Metal Slug Retrospective

Get your rocket launchers and heavy machineguns ready as we blast through the history of Metal Slug.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Origins of SNK
01:30 NeoGeo
03:41 Nazca Corporation
04:50 Metal Slug
12:30 Metal Slug 2
16:40 Metal Slug X
18:17 Metal Slug: 1st Mission
20:58 Metal Slug 2nd Mission
22:25 Metal Slug 3
26:47 The Death and Rebirth of SNK
29:48 Metal Slug 4
32:11 Metal Slug 5
34:08 Metal Slug Advance
35:50 Metal Slug (2006)
39:23 Metal Slug 6
42:25 Metal Slug 7
44:52 Outro
47:00 Final Word
48:42 Credits and Sources

[DobbyBogg]

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.

[BandenTCY]

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!

[GeZz.]

if you say "Heavy machine gun" to any dude from any country in South America, they will smile at you and say "i love Metal Slug"
is a religion in South America, we love SNK and Metal Slug

[Inferno]

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

[connor]

The idea of crediting your employees under pseudonyms so that rival companies won't know who they are and can't offer them better jobs is wild.

[mattsmith]

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

[DanYellowZena]

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.

[KamiSilver]

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

[boyonthephone]

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

[drryanmorris]

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

[NiaMareyevaAndMadHamster]

Damn, massive Metroidvania-genre game set in Metal Slug universe would be pretty awesome...

[danielj.nickolas]

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!

[maxhammer]

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

[doctorhunter]

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

[mrmel]

Every Mexican kid played this religiously

[SageGingko]

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.

[dineez]

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.

[theimperfectgod]

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

[donskiver]

That neo geo startup jingle is soooo good.

[artursjoblom]

Great retrospective. The old Neo Geo era is legendary, especially Metal Slug.