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Mar

[Deal Alert] SNK Playmore Sale: All Metal Slug Titles 50% Off, 66% Off Blazing Star In The Play Store

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in Deals, Games, News

Need a little old-school kick to start your weekend? Then look no further than SNK's developer page on the Play Store. Over the last few months they've populated it with no less than four of their classic Metal Slug side-scrollers (Metal Slugs 1, 2, 3, and X) and the top-down space shooter Blazing Star. All are available at significant discounts: half off for the Metal Slug games, bringing them to two bucks each, and a full two-thirds off for Blazing Star, which is now just a dollar.

If you've never heard of Metal Slug... well, shame on you. It started out in the Playstation era as a modern (for the time) arcade riff on Contra, featuring copious amounts of both running and gunning paired with crushing difficulty.

Feb

New Game: Metal Slug 2 Comes To Android, Joins Metal Slug 1 & 3

Posted by David Ruddock in Games, News

If you're into old school shoot-em-up sidescrollers, it's hard to beat the Metal Slug series. One can only imagine the insane amount of time and devotion that SNK put into making these 16-bit wonders back when they were headlining titles for the Neo-Geo brand. They were near instant cult classics in Japan, and when they found a new home on the original Play Station console, saw even greater worldwide acclaim.

When the first Metal Slug came to Android, we were quite excited. Metal Slug 3 was then released, and now Metal Slug 2 is out, completing the first three titles in the explosive franchise.

Dec

[New Game] SNK Playmore's Original Metal Slug Comes To Android With Guns... Lots Of Guns

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in Games, News

If you're of the opinion that games these days are entirely too easy, what with automatic saves, regenerating health, and veritable labyrinths of handy chest-high walls, then you'll want to pick up side-scrolling classic Metal Slug. It harkens back to a simpler time (namely 1996) when men were men, women were women, and gigantic tanks bristling with missile launchers were waiting at the end of every level.

If you're unfamiliar with Metal Slug (and didn't pick up the somewhat more modern Metal Slug 3 when it came to the Play Store earlier this year) it's a side-scrolling shooter in the vein of Contra.