Metal Gear (Nintendo, 1988)

Behold! The game that makes you use your mind--in addtion to your machine gun. Although DREADFULLY primitive by today's standards, Metal Gear was a powerful force in the days of the NES. When most games like Contra and Guerilla War (both good games)emphasized run and gun shooting, Metal Gear introduced a new idea: How about a game where you can use stealth and wit to get past your enemies? Needless to say, the idea worked EXTREMELY well. Even if you've played Metal Gear Solid, you'll feel right at home playing this game. Solid Snake starts off the game with nothing but his bare fists, radio, and he even managed to get his cigarettes. The guards aren't all that smart, but they do sleep, hit switches, patrol, and hone in on you when you accidentally fire an un-silenced weapon. The weapon variety is nice in this game, too. Handgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, mines, etc. There is also a large variety of items like oxygen tanks, door cards, cardboard box, rations, etc. The door card system is annoying, though, because you have 10 cards or so, and you have to patiently go through each one of them to find out which one opens what door. The graphics are nothing special, but the atmosphere will remind you of Metal Gear Solid. Music is only average as well. The storyline makes up for the other two, though. If you haven't played this great classic, you need to do so. You're missing out.

This game is considered a classic. It spawned the stealth genre and spawned the hugely popular Metal Gear Solid series. But playing it today is a whole different story.

First off, when you die you go back to the beginning of the entire game. No checkpoints or anything. You need a password to continue close to where you were and these are ridiculously long. Sneaking is almost impossible because all you can do is hope to run by before the enemy randomly turns toward your direction. If an enemy does spot you (and they will... a lot) you need to fight them off and more troops that show up. This is quite difficult since the aiming needs to be precise.

Just so everyone knows I am a huge fan of the Metal Gear Solid games and I consider Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to be THE greatest game ever made but I was not impressed at all with this game.

Downright disappointing.

Alright Game, I bought because I'm a huge fan of the Metal Gear Solid Series, even though MGS3 Sub. Had this as a bonus feature, I still wanted the original game. The one I received works really well. It is a really tough game, but reminds me of Metal Gear Solid, in fact It plays almost the same as the PS1 Metal Gear Solid, but with 8 Bit Graphics of course.

The reason why I bought this game It's a vary cool nintendo game alot of fun a classic love how the story go's. And I also have all the other Metal Gear Solid game's I like how all the game's story's are tied togather. And for anyone that love's old Nintendo NES game's or any Metal Gear game's I vary well recommend this game it's alot of fun.

Metal Gear fué lanzado en Japón para el sistema "MSX", el cuál nucna llegó a éstos rincones del mundo. sin embargo la empresa que lo lanzó originalmente se le ocurrió hacer una versión para el "nuevo" sistema de videojuegos "NES".
Lo particular de ésta versión es que Hideo Kojima no trabajó en el desarrollo de la misma, que incluso según palabras del mismo Kojima (Metal Gear Saga Vol.1), es de inferior calidad a la original. igualmente el título fué un éxito de ventas e hizo conocido a Solid Snake y a Metal Gear a nivel mundial.

la original versión de Metal Gear emulada de MSX puede encontrarse en :

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Sony PlaStation 2)
< la versión NTSC US/CA posee subtítulos en español y e inglés >