PlayStationExcellent
Metal Gear Solid
The game that broke the fourth wall
Konami1998Action, Stealth
Emulator
DuckStation
Quality
Excellent
Notes
DuckStation with up to 8× upscaling. Near-instant loads vs. original hardware.
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Bring Your Own ROM
The Story
Hideo Kojima broke the fourth wall years before it was a design trope. Psycho Mantis reads your memory card and comments on what you've been playing. The game tells you to plug your controller into port 2 to defeat him. A character gives you a codec frequency that is printed on the back of the physical game case — unavailable to you if you're playing a pirated copy. Metal Gear Solid treated the game medium itself as a gameplay element, and hasn't stopped since.
Tags
stealthcinematicfourth-wallkonami