Metal Gear Turns 25
Today the Metal Gear series is exactly 25 years old. The first game, simply called ‘Metal Gear’ was released in Japan on July 7 1987 for the MSX2 system.
In its lifetime, the Metal Gear franchise managed to sell over 31 million copies worldwide, and received much critical acclaim.
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Dude it’s until tomorrow why is it already up????
he said in japan july 7 1987, there is already tomorrow and hideo is celebrating
anyway Happy Birthday Snake and Metal gear is good to have you around
“there hasn’t been better time then when we were sneaking around ”
Not true. It was released on July 12th. Check Making of MGS2, Countdown to MGS3, or the MGS1 manual.
MGS1 Japanese, not US. US manual is wrong.
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