Topic: Arcade Archives / ACA NEOGEO eShop sales

Hamster has a Neo Geo sale on now in North America. All 6 Metal Slug games are 50% off until the night of Wednesday May 6, 2026.

Here they are in order of "Most Owned" on Deku Deals:

• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG
• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG 3
• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG X
• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG 4
• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG 5
• ACA NEOGEO METAL SLUG 2

The first 3 games on that list are bona fide run and gun classics.
4 and 5 were made by a different developer, and are recycled from the previous games.
X is a remake of 2, because 2 had slowdown, very bad slowdown particularly in 2-player co-op.

If you're interested in these games, it's best to jump on them, as individual Arcade Archives and Neo Geo titles seldom go on sale, and it might be a long time before it happens again.

For example, this is the first time X has been on sale in almost 2 years, and the first time 3 has been on sale in almost 3 years.

@MontyCircus
Will you be getting the NEOGEO+ AES? I'm tempted, even though my NG nostalgia lies solely with the 3 in one arcades instead of the console itself back in the 90's. I want that White Anniversary Edition(Which comes bundled with a white arcade stick, memory card and Metal Slug 1) paired with 2 of those black colored button Neogeo Gamepads.

Gotta get Shock Troopers and Magician Lord too. Hopefully they release more physical titles beyond the initial 10 launch games. To have new physical copies for Metal Slug X&3, King of Monsters 1&2, World Heroes 2, Samurai Showdown, Fatal Fury 2, Preistoric Isle 2 and more would be pretty neat.

I've currently got over 50 Neogeo Arcade Archive games on NS1, but to have zero emulation lag, and to be able to play them on a lag free 27" CRT(which also has perfect motion clarity) using composite cables, with a near zero latency wired Arcade stick would be the closest thing at replicating the arcade experience we grew up with back in the 90's, with NG+ AES.