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NES Works Gaiden #09: Metal Storm CE
🕑 Added 2019-12-18 14:00:05 +0000 UTCI know I said I was going to stop publishing retrospectives out of sequence, and now here's a 1991 NES game. I didn't lie, though! This is actually a 1992 Famicom game, newly localized and converted to NES in the year 2020. I am nothing if not technically honest.
But for real, I love Metal Storm, so I couldn't resist the opportunity to tackle a review copy of the new Collector's Edition. It's very good! (I say this despite some potential conflicts of interest on the horizon, so I hope you'll take me at my word.)
Description: Let's kick off the new year by looking at 2020's hottest NES release: A reissue of Irem classic Metal Storm by Retro-Bit Entertainment (and Castlemania Games, and Limited Run Games, and so on). While Metal Storm came out in U.S. back in the day, this rerelease is actually a new conversion of the Japanese game that shipped a year after America's cart and included some new features, including an introductory story cinematic, new difficulty settings, different color schemes for many graphics, and some handy built-in cheat codes. It's new! And old! It's good.
Special thanks to Retro-Bit for this review copy. Preorders for this new version of the game are still available here
Comments
El Pescado
This was a game I always wanted as a kid and I gobbled up the CE from Limited Run Games. I can’t wait to get my hands on it and I hope they’re inspired to do more rare NES games like Panic Restaurant and Little Samson.
Commodore Cougar
Looks like there might be a typo in the link, should be: https://castlemaniagames.com/collections/frontpage/products/metalstorm-collectors-edition
