Year: 1986

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo R&D

Country: Japan

Genre: Action-adventure

Platform: Various

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Metroid was the first in the series of Metroid games. In this science fiction, action-adventure game, the protagonist is Samus Aran, a bounty hunter. Samus’s task is to fight the Space Pirates who have stolen the Metroid creatures, and ultimately destroy Mother Brain, the lifeform that operates the Space Pirates’ base.

LGBTQ  references in this game: 

Samus Aran

Citations:

1. Metroid. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid
2. Metroid (video game). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_(video_game)