Gamlet Trivia #21 — 2026-07-23
The answer was Metal Gear Solid — The exclamation-mark alert sting is one of the most recognisable sounds in games..
That day's clues
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- A 1998 PlayStation landmark that also crept onto Windows and, much later, PSP.
- The stealth-action blueprint: hide in cardboard boxes, study vision cones on the radar, and crawl through air ducts to avoid a fight.
- Written and directed by Hideo Kojima at Konami.
- It broke the fourth wall like nothing before it — one boss reads your memory card aloud and makes the controller shake in your hand.
- Its gravel-voiced infiltrator hero has the initials S.S.