Wikitroid:Featured article queue/Week 30, 2007

Metroid is the first game in the Metroid series. It was released first for the Famicom Disk System on August 6, 1986, and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System in August 1987 in North America and in Europe on January 15, 1988. The game was produced by Gunpei Yokoi and was directed by Yoshio Sakamoto, with the music by Hirokazu Tanaka. Metroid would be remade for the Game Boy Advance under the title Metroid: Zero Mission, with a new plot and areas added to the game. The game's storyline deals with Samus Aran, a bounty hunter who was raised by the Chozo, to go to the planet Zebes and halt the Space Pirate operations on the planet. The Space Pirates have been using the newly discovered Metroids for ill purposes. The Galactic Federation worries that if the Space Pirates learn how to multiply the Metroids and use them as a biological weapon, they would be unstoppable. Thus, Samus Aran is hired to stop them and kill their leader — Mother Brain.