{"id":103707,"date":"2019-11-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/metal_slug_forerunner_in_the_hunt_is_coming_to_switch"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:00","slug":"metal-slug-forerunner-in-the-hunt-is-coming-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/14\/metal-slug-forerunner-in-the-hunt-is-coming-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Slug Forerunner In The Hunt Is Coming To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f05b08ad3da9a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f05b08ad3da9a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Thanks, Hamster!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/794\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Damo\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Damo\">Damien McFerran<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2019-11-14T15:00:00+00:00\"><span>10 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SXD_21ouJWA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Japanese company Hamster has been doing sterling work of late bringing classic arcade titles to the Switch via its Arcade Archives line, and it&#8217;s lining up a release for one of Irem&#8217;s most loved shooters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_in_the_hunt\">In The Hunt<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 known in Japan as <strong>Kaitei Daisens\u014d<\/strong> \u2013 was originally released in 1993 and was developed by the same core team that would later part company with Irem and form Nazca \u2013 the studio which created SNK&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/neogeo\/metal_slug\">Metal Slug<\/a><\/strong> series.<\/p>\n<p>While the gameplay is obviously different from that seminal run-and-gun blaster \u2013 this is an underwater, side-scrolling shooter \u2013 the similarity in the visual style is clear to see. In The Hunt features some incredible 2D sprite work and gorgeous level design. It was ported to the PlayStation, Saturn and Windows PC back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The title will hit the Japanese eShop on November 21st, with a price of \u00a5838.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2019\/11\/14\/in-the-hunt-coming-to-switch\/\" href=\"https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2019\/11\/14\/in-the-hunt-coming-to-switch\/\">japanesenintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/switch-eshop\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2019-11-15T00:16:29+00:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks, Hamster! by Damien McFerran 10 hours ago [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SXD_21ouJWA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Japanese company Hamster has been doing sterling work of late bringing classic arcade titles to the Switch via its Arcade Archives line, and it&#8217;s lining up a release for one of Irem&#8217;s most loved shooters. In The Hunt \u2013 known in Japan as Kaitei Daisens\u014d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}