Slugfest is a lime green mini cassette with some pink/purple patches at the bottom and an orange & silver label on one side.
Transformation: Turn the non-label side of the toy towards you with the pink/purple panels at the bottom. Fold these panels down as the legs. Fold the top two corners out to the sides and down to form the head & tail and to allow the spines to spring out. Plug the laser cannons into the rear holes on each sides.
Slugfest's beast mode is a lime green stegosaurus complete with pink/purple legs, which turn at the hips, and spines down his back. Both head & tail can bend upwards as well. His guns are big and chunky,with a large solar panel on the top which is a nice throwback to the Dinobot Stegosaurus Snarl whose spines were solar panels.
Slugfest deserves credit for doing something different with the tape concept. You can't go wrong with dinosaurs can you ?
Slugfest was originally release in the USA in 1987 where he was paired with Overkill. This 2-pack was not released in the UK, while in Japan the contents were sold individually as D-108 Slugfest and D-109 Overkill.
Slugfest has been re-released just once as part of Transformers Encore #17: Cassette Big Mission 2 with Ramhorn, Steeljaw and Ratbat
Slugfest has never been repainted. How about swapping the green for grey, purple for red and silver chrome for gold chrome to create a Dinobot Snarl Tape?