GamesIndustry- On Friday night Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Solid creator and development titan, spoke to BAFTA about the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear series. In the interview below, hosted by journalist Johnny Minkley, the auteur gives his insights to the past, present and future of the series, and why the auteur might be an endangered species.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
Hideo Kojima is widely known as a video games auteur, but what are his best games outside the Metal Gear franchise?
I'm playing through the HD collection for my Vita now.