Metal Slug 1st Mission

{{More citations needed|date=January 2025}} {{Short description|1999 video game}} {{Infobox video game | title = Metal Slug 1st Mission | image = Metal Slug 1st Mission cover.jpg | developer = [[Ukiyotei]] | publisher = [[SNK]] | series = ''[[Metal Slug]]'' | engine = | platforms = [[Neo Geo Pocket Color]], [[Nintendo Switch]], [[Microsoft Windows]] | released = {{Video game release|WW|1999|EU|2000}} | genre = [[Run and gun (video game)|Run and gun]] | modes = [[single-player]] | composer = [[Yasuaki Fujita]] }}

'''''Metal Slug 1st Mission''''' is a [[run and gun (video game)|run and gun]] video game developed by [[Ukiyotei]] and published by [[SNK]].<ref name="Langston1999">Langston, Wertz Jr., October 1999 review of the Neo Geo Pocket and its games, syndicated by [[Knight Ridder]], found in for example {{cite news |title=Neo Geo takes aim at Game Boy Color |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-herald-neo-geo-takes-aim-at-game-boy/164362298/ |access-date=31 January 2025 |work=Sun Herald |date=4 October 1999 |pages=7}} and {{cite news |title=Neo Geo video games |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review-neo-geo-video-games/78009864/ |access-date=31 January 2025 |work=Herald and Review |date=7 October 1999 |pages=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Neo Geo Pocket: Perfect 10 Games |magazine=Retro Gamer |issue=20 |page=54 |url=https://archive.org/details/retro-gamer-raspberry-pi-buenos-aires/Retro%20Gamer%20020/page/54/mode/2up |publisher=Image Publishing |location=Buenos Aires}}</ref> It was released in Japan in 1999 for the [[Neo Geo Pocket Color]] and in Europe in 2000.

In 2021, the game was re-released together with its sequel, ''[[Metal Slug 2nd Mission]]'', both as part of ''Metal Slug 1st & 2nd Mission Double Pack'' on [[Nintendo Switch]] and as part of ''[[Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection]] Vol. 1'' for Nintendo Switch and PC [[Steam (service)|Steam]].

==Gameplay== ''Metal Slug 1st Mission'' plays similarly to other ''[[Metal Slug]]'' games, but has toned down graphics for the Neo Geo Pocket Color hardware.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Parker |first1=Joser |title=Metal Slug |magazine=Revista Gametype |date=2001 |issue=4 |pages=40-41 |url=https://archive.org/details/gametype01/Gametype%2004/page/11/mode/2up |access-date=31 January 2025}}</ref> Notably, grenades are thrown by pressing the option button to switch, then fire. This was changed in the sequel. When the game is completed once, another character becomes playable. There are five different difficulty levels: kids, easy, normal, hard, and very hard.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{moby game|id=/metal-slug-1st-mission}}

[[Category:1999 video games]] [[Category:Metal Slug]] [[Category:Neo Geo Pocket Color games]] [[Category:Single-player video games]] [[Category:SNK games]] [[Category:Ukiyotei games]] [[Category:Video games developed in Japan]] [[Category:Video games scored by Yasuaki Fujita]]