Game title
Metroid
Japan 1986-08-06 / Metroidvania /Nintendo
- #139Japanese release order (of 1239 titles)
- #19Copies sold (of 87 titles)
- #20How much it is read now (of 942 titles)
- #1136Launch price (of 1172 titles)
- 1986Release year
About this game title
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- Japanese title
- Metroid
- Japan release date
- 1986-08-06
- North America release date
- 1987-08-15
- Europe release date
- 1988-01-15
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo / Intelligent Systems（Nintendo R&D1）
- Genre
- Metroidvania
- Formats
- FC / FDS / NES
Copies sold
2,730,000 copies
Officially playable today
Officially available
Products sold (1)
Even for the same game title, packs, bundles and budget re-releases count as separate products. Only those listed in the public record (Media Arts Database) are shown.
- Metroid
- Model no. FMC-MET / 2,600 yen / 1986-08-06
More details
Only the details we could confirm are shown.
- Series
- MetroidSeries
- Music
- Hirokazu Tanaka
- Art
- Yoshio Sakamoto / Hirofumi Matsuoka / Hiroji Kiyotake / Makoto Kano
- programming
- Hiroyuki Yugami / Yase Sobajima / Toshio Sengoku / N.SHIOTANI / M.HOUDAI
- production
- Gunpei Yokoi
- Scenario
- Makoto Kano
- Direction
- Satoru Okada / Masao Yamamoto / Makoto Kano
- Medium
- Digital download
- North America age rating
- E
Where it stands today
How much this title is read and edited today. Wikipedia page views and edit history, counted on 2026-8-30.
Readers of the Japanese article
about 1,393 views per month
Readers of the overseas article
about 10,675 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
15 times
Still officially playable
Officially available
Current records (11 of 25)
The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2026-01-10). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.
Stories left about this title
There are 38.Press a card to read the story.
What we still don't know
These details have not been traced.
Famitsu score
Explore from here
Links to pages related to this title.
Source: created by adapting the "Media Arts Database" (https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/) of the National Center for Art Research, National Museum of Art
Sources: Japanese and English Wikipedia, Wikidata
Sources: TASVideos (https://tasvideos.org/), speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/)