

But with just 3 buttons, it’s baffling why they couldn’t have used 3 buttons on the wiimote.

Fortunately there’s 1 control setup that uses the gamecube controller. There isn’t time to shake the controller up and down. If you’ve ever played a metal slug, you’d know that these games are hard, and require split second reactions. Once you’re in a game, the default control has grenades set to motion control. Metacritic gave it 73%, but the first user review points out the huge flaw that makes all the games totally unplayable. When I saw Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii in Gamestop and for only 25 Euro last weekend I had to buy it! All those games in one package, on one CD? How could I resist? Unfortunately I should have checked the reviews first. They’re great fun to play, and with an Xbox 360 controller hooked up to my computer the experience in SDLMame was as close to perfect as it could be.
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There is also an anthology of the first 7 games in the main series (including Metal Slug X) available for the Wii, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2. It was also ported to other consoles, such as the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, the Neo-Geo Pocket Color and more recently, the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS. Metal Slug is a series of run and gun video games first released on Neo-Geo arcade machines and game consoles created by SNK. You can read about the first game on Wikipedia. The games are run and gun shoot em ups with great hand drawn graphics, and frenetic gameplay.

The Metal Slug series of games is over 10 years old now but I only came across them for the first time last year through MAME, the arcade emulator.
