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Metal Gear Solid 4 is also an important June release.

Although it was already pointed out that the author was talking about the novels, there were a few doors in Metal Gear that didn't require a keycard, as well as one that required the Enemy Uniform. They may have eliminated the keycard-less doors in the NES version... I last played the MSX2 version.

Key card management was simplified in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake by having red, blue, and green cards that replaced keycards 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 once you found them. It's not a surprise that they required keycards 3, 6, and 9 to find.

Metal Gear Solid simplified it even further by having higher cards also open the lower card doors. For example, Keycard 2 opens up doors requiring keycards 1 or 2.

Personally, I think that Metal Gear Solid was the best game in the series and that you should give it a try.

Although it was already pointed out that the author was talking about the novels, there were a few doors in Metal Gear that didn't require a keycard, as well as one that required the Enemy Uniform. They may have eliminated the keycard-less doors in the NES version... I last played the MSX2 version.

Key card management was simplified in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake by having red, blue, and green cards that replaced keycards 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 once you found them. It's not a surprise that they required keycards 3, 6, and 9 to find.

Metal Gear Solid simplified it even further by having higher cards also open the lower card doors. For example, Keycard 2 opens up doors requiring keycards 1 or 2.

Personally, I think that Metal Gear Solid was the best game in the series and that you should give it a try.

Shh, don't mention the forest of Metal Gear to Hideo Kojima. It didn't exist in the original version of Metal Gear.

Metal Gear's appearance on the MSX2 system coincided with the most successful years of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game later made its way to the NES but in an entirely different form than Director Kojima intended, who thinks of the NES version as an inferior adaptation of his much-loved series. Now you can experience the Metal Gear saga's landmark opus for yourself!
--Konami's MGS3: Subsistence Metal Gear site

For that matter, we also never got the real Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake until MGS3: Subsistence. Instead, we got Snake's Revenge, a cheap knock-off created specifically for English speaking audiences.

Shh, don't mention the forest of Metal Gear to Hideo Kojima. It didn't exist in the original version of Metal Gear.

Metal Gear's appearance on the MSX2 system coincided with the most successful years of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game later made its way to the NES but in an entirely different form than Director Kojima intended, who thinks of the NES version as an inferior adaptation of his much-loved series. Now you can experience the Metal Gear saga's landmark opus for yourself!
--Konami's MGS3: Subsistence Metal Gear site

For that matter, we also never got the real Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake until MGS3: Subsistence. Instead, we got Snake's Revenge, a cheap knock-off created specifically for English speaking audiences.

Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima makes much use of iPods. In his blog, he mentioned that he uses an iPod to listen to music. And now he is making podcasts. He is supposed to be one of Sony's leading supporters, or at least one of PS3's leading supporters, but here is using Apple hardware and software whenever he likes.

Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima makes much use of iPods. In his blog, he mentioned that he uses an iPod to listen to music. And now he is making podcasts. He is supposed to be one of Sony's leading supporters, or at least one of PS3's leading supporters, but here is using Apple hardware and software whenever he likes.

I am excited about Nintendogs although I agree that the game isn't exactly original. You listed some good examples but one game that no one seems to mention when it comes to Nintendogs (or at least no one mentions it on slashdot) is Dogstation for the PS2.

I've played Dogstation and it was pretty fun at the time (I really like obscure, non-mainstream games...the crazier the better) and although this game had a Tamagotchi like feel to it you still had to teach the dog to poop and pee, walk it, raise it, breed it, play with it, feed it and play mini games with it. I'm curious how close Nintendogs will be to Dogstation. I mean, even the name Nintendogs (part Nintendo / part dogs) is like a direct rip from Dogstation (part Playstation part dogs) Look at these pictures from the official dogstation webpage and compare them to Nintendogs.

http://www.konami.co.jp/am/dog/index.html
http://www.konami.jp/am/dogstation-dx/index.html

Actually, I'm going to see if the author of the story (that says there is nothing on the market like Nintendogs) and see if he has played this game and what he thought of it.

Hey! Don't give Hideo Kojima any ideas.

Forget those - I'm waiting for Tokimemo Online! Packed with Japanese schoolgirly goodness!