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Metal Slug

Description

A horizontal-scrolling, parodistic World War II themed jump-and-shoot game. Extra weapons and vehicles can be picked up and used for more firepower.

Metal Slug was produced by SNK in 1996.

SNK released 183 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. SNK was based in Japan.

Other machines made by SNK during the time period Metal Slug was produced include: Fatal Fury 3: Road To The Final Victory, Garou Densetsu 3: Road To The Final Victory, Real Bout Garou Densetsu, King Of Fighters '95, The, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Art Of Fighting 3 - The Path Of The Warrior, Neo Turf Masters, King Of Fighters '96, The, Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle, and Neo Drift Out New Technology

Specs

Name	Metal Slug
Developer	SNK (Japan)
Year	1996
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8675
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 3 - ShootJumpGrenades
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Metal Slug

Game Introduction

In this game, you control one of two soldiers, Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving. Your mission is to defeat the evil General Morden and his powerful army. The last level makes you defeat a giant soldier.

Game Play

You have to defeat the General's evil army. After you rescue a hostage, they either give you a bonus item or one of the great guns: Heavy Machine Gun, Flame Shot, Rocket Launcher, and the Shotgun. After you complete the last ending, there is a movie-like ending.

Metal Slug KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.98 (10 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.29

Overall Like	4.56
Fun (Social)	4.22
Fun (Solo)	4.11
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 4.00

Gameplay	4.44
Graphics	4.30
Originality	4.33
Sound/Music	3.89

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Level 1 Rescue some POWs behind the waterfalls. Level 2 Shoot the parachuting bazooka men with the Flame Shot.

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Trivia

It is unbelievable how much graphic detail and funny slapstick animation the programmers of Nazca packed into this game.

Cabinet Information

This game is housed in a NeoGeo MVS cabinet. The monitor bezel can contain a sticker describing the guns and bonus items. Mainly, a title card appears in a NeoGeo MVS marquee. The title card has the IMetal SlugI tank with a picture of a sneering Marco Rossi, one of the two player characters. The words METAL SLUG Blast away and go, go, go appear across it.

Conversion

This game can be converted to any other NeoGeo MVS game.

Miscellaneous

In IMetal Slug 2I, Marco Tarma have two female soldiers joining them Phio Germi and Eri Kasamoto. Liscensor Nazca Corporation

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Metal Slug Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 330 known instances of this machine owned by Metal Slug collectors who are active members. Of these, 18 of them are original dedicated machines. 13 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 297 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Metal Slug machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Metal Slug circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Metal Slug. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Metal Slug circuit board set.

This game ranks a 78 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Legacy

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Metal Slug is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
PinBar	501 17 Ave SW, Calgary	AB	Canada	Arcade	2

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