Metroid
1986 action-adventure shooter video game
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Summary
Metroid is a video game[1]. Metroid ranks in the top 3% of video game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,398 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Director: Satoru Okada[3], Yoshio Sakamoto[4]
- Composer: Hirokazu Tanaka[5]
- Publisher: Nintendo[6]
- Genre: Metroidvania[7]
- Producer: Gunpei Yokoi[8]
- Developer: Nintendo Research & Development 1[9]
- Part of the series: Metroid[10]
- Commons category: Metroid (video game)[11]
- Platform: Game Boy Advance[12], Nintendo Entertainment System[13], Famicom Disk System[14]
- Game mode: single-player video game[15]
- Distribution format: digital download[16]
- Review score: 99%[17]
- Input device: gamepad[18]
- Country of origin: Japan[19]
- Publication date: August 6, 1986[20], August 15, 1987[21], January 15, 1988[22], August 1986[23], August 1987[24]
- Characters: Samus Aran[25], Mother Brain[26], Kraid[27], Ridley[28]
- Distributed by: Nintendo eShop[29]
- Narrative location: Zebes[30]
- ESRB rating: Everyone[31]
- CERO rating: A (All ages)[32]
- PEGI rating: PEGI 3[33], PEGI 7[34]
- USK rating: USK 0[35]
- Takes place in fictional universe: Metroid universe[36]
- Title: メトロイド[37]
- Units sold: 2,730,000[38]
Why It Matters
Metroid has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Metroid is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]