Metroid

The Metroid series, the creation of the late Nintendo visionary Gunpei Yokoi, is an extremely popular series of action/adventure games featuring bounty hunter Samus Aran on her missions. The first Metroid game was a completely new concept to most people, as it was totally nonlinear and people could go where they wanted, when they wanted.

The creature Metroid is a small, cell-like creature that can siphon the life energy out of any organism. It has 4 different stages: The first and most familar stage, Alpha, then three others: Beta, Zeta, and Omega. In Metroid Prime, two other forms were introduced: one kind had a long tentacle that it could use to attack you from afar, and the other split into two when you shot it, providing for quite a frustrating experience.

Games

These games appear in chronological order.

• Metroid (1986 - NES / Famicom Disk System, and NES)
• Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991 - Game Boy)
• Super Metroid (1994 - SNES)
• Metroid Prime (2002 - Nintendo GameCube)
• Metroid Fusion (2002 - Game Boy Advance)
• Metroid Zero Mission (TBA) - Game Boy Advance
• Metroid Prime Next (TBA) - Nintendo GameCube

In the chronology of the fictional universe in which the Metroid games are set, the correct order for the games is as follows:

• Metroid
• Metroid Prime
• Metroid II: Return of Samus
• Super Metroid
• Metroid Fusion

The music of the first game was composed by Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka.

External Links

• Metroid.com (http://www.metroid.com) - official site USA
• Metroid.jp (http://www.metroid.jp) - official site Japan
• Metroid Database - Good fansite (http://www.classicgaming.com/mdb/)