Metal Gear (メタルギア, commonly abbreviated MG) is a stealth game designed by Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear was developed and first published by Konami in 1987 for the MSX2 home computer. The game is considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, in which avoiding direct encounter with the enemy is emphasized over attacking openly.
The premise revolves around a special forces operative codenamed Solid Snake who goes into a solo infiltration mi...
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Metal Gear (メタルギア, commonly abbreviated MG) is a stealth game designed by Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear was developed and first published by Konami in 1987 for the MSX2 home computer. The game is considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, in which avoiding direct encounter with the enemy is emphasized over attacking openly.
The premise revolves around a special forces operative codenamed Solid Snake who goes into a solo infiltration mission into the fortified state of Outer Heaven to destroy Metal Gear, a bipedal walking tank capable of launching nuclear missiles from anywhere in the world.
The MSX2 version was initially released only in Japan and parts of Europe. A heavily altered port for the Japanese Family Computer was released months afterwards, followed by an English localization for its western counterpart, the Nintendo Entertainment System, in 1988. The original MSX2 version would be ported to mobile phones in Japan in 2004, followed by its inclusion in Metal Gear...
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