director
Hideo Kojima
小島秀夫
About
Hideo Kojima is a Japanese game designer and the director of the Metal Gear series. He joined Konami in 1986 and created the original Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2 — a stealth game where avoiding combat was the primary strategy, inverting the action-game convention of the era. Metal Gear Solid (1998) for PlayStation brought the series to 3D and full voice acting, demonstrating that video games could carry the narrative weight of cinema. Kojima left Konami in 2015 to found Kojima Productions.