Metal Gear NES
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Metal Gear on NES is the 1988 Ultra Games release, the Western port that put Solid Snake and stealth-action gameplay in front of a North American audience for the first time. Ultra Games was Konami's publishing arm for the U.S. market, a workaround to Nintendo's strict third-party cartridge limits, and this gray cart is one of the more consequential titles that label ever put out.
The backstory on this port is worth knowing. The original Metal Gear came out on MSX2 in Japan in 1987, designed by Hideo Kojima. The NES adaptation was handled separately by a different team and diverged from Kojima's original in meaningful ways. Big Boss as a voice, altered level layouts, a final boss that differs from the MSX version. None of that diminishes the NES cart's place in the lineage. This was the version American players rented, owned, and debated. The cover art, a soldier in green fatigues with a yellow triangular emblem against a white background, became the face of the franchise for a generation that never touched the MSX. By 1988, the NES was at peak household penetration in the U.S. and Ultra Games was pushing action titles hard. Metal Gear sat on the same shelves as Contra and Bionic Commando, which tells you everything about how it was positioned.
The cartridge that taught American players to infiltrate instead of annihilate, 1988.
The copy here carries the standard gray NES cartridge shell with the Ultra Games label on the front face. Check the label print for color saturation and alignment. A clean original label holds its blue and red tones without fade or peel at the corners. The Nintendo Seal of Quality appears on label and box if box is present. If you have the cartridge only, flip it and look at the contact edge. Pins should show typical oxidation consistent with a 38-year-old board, not deep corrosion or post-cleaning buffing marks. Run your thumb along the back seam of the shell and confirm both screws are original Phillips heads, not stripped or swapped.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm Ultra Games label is intact and unpeeled, with no color fade or reproduction print characteristics at the cartridge edges.
The cartridge that taught American players to infiltrate instead of annihilate, 1988.
The Nintendo Archive
This is part of Nintendo's 80s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This metal gear nes originates from the 80s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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