I'll try to think of how it was like playing/completing each game for the first time, in order of how I bought them. (As long as there was something special about them, though)
MetalGear Solid
Me and my brother bought this game together. I was much more excited about it than him, but he was older so it was hard to stop him from getting the first play of it. I sat and watched him play it for the first two hours, all the time wishing I could get a go. Eventually, he let me have a shot. After watching him for that long, I decided to play MGS for as long as possible, to spite him. Turns out, I didn't need to force myself to play it for that long, it happened naturally. I played it long into the night, and eventually saved. Then I realised that I wasn't going to be able to wake up early, due to the hour it was, at the moment, so my brother would likely get to play it in the morning rather than me. I decided that I would, rather sneakily, carry my PlayStation and the game downstairs to my bedroom. I woke up at around 10:30 the next morning and continued playing it, my brother was looking about the house for the PlayStation for about an hour. He found it in my bedroom, while I was playing.

I was told to say sorry to my brother, but I wasn't gonna do that 'til I completed MGS.
MetalGear Solid: Special Missions
With this game, I had no idea of the release date, so while me and my best friend were shopping, we saw the new MGS game. I was rediculously excited. My friend, Chris, knew that MGS was a good game, but he hadn't really played much of it. We were both young and had very little money to spend, and I was also going on Holiday the next day. All the same, I
had to have the new MGS (I mean, It was only £20). I spent the next hour telling Chris how fantastic a game MGS was, describing the whole experience, and how much Special Missions would kick ass. Eventually I convinced him to lend me £20 to buy the game, and I praised him the whole afternoon for it. We headed up to his house, rather than mine, because my parents wanted me to start packing as soon as I got home. Then we realised we needed the original MetalGear Solid to play Special Missions. I couldn't go home before playing the new MGS, so we jumped from house to house seeing if we could borrow friends' copies of MGS.

Eventually, we convinced one of Chris' neighbours to lend us a copy of the game. We played the game for about two hours, and I loved it. I left Special Missions with Chris, but took the packaging to look at on Holiday. I was so excited once I got back.
MetalGear: Ghost Babel
This is probably the funniest MetalGear story I have to tell. In a issue of CVG I saw that Konami were making a MetalGear game for the GameBoy. In that instant I knew I would have to get one of the handhelds. The next week I took my Mega Drive and games in for a part exchange. I had a lot of games, but the shop was only able to get me £60, which was around £20 less than the GBC. Next to the GBC I saw a GameBoy Pocket, and I wasn't bothered about playing Ghost Babel in colour, I just wanted to play it. A couple months later, Konami revealed the boxart for Ghost Babel. The reason most Magazines reported this is because of the name change to MetalGear Solid, but I didn't care about that. In the corner of the box, I saw a little label saying "Only for GameBoy Color", and I nearly cried. The game came out in the early summer, and I still hadn't played it, but my Birthday was in August, and I knew that I could probably convince my parents to get me a GBC. My parents told me that I was going on a Canal Boating Holiday with them and my Uncle's family. I thought that this might have been a replacement for my birthday presents, and I was upset. That August, I really hadn't enjoyed myself on holiday. It was one disapointment after another, and I couldn't get comfortable in that narrow Canal Boat. My birthday came up, and my parents presented me with two boxes, one much bigger than the other. I ripped open them both, to find a GBC and Ghost Babel! I was rediculously happy, for the first time on that holiday.

I completed the game in a solid week (it was literally the only thing to do), and kept coming back to it.
MetalGear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
This was the game I was excited about. I already had three MetalGear games, and hadn't had a bad word about them, and this looked rediculously good. That demo that came with ZOE was fantastic, too, and I could complete it in about 7 minutes without being spotted, once. I actually managed to guess about Raiden from looking at the US MGS2 site (it seemed to concentrate on him an awful lot, and Snake was supposed to be dead after the Tanker, right?). Nothing could disappoint me. I told my parents not to take me away from the PS2, as I had been waiting for the game for around 4 years. They seemed much more understanding than they usually are about new games, but that was probably the "I'll kill you, if you don't do what I say" tone of voice I was using.

The game arrived at my house on Friday night, and I had completed it by Sunday morning. I really enjoyed the game, and I didn't want my parents to annoy me about things I needed to do around the house, so within an hour of completing it, I decided to go look for the dog tags.

I kept playing regularly until winter.
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance
By now, I was a huge MetalGear fan, and not even the most cynical of ideas would stop me from buying the new MetalGear game. I pre-ordered this, and was excited as hell about it. I was quite into skateboarding at the time, and my neighbour's friend was getting his dad to build him a 5 foot vert ramp in his garden, so I was looking forward to a lot. On the Thursday, I went up the road, first thing from School (only picking up my Skateboard on the way) to my neighbour's house, knowing that the varnish would have dried, by now. I ended up having a great time. I went home quite quickly, though, to get something to drink and eat (I was tired), but I found a package on my doorstep. I knew it wasn't Substance, as that was only released the following day... what could it be, then? I opened up, walking towards my PS2. As more of the packaging was revealed, I started running. Yes, I had ended up with MGS2: Substance, a day early. Two of my friends (who were also Skateboarders) came to my house to see why I hadn't came back after two hours, and as soon as they saw the torn paper scattered about the house, they knew. It turned out that they wanted to see Substance much more than the Vert Ramp. Later on, five of us spent the night indoors, taking turns on the missions in Substance. That was great night.
(between this and the next game, I bought MG, NES MG and The Twin Snakes, but they don't have much of a story behind them)
MetalGear 2: Solid Snake
Ah, I enjoyed this. As soon as I got a job, I decided I needed to buy the old MetalGear games. I spent ages trying to find a cheap copy of this. Eventually, I saw a fantastic deal, £50 for an unboxed version. I didn't care about the boxes (if you see my copy of MG, you'll realise how true this is

), so I bidded straight away, and won after a couple of days. I had a lot of things going on at the same time, now. I had to juggle college, my band, my social life and my work, with my gaming. It was obvious what was going to take a back seat for the next couple days, though. The only trouble I had though, is that I had no way to save my game... I'd get around it somehow. After getting quite far, I decided to risk my MSX2's health (allongside my own) and not switch it off. Every day for the next five, I would run home from College, play MG2, go to work/band practise, run home, play MG2, go to bed. My MSX2 was gradually getting more and more hot, and I knew it'd start giving me electrical shocks if I kept playing for much longer, but then I saw Grey Fox. I knew this wasn't like when he took out the bridge, this would be an actual fight, and I would be near the end. I completed it that night, and didn't touch my MSX2 for about a month afterwards.
