Maybe it’s a game that we didn’t hear of until years after its initial release, maybe it’s just that we were busy at the time in our lives when the game released, or maybe we just weren’t interested. In any event, all gamers have games that they’re a bit ashamed to have never played, and I’m no different. List of Shame is a short series of articles in which I plan to cover the games on my own personal List of Shame.

Nineteen Ninety Eight. It sounds like such a long time ago. And it was a fantastic year for video games. And while a number of my list-of-shame games come from 1998, the only one I currently own is Metal Gear Solid.

While the Playstation 3 I own isn’t one of the original models with the Emotion Engine that runs Playstation 2 games, all Playstation 3 consoles will run old PS1 games. This is why my copy of Metal Gear: Solid that I picked up on EBay some years back has been sitting on my shelf alongside Dead Space and Batman: Arkham Asylum for the past year or so.

I’ve played the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 3, which I still own. I’ve even played 90% of the way through Metal Gear Solid 2 in one of the worst PC ports I’ve ever seen. But although I’ve played some of the training missions in Metal Gear Solid a couple years ago, I’ve never played the actual game.

I plan to play it. At some point. I don’t know when.