With our historical context out the way, let us begin. In any case, Nazca had worked their way up to this project, and their trademark level of sprite detail was allowed to flourish on the Neo Geo hardware, creating a landmark title for the system, and establishing a series that would soon become synonymous with SNK. This was indeed the version location-tested at Osaka arcades in August 1995, but due to its mixed reception, the game was retooled to have playable human characters instead. In fact, the very original concept for Metal Slug was, in its own way, another play on In the Hunt's idea of a purely vehicle-based game, just with a tank instead of a submarine. Just a cursory glance at these two games shows they would be a starting point for what would become Metal Slug's graphical style, but as we'll see later, there's a few other bits and pieces from these games that would work their way into Metal Slug, so you can see it as a culmination of Nazca's work up to that very point, their own magnum opus. As that page spells out in detail for you (and we offer credit once more to Youloute for a lot of help with Nazca's history) Nazca Corporation was formed after Irem's arcade division closed in 1994, consisting of ex-Irem staff with many games collectively under their belt- critical for our discussion today are the two titles pictured above, Gunforce II /Geostorm and In the Hunt / Kaitei Daisensou (although we can't pin down specific names for Gunforce II, it has been confirmed staff from it went on to Nazca). Veteran readers of our site (you poor, poor people) may remember one of our more research-heavy articles in Let's Gaming Tat, Nazca Staff. The build-up to the debut of the strongest tank in the world. Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 is a very important and special game to me.īefore we get started, though, we'd better set the scene. Ah! Did I just use a tilde? Must be going soft in my old age. You should probably read this one first, actually.Īlso, a special thanks go to Kimimi and HokutoNoShock who checked over this for us before we put it up~. Unlike the other Metal Slug articles on this site, you don't need prior knowledge of the series. What's next? Ghosts n' Goblins? Sonic the Hedgehog? Mega Man? The ultimate sign that Gaming Hell has lost its way. The Military System (Operation Explanation / Ranking)ī5.Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 - Blast away and go, go, go! It's available as standard 180g black vinyl, Opaque Yellow and limited edition Orange/Clear/Yellow Tri-Colour with White Splatter.Įach edition includes a double-sided lithographic insert, featuring rare artwork from the Japanese archives and a special translucent OBI strip with fluorescent Pantone print.Ī2. Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 vinyl soundtrack pre-orders start today at Data Discs!
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