''Metal Slug 1st Mission'' is a run and gun video game developed by

Ukiyotei was a Japanese video game developer based in Yodogawa-ku. The company was founded on 15 March 1991 by Kenshi Naruse, who served as its representative director. The company is believed to have shut down in 2002 and most of the staff including ...

and published by

SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...

. It was first released in Japan in 1999 for the

Neo Geo Pocket Color The is a 16-bit color handheld video game console manufactured by SNK. It is a successor to SNK's monochrome Neo Geo Pocket handheld which debuted in 1998 in Japan, with the Color being fully backward compatible. The Neo Geo Pocket Color was re ...

and in North America in 2000. The game was later re-released as part of '' Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1'' in 2021.

Gameplay

''Metal Slug 1st Mission'' plays similarly to other ''

Metal Slug is a Japanese Shoot 'em up#Scrolling shooters, run and gun video game series originally created by Nazca Corporation before merging with SNK Playmore, SNK in 1996 after the completion of the Metal Slug (1996 video game), first game in the seri ...

'' games, but has toned down graphics for the Neo Geo Pocket Color hardware. 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.

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* 1999 video games Metal Slug Neo Geo Pocket Color games SNK games Ukiyotei games Video games scored by Yasuaki Fujita Video games developed in Japan {{runandgun-videogame-stub