Metroid

Metroid was a first in several ways. It was the first arcade/action game that offered fairly non-linear gameplay. It has its levels with end bosses, of course, but otherwise it put little restrictions on how the player explored the game world. Besides, it was the first action game to feature a female protagonist, and one of the first games (after Amelie Minuit) to do so at all.

Sequels

For more than ten years, Nintendo kept a strict system: There was a new Metroid game for every new platform. There were no remakes, and never two games on the same platform. And each game advanced the storyline. There were three games in direct continuity of the first:

• Metroid II, 1991, Game Boy
• Super Metroid, 1994, SNES
• Metroid Fusion, 2002, Game Boy Advance

Nintendo first departed from this system when no Metroid game was released for the Nintendo 64.

• Metroid Prime (2002, GameCube) started a new storyline set before the first game. It also changed genre.
• Metroid: Zero Mission (2004, Game Boy Advance) is essentially a remake of the first game.
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004, GameCube) and
• Metroid Prime: Hunters (2006, DS) both are sequels to Metroid Prime.

Links

• Samus Aran is a Hottie!