Metal Slug: The Complete History - SGR 

Needless to say 2 is my favorite.

that clinic was awesome tho

What was more crippling, the surgical operation, or the slowdown in the game?

MrKaintar I Was Born A Gamer

MrKaintar Wow! You couldn't say a single word for days you had surgery? What happened?

i see what you did there nice one XD

SamS dz I did a spit take when I read this

ماهمتكش !! بصح درتلك جام

SamS dz Well done.

The METAL REAR (It's an actual boss, too!)

Yeah except it runs at half the speed of most 2d platformers 30hz as opposed to 60hz and in Australia and europe on Pal screens it Runs at 25hz so its not perfect and they still havent made it a locked 60hz after all these years.

@@MrSammersELsoho Who cares?

@@MrSammersELsoho i preffer that over the Metal slug 2's slideshow.

My 12-year-old son discovered Metal Slug 3 in a local ice cream shop that features and small arcade of classic games and pinball. And he was completely in love and fascinated with the pixel art. He declared it a masterpiece. We got the SNK port for the Playstation to explore all the alternative routes and got the soundtrack. 22 years later and this game is making fans of people not even born when it came out.

I'm sorry but you failed at not sounding obsessed.

why not, the SV looked cool anyway

Wardner213 no shame in that

getting tattoos are dumb anyway so it's not like metal slug tank tatoo is the worst thing to get...

I have the H of the machinegun tattooed on my arm

the biggest porblem with 5 is that it never was finished completely. A shit ton of the game was cut including several bosses, one of them called "Stone Turtle". so basically to put it in perspective, the last boss you fight in the game was supposed to be the last phase, the rest was cut. The bosses are even referenced in the MGD/MGA games.

@@petkofuchalski9809 I always felt the game had weird pace. In level 4, for example, you're underwater and at the end of the level, without any warning, you end up in a desert fighting a boss lol.

While I do agree, the first four games are the best, I also think that the other games, while not as good as the first few, are still great games and in all are still Metal Slug experiences.

What? 7 was fucking awesome!

Metal slug 5 was the start of a new era if it was not rushed and not finished completely it could've not say it would but it could've been the best metal slug

going to have to get metal slug 7 at some point, i have the wii metal slug anthology :-)

+DavCube its so good isnt it lol

ÀAAAAAAHHHH FUCK I HATE IT!!! it NEVER ENDS!!! NEVER!!

It's half of the entire length of the game.

It's a nightmare in single player

it's funny, because it breaks the tradition of having 6 missions, but then ends up having 2 halves and effectively being mission 5 and 6 anyway

+Flint Dragoon coukdnt agree more. Plus the ending is great

Daniel Ibbertson defiantly a climatic ending. i'm fairly somewhat new to the game series but enjoy it with 50% tv scanlines start to finish, such an enjoyable game, gotton pretty good at saving the pow's need to die a lot less though :)

Mission 4 has 4 routes, the best

Holy shit throwback to when Anime Expo was still open (it was postponed this year due to the pandemic) but hopefully next year Anime Expo and Socalretrogamingexpo would be open again because it's been so long since anyone has gone out 😭

that's actually really awesome :)

@@Abel-Alvarez how was it a throwback if it was obviously going to come back once the virus stopped being as prominent...?

Hang in there, brother.

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I am so grateful that video have helped you through the hard times buddy :) I hope everything starts sorting itself out for you mate | Much love from me :D

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Utsukushi-Kun I say Jesus Christ. Just like 100s are currently healing all types of sicknesses all over youtube. Go watch Steve Cabrerra Jr, Tom Loud and those guys...they do it all the time.

+Strain42 haha awesome dtuff thanks guyd

Same here. I still have a fan-boy crush on Fio.

COMEouttaTHEfuknCORNER! Emulators are perfectly legal. Downloading ROMs you don’t the physical version of is.

00000000 11111111 upvote for knowing your shit boss

War Duke Ah, shock troopers.

Wait' wasun't the "Metal Gear" a giant ass mech?

Both Marco and Snake are trying to retire but are denied of it. Coincidence?

@@ahikampasion63 Damn. This is an ancient comment, so I'm just gonna put that out and leave.

nah im just gonna emulate it

Sonic Ace 24 - TBF, all these console versions are running the game through emulation.

Guernicaman That was unexpected.

Note: please stay away from the Anthology Collection for PC. The publishers for SNK Playmore went long out of business and like all things digital there is no way to get around the DRM.

Thanks ever so much. That's exactly what I go for

Relax and bullet hell don't sound right in the same sentence

It makes the slowdown in Gradius III and Super R-Type look like a joke in comparison. What's really insulting is that the Metal Slug games only run at 30fps to begin with. The speed then gets reduced to 15fps when it slows down, (it should be 20fps because 60/3, but there's a bug in the already terrible code that halts the game for an extra frame) which is about Super FX framerate. The similar Gun Force 2 (not "Geo Force 2") at least targets 60fps. It was on slightly more powerful hardware, but there is also much more action.

blog.system11.org/?p=1442 There's a fix for Metal Slug 2 that greatly improves the speed. I burned an Eeprom and put it in my actual cartridge- but it's probably just as easy to use that rom and use it in an emu I'd wager.

RedHotHero how to do it with Roms!? I have the steam version plz help

the slowdown makes the game much easier even though the game is easy already

I disagree, it's mainly a 1 player game, if you want to fight other people, upgrade your stuff by saving POWs and spending MSC you gained on battles and medals for new units, the campaigns are not bad.

@@SirDavid290 For real, Metal Slug Defense is great, and it rewards you even when you're not paying for stuff.

Yeah, i don't get it with Metal Slug Attack.

+Kevin Edwards REALLY glad this comment exists. Thank you x1000

+Shawn Lov ahhhhhh thanks shawn

Second?

66! ;)

Cheater.

+Daniel lbbertson LMAO!!XD....clever!!.XD!!

Hey man, love this channel. Some of your videos are basically my childhood. In fact, I remember getting Earthworm Jim and Comix Zone on Xmas one year. I also got Contra Hard Corps though. Best Xmas ever. Anyway, judging by your adoration of pixel art, If you haven't seen the Shakedown Hawaii trailers yet, check them out. It is the sequel to Retro City Rampage...minus all the references and with a Neo Geo art style. Looks incredible, and Brian Provinciano (the creator( supports his games with improvements for years after release.

its bullet hell game, thats the point, try some bullet hell game, thats even crazier

+Shashank 235 they are fantastic 4 sure

The PSP Metal Slug anthology can be downloaded to your Vita from the PSN store and it works/looks great

Yeah, but it's only on the American store. For some reason.

Sorry, I didn't realize that. Well if you have a PS4 you can purchase the anthology there on PSN, at least here in the States. Metal Slug 3 is also across buy between the PS4, PS3 and Vita here in the States. Hopefully you have at least one of those options in Europe.

just emulate it

but my portability

+Jesse Rangel ahhhhdude thats so kind, im so chuffdya kids enjoy the videos :) hope they like gunstar heroes too... ;) #WatchThisSpace

If you own a PS2 or Wii, you owe it to yourself to get the anthology. (among plenty of other SNK compilations of the time.) Actually, it's also on PSN for the PS4 as well.

+Haohmaru HL he probably playing with gunstar heroes

Mame

+Gene Starwind ahhhh wow thats awesome, if metal slug doesnt get you into retro snk gaming.... Nothing will

+Donald Morden II i would do the same for this comment

+Sean Wilkinson hope you like splatterhouse n dd:) this videi took ages to make but im really proud of it. Huge thanks for such an awesome comment mate

Daniel Ibbertson: You are most welcome. Thank you for the effort you put into researching and creating the video, especially in getting a complete list of the game's many iterations! I had no idea how many Metal Slug titles there were. The same laud and kudos apply equally to the other two videos. Great work! I decided to watch this again today, and the beginning made me think about how we've all said "this particular arcade game/home game system/XX-bit generation/level of interactivity is the apex of video gaming; nothing will ever top it". That thought sparked a thread of a memory... Long before Computer Space and Pong were but gleams in their creators' eyes, Preston Blair, an MGM/Tex Avery and Disney animator, and author of some great how-to-draw books like "How To Animate Film Cartoons", had an equally grand and innovative idea as theirs, perhaps grander still for Blair's time. I've tried but have not yet found the paragraph I need to be correct about Blair's notion. It should be somewhere, in a PDF of one of his books. Until I do find it, I hope that memory serves me well. The paragraph is a footnote in one of his books from the late '50s or early '60s. Again, if I'm correct, Blair mentioned that he and others had thought of, or were planning on, using animation of human characters to make an interactive tennis game that would be played on television screens. Animators like him would create some kind of databank of moves, poses, gestures, etc. for two onscreen tennis players, and a computer/videotape hybrid of some kind would take the players' control inputs (whether by control pad or advanced technical wizardry to read players' bodily movements), figure out the result, and "play" or "draw" the proper animation segments for each side, simulating a tennis match. If such a game came to fruition, even if it took the space of one of those old indoor computer golf simulators, it would have made a small game like Pong look positively prehistoric in comparison, and gaming in general would have taken more of a full-motion video, quick-time sequence direction. Technology would still need plenty of time to catch up with Blair's cool concept, though. I just wanted to pass that along as an interesting aside to how we've seen video games evolve. Blair's tennis, or some other sport he saw fit to simulate, could have made a lightspeed jump ahead.

+Alex theTroller really? Mate thats awesome.thanks so much :)

Daniel Ibbertson No thank You! :D

it's the first videogame i have ever played in the arcade and kof 98. been a fan of snk since i was a kid i prefer them over capcom. i say you've done your homework. subbed and liked.

+daNch0o fully agree. Some of the best pixel art to ever come out for sure

+Atma505 they are prob my favs too. Massivr thanks for the kins words buddy

+We'llAlwaysHave VALIS woooooooow thats amazing

+Matthew Anderson o yeah, FYI, i tend to over exagerate my vidsfrom time 2 time. Im happy with early polygon games too somettimes