Could this be considered /m/echa?

>>15291103
That's a giant mutant hermit crab whose shell has been mechanized by the Rebel Army after they claimed Dr. Moreau's island after mutating nuclear tests.

But Metal Slug itself is very /m/.

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Metal Slug is SUPER /m/, shame the artstyle went to shit after 3.

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Well on the topic of what is /m/, how /m/ are the bosses of Armed Police Batrider?:

https://youtu.be/ygv89ZWkCA0?t=865

I notice in the case of the three rival boss machines (Green, Yellow and Red) they mention in the game's (scant) background that two are cyborgs with one having grafted several new arms to herself (Mistral style apparently) and one having replaced over 80% of his body with cybernetics.

>>15294986
Really /m/. I mean we're talking about a corrupt bureaucrat main villain who powers up his ultimate death machine with the life force of his own citizens.

Also, I appreciate how Raizing/Eighting decided to not only have characters from other games make playable crossover appearances, but even outright yank the bosses from said games as well.

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>>15295744

>but even outright yank the bosses from said games as well.

I do remember getting a wide grin when I saw the Black Heart in the sewers and at the airport. Grinned even harder when I saw Glow Squid show up.

> who powers up his ultimate death machine with the life force of his own citizens.

That has rocket powered light sabers as well.

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>>15295926

The Federation symbol reminds me of Zeon's a bit.

>>15291103
it's more like an evangelion

Could working in a cubicle be considered /m/echa?

>>15296573
you're helping drive the metaphorical vehicle of society in a way

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it's pretty mecha

>>15296573
Yes.
You are a cog in a machine called society.

>>15292425
Good lord, it's like SV-001 and MS-18E Kämpfer made a beautiful baby together

>>15297052

That resembles a cross between the Zokk (even has the dorsal mounted weapons like it does in the head) and the Val Walo.

Even better, you get a mini mech while fighting that the second go around.

>>15292425

Art style is roughly the same.

>>15295744

Shame Raizing hasn't remade a lot of those games in the current day.

>>15302664

Or made new spin offs for that matter.

>>15291103
>>15297052
where are these from?

Is there an official Metal Slug artbook out there? Anthology had a shitton of art.

How do I download a metal slug emulator?

>>15303813
Metal Slug.

>>15302664
>>15303798
Yeah, Batrider in particular never even got a console port (so did other stuff like Battle Bakraid and the first Mahou Daisakusen). These days they just help put bread on the table by making games for other people, it's sad.

>>15303924
download PSP emulator

download the Metal Slug Anthology Collection ISO

play

>>15304077
ty anon. I'll go with your recc and assume that's the best port

>>15291684
Which is to say that it is more /m/ than Eva units, which are mere giants with pieces of armour bolted onto them that doesn't even give them any extra abilities, right?

>>15304244
No, Eva's are giant cyborgs, with armour covering them and all sorts of implants in their bodies to make them controllable and pilotable by mankind.

I mean how did you miss the giant socket that goes into their back and gets plugged into to provide them with energy, or the massive long pod containing the pilot that gets inserted down their spine?

>>15291103
looks mechnanic 2 me breh

you do the math

>>15304077
It's not working. I just get a black screen when I try to play it. I might just actually get it for psp or whatever else I can get it on. Getting this or Metal Slug 3 on mac is a bitch

>>15304072

>These days they just help put bread on the table by making games for other people, it's sad.

What happened to them anyway?

>>15304707
If the Wiki is accurate at all...
>In October 2000, the Raizing division was incorporated into Eighting, and since then, no shooter games were produced. The company since then concentrated its video game business to home consoles and mobile/social gaming.
Meanwhile, Shinobu Yagawa migrated to Cave.

>>15305390

Interesting.

>>15304072
Not really.

>>15306651
Sure, they still make good games (though your mileage may vary on Battride War), but not doing anything with their former IPs is a waste.

>>15306685

>not doing anything with their former IPs is a waste.

I agree.

Battle Garegga, Mahou Strikers and Armed Police Batrider are games that deserve a redux in the modern era.

>>15310340

They also don't have a bad plot for arcade shooters.

>>15291103
The sprite work is still magical this day shame it bankrupt them

>>15311496
Technically SNK has risen from its ashes. They just stopped doing backgrounds from 6 onwards though (which is too bad, since those were great), but even then they haven't done anything with Metal Slug since that tower defense game.

Metal Slug 5 was VERY /m/.

The enemies even managed to improve on the old rebel LV armors.

>>15303813
OP's is Huge Hermit, the first boss of Metal Slug 3. Second one is Crablops, both the second and third boss of Metal Slug 7.

>>15312955

Metal Slug 7 was too.

>>15311496

> bankrupt them

Eh?

>>15303813
Megal Slut

>>15303924
Winkawaks, mame, or neorage

You'll need the neogeo bios as well, but those can be found online

>>15311830

They need to do another 3D game.

>>15322154
Assuming they're financially stable enough. At least the main games for King of Fighters made the jump to 3-D, so that's a start.

>>15317560
yeah

>>15325033

Now how'd that happen?

I thought they were rolling in funds or well off given the success of Metal Slug and their other games.

>>15326197
A number of factors, really. Besides the Neo Geo going at ridiculous prices for a 90s-early 00s console, the Neo Geo Pocket didn't do so well until the Color version came along. Then it got cannibalized in a one-two punch by two companies; Aruze, whom used its IPs for pachinko and barely funded SNK, and Capcom, who got the lion's share of the profits for the crossover games. It's a wonder that SNK even got revived at all.

>>15326209

How did they get revived?

>>15327051
Some former members went on to form what would become Playmore. Eventually, they went to great lengths to rebuy the SNK IPs (going as far suing Aruze for IP misuse), leading to the rebranding to SNK Playmore, the company we knew up to 2016. Once a Chinese company bought some stakes in the company, SNK Playmore rebranded itself to SNK Corporation, finally dropping pachislots and focusing more on consoles and mobiles.

>>15294986
Batrider is awesome. I played it at the Arcade Club. Really good shmup.

>>15326209
>the Neo Geo Pocket
that was a nice little handle especially how it CLICKITACLAKITACLICKITACLICKACKITA

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Mahou Daisakusen had some very /m/ bosses, including one that was also in Batrider.

>>15291103

What tank is that even on the things back?

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>>15330273

I wish Toaplan or whoever owns their IPs would release an artbook of their designs. Some really cool stuff was left in low-res pixel art that would definitely be more memorable if we could see them from more than this perspective.

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>>15335803
>That surprise in stage 10

I mean, it was foreshadowed a little bit but wow, lol.

>>15335803

I'm surprised there is no concept art of them floating around out there.

>>15330273

Those are some really advanced goblins in Mahou Daisakusen if they can build robots and space craft.

>>15291103

I'm amazed that things guns could even fire given it was submerged for a moment.

Anyone notice one of the bosses in Thunder Force IV resembles a Mobile Armor from Gundam?

>>15339495
It helps that they used to be led by a human, although his death didn't deter them in the least. Also, Bashinet is a really stubborn robot knight.

>>15330595
It seems to be a relative of the Sarubia, at the very least, but it's much bigger and of course has two guns.

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You are all niggers postting in a Sonic Blast Man thread

>>15343125

>Sarubia

You mean the tank that fires the rolling balls?

That would have been a good weapon actually if the variant on the crabs back could fire mines that could float.

>>15343107

Which one?

I think there are several different ones or variants.

>>15346686
MK-II in particular had to be defeated twice to stay dead, although Batrider just has them all be the same guy anyways.

>>15343007
I known, one that's pretty much Zakrello?
I've been skimming through some videos to find it

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>>15345706

>>15346923

In Tunder Force IV, one of the bosses (The boss of the sand stage) resembles the Azieru and the Neo Zeong Mobile Armors.

>>15347211
There's one in TFV with beam wings sorta. That looked MA to me.

Also if we're throwing in random games Hyper Duel has a bunch of Donut Steels

>>15347372

>beam wings

As in made out of energy?

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Ol' Nazca team is definitely into /m/echa, I mean they totally had a Not-Victory Gundam in one of their old games from the Irem days.

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>>15346044
Yep, the infamous "tall tank", the NOP-03 Sarubia.

>>15291103

Thus continues the eternal discussion of "/m/' as in "mechanical" and "/m/" as in, specifically, giant robots.

>>15346739

Yeah.

A shame they couldn't include more than what they did in Batrider.

I do recall that Arena fight in particular being one of the more epic bits from Daisakusen.

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>>15347572
Yeah, this guy. Screenshot's kinda ass but it communicates which one I mean.

>>15348716

Kind of reminds me of that energy wing FLOAT system from Code Geass and the Moonlight Butterfly energy wings from Gundam

>>15291103

I swear those guys come back more times and with more goofy stuff than Zeon does.

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What about this?

>>15327335
>dropping pachislots
Do they literally hate money?

>>15350303
I think they still have PTSD from the days Aruze basically ignored them just to whore out their IPs in pachinko and keep the money to themselves.

>>15350303
Japan government have increase tax for pachilot.
Big companies (like konami) can pay for it just fine but it it s a major blow to smaller companies.

also I've read that Pachislots are expected to drop off as more gambling choices open up in the next few years.

>>15350546

Pachislots?

>>15335815

Reminds me of a JoJo pose with the aura.

>>15291684
>That's a giant mutant hermit crab whose shell has been mechanized by the Rebel Army after they claimed Dr. Moreau's island after mutating nuclear tests.

Christ where canI read more Metal Slug lore?

>>15354859
The Metal Slug Anthology had the story for the all the games it featured and the concept art has flavour text.

>>15354859
Play metal slug attack on mobile. Almost every ms profile are in there

>>15345706
>>15347157
I forgot, what does he fight for again?

Also you guys should play Psycho Chaser on the PC Engine

>>15355321

>what does he fight for again?

Free booze maybe?

>>15354859
The Metal Slug Database was the go-to place, but it's dead now.

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Were they really such bad guys?

>>15358049
At least they weren't cannibals like the Venusians.

>>15357874
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBqf7xmic70

>>15291103
NO

>>15358054

Technically it wasn't cannibalism as they were eating a species different from themselves.

Unless the definition is other sentient beings.

>>15358011

Can always way back archive it can't you?

>>15363717
Yeah, that's true.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120515000000*/http://www.mslugdb.com/index.php

>>15291103
Not really.

>>15358049
>the call that saved SNK

>>15358049
>AYY PICKUP THE PHOOONE

>>15358049

Welly, they smoke fine Cigars so. They can't be all that bad.

>>15291103
very much so.

>>15291684
okay

>>15291103
yup

>>15348086

As small as stuff like that is, I have to wonder how much of it is automated.

Anyone know how the Rebels get the funds to build all of the crazy engines of war that they do?

>>15291103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_NQNk0AMLE

>>15367042

And build suspiciously goofy flying saucers.

>>15375639
Usually, they get their tech from a backing party, which is either the Martians, Amadeus or their own future iteration (once for the latter two). Although that's from 2 onwards.

>>15377959

I'm really surprised they're still around in the future.

>>15343085
I'm glad the first game was really generous with giving you Metal Slugs, it's so satisfying to drive around in.

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I wish they had made this a Slug that you could operate.

>>15381530

Was that tank that Morden is frequently seen in built by the Martians?

It looks a tad bit like their saucer now that I compare the two.