Keep on rockin' the Big Red.
While Contra was serious business, Metal Slug was Looney Tunes with bullets. The hand-drawn pixel art is arguably the best the medium has ever seen. The way your soldier’s cheeks puff out when holding a breath? The way prisoners dance when you rescue them? The explosions that turn into skeleton patterns? neogeo games
There is a specific sound. The heavy "thunk" of an arcade stick engaging. The deep, bass-heavy explosion of a 24-bit sample. The sight of a credit counter ticking up from 00 to 01. Keep on rockin' the Big Red
For a certain generation of gamers, that sound is synonymous with one thing: neogeo games