Metroidis one of Nintendo's oldest franchises, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. Since then, Metroid has had a release on nearly every generation of console, with bounty hunter Samus Aran often being a Nintendo fan's first introduction to the action-adventure genre as they hunt pirates and parasitic aliens in various iterations of the 2D or 3D platformer.
Though never performing quite as high as Legend of Zelda, Mario, or Nintendo's other poster franchises,
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