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!

@kingwou

11 ай бұрын

Metal Slug Awakening look soulless tho, pixel art is a crucial part of metal slug identity, thing Awakening doesn't seem to apprehend

@mattrice5998

11 ай бұрын

i remember even playing metal slug on the snk arcade machines they had at mcdonalds

@kingwou

11 ай бұрын

@MyLazySundae 2d doesn't mean its outdated or old, it's an artistic choice every game has one, 2.5 is not an improvement over 2d its just another artistic choice.

@kng_yt_

11 ай бұрын

@@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

@CJ-jl6hf

11 ай бұрын

pssssh.... playing on a PSP? I use to play this on a cabinet as a kid and spent so many quarters doing so...... 💀

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!

At the end, can't forget Commando from Miniclip!

Incredible video man...idk how tf this channel hasn't blown up like a rocket lawnchair !

@travisedwards3543

11 ай бұрын

"Lawnchair" 😂

@iMernerner

11 ай бұрын

​@@travisedwards3543avy machinga

@llIZeroIIl

11 ай бұрын

Here, let me help with that :) (Subs and pulls out a lawn chair)

@MAR10WORLD

11 ай бұрын

now that’s a reference I haven’t heard in a long time lol

@8justintracy8

11 ай бұрын

Yes, great video!!

One of the most beautiful looking and best playing games of all time as evidenced by the number of versions/ports.

Metal Slug's soundtrack really gets you in the zone for these fights. Hearing that sick guitar riff or the classic final battle song.

To play these games in the 90s on a neo geo must have been amazing

@isaacperez7664

11 ай бұрын

Fr the pixel at is just 🤌

@chunkymilk

11 ай бұрын

why? it's better in the arcade.

@cajampa

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@AelfricBlack

11 ай бұрын

Yes it was… yes it was.

@armyofninjas9055

11 ай бұрын

Arcade was more fun. Same with all the capcom games.

I managed to complete X with no deaths back in the day. It felt amazing!

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

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

Every Mexican kid played this religiously

Metal Slug will always have a special place in my heart

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.

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.

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.

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.

That neo geo startup jingle is soooo good.

Definitely a criminally underrated and overlooked game series!…. I especially miss Metal Slug Attack! I enjoyed playing that on my phone!

@drizzziit1

8 күн бұрын

It's back ! 🙏🙏🙏

@drizzziit1

8 күн бұрын

It's back ! 🙏🙏🙏

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.

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.

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...

This is the Best Metal Slug Retrospective Video I Seen! You Deserve more Views

Omg i've been looking for the name of "Kung Fu Master" forever. I loved that game. Thanks

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.

@sabbathjackal

10 ай бұрын

Right! We are bad fans of metal slug

Amazing work!

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.

How they managed to create such a masterpiece in such a short time is insane, especially for the time. With some of the most impressive sprites to date. These guys were on another level.

The metal slug franchise is nothing short of legendary and revisting one of my childhood games reminded me of awesome arcade game could be

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!!

@VOAN

6 ай бұрын

As was Metal Slug Advance which is technically Metal Slug 3rd Mission, just not on NeoGeo Pocket Color.

how many titles survive the way metal slug did? this title is genuinely loved by its fans, its 2D art sprite is true hardwork of art

I grew up with X on the Playstation, played through it many many MANY times with my brother, it never stopped being fun, that game was simple couch co-op perfection.

3 is only Metal Slug I've experienced and the only game ever I've finished on first launch in one sitting, a real high point.

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

Love that you let gameplay and music roll out without commentary. Too rare in game videos

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!

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

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!!!!

This series is a gem and always have a place in my heart

This is probably the best retrospective video I’ve seen on Metal Slug so far. Something that wasn’t mentioned about 6 is that it has an alternate ending where Rootmars saves you instead of Morden, depending on the path you take in mission 4. Hope they get around to porting it to something other than the ps4 eventually.

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.

Metal Slug is the GOAT run & gun game. the 3rd game being my favorite, hard as balls to the wall!!!

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

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.

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, 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

Metal Slug will always be a Legendary Coin Arcade Game to all Players who Played it ...

Amazing work on this! Looking forward to your next project in December!

This was so well put together! Thank you!

Beautiful retrospective, my friend. You deserve the best!

such a beloved but not discussed enough series, great job on the video and I can't wait to see more!

Man, what a nostalgia trip, I grew up with this series.

Appreciate the effort that went into this, it added a huge amount of context to the games and the company. Thanks man.

This is an amazing, indepth retrospective. PEACE FOREVER!

Thanks for being so informative and time that you spent to bring all the good memories back,

fantastic work, im glad someone finally made a series retrospective. the time you spent on this shows. There's a ton of passion put into this video. great work, keep it up!

Really well made video, I love Metal Slug and I'm glad you've done this retrospective.

Wow, your channel will definitely grow a lot. Thanks for the great retrospective and I'm looking forward to more.

Amazing video man, so much work behind it, respect. Keep it up!

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

Yo this is awesome! I love retrospectives like this - definitely subscribing!

Absolutely fantastic video mate!

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.

I love how you use all the osts perfectly in videos, and you got my sub

Amazing video. Love how you are concise yet detailed at the same time. You deserve a rocket lawcha

That's what I call dedication, congrats on one great video.

Holy crap… this is amazing! Definitely earned my sub.

AWESOME video! I really enjoyed hearing all about the history of this awesome series.

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

Well researched and well put together video! I appreciate the sources listed at the end, the flourishes of gameplay audio mixed in with your commentary, and giving clips room to breathe when introducing a new title. Good stuff.

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.

Man what a great video, glad I discovered this channel!

That was a great retrospective and you put in some solid work which has clearly paid off. An awesome piece of work to be proud of. Thank you for producing this. Cheers! 😊

This was great. Loved seeing all the concept art. Subscribed

Metal slug is a legendary series, it deserved a legendary review, glad you did it !

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.

Really good job pal! I hope your channel gets a big boost with this video

Superb effort! Best retrospective on any Neo geo property I've seen.

Fantastic video. Well done, sir.

This was absolutely excellent . Thanks for the video, you’ll keep growing big with content this good

This is awesome quality content. Really loved the vid. Well done.

Amazing job. Metal Slug will always be one of my favorite series. You did this documentary absolute justice!

I absolutely love this series, thanks for making this video i have no idea how i didn't get it recommended before

Just watched this. Great work on a classic series. 'Tactics out in 2023' was a gut punch.

Best video you’ve ever made. extremely cool and epic, thank you for your hard work :)

Bravo dude, that definitely caught me up to speed on this video game franchise ive always been interested in, but never had a chance to get into. Your work did not go to waste.

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

Well done. I really enjoyed this!

Amazing video, I have so much nostalgia for metal slug, my favourite arcade game series of all time

Incredible video, I love these kind of, especially about video games, great great job

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 retrospective! All your months of hard work really show, keep it up! 👍🏼

Wow you put so much work into this. You did a fantastic job mate 💪🏾

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.

Amazing Work. Keep the long format and you should continue the streak.

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.

Fantastic work brother, your video is much appreciated. Take your time, don't rush on your project.

Thanx this brought me back in time to the first time I ran in to this arcade in the late 90s