SNK’s proto-Metal Slug returns
This week, retro-fans Hamster have pulled up another old-school arcade title and primed it for re-release on multiple platforms. But this week sees a particularly obscure release from the house of SNK, asCyber-Lipis made available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
Released in the arcades and on the Neo Geo format way back in 1990,Cyber-Lipis a fast-paced run ‘n’ gun title and a precursor of sorts to SNK’s popularMetal Slugseries, as two heroes blast through a series of enemy-filled stages, letting rip in eight directions on all and sundry.
Also taking cues fromContra, Cyber-Lipfeatures weird, horrific, and mutated bosses and an apocalyptic environment, as a powerful A.I had gained sentience and run amok, turning the planet into a warzone. I never put any time into this, so I have no personal opinion of it, but from videos it basically looks like it wasn’t as good asContra, and was superseded byMetal Slug, but it might provide a few hours fun from a curio standpoint.
Cyber-Lipis available now on PS4 in Japan, and on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch worldwide.
