Hideo Kojima reveals his top five videogames

  • Posted July 4th, 2008 at 05:52 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Speaking in an interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Hideo Kojima, creator of Konami’s celebrated Metal Gear franchise, revealed his top five most influential videogames of all time.

As reported by Gamerush, Kojima singled out the following games:

- Super Mario Bros. series

- Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

- Xevious

- Outer World (known as Out of this World in U.S.)

- Metal Gear Solid

Kojima commented: “Games are a composite art that evolves absorbing new technologies,” adding that he hoped to “create a big wave” in the videogames industry.

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  1. meatee | meateetj

    • 6:01am BST - July 4th, 2008

    I love how he names his own game.. but I'll give him props for Out of This World, I loved that game

  2. Genesis- | bleu-manga

    • 6:06am BST - July 4th, 2008

    Well,MGS 1 is one of his best games.He agrees and us fans do.

  3. PsychoMantis | KuruptX

    • 6:21am BST - July 4th, 2008

    adding that he hoped to “create a big wave” in the videogames industry. Congrats Kojima MGS (all of them) are great and MGS4 is truely epic and he created a HUGE WAVE.

  4. BlueDragoon0 | Lionheart0

    • 6:36am BST - July 4th, 2008

    Please please make Zone Of Enders 3 as your next Ip!

  5. tanner1 | OB1K

    • 7:06am BST - July 4th, 2008

    What a benchmark MGS4 has set i bet all the devs out there are sh8ttin themselves (except Insomniac of course)

  6. Carl | almighty-slayer

    • 8:19am BST - July 4th, 2008

    Naming his own game LOL gotta agree though :)

     

    Miyamoto wil be dancing around his front room at this news.

  7. Auricom | Doragon_Pawwa

    • 9:11am BST - July 4th, 2008

    We gotta make a ZOE 3 petition!!! Zone of the Enders was amazing

  8. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 10:05am BST - July 4th, 2008

    MGS4 is good, we know it's good, he knows it's good... so lets rub it in 360 owners faces :p

  9. Alpha2

    • 10:08am BST - July 4th, 2008

    I'm sure he names MGS because it's the game that's made him so much money for one thing. But also because it's the game that let him tell a story the way he most wants it told. All the other games are because they were the most exciting games to play for their time or because they were just plain fun to play.

     

    Besides any japanese developer would be a fool not to include a Miyamoto game in his list... you know like Itagaki who actually said he could make a better mario game than him.

  10. Versus

    • 11:43am BST - July 4th, 2008

    what does he mean by "composite art"? i thought he said that video games arent art?

  11. svtschmidt

    • 12:26pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    he should list his own game......i mean give the guy credit......pure genius

  12. hyperslug | hyperslug

    • 1:02pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    Awesome he prefers the first one two :D

  13. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 1:20pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    MGS is still considered one of the best of the group beating MGS3 and the more current MGS4 for top spot.

  14. evilmonkey501 | evilmonkey501

    • 1:25pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    cmon...we all know superman for the n64 is the best game ever made!   jeesh....

  15. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 2:33pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    MGS1 is one of the best games all of series.

  16. keefy | keefy

    • 3:53pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    Kojima blows his own trumpet :)

  17. CHRISBOSH | tatti

    • 4:46pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    “create a big wave” in the videogames industry" HIDEO KOGIMA

     

    Dont wory Hideo u have .

  18. Gen.Penguin

    • 5:30pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    @evilmonkey501

    were you watching the new AVGN or something?

  19. Audiman44 | audiman44

    • 5:35pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    Resident Evil 4.  There. I said it.  Best Game Ever.  Closely followed by Goldeneye for the N64.

  20. Motoken

    • 11:20pm BST - July 4th, 2008

    msg4... made me cry, first game to ever make me cry....  well really it was just shed a tear or two, but still it was a very very good game. athough, um i forgot her name, but she was the sniper in MSG, that scene was also very touching.

  21. xRyanHatex | xRyanHatex

    • 12:40am BST - July 5th, 2008

    Sniper Wolf. Hals first love and such.

  22. taurus82 | taurus82

    • 10:31am BST - July 7th, 2008

    Please give us a fighting game, KOJIMA STYLE!!

  23. GoldenEwok

    • 4:33pm BST - July 7th, 2008

    can he have his own game in his list? well, i guess so

  24. woodcock_ps3 | WALL-MARTshinobi

    • 1:32am BST - July 8th, 2008

    i was about to post the same thing Audiman44 RE4 should b on his list

  25. Ocelot1987 | METSTM

    • 6:51am BST - October 14th, 2008

    I think Metal Gear, Mario, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, and maybe GTA are the best.

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