Metroid
Metroid (メトロイド Metoroido) is an action-adventure video game co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division and Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released on Virtual Console for its 20th anniversary.
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Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Series | Metroid |
Platform(s) | Virtual Console, NES |
Release date(s) | NES JP August 6, 1986 NA August 1987 EU January 15, 1988 Virtual Console EU July 20, 2007 NA August 13, 2007 JP March 4, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Input methods | GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
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The original Metroid established most of the concepts that would become the mainstays of the Metroid franchise: Samus explores an open world, finding power ups, battling enemies, and slowly progressing forward. It was one of the first open-world non-linear games ever released on this scale, and was so influential it even has a subgenre named after it and Castlevania: Metroidvania. It was not without growing pains however; its lack of a map system and password only saving give Metroid a notoriously brutal difficulty level. The Virtual Console re-release does not address any of those issues, for better or worse.
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