Metal Gear Solid - Play Online Free

About Metal Gear Solid

Released outside Japan as Metal Gear Solid, this Game Boy Color cartridge is actually Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, an original story rather than a shrunken PlayStation port. Seven years after Outer Heaven is destroyed, a rebuilt fortress called Galuade appears in Central Africa with a stolen Metal Gear prototype named Gander inside it, and Solid Snake is brought out of retirement to take both apart.

Play is top-down and stealth-first across thirteen numbered stages. A corner radar tracks guards, an alarm decays through a searching phase rather than ending instantly, and Snake can flatten against walls to slip through tight gaps and scout ahead. You gather gadgets, radio your support team over the Codec to save and get direction, and finish each stage with a rank weighted by your time, how often you were spotted, how many guards you killed and how many rations you burned.

Why play Metal Gear Solid

Konami built a full original entry here instead of downscaling the PlayStation game. Shinta Nojiri directed with Hideo Kojima among the producers, the antagonists include four Black Chamber operatives with their own gimmicks, and the stage ranking turns each mission into something you replay for a better grade. Around 180 self-contained VR training missions, split across three categories, sit alongside the story on the same cartridge.

Tips for new players

Knocking on a wall pulls a guard toward the noise. Use it to open a patrol route instead of fighting your way through a room.
Running through water makes noise that guards will come and investigate, so slow down in the flooded stretches rather than sprinting across them.
When you are spotted the alarm goes red and soldiers head for your last known position. Break line of sight and wait out the yellow evasion phase, where they search on-screen until the timer runs down.
Ranks weigh time, times spotted, kills and rations used, and run from Terrible up to Excellent, so a slow silent run and a fast noisy one produce very different results.
Check the radar before every door rather than reacting after a guard is already on screen; it is small but you will use it constantly.

Platform

Game Boy Color (GBC)

Released

2000

Genre

Stealth action

Publisher

Konami

Developer

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (with Tose)

Players

1 player

Price

Free

Default Controls

You can play with keyboard, gamepad, or touch (on mobile). The default keyboard layout is below; remap any key inside the emulator settings.

↑↓←→D-Pad

ZB

XA

EnterStart

ShiftSelect

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the same game as Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation?

No. Despite the western title, this is Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, an original Game Boy Color game with a different story, a setting in Central Africa and top-down stealth built for the handheld rather than the PlayStation's 3D.

Where does Ghost Babel fit in the Metal Gear timeline?

It is an alternate sequel to the original 1987 Metal Gear, set seven years after that operation with Outer Heaven already destroyed. It is not part of the main canon that runs through the PlayStation games.

How long is the game and what are the VR missions?

There are thirteen story stages, each ranked when you finish it. The VR missions are a separate set of roughly 180 short training challenges spread over three categories, built on the same stealth rules and designed to be played a couple at a time.

Is Metal Gear Solid really free to play?

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Can I save my progress?

Yes. The emulator supports save states — you can save the exact moment you're at and resume later from any device by signing into a free OldGames account.