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Hideo Kojima (writer)
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After Gray Fox, FOX-HOUND's best agent, goes missing, rookie Solid Snake is sent to the South African fortress "Outer Heaven" to rescue him from terrorists armed with a nuclear-equipped bipedal tank. full summary | add synopsis
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The character of Solid Snake is based on Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York (1981) (which is reportedly one of Hideo Kojima's favorite movies).
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I feel asleep!
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Referenced in Dorimumikkusu Tivi: Warudo faitazu (2003) (VG)
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What popular MGS characters are in this game?Is there anything after the credits?
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Hideo Kojima was just a young video-game designer when he created this masterpiece. It came out for the MSX2 back in 1987. I played the version released with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, that also came with Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. There are very few changes from the original such as some name changes and what not, but it is pretty much the same game, based on the Msx version and not the Nes version. Metal Gear at the time was beyond any other video-game, although some games come close to greatness, but no game matched this. They say it didn't sell that well, but that doesn't matter. That cannot take away the genius of the game. It was hands down the best game from the 80s, and would be the king of the hill of games for 3 years until Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake took its place. The story was top-notch, characters were the greatest, the situations you found yourself getting into were fantastic. But perhaps the greatest aspect of the game is that it introduced the world to the legendary, one and only Solid Snake, and the rest is history. Nuff Said.