
Metal Slug: 1st Mission Review: A Pocket-Sized Declaration of War
Nazca’s arcade juggernaut shrinks to pocket size with its humour, its vehicles and its one-more-go pull intact. 1st Mission is a small cartridge doing a very big game’s job.

Nazca’s arcade juggernaut shrinks to pocket size with its humour, its vehicles and its one-more-go pull intact. 1st Mission is a small cartridge doing a very big game’s job.

SNK and Capcom’s finest meet on a 160×152 screen and somehow lose nothing in the shrink. The Match of the Millennium is not just the Neo Geo Pocket Color’s best fighter — it is one of the finest handheld fighting games ever made.

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