Posted 6/18/2009 at 2:31 PM By JelalTrueshot

Konami has made their Thursday announcement in this week of celebration (hoping tomorrow's is a real doozy). The original Metal Gear Solid has arrived on the Playstation Network for $9.99 dollars. This will give gamers who never had the opportunity to play it originally the chance to be Solid Snake in his first adventure from the original SONY PlayStation console.
You can check out a couple screenshots of the title(in all its retro-glory) After the Break!
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Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., announced today that the game that started it all - the original METAL GEAR SOLID - will launch on the PlayStation®Network for the SRP of $9.99 today. Hideo Kojima's... (cont.)
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(cont.) ...created groundbreaking classic -- which was designed for the first PlayStation system -- became a digital masterpiece by skillfully combining cinematic, fully voiced cut scenes with groundbreaking 3D gameplay to deliver an all-new kind of genre that became known as tactical-espionage action.
METAL GEAR SOLID takes place in the southern Alaska region around the Bering Sea. The player takes control of Solid Snake, a retired military soldier who is ordered to infiltrate a nuclear weapons facility to eliminate FOXHOUND, a genetically enhanced Special Forces unit that has threatened to launch its nuclear weapon if the government does not cooperate with their demands.

