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Metroid

1986 action-adventure shooter video game

Video gamevideo gameQ2530723

Developer: Nintendo Research & Development 1
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: August 6, 1986
, August 15, 1987
, January 15, 1988
+2 more
Platforms: Game Boy Advance
, Nintendo Entertainment System
, Famicom Disk System
Genre: Metroidvania
Game mode: single-player video game

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Metroid is a 1986 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The first installment in the Metroid series, it was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in August 1986. North America received a release in August 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with the European release following in January 1988. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve the predatory 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.

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Part of the series: Metroid follows: none · followed by: Metroid II: Return of Samus
Producer: Gunpei Yokoi
Director: Satoru Okada
Yoshio Sakamoto
Composer: Hirokazu Tanaka
ESRB rating: Everyone content descriptor: Mild Fantasy Violence · interactive elements: none · platforms: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS
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CERO rating: A (All ages) content descriptor: none · platforms: Nintendo 3DS
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PEGI rating: PEGI 3 content descriptor: none · platforms: Game Boy Advance
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1.gamefaqs.gamespot.com/famicomds/919836-metroid/boxes/60425
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PEGI 7 content descriptor: Violence
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Input device: gamepad
Narrative location: Zebes
Units sold: 2,730,000(2004)
Characters: Samus Aran narrative role: protagonist
Mother Brain narrative role: antagonist
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Country of origin: Japan
Distributor: Nintendo eShop
Title: メトロイド revised hepburn romanization: Metoroido
Set in environment: fictional planet
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1.“Category:Video games set on Titan (moon) - Wikipedia”en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_on_Titan_(moon)?oldid=737326346#Pages_in_category
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Distribution format: digital download
Derivative work: Metroid: Zero Mission
Takes place in fictional universe: Metroid universe
USK rating: USK 0(since 2004) rating certificate id: 12140/04, 18222/07 · platforms: Game Boy Advance, Wii
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GRAC rating: All(since 2016) content descriptor: Violence · rating certificate id: GC-CC-NV-160108-004
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Australian Classification: G(since 2007) content descriptor: none · rating certificate id: 5253550F · applicant: Nintendo Australia
PG(since 2016) content descriptor: Mild violence · rating certificate id: 100560371 · applicant: International Age Rating Coalition
Media franchise: Metroid
Review score: 99% review score by: Gen4 · platforms: Nintendo Entertainment System
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