This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

In the Metroid Prime series, Phazon is a highly radioactive, self-regenerating mineral with organic properties that is generated by the sentient planet Phaaze.

In Metroid Prime Hunters, Spire is a rock-like, silicon-based alien.

John Carmack announced the game and said that touch screen controls would not be implemented as much as in Metroid Prime Hunters, for example.

* The Colossus, the name of a Space Pirate ship from the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

* Aurora Unit, an element of the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

* The Grapple Beam from the Metroid series, which allows the player to attach to and swing from special points or surfaces, as well as the Charge Beam from Metroid Prime and its sequels, which allows the player to draw power-ups in from a distance.

* Metroid Prime, a first-person adventure video game for Nintendo GameCube and Wii

* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a 2007 action-adventure game

* Trace, a fictional character in the game Metroid Prime Hunters

The video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes involves a world, " Aether ", having an alternate self in the, " Dark " realm, universe, or dimension.

* Metroid Prime, a game in Nintendo's Metroid franchise

* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a 2007 video game for the Nintendo Wii

* The Ing, a race of dark creatures in the 2004 video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime, along with the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, that was released alongside it on the same day in North America, marked the return of the Metroid series after eight years – the last game in the franchise had been 1994's Super Metroid.

Metroid Prime is the first of the three part Prime storyline, which takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus.

Critics and fans alike have also noted that Alis is one of the first female heroines in video games, alongside Samus Aran of Metroid and Chun Li of Street Fighter, who didn't journey for love or treasure but for personal vengeance.

It is also typical for games to require the player to travel a certain way or perform a specific action in order to attain said power-up, such as bombing through specific blocks in Super Metroid.

It is the first 3D game in the Metroid series, the fifth main installment, and is classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game and its precedence over combat.

The game is the first in the Metroid series to use a first-person view as opposed to side scrolling, except in Morph Ball mode, when Samus's suit transforms into an armored ball and the game uses a third-person camera.

Prime is one of the first Metroid games to address the reason Samus does not start with power-ups attained in previous games ; she begins the game with certain upgrades, but during an explosion on the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, they are all lost.

The Prime trilogy is set between Metroid and Metroid II, but sources such as Gradiente, Brazil's former distributor of Nintendo, and the Nintendo Power comics adaptation of Metroid Prime, set the games as occurring after Super Metroid.

This is further supported as some of the log entries in Metroid Prime refer to the destruction of Zebes at the hands of " a hunter clad in metal.

" The Brazilian publicity even states that the Phazon meteor is a piece of Zebes, destroyed after Super Metroid.

The initial Tallon Overworld theme is a remix of Metroid < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Brinstar theme, the music in Magmoor Caverns is a remix of Super Metroid < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Lower Norfair area, and the music during the fight with Meta Ridley is a remix of the Ridley boss music first featured in Super Metroid, which has been remixed and featured in most Metroid games since.

* Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super Metroid

* Rippers, a type of creature in the Metroid video game franchise

* Biologic Space Laboratories, the location of the Metroid Fusion video game

* Metroid Prime Hunters, a video game for the Nintendo DS

* Metroid Prime: Trilogy, a compilation video game for the Wii console

Many top-selling Nintendo games are critical franchises that are well recognized in the video game industry at large, like The Legend of Zelda, Mario and Metroid.

is an action-adventure video game, the second game in the Metroid series, and the only one developed for the Nintendo Game Boy.

Metroid II is an action-adventure video game in which the player controls the protagonist Samus Aran on the fictional planet SR388.

, also known as Metroid 3, is an action-adventure video game and the third game in the Metroid series.

" Sakamoto mentioned that there was a possibility for a Metroid game for Nintendo's upcoming video game console, the Nintendo 64, then referred to as " Project Reality ", but reminded that it was not guaranteed.

Struggling against more commercially popular games, such as Donkey Kong Country in 1994, along with the launch of the PlayStation and Sega Saturn video game consoles, Super Metroid sold poorly in Japan.

Super Metroid has had a lasting effect on the video game industry.

Starting with 1997's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the Castlevania series of video games borrows the backtracking and weapon upgrading elements from Super Metroid, leading to the term " Metroidvania ".

Concluding his review, Leach wrote that Super Metroid contained everything he looked for in a video game: " playability, hidden tricks, powerful weapons and steamingly evil baddies ".

Chris Slate of the Game Players video game magazine thoroughly enjoyed Super Metroid, claiming that it " easily lives up to everyone's high expectations ".

, also known as Metroid 4, is an action-adventure video game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance.

Metroid Fusion was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, the same development team that created the 1994 video game Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to which Metroid Fusion visually bears a resemblance.