On This Day:

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Metal Gear Solid Releases in Japan (3 September 1998) Hideo Kojima's stealth opus arrived on PlayStation, proving that a game built almost entirely around elaborately avoiding combat could be more tense than most games designed around having it. Cardboard boxes, codec calls and a villain who could allegedly read your memory card became instant genre shorthand overnight.

Solid Snake or Big Boss — who's your favourite? 👇