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Super Metroid

Japan 1994-03-19 / action-adventure game /Nintendo

About this game title

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Japanese title
Super Metroid
Japan release date
1994-03-19
North America release date
1994-04-18
Europe release date
1994-07-28
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo / Intelligent Systems(Nintendo R&D1)
Genre
action-adventure game / shoot 'em up / Metroidvania
Formats
SFC / SNES
Launch price (before tax)
9,800 yen
Copies sold
1,420,000 copies
Famitsu score
Unknown
Players
1 players
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.

SUPER METROID
Model no. SHVC-RI / 9,800 yen / 1994-03-19

More details

Only the details we could confirm are shown.

Series
MetroidSeries
Music
Kenji Yamamoto
Art
Hirofumi Matsuoka / Masahiko Mashimo / Hiroyuki Kimura / Toru Osawa / Tomomi Yamane
production
Gunpei Yokoi (general manager) / Makoto Kano
Direction
Yoshio Sakamoto
Medium
ROM cartridge / Digital download
North America age rating
E / All ages

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 1,330 views per month
Readers of the overseas article
about 11,067 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
15 times
Last edited
2026-07-19
Still officially playable
Officially available

Current records (12 of 47)

The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2026-06-15). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.

48 sec
Ceres Escape / ShinyZeni / 2024-01-07
View on speedrun.com
8 min 37 sec
Any% Glitched / Drewski_i / 2026-06-15
View on speedrun.com
14 min 49 sec
GT Code / mm2nescartridge / 2023-12-16
View on speedrun.com
40 min 22 sec
Any% / ShinyZeni / 2025-01-31
View on speedrun.com
46 min 42 sec
Low% / Overfiendvip / 2018-04-22
View on speedrun.com
56 min 07 sec
RBO / ShinyZeni / 2023-02-21
View on speedrun.com
1 h 12 min 18 sec
100% / ShinyZeni / 2024-03-02
View on speedrun.com
1 h 16 min 30 sec
Map Completion / susreime / 2024-02-25
View on speedrun.com
6 min 13 sec
game end glitch / Sniq、NobodyNada / 2023-04-26
View on TASVideos
35 min 58 sec
baseline / Sniq / 2018-03-20
View on TASVideos
46 min 32 sec
low% / Sniq / 2016-12-02
View on TASVideos
1 h 1 min 47 sec
100% / Sniq / 2019-08-01
View on TASVideos

Stories left about this title

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What we still don't know

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Famitsu score

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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/)