So the NES game is canon. [SPOILER]

[Daxank]

And just tell us the story of how Venom Snake died.
Right?

[Bite]

Yep. Metal Gear 1 at least, Venom is the Big Boss who dies in that one.

[Shalashaska]

Indeed. Venom expires in MG1.

[Ningen]

the msx games are canon

the nes version is a bad remake

[SniperWolfMGS]

And comes back from the dead in MGS4

[Shalashaska]

Originally posted by SniperWolfMGS:

And comes back from the dead in MGS4

No, that's Jack, the true BB.

[Bite]

Originally posted by Shalashaska:

Originally posted by SniperWolfMGS:

And comes back from the dead in MGS4

No, that's Jack, the true BB.

No, that's John, actually. >_>

[Red]

Title is wrong, it shoud be "NES GAME", not "games" because "Snake's Revenge" is not canon.

NES MG1 is kind of a bad port anyway, it doesn't even have a metal gear to begin with.

[Shalashaska]

Originally posted by Bite:

Originally posted by Shalashaska:

No, that's Jack, the true BB.

No, that's John, actually. >_>

Both are equally right. The Boss and Zero both call him Jack.

[|ʁ|]

Originally posted by Daxank:

And just tell us the story of how Venom Snake died.
Right?

Yes and no, The two MSX games (one of which was ported poorly to NES and butchered beyond belief so it isn't accurate) are cannon. Snakes revenge, the second NES game is not cannon.

That said on release only the first MSX game was ever translated to english and only sold in Europe, the first time North Americans had a chance to play the two MSX games was in 2006 when they were bonus content to the MGS3 re-release Subsistence. If you really want to play these I reccomend you pick up the legacy collection it is only missing four of the games considered cannon (Portable Ops, MGSV:GZ, MGS:TPP, MGR:R).

[Sexy]

nes games are more of a half ass recap of the metal gear games. they are vaguly cannon, its like reading a 2 sentence description for a movie instead of the whole paragraph description. for full story id go with the msx original not the nes ports

[Tifa]

Originally posted by Ningen:

the msx games are canon

the nes version is a bad remake

NES versions is not cannon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_(video_game)
According to Kojima's account, the port was developed by another Konami division at Tokyo and were given the source code from the MSX2 version without the consent of the original team. Many changes were made during the porting process that later led to this version being publicly disowned by Kojima himself.