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.

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This is a great classic game if your a fan of the metal gear series you'll love it and for its time its a great game.

I love metal gear and this is a classic, the game has a problem running here and there but it was a great buy =)

this game was everything I remembered. It arrived very fast and have not stopped playing since it arrived.

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.

This game is the first in a long series... Im currently playing metal Gear Solid 4 on my PS3 and bought this to replay. True classic worth revisiting!!!

It's really good looks just like the picture. I am a Nintendo game collector and this is one I didn't have.

5/5 where it all started loved this game for years must by or own for all metal gear fans

bought for the love of the series

The reason i bought it is that i finised all the others just not the ones on the nintendo that was the reason

Really fast delivery & the product i bought worked perfect!
I've bought it from someone in America & i live in Europe, in less then a week i had the product in house !

I loved this game when I was a child. I saw this and told my wife I had to have it. The day I got it I played it as soon as I open the mail. Thanks for another good eBay seller

Both Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge(Metal Gear 2) are must have games for the NES. Countless hours will be spent before these games are done, and for the NES the graphics/sound aren't that bad. Pick these games up if you have the chance.