Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake re-release on mobile phones

Source: Gigamix Online

On August 18th Konami re-released Metal Gear 1 for mobile phones. The re-release, based on the original MSX version of Metal Gear and directed by Hideo Kojima himself, turned out to be a great success. On October 1st the second part of the Metal Gear saga, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, which has been an MSX exclusive game for more than 14 years, will become available for the Japanese Foma900 cellular phones as well.

Again, the game is being released simultaneously on the 3 largest mobile phone networks of Japan: iMode by NTT DoCoMo, AU by kddi and Vodafone G-Mode. On Konami's Tokyo Gameshow website we can see this game is to be considered as one of the most important games released for mobile phones in 2004. Needless to say this has lead to several occurances of MSX in the Media already, which have been added to our list of nominees.

When looking at the screenshots of the game we can clearly see that Konami has been replacing some of the pictures of game characters, which looked like familiar movie stars in the original MSX version.

Relevant link: Konami's Tokyo Gameshow page