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Metal Gear: Ghost Babel

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is a Game Boy Color spinoff of the popular stealth action game Metal Gear Solid. This is not a port of said game but an original game made specifically for the Game Boy Color. Metal…

24 April 2000

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is an adventure developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, released 24 April 2000 on Game Boy Color.

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What Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is an adventure game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and released in 2000. It was published by Konami. It is available on Game Boy Color only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Early 21st century. An incident of unprecedented magnitude sends shockwaves trhough the highest levels of the U.S. Government: A prototype bipedal armored vehicle, Metal Gear, has been seized along with its nuclear payload by an armed group. In a radical response to ths crisis situation, the government calls in Solid Snake, the master saboteur who singlehandedly brought down the fortress state of Outer Heaven seven years ago.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Metal Gear series

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is the ninth of 70 entries we hold in the Metal Gear series. It arrived 7 months after Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions. The next entry was Konami Krazy Racers in 2001.

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What it launched against

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel launched on 24 April 2000, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Breath of Fire IV, Power Stone 2 and Mega Man Legends 2.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Breath of Fire IV, Power Stone 2, Mega Man Legends 2.

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When did Metal Gear: Ghost Babel come out?
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel was released on 24 April 2000 for Game Boy Color.

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