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North American box art
Developer(s) Nintendo R&D1 Publisher(s) Nintendo Producer(s) Gunpei Yokoi Designer(s) Hiroji Kiyotake Yoshio Sakamoto Writer(s) Makoto Kanoh Composer(s) Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka Series Metroid Aspect ratio 4:3
3:2 (GBA)
Native resolution 480p (Virtual Console)
480i (NES)
160p (GBA)
Platform(s) FDS,
NES,
GBA,
Virtual Console Release date(s) August 6, 1986
NES
JP August 6, 1986
NA August 15, 1987
EU January 15, 1988
Virtual Console
EU July 20, 2007
NA August 13, 2007
JP March 4, 2008
Genre(s) Action-adventure Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) ESRB: E (Everyone) (GBA, VC)
PEGI: 3+ (GBA)
Media Disk Card, 1-
megabit cartridge,
WiiWare Input methods NES controller Metroid (メトロイド, Metoroido?) is an action-adventure video game and the first entry in the Metroid series. Developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and published by Nintendo, the game was released in Japan in August 1986, in North America in August 1987, and in Europe in January 1988. It was re-released for the Game Boy Advance in October 2004, and for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe in July 2007, in North America in August 2007, and in Japan in March 2008. Following a series of commercially successful video games released by Nintendo in the early 1980s, the company began developing Metroid alongside its sister game, Kid Icarus ...
