Earlier this week, footage of a comically poor convenience store robbery went viral, with the video originally uploaded to CTV News showing a young male and female duo attempting to evade and fend off cops in Alberta, Canada. While the slapstick mishaps of the partners in crime are pretty funny on their own, one Metal Gear Solid fan decided to add music from the 1998 action-adventure stealth game for PS1 in order to ratchet up the hilarity.
As found in the video below from the YouTuber and Metal Gear Solid fan Omar Villegas, the re-edit not only overlays the original robbery footage with the “Alert Phase” music from the first MGS, but also peppers in sound effects such as the klaxon sting that hits when Snake is discovered by enemies. What’s more is that Villegas even goes the extra mile to splice in Metal Gear Solid first-person gameplay of Snake climbing through ventilation ducts when the female accomplice tries (and fails) to do the same.
While Villegas’ clip of the Canadian convenience store robbery with Metal Gear Solid music is an instance of video games intersecting with reality after the fact, there have been a plethora of cases where gaming IPs have made the news due to a crime having been perpetrated while the offender used a product from the franchise. For instance, a Pennsylvania man committed an armed robbery about a year ago while dressed as a Minecraft Creeper enemy.
Taking all of this into account, though, there’s no doubt that the criminals in the aforementioned Canadian convenience store robbery are still licking their wounds after failing with such a bungled stickup. Of course, now they have to nurse their bruised egos, too, due to Villegas’ Metal Gear Solid remix to the viral video piling on even more laughter and ridicule to their situation.
Metal Gear Solid is playable on PC, PS1, and PS3.
Source: Omar Villegas – Twitter
