Metro Siege Is a Brand-New Beat ’em Up Shipping on Real Neo Geo Cartridges

Every so often a project comes along that feels engineered in a lab to hit every one of my buttons at once. Metro Siege is that project. It is a brand-new 16-bit cooperative beat ’em up, inspired by Final Fight and Streets of Rage, and it is being built for the Commodore Amiga, the Neo Geo, and PC.

The developer is BitBeamCannon, a studio that lives and breathes authentic retro development, and the platform list is the headline. We are not talking about a pixel-art tribute that ships on Steam and calls it a day. Metro Siege is targeting physical Neo Geo cartridges in both MVS and AES formats, the exact carts SNK sold thirty-odd years ago, plus Amiga editions on CD and floppy disk. The physical pledges come loaded with the good stuff too: collectible cards, sticker sheets, pin badges, and posters.

The game funded on Kickstarter and sailed past its goal, sitting around 24,800 pounds against a roughly 13,800 pound target with weeks still to run as of this writing, and the campaign closes on July 4. The plan is to finish the Amiga build first, with the PC and Neo Geo editions following as fully playable releases.

New games on real Neo Geo hardware in 2026 should not be possible, and yet here we are. This is the original-hardware homebrew scene at full strength: developers who care enough to ship on the actual iron, and collectors willing to pay for a cartridge instead of a download. It is the healthiest sign you can ask for that these platforms are still alive, and I will take it.