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16 unusual facts about Metroid


Chōsōjū Mecha MG

In the Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, an arranged version of the "Marionation Gear" song is one of the selectable songs for the Metroid-based Norfair stage.

Frickcam

There was also an incarnation of her site based on her favorite video game, Metroid

Hiroyuki Kimura

Kimura designed a variety of games for Nintendo including several of the NES Zapper software and the Metroid series.

He is notable for being one of the main designers of the Super Mario Advance and Metroid series of games.

I Wanna Be the Guy

IWBTG is made up of several stages split into many screens, which are mostly pastiches of Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Tetris, Ghosts'n Goblins, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Kirby, Mega Man and Metroid.

These are the first seven bosses: Mike Tyson; Mecha Birdo; Dracula; Kraidgief (a parody of palette-hacked character glitches); Mother Brain; Bowser, Wart and Dr. Wily in the Koopa Klown Kar; and a mix between the Mecha Dragon from Mega Man 2 and the Yellow Devil from Mega Man and Mega Man 3.

LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias

Much like Metroid games, the game was designed to slowly introduce new powers and abilities to ease the player into the experience.

Nintendo Comics System

Simon Belmont and Mega Man were appropriately replaced by Samus Aran, the Metroid heroine who had not appeared in the cartoon, and Mother Brain's second-in-command became Uranos, the demigod from Kid Icarus.

The comics are based upon Nintendo video game and television intellectual property from Super Mario Bros., Game Boy, The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, Metroid, and Punch-Out!!.

Roberta Murgo

The face of Roberta Murgo was the inspiration for creating the most famous drawing of Samus Aran, protagonist of the game Metroid.

Samurai Jack: The Amulet of Time

IGN's Craig Harris gave the game an "okay" score of 6 out of 10, citing the game's similarities to Metroid and recent Castlevania games as good design, but saying the game lacked originality.

Samus Aran

In Metroid, the Galactic Federation sends Samus to track down the Space Pirates on their home planet of Zebes.

In Super Metroid, just after giving the hatchling to a Federation research station, Samus tracks the hatchling (stolen by Ridley) to a newly rebuilt Space Pirate base on Zebes.

Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus Aran is an ex-Galactic Federation soldier who turned into an intergalactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include directed energy weapons and missiles.

Super Mario Bros. Crossover

Samus Aran, from the Metroid games, also has a gun she can fire and which gains power with powerups.

Til All Are One

(Part of this track sounds extremely similar to one of the music tracks from the Metroid series of video games)


Metroid Dread

Metroid Dread was a cancelled 2D side-scrolling adventure video game by Nintendo intended for release on the Nintendo DS handheld game console.

Metroid Fusion

The vaccine cures Samus and not only gives her the ability to absorb and use the nuclei of X Parasites for nourishment (the Metroids were the main predators of the X prior to their extermination by Samus on SR388), but also the Metroid's vulnerability to extremely cold temperatures.

Nintendo DS launch

At launch there was one pack-in demo, in addition to the built-in PictoChat program: Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (published by Nintendo and is a demo for Metroid Prime Hunters, a game released in March 2006).

Sprite comic

Sprite comics frequently use characters from well-known games such as Sonic, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Mega Man, and Dragon Ball.

Super Metroid

Starting with 1997's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the Castlevania series of video games borrows the backtracking and weapon upgrading elements from Super Metroid, leading to the term "Metroidvania".