>When people talk about Metal Gear, they're generally referring to Metal Gear Solid onwards...
Is that so? I thought that is was a reference to this >>127621 recent thread. The OP was talking about the original MSX version there.

>European home computer gaming, the early hackers scene, pretty much the whole story of how Id Software came to be, stuff like that
I love that, too. I re-read my favorite parts of the Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution once in a while, basically every time when I feel burned out.