Hideo Kojima was partly inspired by the 1963 war film The Great Escape when making Metal Gear on MSX.
Tag: Metal Gear Solid
Fun Fact: When Metal Gear Ripped Off Terminator
Solid Snake on the original boxart of Metal Gear was literally drawn from Michael Biehn portraying Kyle Reese in the original Terminator movie.
Fun Fact: Why Metal Gear Was Replaced With a Super Computer
Many found it odd that Solid Snake fights a super computer instead of a Metal Gear in the NES version of the original game. The reason was mainly technical, as programmers couldn’t fit the nuclear tank properly with the limitations of the hardware.
Fun Fact: What Hideo Kojima Thought of Metal Gear on NES
Hideo Kojima was not pleased with the NES version of Metal Gear. They made combat more the focus rather than stealth, and he was definitely unhappy that the Metal Gear boss fight was replaced by a super computer.
Fun Fact: Why Metal Gear Became a Stealth Game
Metal Gear was intended to be a straight shoot em up ripoff of Capcom’s Commando. But the MSX computers had a hard time processing so many enemies on the screen at once, so it morphed into a game with stealth as the main focus.