Hideo Kojima explains why Metal Gear's protagonist is called Solid Snake

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Ever wondered why Solid Snake is called Solid Snake? Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has taken to Twitter to explain why (it wasn't a reference to Escape from New York's S.D. Bob "Snake" Plissken, apparently).
Let's start with Snake. Metal Gear's sneaky special operative was named Snake because, according to Kojima, "snake was the most appropriate symbol of living thing that hides his presence and sneaks without any noise".
That all makes sense, but why not go with a specific snake, such as cobra, anaconda or viper? "Because the protagonist is the player," Kojima explained.
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