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| Super Metroid is the first and only Metroid game for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]. It was released worldwide in 1994. | | '''Super Metroid''' is the successor to ''[[Metroid II]]''. In it, [[Samus Aran|Samus]] answers a distress call at the Space Colony [[Ceres]]. She finds that the station is deserted and the researchers are dead. When she located the [[Metroid Hatchling]], she finds that [[Ridley]] has taken it and gives chase. |
| ==Plot==
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| Super Metroid takes place directly after the events of [[Metroid II: Return of Samus]]. It opens with [[Samus]] handing over the [[Metroid hatchling]] (collected on [[SR388]]) to [[Galactic Federation]] scientists, on the [[Ceres Space Colony]]. Upon leaving, Samus, recieves a distress signal, almost immediately after. Requesting her assistance back at the Space Colony. Upon landing it is discovered that all humans had been killed and the Metroid hatchling had been stolen. This is soon found to be the work of [[Ridley]], who had invaded the Colony for the means of attaining the last living Metroid. After confronting Samus of which, Ridley fled to Zebes, with Samus persuing and soon landing on the planets surface, in search of Ridley and the last Metroid.
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| After scouring the planet, and destroying Ridley, as well as his [[Space Pirate|Pirate]] comrades, Samus entered [[Tourian|their base]], deep beneath the planet's surface, only to encounter the Infant Metroid, now fully grown. She then after entered a mass battle with the Pirate mastermind, [[Mother Brain]]. Over the course of the battle both the Metroid Infant and Mother Brain are destroyed, initiating a countdown, at the end of which Samus escapes and Zebes is consumed by the massive timebomb.
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The release of Super Metroid was cancelled three times before its initial release because of its massive size, being the biggest game of that time.
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| *According to Screwattack.com, the prelude to Super Metroid is the "#4 Best Video Game Theme of All Time."
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| *Super Metroid is playable as a "Masterpiece" in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]] as a trial mode, playable for three minutes,
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| *Many of the songs from Super Metroid have been remixed by Metroid Metal, the songs consisting of the Prelude, Boss Medley, Maridia, and Lower Norfair.
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| ==Gallery== | | ==Gallery== |
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