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Metroid is a video game series published by Nintendo and primarily produced by the company's first-party developers, though second-party Fuse Games and third-party Team Ninja have also developed for the series. It debuted in Japan with Metroid [a] on August 6, 1986, and was later released in North America (August 1987) and PAL regions (January ...
Metroid was also one of the first video games to feature an exploration to the left as well as the right, and backtracking to already explored areas to search for secret items and paths. [5] Since the late 1990s, the term "Metroidvania" has been applied to this format.
Officially defined as a scrolling shooter video game, Metroid was released by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in Japan on August 6, 1986. [19] [7] An arcade version of the game was released in 1987 for Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 system. [20]
This category is for video games in the Metroid series. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. Metroid Prime (10 P, 4 F)
This category describes games that have been classified as falling into the Metroidvania genre of gameplay, a specific type of action-adventure game (as well as platform game, generally) that features a large interconnected game world that progressively becomes more accessible as the player collects power-ups.
Metroid II: Return of Samus [a] is a 1991 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.The first Metroid game for a handheld game console, it was released in North America in November 1991 and in Japan and Europe in 1992.