Throughout the games, Samus must frequently face the eponymous Metroids - energy-siphoning life forms with a penchant for sucking on heads. The series started as a 2D third-person action-adventure, although the recent highly-praised Metroid Prime Trilogy took the series into first-person. Gamers were shocked at the end of the first game when she removed her helmet and turned out to be a woman. Metroid stars space-suited Samus Aran, a bounty hunter whose face is usually kept hidden.
11 more games have followed, with the latest, Metroid: Other M, released on Wii last year.
The original Metroid launched for the NES on 6th August 1986 in Japan. Veteran Nintendo series Metroid celebrated its 25th Anniversary over the weekend.
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