Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (メタルギア２　ソリッドスネーク, Metaru Gia Tsū Soriddo Sunēku) is an overhead action-adventure stealth video game, taglined as a "Tactical Espionage Game", that was originally released by Konami in 1990 for the MSX2 computer standard in Japan. Metal Gear 2 was designed and written by Hideo Kojima, who also designed the MSX2 version of the original Metal Gear.