BYTE SIZE BITS

Essential numbers that add together to tell you everything you need to know about the game

680,000

Units were sold within the game’s first week of release. People were eager for more Snake. (Er…)

$10,000,000

Was the production budget. At the time director Hideo Kojima claimed the budget was close to what it cost to make a Japanese Godzilla movie.

06

Years in an alternate future – that’s when the Solid Snake prologue takes place.