16 Facts About Metroid

Metroid games are often ranked among the greatest of all time.

Metroid was designed to be a shooting game that combined the platform jumping of Super Mario Bros.

Super Metroid drastically expanded the Metroid formula, with numerous new power-ups and a richer story.

Metroid series contains gameplay elements from shooter, platformer, and adventure games.

Original Metroid was influenced by two other major Nintendo franchises: Mario, from which it borrowed extensive areas of platform jumping, and The Legend of Zelda, from which it borrowed non-linear exploration.

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Metroid was 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.

Metroid follows the adventures of bounty hunter Samus Aran, who battles the villainous Space Pirates.

Metroid serves in the military of the Galactic Federation before departing and beginning work as a bounty hunter, while facing the forces of Ridley and Mother Brain.

Metroid series has been noted and praised for its unique style of video game music.

Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, composer of the original Metroid, has said he wanted to make a score that made players feel like they were encountering a "living creature" and had no distinction between music and sound effects.

The only time the main Metroid theme was heard was after Mother Brain is defeated; this is intended to give the player a catharsis.

Metroid was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series continuity.

Samus Aran and other Metroid characters featured in the Captain N: The Game Master comic books by Valiant Comics.

Metroid ranked as the 70th top game by Next Generation in 1996 and the 6th in 1999, and as the eighth best game franchise by IGN in 2008.

Metroid Prime was considered one of the best games ever made upon its release, winning Game of the Year from various publications and websites.

Music from Metroid has been frequently re-released as part of "best of" video game music releases.