Hideo Kojima Influential Game Director

1. First Success

2. Kojima went to college to become a Film Director because of his youth spent in front of the television.

3. His Start

4. After several years of trying he finally managed to get a job as a designer he manages to get work on a game called Penguin Adventure, considered to be a large success

5. Early Career In Game Design

6. The Beginning

7. From the release of the first Metal Gear game in 1987, only next year will the series be finished with Metal Gear Solid V, it is a highly anticipated game to an incredibly influential series.

8. Legacy

9. The Present

10. After his relative success Kojima was asked to take the helm on a new project "Metal Gear" he pioneered the stealth game genre with this title, laying the groundwork for many games to come

11. Kojima released 2 metal gear games with success only in Japan. However when he rereleased these games as Metal Gear Solid with voice acting included he became an international superstar.

12. The Metal Gear Series

13. Kojima is what we call a "latchkey kid". This intense isolation and loneliness has had an incredible impact on his childhood.

14. Death

15. Early Failures

16. Kojima has said that he has had to deal with death since an early age, no doubt due to the death of his father at a young age.

17. Kojima originally wanted to be a writer but was unable to get any of his early short stories published.

18. Childhood

19. Loneliness

20. When Kojima suddenly announced that he was going to try and become a game developer instead his friends and family were shocked, it was not a reliable industry at the time. Only his mother truly supported him.

21. Radical Change