GunForce II / Geo Storm - The Game that Inspired Metal Slug on Neo Geo! - Irem Arcade
273It's Metal Slug Mania Time! A Ten Part Series dedicated to looking at the history and evolution of the mainline Metal Slug franchise from SNK! So the idea for Metal Slug had to come from somewhere...and it came from GunForce II! It's basically the spiritual precursor to what would become Metal Slug on the Neo Geo AES / MVS. It's a retro gaming lesson on where ideas come from!
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I really wanted to take a look at the Metal Slug franchise as it's one of my favorite arcade series of all time and the history behind the games and their evolution is quite interesting. When it comes to retro gaming you can't skip Metal Slug!
Up next: GunForce II / Geo Storm! This is the last game Irem made before many of the developers left to form Nazca Corporation and make Metal Slug. It's basically Metal Slug .5; it has all the same amazing art work and run and gun gameplay as Metal Slug and a LOT of the sound effects in GunForce II were borrowed and popped into Metal Slug with zero changes. If you ever wondered where Metal Slug came from this is the arcade run and gun game it evolved from! Retrogaming history in motion :)
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