Q 01/05

Which villain is the final boss of the original Metroid?

A) Mother Brain

B) Ridley

C) Dark Samus

D) Phantoon

Answer · why

A) Mother Brain

Mother Brain is destroyed at the end of the first game but returns in Super Metroid, where she has Samus beaten until the Metroid hatchling gives its ...

Q 02/05

The title Metroid is a portmanteau of 'metro' and which other word?

A) Android

B) Asteroid

C) Meteoroid

D) Humanoid

Answer · why

A) Android

Android was attached to 'metro', as in a subway, by designer Hiroji Kiyotake and a colleague, to suggest a robot-like hero in a mostly underground wor...

Q 03/05

On which console did the first Metroid reach North America in August 1987?

A) SNES

B) Game Boy

C) Atari 7800

D) NES

Answer · why

D) NES

NES Metroid shipped without the save slots of the Japanese disk version, so the Western release had players write down a 24-letter password instead.

Q 04/05

Which Texas-based developer made Metroid Prime for the GameCube?

A) Rare

B) Retro Studios

C) Silicon Knights

D) Factor 5

Answer · why

B) Retro Studios

Retro Studios had four other games in the works when Shigeru Miyamoto visited in 2000 and suggested putting its first-person shooter engine to work on...

Q 05/05

Which Spanish studio developed Samus Returns and Metroid Dread?

A) Tequila Works

B) MercurySteam

C) Pyro Studios

D) Novarama

Answer · why

B) MercurySteam

MercurySteam had asked to remake Metroid Fusion; producer Yoshio Sakamoto turned the idea down but offered the studio a remake of Metroid II instead.