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Manage Your ListAn NES classic, Metroid introduced the world to Samus Aran and established the fundamentals of the Metroidvania genre.
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Metroid
- Franchise
- Metroid
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Released
- August 6, 1986
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Genre(s)
- Platformer
- ESRB
- E for Everyone: Mild Fantasy Violence
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