Games take roughly two years to produce and get underwraps before they go gold (I.e. ready to be mass produced for sale) So lets look at the events that may have inspired Hideo Kojima during the initial production of the first of the metal gear saga. I'm choosing to focus on events that may have led to Hideo's thinking of storytelling and such. Remember the setting of the game was in 1995, it was released in 1987. (Maybe Hideo got some of his idea's from the book 1984? Interesting thought)
January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
January 20 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21).
February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
February 10 – Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government.
February 19 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
February 20 – Minolta releases world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
March 4 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
March 15 – Vice-President Jose Sarney takes the oath as the first civilian president of Brazil in 21 years, as the elected president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill on the day before.
March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
April 11 – The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
April 19 – The U.S.S.R performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan.
April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.
May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
May 15 – An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at UC Berkeley.May 19 – John Anthony WalkerJr., is arrested by the FBI for passing classified Naval communications on to the Soviets.
May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
June 13 – In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army-sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacationing resorts.
July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.
July 24 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.
August 6 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
December 27 – Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompt the media to label this "The Year of the Spy".
The American media referred to 1985 as the Year of the Spy because law enforcement arrested many foreign spies operating on American soil. Although 1985 had been referred to as the Year of the Spy, the preceding year 1984 actually had more arrests for espionage in the United States than did 1985.
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