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unusual facts about Metroid series



Nintendo tumbler puzzle

As a tribute to the deceased creator of the puzzle and former Metroid series director, Gunpei Yokoi, the puzzle made a small cameo appearance in Metroid Prime for GameCube, Samus Aran would have to use her morph ball form and charges to interact with it, once completed would allow her spider form morph ball entrance to a higher level of the chamber.

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.


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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.

Til All Are One

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