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  2. Super Metroid - Wikipedia

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    Super Metroid [a] [b] is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.It is the third installment in the Metroid series, following the events of the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991).

  3. Nintendo Player's Guide - Wikipedia

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    Screenshots and short descriptions of other games were also included. As an early published Nintendo work, it featured some errors, including referring to Metroid heroine Samus Aran as a male, and referring to the playable bar in Arkanoid as "Bowse" instead of the proper "Vaus," most likely the result of a translation mistake.

  4. Mother Brain - Wikipedia

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    Mother Brain (Japanese: マザーブレイン, Hepburn: Mazā Burein) is a fictional character created by Nintendo for the Metroid series. She is one of the most prominent antagonists within the series, serving as the main antagonist of Metroid and Super Metroid. Mother Brain has been killed multiple times by series protagonist Samus Aran.

  5. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wikipedia

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    The gameplay of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and its 2D successors is often compared in the gaming press with the popular series Metroid, with both Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid seen as pioneers in the genre, [h] leading to the coinage of the term "Metroidvania" (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), used to ...

  6. Metroidvania - Wikipedia

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    Metroidvania [a] is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a partial blend of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997).

  7. Metroid - Wikipedia

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    Metroid [a] is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo.The player controls the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who protects the galaxy from Space Pirates and other malevolent forces and their attempts to harness the power of the parasitic Metroid creatures.

  8. Fourth generation of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo's market position was defined by their machine's increased video and sound capabilities, [25] including exclusive first-party franchise titles such as F-Zero, Super Mario World, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid.

  9. Metroid (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Metroid is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Samus Aran in sprite-rendered two-dimensional landscapes. [failed verification] [1] [2] [3] The game takes place on the planet Zebes, a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus as she travels through the planet's caverns and ...