![]() Reviewers praised its graphics, soundtrack, and tight controls. Metroid was both a critical and commercial success. It was also lauded for being one of the first video games to showcase a female protagonist. Its varied endings for fast completion times made it an early popular title for speedrunning. It pioneered the Metroidvania genre, focusing on exploration and searching for power-ups used to reach previously inaccessible areas. It was produced by Gunpei Yokoi, directed by Satoru Okada and Masao Yamamoto, and scored by Hirokazu Tanaka. The game was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 (Nintendo R&D1) and Intelligent Systems. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve the parasitic Metroid organisms that were stolen by Space Pirates, who plan to replicate the Metroids by exposing them to beta rays and then use them as biological weapons to destroy Samus and all who oppose them. ![]() North America received a release in August 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System in the Game Pak ROM cartridge format, with the European release following in January 1988. The first installment in the Metroid series, it was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in August 1986. ![]() Metroid is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. ![]()
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