{"id":39933,"date":"2023-06-24T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/metroid-is-one-of-nintendos-most-important-sagas-but-how-its-name-came-to-be-was-not-by-chance\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:37:20","slug":"metroid-is-one-of-nintendos-most-important-sagas-but-how-its-name-came-to-be-was-not-by-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weebview.com\/metroid-is-one-of-nintendos-most-important-sagas-but-how-its-name-came-to-be-was-not-by-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid is one of Nintendo’s most important sagas, but how its name came to be was not by chance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mythical NES was the starting point for countless video game sagas that have been kept alive more than 30 years after its launch, especially classic Nintendo<\/a> franchises. Thus we were able to see the first titles of Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus and of course we cannot forget Metroid.<\/p>\n

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The adventures of Samus Aran from 37 years ago, when the first installment was published in 1986 on the 8-bit console of the great N. From that moment on, she has made the leap to numerous platforms, but in reality one of the greatest curiosities around this saga is that of why Metroid?<\/strong> Why choose such a name?<\/p>\n

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Well, the truth is that it has its explanation and it is not at all a coincidence. Yoshio Sakamoto, the director of it, recounted in the early 2000s on a Japanese television program that in reality it is simply about a play on words <\/strong>to put together “Meter<\/em>” with “Android<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

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The first is because the game action takes place in the underground<\/strong>, which is precisely where the public transport of the metro is located. For its part, the Android thing is due to the fact that the suit that Samus wears causes her to resemble some kind of robot<\/strong>so they simply decided to join the two words to result in one of the best-known names in the video game industry.<\/p>\n

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Even so, this corresponds to how we know the name of metroid<\/strong> in real life, since we must not forget that within the saga itself it is also the one that is used to call one the creatures we must face<\/strong> in countless games in the series, making this species the best known of all for more than obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

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In ExtraLife | Where do I start if I want to play Metroid?<\/p>\n

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In ExtraLife | All the titles of the Metroid saga ordered from worst to best<\/p>\n

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