Metal Gear · RAWG · Courtesy of RAWG
Game data
- Released
- 1987-07-07
- User rating
- 3.65 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Action
- Platforms
- PC, NES, Commodore / Amiga
- ESRB
- Everyone 10+
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Game details · IGDB
Metal Gear is considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, it was also the first video game designed by Hideo Kojima, who also directed many of the later Metal Gear sequels. The game 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 player must navigate the main character, a military operative codenamed Solid Snake, through various locations, while avoiding visual …
- Released
- 1987
- Genres
- Shooter, Tactical, Adventure
- Platforms
- Wii, MSX2
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Metal Gear
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami
Key facts
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami NA : Ultra Games (NES, C64, DOS)
- Designer
- Hideo Kojima
- Programmers
- Hiroyuki Fukui Tomonori Otsuka Koji Toyohara
- Artists
- Masami Tabata Azusa Fujimoto
- Composers
- Iku Mizutani Shigehiro Takenouchi Motoaki Furukawa
- Series
- Metal Gear
- Platform
- MSX2
- Release
- July 13, 1987 MSX2 JP : July 13, 1987 EU : July 1987 Famicom/NES JP : December 22, 1987 NA : June 1988 PAL : 1989 Commodore 64 NA : 1989 EU : 1990 MS-DOS NA : August 30, 1990 EU : 1990 Mobile phone JP : August 18, 2004 NA : 2008 Windows WW : September 25, 2020
- Genres
- Action-adventure , stealth
- Mode
- Single-player
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Ultra Games
- Series
- Metal Gear
- Followed by
- Snake's Revenge
- Developer
- Konami
- Platform
- Nintendo GameCube
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- ROM cartridge
- Designed by
- Hideo Kojima
- Official website
- www.konami.com/mg/us/en
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Metal Gear
- publication date
- 1987-12-22
- input device
- computer keyboard
- title
- Metal Gear
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Encyclopedic overview
Metal Gear is a 1987 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. Originally released in Japan and parts of Europe in July 1987, it is the first mainline game in the Metal Gear series, the fifth chronologically, and the first video game developed by Hideo Kojima. Players control Solid Snake, an operative of the U.S. special forces unit FOXHOUND, who is sent on a solo infiltration mission into the fortified state of Outer Heaven to destroy Metal Gear, a bipedal mecha capable of launching nuclear missiles to anywhere in the world, as well as rescue a number of fellow agents who have been taken hostages by the enemy.
Initially envisioned to a pure action game, Metal Gear was reworked under Kojima to focus on avoiding enemies, contrary to the then-popular shoot 'em up genre, with an emphasis on evasion similar to Pac-Man (1980). Numerous weapons and items are used in the game, including a portable radio transceiver used to convey dialogue and the narrative. A port of the game was later released internationally for the Famicom/NES; this version was developed without Kojima's involvement and features many changes, including drastically altered level designs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metal Gear” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.