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Metroid / REFERENCE

Artwork & pictures

Original-release artwork and pictures for Metroid, with image sources and edition notes.

Edition covered

Original 1986 Metroid as adapted for the international NES release in 1987. These guides use the NES password system and original Zebes areas. The Famicom Disk System save menu, Zero Mission remake, later Metroid movement abilities and sequence-breaking glitches are excluded.

Original NES Brinstar game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Brinstar game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Norfair game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Norfair game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Kraid’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Kraid’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Ridley’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.
Original NES Ridley’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Brinstar game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Brinstar game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Norfair game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Norfair game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Kraid’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Kraid’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Ridley’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

Original NES Ridley’s Hideout game screens, cropped from a stitched screenshot map.

FIELD NOTE

Open any picture to view the bundled image at full size. Artwork and regional packaging may vary.

Picture details

Game artwork belongs to its respective rights holders.

References