Editing Solid Snake (section)

===Other ''Metal Gear'' media===
Solid Snake also serves as the protagonist in ''[[Snake's Revenge]]'', a sequel to the original ''Metal Gear'' for the NES released for the western market in 1990 and developed without Kojima's involvement. Set three years after the events of the Outer Heaven incident, ''Snake's Revenge'' has Snake leading a team of FOX HOUND operatives as they infiltrate an undisclosed enemy base where the Metal Gear weapon is being mass-produced. Snake is addressed by the [[military rank]] of [[Lieutenant]] and starts the game already equipped with a handgun and a [[combat knife]], in contrast to the first game, where Snake had to procure all of his weapons on-site.

After the success of the original ''Metal Gear Solid'', KCEJ produced a trilogy of ''Metal Gear'' spin-offs for portable platforms set in a parallel universe outside the main Kojima-directed series. All three of these portable games were directed by [[Shinta Nojiri]].<ref name=parallel>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/mgs3subsistence/news.html?sid=6145169 |title=GameSpot: Metal Gear Saga Q&A - The Inside Scoop |access-date=2007-02-03 |date=March 2006}}</ref> The first of these is ''[[Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]]'' (released outside Japan as ''Metal Gear Solid''), in which Solid Snake must infiltrate a rebuilt Outer Heaven (now called Galuade) to defeat a FOXHOUND-like team of rogue agents called Black Chamber and destroy a stolen Metal Gear prototype, Gander. Although the actual in-game artwork of ''Ghost Babel'' was done by Ikuya Nakamura, Yoji Shinkawa provided the promotional art like he did with the original ''Metal Gear Solid''. In the second of these titles, ''[[Metal Gear Acid]]'', Snake must retrieve "Pythagoras" from the Lobito Physics and Research Laboratory, in order to satisfy hijackers who have kidnapped presidential candidate Viggo Hach. This mission is complicated by La Clown, an expert mimic who impersonates Snake's contact Teliko, and subtle brainwashing that nearly convinces him that he is Hans Davis, a ruthless scientist that worked at the Lobito facility. He overcomes both and contacts the real Teliko, then destroys the latest model of Metal Gear, [[Metal Gear (weapon)#Metal Gear KODOQUE|Metal Gear KODOQUE]]. ''[[Metal Gear Acid 2]]'' features a main character who is not the real version, but a clone created from tissue samples of the man from the original ''Metal Gear Acid'', following the events of the Lobito Island mission; the Solid Snake from the original ''Acid'' is implied to be dead in the sequel.

The character appears in his Old Snake form as a playable character in ''[[Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops#Portable Ops Plus|Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus]]'', a stand-alone expansion to the ''Portable Ops'' focusing on online play. In ''[[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance]]'', the VR Missions DLC add-on for the game's Japanese version includes a new weapon that can be used by Raiden known as the ''Hebidamashi'', a talking wooden sword which speaks with Solid Snake's voice (as portrayed by Akio Ōtsuka); the weapon was never made available for the English version.<ref>{{cite web|title=「メタルギア ライジング リベンジェンス」，DLC第1弾の配信は4月上旬。30種類のVRミッションと"ソリッド・スネーク"の声を発する不思議な木刀を収録|url=http://www.4gamer.net/games/093/G009308/20130213084/|publisher=4Gamer|language=ja|access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref>

Outside video games, Solid Snake appeared in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' audio drama that focuses on his missions following the battle from Shadow Moses.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Konami |title= DRAMA CD メタルギア ソリッドVol.1|url=http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/mgs2/japanese/goods/goods_mgs_cd02.html |language=ja |access-date=June 22, 2013}}</ref> He also appears in Alex Garner's [[graphic novel|comic book adaptations]] of ''Metal Gear Solid'' and ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.<ref name="autogenerated2007">{{cite book|title=Metal Gear Solid: Sons Of Liberty Volume 2|publisher=IDW Publishing |date=December 25, 2007|isbn=978-1-60010-111-3 |author1=Garner, Alex |author2=Wood, Ashley}}</ref> [[Raymond Benson]]'s [[novelization]]s of these two games also feature Solid Snake; Benson's adaptation of the character frequently focuses on the comical aspects of his characterization.<ref>{{cite book|title=Metal Gear Solid|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]] |date=May 27, 2008|isbn=978-0345503282 |author=Benson, Raymond}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|publisher=[[Del Rey Books]]|date=November 24, 2009|isbn=978-0345503435|author=Benson, Raymond|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/metalgearsolid200bens}}</ref> He also appears in [[Project Itoh]]'s novelization from ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' where his actions are told from Hal Emmerich's point of view.<ref>{{cite book |year=2013|title= Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots|isbn=9781421540016|publisher=Viz Media}}</ref>