Metal Gear (1987) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Metal Gear

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…

13 July 1987

What Metal Gear is

Metal Gear is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1987. It is available on Wii and MSX2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Near the end of the 20th century, the West discovers that a weapon of mass destruction is being constructed inside Outer Heaven, a fortified state founded by a "legendary mercenary" 200 km north of Galzburg, South Africa. The special forces unit FOXHOUND sends top agent Gray Fox to infiltrate the fortress, assess the situation and neutralize the threat. FOXHOUND loses contact with Gray Fox a few days later, with his last transmission being "METAL GEAR..." To discover what happened to Gray Fox, FOXHOUND commander Big Boss sends his newest recruit, Solid Snake, into the area in an operation codenamed Intrude N313. Upon insertion into Outer Heaven, Snake makes contact with local resistance…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.