Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hideo Kojima directed the 1988 video game Snatcher. He approached the project as a film director rather than a traditional game designer. The development team included character designer Tomiharu Kinoshita and artist Satoshi Yoshioka.
The original Snatcher game was released in 1988 for the PC-8801 and MSX2 platforms. A PC Engine Super CD-ROM² version titled Snatcher CD-ROMantic was released in October 1992. The Sega CD version arrived in the West in 1994.
The story takes place in the year 2042 within the artificial city of Neo Kobe in eastern Asia. A biological weapon called Lucifer-Alpha wiped out much of the world's population, leaving humanity to live on artificial islands under government quarantine.
The main character is Gillian Seed, an amnesiac who joins a secret task force called JUNKER. He is revealed to be a former CIA agent who was placed in cryogenic sleep over fifty years prior to the game's events.
The game was originally titled Junker before being changed to avoid confusion with an existing mahjong game. Hideo Kojima found it difficult to explain the concept of cyberpunk to Konami's trademark department over the phone.
Hideo Kojima initially planned a five-act story for the game. Memory constraints forced the team to trim the narrative down to two acts, ending the game on a cliffhanger.