This new CE brings that version home to Americans for the first time. The Famicom cart came out a full year after the NES game, which gave developer Tamtex the opportunity to spruce it up with some small visual tweaks, a few level design modifications, and a full intro and epilogue. for the first time, complete with a new localization. Metal Storm CE brings the Japanese Famicom version of the game to the U.S. nearly 30 years ago, but this version of Metal Storm counts as a new release (and qualifies for NES Works Gaiden status) because it's fairly different than the American NES release from 1991 and has only ever appeared in Japan before. Of course, Metal Storm already shipped out in the U.S. This week we have a rare case of NES Works reviewing a brand new release: The Metal Storm CE package from Retro-Bit/Limited Run/Castlemania (which is currently still available for preorder at Castlemania). That doesn't necessarily bode well as an omen for us, but hey, at least the year is starting well on the retrogaming reissues front. Hello and welcome to 2020, a period of human history that will come to be known as the Year of Hindsight. Mission control for retronauts former EIC of 1UP.com and taking dapper (and frogs) back from the Nazis.
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