@sisuphos kind of wish mgs game would have kept being made for pc in the later games we could have even more groundbreaking stuff for every game. perhaps even the most cutting edge games on the market, games to beat far cry 1 and crysis on a technical level.
They actually called this part the "Demo". The Yamaha/Ascii V9938 is a very capable graphics chip which was actually hobbled by the limitations of the MSX hardware.
This thing was designed for what would be considered a glorified calculator these days, and I want to pay for a ticket and go to a theater and see whatever movie this music is from, you get what I'm saying? It's truly astonishing the level of quality they came up with. It puts the entire rest of the 8-bit era to shame.
I first played this back when Subsistence came out. Looking at it objectively, I was impressed they could do it at the time. Update the graphics a bit - something similar to Blood Dragon's intro - and it would STILL work today.
I love this game. I wish that there would be an remake of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. I think it would be awesome to play as a young Solid Snake that has to deal with Big Boss and his army.
True, but Konami can't do a good Metal Gear without Kojima and Metal Gear Survive was the proof . Besides, they don't care anymore about putting effort in making good games.
As much as I love this game, did they really have to include that logo sting *twice*? I always anticipate the first one, but the second one damn near gives me a heart attack. Every. Single. Time.
I will never forget the very first time I got to play this game. It was somewhere around the spring of 2004. I had recently found out about the MSX emulator called "BlueMSX" and downloaded the European ROM. After all the waiting and installing on some crummy custom desktop running Windows 2000 on a Pentium 4 CPU, I got to see this intro in all its glory with the speakers turned up. Immediately I got goosebumps. It was nice to finally being able to play the game that bridges the first to the PS1 sequel.
This game was way ahead of its times. A fellow lab technician I work with shared that scientists gathered from around the world to research alternatives towards solving energy crisis using algae which they were able to solve. However the process was costly and thus abandoned.
This is the #1 single greatest videogame intro of all time, in all gaming history. The song by itself is in the top tier of game music too, but the intro altogether with the animation and art is #1. It should be a violation of United Nations UNESCO international law that Konami has not remade/remastered Metal Gear 2 (2D) to play more smoothly. It's also weird that there aren't any indy games that use a 2D pixel art overhead stealth action style, except for "unMetal". We have a million metroidvanias but not any Metal Gear-Likes (1 or 2).
#1 greatest videogame intro in all gaming history. The animation, the art, the music, plus whatever knowledge you bring to it as a Metal Gear / Stealth Action Lover makes it even better.
They (Nintendo or Konami) would've probably butchered MG2's story by making bizarre changes (much like how Konami/Ultra Games made changes to Metal Gear's story on the NES)
@@addi543 Nintendo of America censorship would have ensured that any translation completely changed the story to something much more generic, stripping it of anything that made it good. You can be sure that Big Boss would be completely one-dimensional. It's a shame that Japanese developers never developed for DOS, as that was the obvious platform to port it to that Western gamers used. The Mega Drive/Genesis was the probably the most realistic option, but even that would be censored (see Snatcher on Sega Mega CD).
"but there are some who do not desire peace..." that it reminds me of the pain and sorrow that big boss had in his mind and also i remind of paz ortega' s death in GZ :( . "A tiny microbe, only a few microns wide, is about to change the world forever", reading that with the music in the background gaves me chills everytime, a true masterpeace and was way ahead of it's time.
Watched a MGS1 walkthrough and Snake mentions "superpowers". It's in plural and then Baker mentions Russia and China. Wonder how did Russia is able to keep the superpower status after the dissolution of USSR. Was it the Philosophers? I only played MG1 on my cousin's cartridge console (the one that has 99 games) but never finish the earlier parts. Game's look hard.
Correction! This was re-released on the PSX2 & PSX3 with the new re-envision art work. Which was Emulated through MSX. NOT MSX2. I own this on MSX2 and the music quality is better and more clear. I don't know why they didn't just give us the MSX2 Emulated version. Trust me guys it sounds a lot better.
At least SOMEONE uploaded the intro from the rerelease. This here is the only upload of it at all on youtube, all other uploads are of the original MSX2 game with its high color saturation and weird character art of Snake and Holly.
That's true. But what you consider weird was actual normal. Snake was supposed to look like Mel Gibson. Like Lance Bean to Silvester Stallone and Bill Rizer to Arnold Swartzinegger. It was customary to be influenced by American movies back then. Also you have to consider the time this game came out. The art in the re release is fine. Still MSX2 is still superior.
@@lordraptor5042 I totally get that, however the portraits can look a little off due to the pixel graphics and limited color palette not pairing well with realistic images of people.
What did you expect back in 1990? photorealism? You are well aware of the limited tech back then, so... I don't see the point. it seem you are in favor of the art changes which to me is great. I like it too. Still, we both know this game was re- released on a higher platform. I don't see why they couldn't emulate MSX2 on superior tech with the better art. Its stupid. While what your saying is true, that was something that could not be helped till now, my point on the other hand, there is no excuse. We could have had both. Since we have to make a choice, ill take the intended original with the best sound quality. There was no reason to make sacrifices on a higher platform. This is why Emulation Exists and people get fed up.
@@lordraptor5042 I said before that the problem was the tech limit though - that the issue was the portraits show up in poor quality due to pixel graphics and limited color palette. Regardless this discussion has reminded me that there was a sort of difference in intentions between the original and the rerelease if that makes sense. The original was focused more on creating an experience as if you were actually playing a hollywood military op action film, where as the rerelease focused more on working with the metal gear storyline/world and making the portraits look a little better with the graphical limitations. Anyway point is I have come to appreciate the original portraits more through this conversation.
The fact we'll more than likely never get a proper Kojima remake of MG1 & 2 just feels criminal. I can only imagine how amazing that it would be to have Keefer on the radio and in the final boss battles as Big Boss and Hayter back as a younger Snake. Plus all the remastered soundtracks like this, MG1's alert theme, and Zanzibar Breeze would have been so awesome to hear.
"Zanzibar Land begins to invade its neighbors." I guess after Venom Snake destroyed his reputation leading the world to think he's James Bond villain (which, according to MGS3, is a thing in this universe), Big Boss just leaned into it.
I'm still waiting for a modern PC Port of this game, like what GOG has done with the original MSX version of Metal Gear. 😩 While we're at it, it would be great to get the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection as well, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
it is really funny in hindsight that they solved nuclear disarmament and the world's dependence on fossil fuels offscreen between the first two games and just sorta pretended it never happened. but i bet if mgs6 ever happened, it would've been all about the secret of OILIX
I don't think Konami even considered it for home console besides MSX. Plus with MSX and Metal Gear, and Metal Gear 2 only being available in Japan, these two titles were not available to the western market until 2006. Metal Gear had an alternate version released on the nes in 1988 I believe. Then in 1990, the horrendous Snakes revenge was released on the nes as well. Kojima at the time was unaware of Snakes revenge until after its release, and decided to create the masterpiece that is Metal Gear 2 in response to that piece of garbage being released. Unfortunately western market wouldn't get a taste of Metal Gears true vision until the release of Metal Gear Solid. It was a shame that we didn't get the msx titles on base consoles at that time as I'm sure that the roms from the snes, and genesis could handle the games albeit possibly an altered sound bite on the genesis' part. At least we got the two true Metal Gear titles in our hands today.
@@metaldiscipline3955 i heard snakes revenge was actually quite good compared to metal gear on the NES.. just pretend that snake and big boss are in a different timeline or something
Youre emulating this on MSX. MSX2 has better sound quality. The updated sound chip installed, brings out the drums alot better. You can hear the difference between msx and max2.
In the description it said this is on PS3. The music on the Subsistence and HD Collection version always sounded like in the video, I play it on the Xbox 360, so I can confirm. Plus, the opening text and character potraits isn't like this on the original MSX version. The devs probably used the MSX instead of MSX2 for the music.
![Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake [MSX] - Big Boss Rank, No Damage, No Humans Killed - Cinematic Walkthrough](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3FUlBIX15Q/mqdefault.jpg)
![Metal Gear Solid 1998 Intro - Remake 2018 [4K] [UHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sdYFmnQGtbU/mqdefault.jpg)
With limited technology at their time, they managed to make an intro that feels like an movie intro lmao.
@sisuphos kind of wish mgs game would have kept being made for pc in the later games we could have even more groundbreaking stuff for every game. perhaps even the most cutting edge games on the market, games to beat far cry 1 and crysis on a technical level.
Was about to comment exactly the same thing.
They actually called this part the "Demo". The Yamaha/Ascii V9938 is a very capable graphics chip which was actually hobbled by the limitations of the MSX hardware.
This thing was designed for what would be considered a glorified calculator these days, and I want to pay for a ticket and go to a theater and see whatever movie this music is from, you get what I'm saying? It's truly astonishing the level of quality they came up with. It puts the entire rest of the 8-bit era to shame.
for a game that came out in 1990, this was some amazing story-setting right here!
I first played this back when Subsistence came out. Looking at it objectively, I was impressed they could do it at the time. Update the graphics a bit - something similar to Blood Dragon's intro - and it would STILL work today.
Some this story was also used for metal gear solid 1
In terms of both story and gameplay, Metal Gear 2 was famous for pushing 8-bit gaming tech to its absolute limits
The frame of the pistol and “but there are some who do not desire peace” is the gnarliest shit ever
This has aged very well
Now this is how you open a video game!
Of course one of the best video music intro
Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2 have the best intros ever made for anything
Add the intro to Snatcher and you have the holy trinity of intros.
Peace Walker intro is pretty cool too
MGS 3 intro was a banger
@@MetalGearEeezus yeah Snatcher is awesome too
Ah yes
2 have the best intro
I love this game. I wish that there would be an remake of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. I think it would be awesome to play as a young Solid Snake that has to deal with Big Boss and his army.
BOND😥
True, but Konami can't do a good Metal Gear without Kojima and Metal Gear Survive was the proof . Besides, they don't care anymore about putting effort in making good games.
@@darkmessengerofanotherworl2840 they allways can hire a good developers to do it , if they cant do it themselfs.
@@darkmessengerofanotherworl2840Ghost Babel and Portable Ops were both not Kojima-directed and both had very positive reviews.
Might be one of the best, oddly chilling game intros I've ever seen, and I've never even played this game. I probably should.
As much as I love this game, did they really have to include that logo sting *twice*? I always anticipate the first one, but the second one damn near gives me a heart attack. Every. Single. Time.
Yes. You might have skipped the intro. They wanted to guarantee everyone got:
The Sting.
Yes.
I will never forget the very first time I got to play this game. It was somewhere around the spring of 2004. I had recently found out about the MSX emulator called "BlueMSX" and downloaded the European ROM. After all the waiting and installing on some crummy custom desktop running Windows 2000 on a Pentium 4 CPU, I got to see this intro in all its glory with the speakers turned up. Immediately I got goosebumps. It was nice to finally being able to play the game that bridges the first to the PS1 sequel.
This game was way ahead of its times. A fellow lab technician I work with shared that scientists gathered from around the world to research alternatives towards solving energy crisis using algae which they were able to solve. However the process was costly and thus abandoned.
Nothing short of awe-inspiring to see something so ahead of its time. They even hired a person of renown from the demo scene to produce the intro!
This is the #1 single greatest videogame intro of all time, in all gaming history. The song by itself is in the top tier of game music too, but the intro altogether with the animation and art is #1.
It should be a violation of United Nations UNESCO international law that Konami has not remade/remastered Metal Gear 2 (2D) to play more smoothly. It's also weird that there aren't any indy games that use a 2D pixel art overhead stealth action style, except for "unMetal". We have a million metroidvanias but not any Metal Gear-Likes (1 or 2).
The music and pixel art is sublime.
#1 greatest videogame intro in all gaming history. The animation, the art, the music, plus whatever knowledge you bring to it as a Metal Gear / Stealth Action Lover makes it even better.
Could you have imagined "Super Metal Gear" for Super Nintendo?
You can make the hack of it right now, but it will take a lot of hours...if you can fit the time in
@@ilovemybeard3394 you dont know how hacking works, do you
They (Nintendo or Konami) would've probably butchered MG2's story by making bizarre changes (much like how Konami/Ultra Games made changes to Metal Gear's story on the NES)
@@addi543 Nintendo of America censorship would have ensured that any translation completely changed the story to something much more generic, stripping it of anything that made it good. You can be sure that Big Boss would be completely one-dimensional. It's a shame that Japanese developers never developed for DOS, as that was the obvious platform to port it to that Western gamers used. The Mega Drive/Genesis was the probably the most realistic option, but even that would be censored (see Snatcher on Sega Mega CD).
Then, someone remix the opening theme of MG2 with SNES instruments!
This game is easily in my top 3 Metal Gear games.
You can really feel the pleasure of tension here!
I get the reference :)
Still one of the best intros for a video game
Now you understand why kojima is the king. Bring him Back!!
konami needs him
@@kascnef but Kojima doesn't need Konami
"but there are some who do not desire peace..." that it reminds me of the pain and sorrow that big boss had in his mind and also i remind of paz ortega' s death in GZ :( .
"A tiny microbe, only a few microns wide, is about to change the world forever", reading that with the music in the background gaves me chills everytime, a true masterpeace and was way ahead of it's time.
This intro reminds me when Metal Gear was really good.
2023 and this opening is still fire
This game deserves to be play by more people
Funny to see the URSS (ended in 1991) in a game launched in 1990 whose story develops in 1999
Watched a MGS1 walkthrough and Snake mentions "superpowers". It's in plural and then Baker mentions Russia and China. Wonder how did Russia is able to keep the superpower status after the dissolution of USSR. Was it the Philosophers?
I only played MG1 on my cousin's cartridge console (the one that has 99 games) but never finish the earlier parts. Game's look hard.
Imagine an actual nuclear war mech sitting in some backwater US storage bunker somewhere in the carribean 😳
Correction! This was re-released on the PSX2 & PSX3 with the new re-envision art work. Which was Emulated through MSX. NOT MSX2. I own this on MSX2 and the music quality is better and more clear. I don't know why they didn't just give us the MSX2 Emulated version. Trust me guys it sounds a lot better.
At least SOMEONE uploaded the intro from the rerelease. This here is the only upload of it at all on youtube, all other uploads are of the original MSX2 game with its high color saturation and weird character art of Snake and Holly.
That's true. But what you consider weird was actual normal. Snake was supposed to look like Mel Gibson. Like Lance Bean to Silvester Stallone and Bill Rizer to Arnold Swartzinegger. It was customary to be influenced by American movies back then. Also you have to consider the time this game came out. The art in the re release is fine. Still MSX2 is still superior.
@@lordraptor5042 I totally get that, however the portraits can look a little off due to the pixel graphics and limited color palette not pairing well with realistic images of people.
What did you expect back in 1990? photorealism? You are well aware of the limited tech back then, so... I don't see the point. it seem you are in favor of the art changes which to me is great. I like it too. Still, we both know this game was re- released on a higher platform. I don't see why they couldn't emulate MSX2 on superior tech with the better art. Its stupid. While what your saying is true, that was something that could not be helped till now, my point on the other hand, there is no excuse. We could have had both. Since we have to make a choice, ill take the intended original with the best sound quality. There was no reason to make sacrifices on a higher platform. This is why Emulation Exists and people get fed up.
@@lordraptor5042 I said before that the problem was the tech limit though - that the issue was the portraits show up in poor quality due to pixel graphics and limited color palette.
Regardless this discussion has reminded me that there was a sort of difference in intentions between the original and the rerelease if that makes sense. The original was focused more on creating an experience as if you were actually playing a hollywood military op action film, where as the rerelease focused more on working with the metal gear storyline/world and making the portraits look a little better with the graphical limitations. Anyway point is I have come to appreciate the original portraits more through this conversation.
I swear this series predicts the future more accurately than the simpsons, and I’m not even talking about this game
One of the best intros of all time
✌🏻💜🐍
If Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake made to Super Nintendo or Mega Drive.
This game will popular and become hall of frame.
Came here because I accidentally skipped the intro thinking I was able to get to next batch of text by pressing X.
I would love to battle Metal Gear D in the Fox engine
The fact we'll more than likely never get a proper Kojima remake of MG1 & 2 just feels criminal. I can only imagine how amazing that it would be to have Keefer on the radio and in the final boss battles as Big Boss and Hayter back as a younger Snake. Plus all the remastered soundtracks like this, MG1's alert theme, and Zanzibar Breeze would have been so awesome to hear.
One of my favorite video games of all time even moreso than the MGS games. I so wish Kojima made more bit Metal Gear games.
6:26 ...so it was -really-, in 2020... 😢
This is very Airwolf influenced. Not to diminish it. Great game.
Some of the great music in Metal Gear 2 is also borrowed from Rambo 1 / Rambo 2 theme music. Great borrowings though, not a bad thing.
"Zanzibar Land begins to invade its neighbors."
I guess after Venom Snake destroyed his reputation leading the world to think he's James Bond villain (which, according to MGS3, is a thing in this universe), Big Boss just leaned into it.
Love this music
When are the og games getting remakes?
How in the hell did we not get this, but got Snake's Revenge instead?
we literally got this in master collection
@medykgranie I'm talking about in the west for MSX and NES back in 1990.
AGDQ 2019, anyone?
I imagine the agents at Zanzibar kidnapped dr marv like the opening to the Dark Knight rises
If Kojima had made this game in 2012, you know there's be a whole 30 minute cutscene of exactly that.
NOT NOW DOCTAH
NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR FEAR
THAT COMES LATER
OLIX we need this
This game is epic.
Best Metal Gear game!
I'm still waiting for a modern PC Port of this game, like what GOG has done with the original MSX version of Metal Gear. 😩
While we're at it, it would be great to get the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection as well, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
this didn't age too well
This is an awesome intro!
Amazing intro
Happy 34 anniversary MG2
Now I find this relatable
it is really funny in hindsight that they solved nuclear disarmament and the world's dependence on fossil fuels offscreen between the first two games and just sorta pretended it never happened. but i bet if mgs6 ever happened, it would've been all about the secret of OILIX
GOD BLESS the Konami Kukeiha Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How come this game wasn't on the sega genesis and snes both systems came out around the same time between 1989 and 1991.
I don't think Konami even considered it for home console besides MSX. Plus with MSX and Metal Gear, and Metal Gear 2 only being available in Japan, these two titles were not available to the western market until 2006. Metal Gear had an alternate version released on the nes in 1988 I believe. Then in 1990, the horrendous Snakes revenge was released on the nes as well. Kojima at the time was unaware of Snakes revenge until after its release, and decided to create the masterpiece that is Metal Gear 2 in response to that piece of garbage being released. Unfortunately western market wouldn't get a taste of Metal Gears true vision until the release of Metal Gear Solid. It was a shame that we didn't get the msx titles on base consoles at that time as I'm sure that the roms from the snes, and genesis could handle the games albeit possibly an altered sound bite on the genesis' part. At least we got the two true Metal Gear titles in our hands today.
@@metaldiscipline3955 i heard snakes revenge was actually quite good compared to metal gear on the NES..
just pretend that snake and big boss are in a different timeline or something
why wasn't this game in usa 😕
You can play both MG and MG2 on the Xbox 360 (Metal gear solid HD collection)
Music reminds me of east of Edens gate
5:45
5:46
That is a great cressendo
Who is the real Boss? Big Boss or Venom Snake????
Venom Snake died in the first game, This game has the REAL Big Boss.
Metal gear kart anyone?
لطيف
Youre emulating this on MSX. MSX2 has better sound quality. The updated sound chip installed, brings out the drums alot better. You can hear the difference between msx and max2.
In the description it said this is on PS3. The music on the Subsistence and HD Collection version always sounded like in the video, I play it on the Xbox 360, so I can confirm. Plus, the opening text and character potraits isn't like this on the original MSX version.
The devs probably used the MSX instead of MSX2 for the music.