Metroid (Metoroido?) is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo in 1986 on the Famicom Disk System, the extension of the Famicom. It was released from 1987 on the NES in North America, then in the rest of the world and in the arcade that same year. The game is belatedly re-released from 2004 on Game Boy Advance in Japan, North America and Europe. It was re-released in dematerialized version on the Wii consoles in 2007, 3DS in 2012 and Wii U in 2013, but also as a bonus in the Metroid Prime and Zero Mission games.
