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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

TitleMetal Gear 2: Solid Snake
First release1990
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
PlatformMSX
GenresChristmas video game, action-adventure game, stealth game
Also known asMetal Gear 2
Players1 player
Co-opNo
Releases
MSX: 1990-07-19 (NTSC-J)
Wikidata IDQ1995422

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake commonly abbreviated MG2) is a stealth action game that was written and directed by Hideo Kojima and developed by Konami. It is the second game released in the Metal Gear series and the seventh one chronologically. It was initially released only in Japan for the MSX2 computer on July 20, 1990. The game was re-released as a downloadable game for mobile phones in Japan in 2004. A North American and European version of Metal Gear 2 was released in 2006 as part of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence along with the original Metal Gear.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
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Wikidata (Q1995422) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (26943,118289) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-J release) · © Konami · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (5): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Konami · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Screenshots (1): Source: libretro-thumbnails (upstream libretro-thumbnails (art by developers/publishers; see repo README)) · © Konami · internal use only.
Logo: Konami, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Metal Gear 2 (1990) logo.jpg”)
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