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METAL GEAR SOLID

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The success of Metal Gear Solid can be seen as the perfect storm of PlayStation’s new technology, the popularity of Japanese games, and Hideo Kojima’s quirks. A threequal to games few in the West had ever played in 1998, MGS embraced PlayStation’s newness and caught the imagination. The

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