Long before it became solid, the Metal Gear franchise was already defining the action-stealth genre.
One of the most notable games in the series, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, turns 25 years old today. Metal Gear 2 game out for the PC platform MSX2 in 1990 in Japan. It wouldn’t have an official release in the U.S. until 2006, when it was included with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. The Metal Gear Solid series would go on to sell over 33 million copies.
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When you play Metal Gear 2 today, it’s actually shocking how much it has in common with Metal Gear Solid, the 1998 PlayStation game that helped to make the series mainstream. Metal Gear 2 features similar stealth-based action. You have to infiltrate an enemy base while remaining undetected. It also had a riveting story that introduced the character Gray Fox, who would later become the Cyborg Ninja in Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear 2 was directed by Hideo Kojima, the man who has helmed every installment in the main series, including the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain (a game that stars Big Boss, who was actually the final … well, boss in Metal Gear 2). However, The Phantom Pain is likely Kojima’s last Metal Gear or Konami game.