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