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NES Version on record: PAL

Metroid(European Version)

NESPAL

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Provenance en.wikipedia.org Nintinbox NES sticker pack (archive.org emuvr-ugc)

Specification — PAL

Platform
NES
Region
Europe & Australia — PAL
Release year
1988
Developer
Nintendo R&D1 · Intelligent Systems
Publisher
Nintendo
Language
English
Entry type
Official release

About this game

Metroid is a 1986 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The first installment in the Metroid series, it was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in August 1986. North America received a release in August 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with the European release following in January 1988. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve the predatory Metroid organisms that were stolen by Space Pirates, who plan to replicate the Metroids by exposing them to beta rays and then use them as biological weapons to destroy Samus and all who oppose them.

Archive notes

European (PAL) release. Label reproduced from an archive scan.

Source & provenance

External reference: en.wikipedia.org

Catalogued from Nintinbox NES sticker pack (archive.org emuvr-ugc).

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