Just get a subscirption to GameTap, people.

They have ALL (or what I think it all) the Metal Slug games and you could play 'em (plus a bajilliono others) for a month for about the same price as that SINGLE game.

Seriously, I signed up a week ago and I can't say enough good things about it.

hmm...the 2 player online co-op almost makes it worth it. I already have the game for everything but my right shoe, not to mention the complete anthology on the PSP, but I'll wait and see how the online co-op handles.

DinnerTime:

You can easily get all Metal Slug games via emulation, which has a price tag of $0, while its not exactly legal, any person who knows how to use the internet wouldn't go with Gametap and would know that its hard to get caught(Though if you want to be the good boy go ahead but I mean come on, most of the games gamers download are fairly old and either the company's dead or you can just buy games that they're shelling out on new consoles, which is what they'd want anyway).

Thats all Gametap really is, emulation you pay for. The problem with Gametap though IS the price tag and the fact that they have to get the rights to allow you to buy these certain games from them. Tell me, how many GBA games are on there? Can you play Street Fighter 3? Exactly.

Gah, Bengoshia, put a period in there, somewhere, anywhere!

Best of the Series

topgeargorilla : thats about 9 bucks I think...

I have Gametap and I'm still going to be picking this one up.

If I didn't have the Metal Slug Anthology for my Wii, I would pick this up in a hearbeat. I remember fondly the days of not-emulating it on my TV @ college and playing with friends. This game is legend. Also, cocks.

Metal Slug 3....awesome. I would probably buy this if I could :D.

About damn time

Great news! I just heard about this yesterday on FNF. Definitely getting it.

Ok, this game has been on the NeoGeo, GBA, PS2, Xbox and has been featured in the Anthology for the Wii, PSP and PS2. Now it's coming for the 360. Not counting the arcade version, that 8 times this game has been put out. I'm sorry but 10 bucks is too much for a game that has been ported 8 times now. I doubt we will see any enhanced graphics or any extras other than some achievements tacked on to really make it worth being ported again. If M$ is really that intent on rehashing older arcade games, lets see some that haven't taken a trip around almost every system. This should be a $5 game at the most. Just my opinion.

That is, small children with high-pitched voices.

BIISSOOONNNNNNN!!!!

Err.. hell yah, I love Metal Slug as much as the next guy, and I can't ignore sweet side-scrolling love action + on-line co-op (unless it pulls a Sonic the Hedgehog).

Even though I own the pack for the Wii, I'll still be getting this.

Just get Metal Slug Anthology. This is kind of unnecessary.

goodness. MS3 is pretty much impossible to beat near the end. Though I prefer X, I just don't understand why they didn't just release a Metal Slug Anthology on the arcade. Just 3? I wouldn't mind all 6 for a download.

Everything after Metal Slug 3 was a serious letdown. 4 was okay but the first signs of laziness started to creep in. The first 4 (X included) are just works of brilliance.

I agree after MSX, the series was bleh at best. But that's cause SNK Playmore took over. where all things SNK declined.

Hopefully they remember to add the hit detection. the Wii version (i unno if others were the same.) phailed to have hit detection. I think only the 2nd boss had actual hit detection.

I think he's talking about hit flash. I hated how the Wii version of the Anthology lacked it so much that I traded it in and got the PS2 version instead and never regretted it.

Also, sprite filtering still sucks.

I'll pass I refuse to support SNK Delaymore USA

Banjo,

My god, guy. I actually HAVE AVG and Spybot already and they've helped me out of many a jam thanks to questionable downloads.

And yes, I AM supporting the developers through supporting Gametap. Gametap makes monetary deals with the companies to offer their games on Gametap. People like me come along and PAY MONEY to allow Gametap to keep existing and keep paying developers to use their games. How do you not understand this?

Also, I would have never bought Overlord and Jericho in the first place so why the hell would I care if I didn't get to keep them. I play them, I beat them. End of story. Even if they're only on the service for a month (which is unlikely), I STILL get all those games for about the cost of renting ONE game from a B&M store and maybe a couple of games from something like Gamefly.

Go ahead, go out and buy Overlord, Jericho, and whatever else to keep as long as you like. I just payed $5 to play them and whatever the hell else I want to play for a month. More than enough time to beat 'em and delete 'em.

Oh, and if you can find me another good place to play TwinkleStar Sprites and Super Gem Fighter online against dozens of people at any given time through a damn good online service then step up and tell us all.

And the online matches are so bad with Kawaks that it's like playing a flip-book so you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better than that.


Lasty, I couldn't care less if you download older, hard to find games for yourself. I STILL do it (Monkey Island is one of my favorite series of all time and Lucas Arts REFUSES to make me an anniversary pack), but that doesn't mean I'm going to illegally download ALL the games I ever want just because I can.

What, did Gametap kill your parents or something?

I have metal slug anthology for Wii so I'm good.

Fucking amazing.