Metal Gear Solid. Now that’s a game that I’ve got a long history with. Released in 1998 by Konami, you play as Snake, a retired special ops operative turned mercenary, brought out of retirement to help stop a rogue special ops group from launching a nuclear weapon. I don’t exactly remember what the hype for the game was, given that I was only 10 at the time. However, I remember being excited after playing the demo with my cousin. It was at the time that Pizza Hut was giving out Demo Discs (remember those?) with their pizzas, and we were instantly hooked. Eventually, we began quoting some of the lines from the game, something that persists even to this day. The demo itself was a lot of fun and, once I got the actual game in my hands, I was hooked. But, let’s take off the nostalgia goggles for a moment and see how it holds up today.
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