Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake

Released: Sometime between 88/89

The second in the series of Metal Gear games (preceded by Metal Gear and followed by the Metal Gear Solid Series)

Overview
The manual for Metal Gear Solid provides us with this overview of the events that take place during Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake: (Warning: Spoilers follow.)

1999 Zanzibar Riot – In 1999, Dr. Kio Marv, inventor of the oil refining microbe, OILIX, was taken hostage by Zanzibar, a heavily armed nation in central Asia ruled by a minority ethnic group. Zanzibar was planning to gain political and military hegemony over a world suffering under the cruel weight of a world energy crisis. Roy Campbell, commander of FOXHOUND called Solid Snake, now in retirement, back to active duty to infiltrate Zanzibar and recover Professor Marv. Solid Snake made it past Zanzibar’s impressive steel wall and penetrated deep into the interior of its secret base. There he once again destroyed Metal Gear, which had been re-built after being transported from Outer Heaven and defeated Grey Fox, former member of FOXHOUND and now leader of the Zanzibar mercenary corps. He was also successful in retrieving the OILIX manufacturing process. Finally, he came face to face with the man who was pulling all the strings in Zanzibar, Big Boss! He had survived the battle in Outer Heaven and created Zanzibar in order to make a world rife with conflict and war, a world in which soldiers such as him would always have a place. After defeating Big Boss for the second and final time, Snake gave up on war and retired to the peaceful Alaskan wilderness