Metal Gear (video game)

Metal Gear
Japanese MSX2 cover art
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	JP/EU/AU: Konami NA: Ultra Games (NES)
Director(s)	Hideo Kojima
Designer(s)	Hideo Kojima
Programmer(s)	Hiroyuki Fukui Tomonori Otsuka Koji Toyohara
Artist(s)	Masami Tabata Azusa Fujimoto
Composer(s)	MSX2 version Iku Mizutani Shigehiro Takenouchi Motoaki Furukawa FC/NES version Kazuki Muraoka
Series	Metal Gear
Platform(s)	MSX2 Famicom/NES, MS-DOS, Commodore 64, Mobile phone, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Wii Virtual Console, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita
Release	July 13, 1987 MSX2 JP: July 13, 1987 EU: 1987 Famicom/NES JP: December 22, 1987 NA: June 1988 EU/AU: 1989 MS-DOS NA: August 30, 1990 EU: 1990 Commodore 64 NA: 1990 EU: 1990 GameCube JP: March 11, 2004 Mobile phone JP: August 18, 2004 PlayStation 2 JP: December 22, 2005 NA: March 14, 2006 EU: October 6, 2006 AU: October 13, 2006 Virtual Console JP: December 8, 2009 PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 NA: November 8, 2011 JP: November 23, 2011 EU: February 3, 2012 AU: February 16, 2012 PlayStation Vita NA: June 12, 2012 JP: June 28, 2012 EU: June 29, 2012 AU: July 5, 2012
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, stealth
Mode(s)	Single-player

Metal Gear is an overhead military action-adventure stealth video game originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2 computer in Japan and parts of Europe. Considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, it is the first video game designed by Hideo Kojima, who directed many of the later Metal Gear sequels. A reworked version was released for the Famicom a few months later, which saw a release in North America for the NES the following year, although this version featured drastically altered level designs among other changes, and was developed without Kojima's involvement. The MSX2 version has since been given a wider release through its inclusion in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for the PlayStation 2, as well as in its later HD Edition for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Vita, with these later releases featuring a revised translation and additional gameplay features. The MSX2 version was also re-released in Japan as a digital download for mobile phones and the Wii Virtual Console.

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.