What Metal Gear game got you into the series?

[psecody]

What was the first Metal Gear game you played? For me the one that I first played was Ghost Babel, I had no clue abot the story or anyting but I had a magazine (I believe it was pocket gamer issue 1 it had a neon orange cover) and I decided I either wanted that game or the Rainbow Six game for the GBC and I still really want that rainbow six game even today because it looked cool (they said the game sucked but I didn't care), anyway so I ended up buying Ghost Babel because walmart didn't have rainbow six (I think I was like 12 at the time) and I remember being hooked from the title screen I loved it and I love the story behind all these games. So what was your first experience with Metal Gear?

[FoxDie]

My first MG game was MGS. I remember when I was a kid, my cousin was like dude this game called MGS is so awesome you get to shoot people and stuff. I was like woah and watched some pics of the game in a magazine. Didn't get to play it at that time tho. So anyway, about a year later my other cousin somehow got the game, and I think he didn't even play it that much before I went to visit him and was all hyped about the game, and then we played it for many mad hours. Completed it with both endings and so.
After that I just had to get it for myself. I remember my friends and my mom being like "why you wanna get that game if you've already completed it many times with your cousin?", but anyway I got it.
Awesome times.

[The Dumpster Keeper]

Metal Gear Solid wasmy gateway drug as well. I was shocked to find that you couldn't just go around blwing everybody's heads off. I spent well over an hour at the dock before I finally got on the elevator.

[A.G.]

As most people I started out with Metal Gear Solid. The summer of '99 I graduated from High School and had a full time job earning money for college. Growing up without video games I finally went out and got myself a PlayStation. I tried out many different games but they could not really hold my interest. Then, on a demo disk that came with my PlayStation, I found MGS. By that time MGS has bee out for almost a year. So I tried it and fell in love with it. The following May when the preview of MGS2 was shown I knew that I was going for the whole series now, not just one game. So I found the emulators of MG and MG2 and got all hyped up for MGS2. By the end of 2000 I was trying my hand at different online MG communities and finally established MGF in March of 2001.

First played MGS - July 1999.
Going for the Series, not just one game - May 2000.
Established MGF - March 2001.

[The Mad Jackyl]

My first brush was with Metal Gear for the NES back around 1988 or so when I was 5 years old. My older brother and his friends next door played it and I loved the puzzle-like action which made the game more about figuring out just how to get through an area than doing the Contra style all out assault. I loved watching them play and feeling that you were a one man army of sorts, but like one of my other heroes of the day, MacGuyver, the hero was a very methodical and intelligent character who used his wits coupled with awesome technology to get the job done. The arsenal Solid Snake had at his disposal just made me feel like this dude was in total control and ready for anything that was thrown at him. The game was intriguing and mysterious at the same time and really worked wonders on my imagination. How in the heck do you find this Metal Gear and what is this highly secretive mission all about? Felt like I was thrust right into some spy story and I was the one that had to unravel it. My cousin later had Snake's Revenge and I viewed it as special at the time also because, hey, this was Snake again! The cover art is still pretty cool to me. I even think the title and what the title promised is still more awesome. "Snake was coming back with a vendetta and it's personal this time!"

Years later while reading Game Informer at the age of 15, I read about an upcoming game for PSX that was a continuation of the story. I said (maybe aloud) to myself "This is going to be the next game I get." After 11 years of no Solid Snake, I felt that since I had played the first NES game, that I had the heads-up on everybody else, like no one remembered the game but me. I was so giddy, thinking "Holy crap, a 3D Snake game."

I was 16 in 1998 when the game came out and I remember everything about the day I bought it, reading the Millennium guide's inside cover with the foreword from HK himself, what the day was like (cold and maybe some left over snow on the ground), and it was in January. I even got a cool promotional green army style hat with the Fox-Hound emblem which I still have. I popped that baby in my PSX and was blown away by the quality of the codec screens and the whole intro to the game. The voice acting - wow! No game before was like this. I knew I had a gem.

[SOLIDEST]

Well said jack, I too had my first encounter with MGS inwich i didn't really play at first. I read alot about it online and in magazines, never got to play it though till MGS2 came out, I rented it from blockbuster and from there the fanbase started for me.

[Liquiduz]

Back when MGS first came out, by brother rented it. I was like what, 9 or 10, and was more interested on my Nintendo 64 so I didnt give a damn about MGS. Years later when MGS2 came out, I kept seeing that commercial about it on TV. They kept saying it was the game of the year, I still even remember Liquid saying "I've been waiting for this!" in that commercial lol. So I was like "game of the year eh?" and decided to check it out. I first rented it, but couldnt get past the bomb dismantling part. Then I decided to buy it 'cause I wanted to beat that part so bad lol. I ended up loving it. I read "In the Darkness of Shadow Moses" and that made me want to buy the first game so I did.

[Econs]

Metal Gear NES

I remember as a kid I watched my brother playing it. But what got me into the series, what got me to go back and play the NES version was MGS1.

[Black Snake]

Back in the day when I was 5 years old, My parents took me to AG's house while he was playing Metal Gear Solid. Then he lit the torch and passed it down to me. He showed me MGS and I fell in love with it.

[blackjaguar]

Metal Gear Solid 1, and all games I played after it are unfairly compared to it in quality and forever will.

[A.G.]

Back in the day when I was 5 years old, My parents took me to AG's house while he was playing Metal Gear Solid. Then he lit the torch and passed it down to me. He showed me MGS and I fell in love with it.

I remember you and my sister were practically crying in fear when I offered you a chance to pass through the Dock and to fight Vulcan Raven. ;D You guys were so scared to play that game!

[SOLIDEST]

Thats the way my 6 years old nephew is, i called him one time to watch the game he ran away lol.

[Black Snake]

You get over it eventually and say, "f...ck it, this isn't going anywhere." And you get through the level.

[Otty]

I remember seeing this game that was so awesome! It was more then a game, I thought by myself whoever created this must be a frickin genius!

Then I knew what it was called and it was Metal Gear Solid. Ever since I've been on this forum talking with you guys. Blablabla... ;D

[Grey Fox]

Sad, but true... I started with MGS3! Though I started with a game late in the series, I loved the game and quickly learned more and more of the plots and other things. My only regret is that I should have started earlier...WAAAAAY earlier.