i was, of course, still a few years off from even knowing what "1cc" was. i dug into it being someone chronically terrible at classic games and unable to clear even the first stage of nes life force, and i came out weeks later someone taking the xbox to the comic shop just to show it off, even belting a 1cc out on demand.
and thus, after one traumatizing doctor's visit (my doctor was rude to me and brown-skinned and spoke with an arabic accent, and i was at the height of irrational teenage xenophobia and racism in a post-9/11 world - just a peachy time), i finally obtained the game. to ease my fear, i was offered the choice of being bought something i wanted for going through with it by my parents. I also had my first rectal exam coming up and was totally, incomprehensibly mortified about it. nazca's dedicated team had set some kind of fire in my heart and i had to have it, but i was totally destitute and had no real options for earning any money.
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thus, we never got the ps2 version of metal slug 3 and only got 4 and 5 as a bundle. for you europeans out there, please be reminded that because of sony america's ludicrous policies on 2d games at the time, they couldn't be released as stand-alone titles and were forced to be released in compilations. It was years later, as a young teen, that i realized that metal slug 3 was being released on xbox (the original cab for the first game hit in 96, and the xbox release of the 3rd game was 2004) after looking it up online. a slave to earning tickets for material things, i'd never actually risk a coin in a real arcade game for fear of getting decimated in seconds, even though i knew well of the concentrated joy those seconds were. i still remember the time i was at a celebration station and someone left a credit inside the in the hunt cabinet they had there, and i felt like i was the luckiest person alive. The sprite art for it had me totally mesmerized, as did the in the hunt cabinet at the local public pool. when it was time to go, i'd cash my tickets in for like, rings or toy jewelry or candy or w/e. for me to put a credit into something that wouldn't win me a thing was highly unusual - i'd usually burn out my small reserve of coins on ski-ball for tickets and then gawk at demo footage or older players daring enough to actually attempt these games. Metal slug had been something i'd always gawk at whenever visiting the mall arcade (my mom worked there, and they got a cab toward the end of her years-long position), and even once put a credit into. Here's personal backstory, if ya wanna read. i still remember the sheer stress and sweaty palms it gave me, and how much things like rpgs slowly ceased to be my big fascination going forward. i often wonder if i'd have pursued another hobby had it not been for my intense desire to see metal slug 3 through to the end and hone my play. while i don't think i'll justify it as a smart decision, that continue system was essentially the thing to stoke my flames.
it was a hugely important game in my trajectory of taste & general development and led me to communities that would ultimately end up informing much of my early feelings on these games. Metal slug 3 on xbox was my very first nomiss and the brutal continue system was very instrumental in me finally starting to get into classic gaming in earnest. I've never tried that one, but the stand-alone's controls are tight. the much later Anthology disc is apparently plagued by input lag. (referring to the stand-alone 2003 release. The PS2 one is basically identical (no slowdown, stage practice, Fat Island) but thankfully lacks the restart, so I like having it around. Even having no-missed the game there and on MVS since, I'd hate to go back to that port. I applaud anyone who actually stuck with the port (must've been the mother of all catharsis clears), but I eventually bailed for MAME in frustration. It totally fucks up the game's learning curve. I get what they were trying for, but 1) it only triggered the other half of the classic too short/too hard mainstream whine, and 2) yes - it's a legitimate pain in the ass, given Final Mission is a good 50% of the game's runtime, and it consists of a ton of easy autoscrollers followed by a sustained battery of deadly setpieces. It was a really fucking stupid move, sadly.
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