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Metroid
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Samus Aran drops into the caverns of planet Zebes with a short-range beam, no map and no instructions about where to go next. That sense of isolation is what made Metroid feel so different from everything else on the NES. Nintendo R&D1, the team behind Kid Icarus and later the Game Boy hardware, built a world that loops back on itself, hides its best secrets behind walls you have no obvious reason to shoot, and trusts you to find your own way through. First released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and brought to North America as a cartridge with a password system, it laid the foundation for an entire style of game.
Progress comes from power. The Morph Ball lets Samus roll through narrow tunnels, bombs uncover hidden passages, the Ice Beam freezes enemies into stepping stones, and the High Jump Boots, Varia suit, Wave Beam and the spinning Screw Attack each open up places you passed earlier. The blue rock of Brinstar gives way to the heat of Norfair and the hideouts of Kraid and Ridley, and only after defeating both can you enter Tourian, where the Metroids themselves drift toward you, latch on and drain your energy until you freeze them and finish them with missiles. Mother Brain waits at the end behind her Zebetite barriers, followed by a countdown escape.
Hirokazu Tanaka's score is a big part of why the game lingers. Much of the music is moody and alien rather than cheerful, and it makes Zebes feel lonely and hostile in a way few 8-bit games attempted. Then there is the ending: finish quickly enough and Samus removes her armor, revealing that the hero you have guided all along is a woman, one of the most famous surprises in video game history. Players traded passwords on the playground for years, with JUSTIN BAILEY the most legendary of them all.
Metroid's influence is everywhere, from Super Metroid and the Prime trilogy to the countless exploration games that carry part of its name in the term Metroidvania. The NES original is the idea in its purest form, tough and unguided, and the place where Samus Aran's story begins.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1987
- Publisher
- Playtronic
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Genre
- Shooter, Platformer, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
It's you against the evil Mother Brain in the thrilling battle of Metroid! You're inside the fortress planet Zebes. The planet of endless secret passageways where the Metroid are multiplying. Left alone the Metroid are harmless. But in the wrong hands they could destroy the galaxy. It's up to you to prevent the Mother Brain that controls Zebes from using the Metroid for evil purposes. But that won't be easy. You'll have to use your spacesuit to absorb valuable energy for your search to gain the use of power items like the Ice Beam, Wave Beam, High Jump Boots and Varia. If you survive, it will be you and your acquired powers against the Mother Brain.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayMetroid on NES
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