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  • Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
  • Final Fantasy Legend IIA smashed goddess statue scatters 77 magical stones across linked worlds in Final Fantasy Legend II.
  • Metal Gear (video game)In the 1987 game Metal Gear, Snake's own commander tells the player to switch off the console.
  • Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III began in Japan as SaGa 3, planned as the last game in its series.
  • Snake's Revenge1990 video game
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's AwakeningThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening reached players in 1993 as the first Zelda adventure ever made for a handheld console. Nintendo developed and published it for the Game Boy, a machine with a monochrome screen that could go anywhere…
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past reached Japanese players in 1991 as the third entry in Nintendo's Zelda series. It was built for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and it followed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which…
  • The Legend of Zelda (video game)The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo's game about a boy named Link, began, by its designer's own account, with a lake. Shigeru Miyamoto remembered it this way: "When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to…
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid SnakeIn Metal Gear 2, a cornered Solid Snake turns a lighter and an aerosol can into a flamethrower.
  • The Final Fantasy LegendThe Final Fantasy Legend's last boss can die to one chainsaw hit. A Game Boy weapon with instant death does it.

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