d its just another artistic choice.
@@kingwouAwakening is for new generations. New generation ‘d puke on pixel stuff. They did a great job. For nostalgic preaks we have Metal Slug Tactics and from the old Nazca, Black Finger Jet. Enjoy
pssssh.... playing on a PSP? I use to play this on a cabinet as a kid and spent so many quarters doing so...... 💀
Metal Slug's soundtrack really gets you in the zone for these fights. Hearing that sick guitar riff or the classic final battle song.
As good as the originals are i found metal slug 5 soundrack to be the best. The mighty electric guitar and in general the metal tracks were immaculate.
This is one game I NEVER get bored. Ever. The graphics and art style, the controls, the fun factor is just so accessible and easy to pick up and play.
At the end, can't forget Commando from Miniclip!
I managed to complete X with no deaths back in the day. It felt amazing!
Every Mexican kid played this religiously
When I lived in Mexico in the early 00s the only arcade games I ever saw kids playing were Metal Slug, KoF or Snow Bros
Make it most of latam, i grew up in venezuela, the metal slug machine was my favorite
No only mexican, all latinoamerican kid 😎👍
Yeah.......... at the laundry mat.....😅😅😅😅😂😂
@@sheogorath-the-incrazy laundry mat?? in Mexico??
Metal slug was an obsession for me growing up. We had a giant metal slug 2 machine at our local bowling alley. That holds a lot of my pocket money. I remember the day my friend said he had them on PC on the neo geo emulator. He became my best friend on the spot and we spent many hours playing haha. Great video, takes me back 25 years
if you say "Heavy machine gun" to any dude from any country in South America, they will smile at you and say "i love Metal Slug"
is a religion in South America, we love SNK and Metal Slug
Anywhere in Latin America my dude! ❤
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One of the most beautiful looking and best playing games of all time as evidenced by the number of versions/ports.
The idea of crediting your employees under pseudonyms so that rival companies won't know who they are and can't offer them better jobs is wild.
That was an industry standard practice that started back in 1979-1980 at Atari. At first, programmers weren't allowed to put any names on their games at all for fear of headhunters from rival companies. This is something programmers fought against, and in 1980, one of them decided to do something about it.
A man named Warren Robinett is responsible for programming the world's first hidden easter eggs when he hid his full name in a secret room in Adventure 1980 Atari 2600. This only emboldened more to act, and several of Atari's very best game developers tried to negotiate with Atari corporate wing for better contracts and being able to attach their names to games they made. The Atari higher ups wouldn't budge an inch unfortunately. So...Larry Kaplan, Jim Leavy, David Crane, Alan Miller, and Alan Whitehead quit working at Atari to form the world's very first 3rd party *Activision.
Addendum- I know this was about Japanese developers but I thought you might like to know where it all started.
@@Sinn0100 Very interesting, thank you.
@@connor3284
No worries my friend.
Wasn’t it also a thing in Japan as in America as well
They did it with Castlevania too. The credits were weird names like D. Acula etc.
To play these games in the 90s on a neo geo must have been amazing
Fr the pixel at is just 🤌
why? it's better in the arcade.
@@chunkymilk Are you confused? Neo Geo is the arcade.
And if you had the home unit you had the exact same experience, hardware and game that was the whole point.
And why the hardware and games was so expensive
Even the controller was massive and very much like the cabinet.
And back then it was all CRT we played on at home so it was very similar to the cabinet.
Yes it was… yes it was.
Arcade was more fun. Same with all the capcom games.
Few things that i think no games can do is replicate the charm of Metal Slug series art style, the soundtrack, character design, enemy and boss designs, sound designs and finally it's charm. from what i've seen so far
Whenever i think of Metal Slug it hurts my heart since it's one of the few arcade games i played with and remembered the most when i was younger and as much as i hate Metal Slug Attack ( the gacha game that shutdown in january 12, 2023 ) i still liked it because of the pixel art style.
thanks to youtube for recomending me this and thanks for making this video
Man I love Metal Slug so much. I still have a Playstation 2 and the Metal Slug Anthology so I can always play this masterpiece of a series.
Damn, massive Metroidvania-genre game set in Metal Slug universe would be pretty awesome...
I remember playing metal slug for the first time because mortal kombat and killer instinct were both taken. Metal Slug blew my 8 year old mind and I love it to this day.
Metal Slug is my go to games when I'm in the arcade while all my other friends are busy playing KoF, SF, Virtual cop. 1 coin could last me till the last stage. Incredible video that brings back nostalgia.
Great retrospective. The old Neo Geo era is legendary, especially Metal Slug.
My family used to go bowling every Saturday night; there was a huge alley not from my childhood home (48 lanes).
The alley had a small arcade, which included a cabinet of Metal Slug X. My brother and I beat that game several dozen times during our childhood. He played as Marco Rossi, I played as Fio Germi, and we’d often spend most of the night fighting off rebels and alien octopus monsters. We only ever stopped playing because the cabinet was eventually replaced.
I’m somewhat surprised to hear that Metal Slug 3 is considered the best. A Metal Slug game better than Metal Slug X would have to be literally flawless!
3 is not the best. It's as good or almost as good as 1 and X. Those 3 are still by far the best mainline entries.
Incredible video man...idk how tf this channel hasn't blown up like a rocket lawnchair !
"Lawnchair" 😂
@@travisedwards3543avy machinga
Here, let me help with that :)
(Subs and pulls out a lawn chair)
now that’s a reference I haven’t heard in a long time lol
Yes, great video!!
That neo geo startup jingle is soooo good.
Always reminds me of french fries (the fry spot had a cab) and my neo cd/z playing days. Still have my cdz.
The metal slug franchise is nothing short of legendary and revisting one of my childhood games reminded me of awesome arcade game could be
Metal Slug 2 was my first game, where I could get to the final mission on one credit. I didn’t even know it was the final mission. Man I was so proud when I finished it. To this day it is probably still my favorite arcade game.
Metal Slug will always have a special place in my heart
This is the Best Metal Slug Retrospective Video I Seen!
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I played this with my brother in Tunisia on family holidays in the hotel arcade lobby with a bunch of kids from the whole hotel in the late 90s. I remember very clearly how like 12 kids were gathered around the one arcade machine and everytime someone died, we switched the player and whoever had a Dinar (the currency), put it in the machine :D good memories
I love this series and am thrilled to have most of the games available on modern consoles.
Will never forgot burning through dollars worth of quarters to play the first game over and over as a kid.
This series is a gem and always have a place in my heart
Metal Slug is the GOAT run & gun game.
the 3rd game being my favorite, hard as balls to the wall!!!
This game is still vivid in my memories, in the early 90's, as my mom takes me for groceries, I always ask her if I can go to the arcade area on the 2nd floor of the groceries store (CVC Supermarket Paso De Blas Valenzuela, Philippines) while she's doing her shopping. Since then, for me, it's been advanced hardware and a game that produces pixel art masterpieces of mayhem, while watching behind the grown-ups playing it. Such great childhood...
While It’s hard to argue that metal slug 3 isnt the magnum opus of the metal slug series, if you’ve stood at an arcade machine and played the whole game, you just can’t wait for it to be over. The last stage Seriously drags. Solid game though. Metal slug 2 is my personal favourite.
Metal slug will always have a special place in my heart. The game is like a lovechild of the 16bit and 32bit era which is my fav era of gaming.
for anyone reading this: Metal Slug 1st & 2nd Mission on Neo Geo Pocket Color are low-key the best home console games in the Metal Slug series. Don't sleep on them, they're excellent!!
As was Metal Slug Advance which is technically Metal Slug 3rd Mission, just not on NeoGeo Pocket Color.
Up until now I thought I was a huge fan of MS, but I had no idea of how little I actually knew about the series. Well done. Big thumbs up.
Right! We are bad fans of metal slug
Definitely a criminally underrated and overlooked game series!…. I especially miss Metal Slug Attack! I enjoyed playing that on my phone!
It's back ! 🙏🙏🙏
It's back ! 🙏🙏🙏
The book also mentioned that MS X was a much more ambitious project rather than simple remix of MS2. MSX was supposed to have branching path feature that was introduced in MS3. A lot of the levels from MS3 actually already exist in MSX's unused data files and they all thematically tie into MS1&MS2's stages. *For ex:* The winery from MS3 was meant to connect to MS1's 4th level bar and all the desert&mummy areas from MS3 were part of alternate or branching paths for MS2. You can even load these levels in an emulator using debug menu.
Leona is also an Ikari Warrior, she is the adopted daughter of General Heindern
it's crazy how it got ported to newer platforms like the PS2 before even being retro. it just works
A metal slug movie woukd kick ass, its what we need now!
...if the movie was made today... 😐👎
If it was made in the 80s-2000s 😁👍👍👍👍
@@AlFonso-p6p yeah if made today it would have 'the rock' and a purple haired boss girl tht tells the rock how stupid he is every 10 mins and how she got the 'codes' or some shit from some white witch magic or something.
@@Ratkwad Yeah those days are long gone. Old school hit movies are a thing of the past. The only thing left is independent film makers and they rarely have the money to do something big like this or the rights.
Besides the political garbage out there these days the new films just don't have that classic film making style anymore like before. Everything today is gonna be dark depressing blue green filtered video with CGi everything and just the lousiest professionals involved guaranteed with a PG-rating and zero blood...
Even if it somehow DOES check all the boxes it'll get overlooked and end up on the NETFLIX junk collection because it never got that proper mainstream treatment... Damn...
@@AlFonso-p6p *strokes head* i know...i know...Disney only got 5 years left *strokes bro who rembers the good ol gritty days forehead*.....shit anyone reading this feel more emotion than what we getting outta 'mainstream' shit, i aint even a writer. You guys suck, and thats why yiu going broke
Love that you let gameplay and music roll out without commentary. Too rare in game videos
Great video on my favourite Neo Geo game. I used to work in arcades back in the mid 90’s to 2000. When Metal Slug hit, its humour made people talk. It was violent, yet cartoonishly. Which seemed to make it more acceptable to parents for their children to play.
As confirmed by Akio (the MS 1 - 3 pixel artist), this creature at 26:46 was going to be one of the main enemies of MS4.He wanted the plot to be underwater. However, the idea was discarded since the team split up some time later after MS3 was released.
Best action-shooter-platform ever. I just cannot believe how they managed to do everything right in the first game and managed to add new improvements. Music, gameplay even story is the best.
Metal Slug X and 3 will always be my favorite entries. Seeing the protags and rebel army work together for the first time on almost every final mission was so damn cool. And its sound bites and theme is a cult classic.
Thanx this brought me back in time to the first time I ran in to this arcade in the late 90s
14:51 . Left shop is called "Food poisoning Restaurant" and the one on the right "Sek without a job" Totally missed that as a child.
Nice retrospective, this series will have a very special place in my heart, it's tha game that hooked me into gaming itself on a PS2 of all things XD
It will always have a nostalgic heart seeing this game played on PSP And other platforms ,
At long last , Metal Slug Awakening was released in the mobile platforms to be played !
That Neo Geo start up sound will forever live in my heart.
It’s wild to think about how many quarters my brother and I must’ve sank into the Metal Slug 2&3 and Simpsons Arcade cabinets at our local Pizza Hut, when I was 6-12 or so (before they removed them entirely). It got to the point where my mom would bring a magazine to read, as she’d wait to order ‘til we either finally reached the end, needed to call it quits and run to the bathroom, or got too hungry to continue.
For someone who was only there for the last gasp of arcade cabinets in the mid aughts to early tens, I still have tons of nostalgia for them. Playing games on those machines hits different. Hell - my brother and I certainly didn’t stop putting our limited kid money into those Metal Slug cabinets, even after we ended up buying the anthology; along with a lot of other arcade game collections we endlessly played at home
Great work man. Metal slug 1-3 holds fond memories with me from my local sports centre arcade machine 👍🏼😊
This was an excellent video - Metal Slug has a special place in my heart.
Man, what a nostalgia trip, I grew up with this series.
Amazing work!
Honestly, brilliant.
Metal Slug is the reason I bought arcade cabs, and I now have multiple cabs and every arcade iteration of MS. I’m in deep, I’m often underwhelmed by MS TH-cam videos, and I have to say that this was worth every one of those 52 minutes. Attention to detail, and clearly a lot of research and effort in here. Great stuff. Thanks!
That was amazing! I grew with Metal Slug and I played 1, X, 3 and 4 almost everyday in a nearby arcade here in Brazil. Awesome video, dude. Looking forward to the next one
I remember one of the arcade games as a kid then had the anthology on one of my consoles, hell yea brother
I am a huge SNK fan that started playing their games long before anyone even knew what a 4-slot MVS cab was. I remember seeing Metal Slug in the arcades right as it dropped and it was love at first sight. I tried to get an AES on multiple occasions as a kid but my parents never bidged.
However, by the time Metal Slug came out I had both the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation. I knew SNK was porting games over and it was only a matter of time. I got Metal Slug for my PSX the week it released and I was over the moon even though the PSX port was cut back.
Finally, in 2008 I got my very first Neo Geo hardware when I stumbled onto my Neo Geo CDZ in box. I really loved it and wound up getting quiet a few games for it but I still wanted an AES. I got my AES with Samurai Shodown 2 and Ghost Pilots in 2010! From that point forward I started buying AES games like crazy. I was able to get both Metal Slug and Metal Slug X for a cool 150 bucks in late 2010...try that one today. I now own the entire series across multiple consoles. Thank you for making this video.
Fun Fact- The Neo Geo Pocket was more powerful than the GameBoy or GameBoy Color. It had a clone 68K 16-bit processor and Zilog Z-80 8-bit co-processor just like the AES/MVS/CDZ. Why SNK didn't try to emulate their arcade games more closely I'll never know.
I love Metal Slug4 and 5. They're so opposed and opposite, but 4 has such tight bosses and level design, and the transformations often mix things up in fun ways, and 5's level design is rad as heck
Metal slug was make me who i am right now . I still remember it when im still kid play it on ps and until now still play it again and again . Even now i have new game that good on battle and gun fight , metal slug was still number one in my live.
Marvelous Retrospective about the Series!
I've played the Series even originally on Arcades back at my Hometown spending A LOT of Quarters (MS1-3)
While MS1 and 2 were doable, I've spent a lot more on MS3 especially on the Zombie Level with the final Boss :D
I regard MS3 still as the pinnacle of the Series (Although the "Final Attack Theme" of MS5 is the best Version which was even picked solely for KoF15!)
There were some details though you probably forgot to mention or didn't see as important:
-Being Fat: The Weapons morphed too when you were fat by changing slightly their Properties like MG having "round" big sprites when shot covering more space or Laser Beam being more "thick"
-Slug Suicide Attack: Slugs could do a Suicide Attack where the player char gets thrown out and the slug crashes into the first enemy with explosion (Camel just bites and then runs away ^^). Due to the Combination you had to input (A+B) it could sometimes lead to misinput when you shoot and jump with your Tank and then initiate Suicide Attack
-Ralf's Vulcan Punch: Ralf can also do the "Vulcan Punch" which even could do heavy damage on Tanks with few punches!
All in all you did a fine job presenting one of the best "Run 'n Gun" Game Series of all Time. You're dismissed now :D
Metal slug 3 was the first one of these i ever played and it was so fucking cool.
I vividly remember that the hotel i was in for a skiing trip ages ago had a ps2 setup like an arcade machine, with one of the games on there being Metal Slug 3.
The console didnt have a save card in it, so every time the console was shut down it was back to square one. This meant that most of my free time during the trip at that console, having an great time, until sometime into the second week of the trip i finally managed to get to the final mission. I was so suprised and excited when after you first fight the general shit starts going down, your character gets kidnapped and you blast up into space with the awesome music blaring all the way up.
When the music for that mission came on in the video it was such a rush hearing it again. I fucking love all of these games and i would commit unspeakable acts to once again be that kid glued to the screen of the arcade machine as if there wasnt anything more important in the world at that moment.
Of course, my parents were less than thrilled when i came to them bragging that i finished the violent shooter game on the arcade machine, but cant win em all i quess.
But yeah..
TLDR: Metal Slug is fucking awesome.
MS2 is the real deal that gets remembered for ages, specially in its X version
I remember when I was on grade school and after I got home... i just put down my bag, grab some coins from my moms coins jar and speed away to the nearest arcade where in that time it only cost Php 1.00 (around US$0.03) per credit. with US$0.40, i was able to play through out the campaign at first since im not good at this type of games. i missed those days with arcades around and hanging out with my friends
Here in the US it was .25 per credit...
Great retrospective! All your months of hard work really show, keep it up! 👍🏼
I can still remember the tap of the arcade buttons and shake of the machine from the joystick lol
I play this game all the time when I was little, and goddamn did this video give me nostalgia for it. Thanks so much, SNK. You made a game that's truly deserving of the title of one of the classics of gaming!!!!
metal slug, and honestly every SNK game in the arcades + capcom arcades, is where I spend most of my free time as a kid, even when I don't have the money to play, it's always fun to just watch others play
25:00 will always be one of the best and most surprising moments in my arcade gaming ever. MS3 is one of my favorite games.
And congratulations for such a great job with this amazing retrospective. Very informative with rich content for every entry ~ ✌️
I absolutely love this series, thanks for making this video i have no idea how i didn't get it recommended before
This is an amazing, indepth retrospective.
PEACE FOREVER!
Awesome job ! I love me some Metal Slug, I didn't even know that 3D one for PS2 existed lol Might check it out for the lulz.
Metal slug is a legendary series, it deserved a legendary review, glad you did it !
great video dude, lm surprised it doesnt have thousands or millions of views already! You certainly deserve them.
MS is one of the games that played during my whole teen age and adult years and l learned a lot about it just with the first 10 minutes of your video. Perfect speech and you go straight to the point and none of that sentimentalistic or dorky or nostalgic tone some youtubers seems to fake many times, men gets me cranky lol
Anyways, keep it up men you got much talent for this
The only think it lacked, or at least l didnt heard it, is who made the music
Six months of work? It shows. Damn this is one of the best researched retrospectives I've seen. With the quotes from the interviews, a synopsis of the stories.. everything.
I really liked the part when you mentioned the prototype neo geo catching fire and the staff asking if the ram was fine but not the developer right in front.
Amazing video, I have so much nostalgia for metal slug, my favourite arcade game series of all time
Metal Slug is one of my favorite series, first one i played was X and it was kinf of reluctantly, but as i played it, i loved it and didn't drop it since, this year i just finished the Anthology. Wish there were more of to come.
What an incredible video. Watched the whole thing and I *thought* I knew everything about Metal Slug but I was wrong! Thanks for all your work!
cant forget that it also greatly contributed as inspiration for many flashgames, things like commando from miniclip, intrusion1 and 2, broforce, alien hominid and others! truly some gems!
This is an interesting video, for some reason I always thought Metal Slug was a uniquely 90s thing, with its first game releasing much earlier than 96
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"Set in the far future of 2028..." huh?
So you're saying we are 5 years away from being invaded by the Rebel Army?
Great retrospective btw. Have alot of nostalgia with Metal Slug lol.
Omg i've been looking for the name of "Kung Fu Master" forever. I loved that game. Thanks
I've had so much fun with Metal Slug 4.
We constantly sat in front of the tv.
I love how you use all the osts perfectly in videos, and you got my sub
Metal Slug will always be a Legendary Coin Arcade Game to all Players who Played it ...
Thanks for being so informative and time that you spent to bring all the good memories back,
This is awesome quality content. Really loved the vid. Well done.
You win! For making this documentary
Metal slug was the first arcade game I ever played as a kid growing up. I can still smell the laundry detergent every time I play it :)
As an SNK fan, I’m loving this video! Great work! I also had no idea that the creators of Metal Slug also created Neo Turf Masters! That game is slept on and strangely fun. I became a big SNK fan because of the fighting games, but I also discovered many other colorful and unique shooting games and others.
What a great retrospective of Metal Slug, without a doubt it shows all the interest and affection that you took in the series, take that break since going through all the 2D games is exhausting so you definitely leave a great documentary, Since you mention Aruze and his low blow that he did to SNK, Metal Slug is a beloved series for those of us who grew up with arcades, here in Mexico it was popular to the point that it had its space in every arcade room, pharmacy, shopping center and place where there was a "maquinita" since that's what we called the arcades, thanks for the hard work, rest assured soldier your mission complete.
Great video. I’ve always loved Metal Slug. In high school, the local college had “Free Play” at their arcade on Friday nights. They tuned all the arcade games to be free for a few hours for $20. My buddy and I spent about an hour on Metal Slug. After about a million deaths, we finally beat the whole thing.
This was absolutely excellent . Thanks for the video, you’ll keep growing big with content this good
The original lineup of my humble local arcade was TMNT, Simpsons, Dark Seal, Moonwalker and POW. I never really played POW much over the others, but I did beat it once before it was phased out or broke down. They added Metal Slug after a couple of years and that's how I came to know about it.
This was great. Loved seeing all the concept art. Subscribed
Appreciate the effort that went into this, it added a huge amount of context to the games and the company. Thanks man.
The first retrospective took me 2 days to get through via supplementing it with full playthroughs recorded by other creatives. Huge kudos, incredible job done 😁🎉
Man this series was one of the highlights of my childhood,this was a joy to watch on this,you deserve tons of success my man, great job.
Amazing video! I've been a huge Metal Slug fan for a long time and to see people acknowledging the art of it, really warms my heart.
Watching this in anticipation of metal slug tactics! I've only played a handful of metal slug games but I knew there was an interesting history to it all, thank you for this incredibly crafted retrospective!