This is one of those games that I wanted but never had a chance to get back in the day. The local gaming stores barely stocked anything outside the big names of gaming, and even then it was one or two copies per store (they received weekly shipments).
Metal Warriors was one I never saw on shelves. EB got one copy and it was a pre-order for a regular, they didn't order any for the store itself.
This always dumbfounded me because Konami was a well known, trusted, publisher within the gaming community back then. I guess this came down to the title being unknown so stores didn't put much investment in it.
Guess we were lucky cheap pirated game cartridges were available in my country since it is near Hongkong and Taiwan.🙂
I remember reading about pirate copies and hacks that were getting made back then. The gaming mags here would occasionally cover them in heavily slanted towards "don't support this stuff" articles that only made me want to support that stuff. 😂
Like, you are telling me there is a Street Fighter II game for the NES and we are not getting it in North America? There is a version of X game I love on Y console I just bought but licenses won't let anyone release it here in North America?
I was so mad at some of those hacks and pirate games not getting released here because they looked absolutely freaking awesome in the mags. I learned later after getting on the Internet that a great many of them were absolutely horrible. Still though, that was with hindsight of over a decade of curated games being released here - who knows what my opinion of SFII on NES might have been if I was able to play it back then before I was exposed to PlayStation, N64, better PC games, etc.
Street Fighter II game for the NES? I think I played that one before .