Game
Full Name	Metal Slug: 1st Mission
Year	1999
Developer	SNK
Publisher	SNK
Genre	Platformer, Run N' Gun
Platforms	Neo-Geo Pocket Color

Metal Slug: 1st Mission is a run and gun video game for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color handheld platform created by SNK. It was released in 1999 in both Japan and North America.

StoryEdit

The year is 2027 A.D.

In a land of continuing strife, illegal arm sales are occurring with disturbing frequency. Subsequent investigations reveal that the distributors of the weapons are not guerrillas but the Government Forces themselves. The distribution center for the weapons turns out to be more massive than estimated, and it is clandestinely manufacturing new weapons which even include the top-secret SV-000 "METAL SLUG" prototype currently in development. The commander of the squad protecting this region turns out to be the expert at guerrilla warfare Colonel Hilde Garn, and his aide-de-camp turns out to be the master at hand-to-hand combat Lt. Colonel Macba, who stood on the front lines himself and struck terror in the hearts of the enemy. If this squad led by Hilde Garn, which is praised as the mightiest in the army, is the force behind the illegal weapon sales, it was feared that this could lead to a coup d'etat. The Intelligence Agency of the Government Forces, taking a particular grave view of the situation, decides to enlist the services of the ultra-elite Special Forces Squad Peregrine Falcons.

The mission is given: infiltrate the materiel distribution center, destroy it, and capture the villains.

GameplayEdit

This game plays much like the traditional Metal Slug, but with some changes. Many mission have doors that lead to different areas, and will influence in the progress of the game. Not all areas have bosses, depending on the objective of the missions. The game displays a mission map, meaning that what you do during a mission will affect your progress. There are some missions wher you play only with the Slug Flyer, and losing it will take you to a parachute sequence where you must dodge incoming fire. In the areas where you play with the Metal Slug, you can't get out of it, and if it is destroyed the player dies instantly. You only have one character to play with, and altough the game gives no name for him, his appearance is very similar to Marco. After you beat the game, a female character becomes available, but you never follow a storyline with her.

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