Metal Slug Tournaments May 2026

We’ll wait. (It’s harder than you remember.)

Enter the hidden gem of the fighting-game community: metal slug tournaments

Fire up Fightcade, pop a credit into Metal Slug X , and try to beat the first level without dying. We’ll wait

So next time you’re at a con and you see two players sweating over a dusty Neo Geo cabinet, stop and watch. You aren’t seeing two people play an old arcade game. You’re seeing ballet. Explosion-filled, tentacle-filled, “Heavy Machine Gun!”-screaming ballet. “Heavy Machine Gun!”-screaming ballet.