#Metal slug how to#
This How To Play screenshot shows you how to follow branching paths by pushing diagonally on the stick this feature exists in-game but is never demonstrated here. It features a different story (expounded upon in Gamest #152), as well as different characters: Phil Gene (フィル・ジーン, alternately translated as Phil Jean) as player 1, a Regular Army mechanic, and Michiko Nakajima (ミチコ・ナカジマ), his girlfriend and assistant as player 2 they are depicted only in early concept art.Įven at this point in development six missions were proposed, though only three are shown in this version Mission 1, Mission 5 and Mission 6. Credit goes to Ivo for making most of these comparisons and observations!ĭated Septem(though all Gamest were published a month before according to "Total Capture!! Gamest").Īs far as I'm aware, this is the earliest version of the game shown publicly. I'm going to foolishly try and list the early footage in order of release. That'll be discussed further down the page this image is probably the most accurate to its (then) in-game colours. Right: Cropped from the cover of another flyer, this depicts a soldier riding in the Metal Slug. Left: On another part of the above flyer is art of a white soldier wielding a pipe bomb. The Metal Slugs' vulcan shots appear to use the same tiny bullets as the turret, bullet casings are also being ejected from the vulcan, and the golden tank's shell is firing straight forward - did they have the Armor Piercer implemented at this point? You can just about make out a different health bar in the top screenshot, which can also be found in the ROM. White soldiers appear to be aiding the players against Morden, which backs up the reasoning behind the unused hostage soldier graphics as well.
(big ups to Video Game Densetsu for documenting this in the first place!) The image above is cropped from the show's brochure. During the game's early development the human players never existed, and both players would spend the entire game in the Metal Slugs! This version was demoed in location testing and at the Amusement Machine Show 1995 (アミューズメントマシンショー, or JAMMA) from September 13 to 15.
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