There are a lot of might-have-beens in gaming history, but this is a sad one: especially as Kojima's two previous games in this lineage are so inaccessible.
So: Policenauts was a game about a cop on a space colony unravelling a big criminal conspiracy, and the sequel would have been the return to Earth with the villain in tow. In the game, Earth is called home while the space colony is called Beyond Coast (in fact Policenauts' working title was Beyond, until Konami realised it couldn't trademark the word). Tony Redwood is the main antagonist of the game, another high-ranking space cop (who, for bonus evil points, has killed your ex-wife), who at the end of Policenauts 'dies' by jumping to his death with a maniacal laugh. "I was thinking of a sequel where Redwood comes back to earth (home) for revenge, but it never happened," writes Kojima. Turns out, though, that the director did once concept a Policenauts 2. What did it for Policenauts, though, was not its own reception so much as what came next for Kojima: 1998's Metal Gear Solid was such a hit that this series would dominate his output for the best part of two decades. The game remains stubbornly unavailable and your only real option for playing it is emulation, which seems bonkers: Konami's simply leaving money on the table with this one.
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