Metroid

The Metroid series, the creation of the late Nintendo visionary Gunpei
Yokoi, is an extremely popular series of action/adventure games featuring
female 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. The music
of Super Metroid was composed by Kenji Yamamoto.

Metroid Zero Mission is a remake of the original Metroid game.