Q 01/05

Who is the bounty hunter the player controls across the Metroid series?

A) Joanna Dark

B) Jade Raven

C) Samus Aran

D) Tyris Flare

Answer · why

C) Samus Aran

Samus has protected the galaxy from Space Pirates and Metroids across four decades of games.

Q 02/05

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

A) Android

B) Asteroid

C) Meteoroid

D) Avoid

Answer · why

A) Android

'Metro' nods to the first game's mostly underground setting and the android half to its robot-like heroine.

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

Japan had received it a year earlier on the Famicom Disk System.

Q 04/05

Which Texas studio developed Metroid Prime for the GameCube?

A) Rare

B) Retro Studios

C) Silicon Knights

D) Factor 5

Answer · why

B) Retro Studios

Shigeru Miyamoto suggested the project after visiting Retro's Austin office in 2000.

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

Sakamoto was impressed by their Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate and asked them to remake Metroid II.