It’s funny because the game series that has made up 70% of who I am today all started from me winning a Pizza Hut demo desk in karate

First experience a Demo. Played the full game when someone let me borrow it. And buying it because there was an alternative ending. The replay of this game great

I do love the way you brilliantly slip in little South Park references here and there. Bravo!

got a PS1 and played the demo all those years ago, and years later finally played it. It was INCREDIBLE. It was in highschool in 2009 on my PSP. I knew it was the Demo i played all those years ago. It is an incredible PS1 game. I grew up with a PS1 and N64 and easily MGS is the BEST most advanced PS1 game ive ever experianced. Nothing comes close.

Amazing score. I saw, a Long time ago, an amazingly edited fight between Piccolo and #17. I wish I could find it again.

Great overview! Never in a million years thought I'd hear 10/10 about a video game novel adaptation, but you've convinced me. :)

Great video but I noticed a bit of an error near the beginning. Metal Gear was ported to the NES, not Super NES in 1988 with no involvment from Kojima. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake did not see an official US/EU release until 2006. The game you showed was Snake's Revenge (also for the NES, not SNES), a game that released the same year as Metal Gear 2, but was made before it, also without Kojima's involvement. The only reason MG2:SS exists is because Kojima bumped into a developer from the Snake's Revenge team on a train, who asked him to make a true sequel to Metal Gear.

I replayed this game last month. I still have my copy from the essential collection(2008). I couldn't believe I beat this game when I was 11-12 years old! I had a tough time with REX and the fist fight with Liquid! Truly a masterpiece!

If someone had told anybody back in 2000 that a remake of the original Resident Evil would end up having better cinematography, voice work and translation than a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid I think they would have thought we were bat shit insane.Twin Snakes, what a shame!

I randomly caught a review of this game on late night TV (the only time shows about video games were worthy of being shown in the UK because British media has always seriously had it in for vidya.) It convinced me to play the demo on a disc and the rest was history.

a master piece

The cutscenes are the best part of twin snakes

I remember getting a call from a friend who bought the game upon release, asking me for help because my English was better than his. I'm so glad I went over that evening. I was immediately hooked, from the soundtrack, visuals, stealth components to the plot; it was everything I imagined and more. MGS is even the reason I became a real Soldier. Thanks for the fantastic video!

Great video! I have been a lifelong Metal Gear fan, love this.

Great work, thanks 😊

I have actually met Ludvig Forssell!

My first Metal Gear experience was my friends older brother showing us the game on ps1. I got my parents to get me the game when I was about 10 and I’ve played them all religiously ever since.

Love this game. I remember searching EBX and local stores for the OPM demo disc. Definitely one of my all time favorites.

Sidenote: is that song at 6:42 not one of the best ever conceived? Agh it makes me want to cry how good that piece is.

Twin snakes still great

The first Metal Gear game I ever played and I was addicted ever since.

3:48 Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake and snakes Revenge are different games, and they were put on the nes

I love your videos man ! These games pretty much consumed my childhood. It’s nice hear someone has the same enthusiasm for these games.

The only problem I truly have with Twin Snakes is it pretended Ocelot wasn't ambidextrous.

Dude loving the content please keep it up. Would love to see this channel and you grow!

A discussion of the MGS soundtrack absent "UI" SFX Is a huge missed opportunity, "!" Is a meme you can hear because of this game.

I remember as a 10 year old kid i was really into military/spy thriller action stuff and I saw the trailer on TV for MGS and I HAD to have it. I was so excited to play it just thinking it would be a fun spy thriller action game, I had no clue what I was getting myself into. I remember early on thinking to myself how something was different about this experience, the strange character names, how it alluded to the fact that some of them had otherworldly powers. I just thought, meh ok ill roll with it. But it really kind of hit me the first time you hear The Best is Yet to Come start playing when swimming into the basement of shadow moses, holy shit what is this game???. The next few days and probably 10 plus hours it took me to actually beat it as a little kid are still the most transcendent and meaningful Ive had consuming any form of media in my life. I must have played the game through 20-30 times in the coming months, I wanted to unravel every hidden meaning and ingest every single story beat. Every release of the sequels for the rest of my life was like my own personal holiday, no matter what was going on in my life I would just be like nah im playing the new Metal Gear today. Anyway ill shut up now but its nice to have watched your MGS vids lately I can tel you may have had the same feelings I did, and they have given me a real pang of nostalgia. Thanks man. Cant wait for the next one.

Been binging watching your videos Please keep up the great work!

It is insane why this video isn't getting the views it should

In regards to the music. Gigi Meroni did the music for most of the cutscenes/codec conversations that were not on the released OST. It's on KZfaq and spotify!

Another great video! Glad you brought up the series OST, it really is phenomenal 🔥 Some of my favorites in all of gaming, and OSTs in general 👏

I played the demo over and over again before getting the game, which ended with the DARPA chief. I wouldn't like to guess how many times I must have gone through those early areas.

14:40 you missed a perfect opportunity for an IT'S NOT OVER YET SNAKE reference

I remember seeing a copy of this at a cousins house. He definitely recommended it, but I didn't have a PS1. Fast forward to the PSP era, I got one during my sophomore year of high school with a copy of Portable Ops. While not entirely wrapping my head around how it was supposed to be stealth until later, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. A little later that year, I read an article on the upcoming MGS4, which had a history of the series so far. After some hard work and saving up, got a copy of it and also, by sheer luck, found a party pack that had MGS, MGS2, and MGS3 for the complete price of $30. Without a second thought, I bought the pack, ran home as fast as I could, plugged MGS into the PS3 (thank god it could play PS1 discs), and didn't stop until I realized I had been up all night and had to go to church. Since then, MGS has been one of my favorite games of all time, and the series has been a favorite of mine since. Can never get enough of playing this game.

I remember as a kid, crying because meryl got shot and i didnt know how to fight her (i was 8), my brother was like you need to go back and get the psg1... so naturally i still cried and made him get it for me... I then did the fun bit of shooting sniper breasts in the mug... The end :P

The atmosphere in this game is still unmatched to this day.

I would love a remake on all systems with the graphics we get today but all the controls are the same as the PS1. The controls behind the first game were a big part of it. They made the game challenging in a legendary sense. Just imagine certain fights, like Ocelot if you could use first person. The whole challenge of the fight would be ruined.

My first mgs experience was Snake Eater. I'd just had my best friend play through Silent Hill 2 during the first UK Lockdown and he'd managed to piss me off by killing everything he came across instead of just running by. So when it came time for me to play his favourite game, I decided stealth wasn't an option. I was a fuckin war machine, gunning down everyone with each alert that sounded. The highlights being mowing down tens of soldiers on the mountain top with a turret I found and chasing down the end, blowing him away with a shotgun. Later ended up regretting that turret rampage when it came to The Sorrow's River. Since then I've played through every MGS with only 4 left to finish. He may now be on the other side of the planet, both that mother fucker gave me his MGS memes.

14:22 fucking priceless

5 years ago I played MGS for the first time. I played it on the PSP. I quickly followed it up with 2 and 3 on the PS2. My favourite game series, with 2 being my favourite game of the series.

Take the music and acting from MGS1, the graphics and gameplay of Twin Snakes, and add the new scenes from the Digital Graphic Novel. Now you have a perfect Shadow Moses Incident.

Dude your channel is fucking awesome! Subbed!

This guy: I'll do my best to not spoil anything Also this guy: HERES EVERYTHING 💀

While this wasn't the game I started the series with, it was the game that made me like it, mainly cause I just resonated so much with Snake. By the end I was loving it, and it just felt like a wonderful game I wanted to play forever. As I said earlier I only played MGS2 first, and for MGS1 when I first got the "Essential Collection" for PS2 I remember when I was in the parking lot of the game store with my mom, going through all of the first three games' playing manuals and reading them from front to back, just trying to figure out what this whole series was about. Nowadays I play MGSV with random videos in the background just to have that Metal Gear fix, mainly because I only really have a functioning PS4 right now and my other games and consoles don't work, so going through these videos allows me to relive the memories I had with these games, and I have to thank you for that. I also put these videos into a playlist of other gaming stuff that I have watched over the years called "Big Boi Game Time" and I will forever cherish the memories I had with these videos, even if me and the dude on the video never meet, it's interesting to know that his videos, especially on a series of games that I only knew from the games until KZfaq videos gave me more insight to how these games were made and some of the Background on them, have impacted me in a highly positive way. May God bless you man, and may you find much success in the future.

R.I.P. Ratel-R(Investigated they the Ratel were stolen except mines betrayed the theives awkwardly true story), errrm I mean cough Cyborg Ninja.

Back in 98 a friend from school let me borrow her copy of this game for a couple weeks, and I was blown away. I had always played video games but before MGS I had never loved any game. Oh how that changed the first time I sat down on a couch with Solid Snake. This game gets all the credit for my love of video games that now as a 34 year old is still going strong. Whenever anyone asks what my favorite games are the answer is always Metal Gear and Mass Effect. I have the tattoos to prove it lol

With Twin Snakes the over the top cutscenes didn’t bother as much as the re-recorded voice lines. That second performance just felt flat to me. There was something special captured during the performances of the first game.

What makes Mgs what it is, is its future and its past. I am currently since June 2020 on a MG marathon, playing the story from the beginning (snake eater), now I am on son's of liberty. And played no other games in between, only MG. I noticed that most things of mgs where already featured in 87s Metal Gear and 90s MG solid snake. The codec, the cardboard box the scopes the thermal goggles, the cqc, the hind the cameras the remote missiles, the electric floors, the infrared beams. Mgs is the previous MG games that became cinematic if I could say so in a very few words. Also if you noticed from mgsv, the staff members names like, crying harrier, cunning mastiff, brutal gecko etc. Is like Sniper Wolf, decoy octopus, psycho mantis, 2 words describing animals into people's characteristics. And its something I noticed after I played mgsv and recently played mgs for the 4798134th time. All mg saga is included in mgs. Hail Kojima hail Metal Gear

Wanna hear something crazy. (or read to be more accurate.) The first time I played MGS I got the Otacon ending. And the second time... and third time etc etc. For years I wasn't even aware there was two possible endings and I played MGS 1 more times than I could count by the time I played MGS 3 Snake Eater. Because I couldn't tap the button fast enough to make it through the torture scene. I would always submit. I used to think it was designed that way so that the player would have no other way to get past it than to submit. I would have been really confused by Meryl's appearance in MGS 4 if it hadn't been for my brother figuring it out. He taught me a technique where he basically vibrated his whole arm to press a button more rapidly than I would have believed to be possible if I didn't see him do it myself. It was hard for me to do at first. It was actually painful until my arm muscles got used to it. Anyway My brother and I had both played MGS countless times for the better part of a decade and suddenly we both discovered a whole other ending. I had a lot of mixed feelings about it. I didn't know which ending was cannon until MGS4 and I found out the Otacon ending that I became so attached to wasn't it... Oh well. I got over it. And it's still my favorite game. I learned to love the Meryl ending.

I haven’t played Metal Gear 1 and 2 you’re really missing out. They’re just as mechanically interesting as the later games. It’s not as impressive now, but as a kid it was pretty mind-blowing.

Wish i could get the novel on kindle

MGS earned EGM's first ever Platinum award (a total 4 10 out 10 review score). It's Incredible as the review described it.

This game was my childhood. Me and a cousin of mine used to play it constantly swaping the controller back and forth after each boss lmao. Up until MGS and also Resident Evil 2 all I ever really played was Mario but playing what was basically an action movie blew my dumb little 10 year old brain out the back of my head xD Also you can get it on PSN on PS3. That's how I play it now.

This is probably the first ever truly GREAT game...Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider were huge but this game had everything.

Hey man! Nice video! Just wanted to point out, Snake's Revenge wasn't a port of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, in fact it came before MG2. MG2 was made in response to Snake's Revenge, and he only made a sequel because he was pissed off Konami took his idea and didn't ask him to be a part of it. (The game was bad lol). Anyway, just a small fun-fact/nitpick. Keep it up man!

The only thing that bothers me in metal gear solid is that miller turns out to be liquid and he claims that we're just using to activate the metal gear snake...so why the hell did you wanna kill him with a helicopter? Or what was the point of majority of boss fights?

Anyone around here got a nuke?

You show Snakea Revenge when saying that the games were released in america, but this is not the case. MG was released in the USA, and then the american branch if Konami made Snakes Revenge on their own. During production Kojima heard about it through the grapevine and pretty much decided "screw that, its my game, I will make the sequel, and it will be better than theirs!" and started work on MGSS, which was not released in the west until it was included in the Subsistence release of MGS3.

My first experience : A 12 year old who’s English was ok, but Not great. Being stuck for 2 weeks because “ isn’t her codec on the back of the CD case” moment. This and FFVII are the PS1 games for me. The voice acting and bosses are still epic, and no MGS has done bosses like this after that. ( except The Boss obviously)

Good video, but you forgot to mention Tomokazu Fukushima and Yoji Shinkawa involvement

Did you really say both titles ported to the super nintendo... then show boxart for the NES game and sequel that isn't a port at all... what

Nice video but you got the detail of metal gear being ported to the Super Nintendo wrong. The first game was ported to the NES and an unofficial sequel was made for the NES called Snakes Revenge. One of the people who worked on Snakes Revenge met and discussed Metal Gear with Hideo Kojima on a train and told him he should make a true sequel. Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake was released on the MSX2 and was NEVER Ported to another system until Subsistence. Just needed to clarify because you put a lot of work in your research and that is a HUGE detail. Had that conversation not happened Solid would likely have never been made.

I played MGS1 without cut scenes. Not because I didn't like them but the reason is that I found a PC copy of this game. And due to data limitations back in 90's it was bare minimum. So my experience is more like a gameplay oriented rather than the story side. But I was curious about the whole story rather than the codec calls. It means the gameplay was masterpiece of that time .

My first Metal Gear experience was Metal Gear Solid 1. It was early 1999 and just had our Playstation for a few months. It was also the Number 1 PS1 game according to PSM (100% Independent Playstation Magazine) is what got me into the Franchise in the first place. And I look forward to this new MGS1 Remake after The Twin Snakes fiasco. I like the Remake, but there's something wrong with it: The visual looks dark compared to the Original and MGS2 that I can barely see. Some of the glitches kill the game: The camera near the stairs in the tank hangar always spot you no matter what you do, except if you use Chaff and if you get spotted even once you always get Alert 3 times, even if you Reset the game or die and exit. And some of the cutscenes are ruined: the Original cutscene with the tower bridge was dramatic. After the bridge gets destroyed the Hind appears and Snake runs toward the handrail where you're supposed to use the Rope, but in Twin Snakes after the bridged is destroyed a metal debris flies towards Snake, Snake chucks a Grenade at it, WALK TOWARDS the handrail where you're supposed to use the Rope, the Hind appears and there's NO MORE DRAMATIC RUNNING! And in the cutscene where Gray Fox dies, why does Snake scream his name before he gets crush?

I miss the all red thermal goggles. The updated ones in Substance looked terrible, especially when compared to the ones in Splinter Cell, which was from the same era.

Im from Colombia .... First time I played the game I did on Cd of Demos .... I love the game inmediately and I beat that demo 100 times or more ... Till I would have my own copy ... That copy was on english speak ....and japanese subtitled ... Even so ... I can beat the game ... But take me much time find the way to use the PAL for "deactivate" the rex ... ,:) Regards ....

Hey man I've discovered your channel recently and I really enjoy your analyses you've been doing on the series. You clearly put a lot of work into them. But it's strange, sometimes you just have some big inaccuracies that don't seem befitting considering the rest of your work is really high quality. You said both MG and MG2 were were ported to the Super Nintendo. But that's incorrect on multiple levels. Firstly Snake's Revenge isn't a port of Metal Gear 2. It's a sequel to MG1 commissioned by Konami without Kojima knowing or having any input on it. It was made before MG2 was made. In fact it was only when Kojima found out about the game and heard how sub par it was, that he decided to make a true sequel to his original game on the MSX2 after some encouragement from a co-worker. Secondly they were not released for the Super Nintendo but rather the NES, the Super Nintendo predecessor. These errors don't seem that big a deal but I just feel you're kinda letting yourself down because the rest of the quality is so high and these are really silly mistakes that should be easily caught. Even a wikipedia article says what console and what release date for the games. I hope I haven't come off disrespectful or naggy. I'm looking forward to your next MGS video. If you're interested, I also made a comment on your MGS2 video about some weird misinformation you had.

Do you think MGS should get a remake

And since better call saul can equal or even surpass breaking bad, I think that Kojima should pick a character and invest on her/his story for a legendary spin off.

This KCE Sound Team stuff is typically the bullshit Konami does with their employees... look what they did with Kojima...

Meryl is still alive? Bro you got the bad ending

I tried really hard to get MGS1 to work through emulation on my laptop & it ran like shit. Is the PC port on GOG really that bad? Or should I play that? It’s either that or watch a long play.

It's a bit of a disaster that hideo Kojima the creator of metal gear has been forced from Konami and I'm already predicting Metal Gear Solid 6 will suck without him at the helm and snake's Revenge hideo Kojima was not involved with its creation and is seen as the black sheep of the franchise because it didn't have hideo kojima's creative hand on it

2:48 hahahahaha

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Bro. Metal gear has become a religion for some, meaning sensitivity is paper thin. Any discrepancy, and your done. Having said that, i hope for your sake this has documented facts over personal biases

its funny all i hear about that book is its bad cos they just copied the dialogue word for word

Twin Snakes is better than the original. you can't change my mind.