![]() ![]() Management tasked Miyamoto with building a disk-run sequel to Super Mario Bros. After that, simple Baseball and Golf games alone just weren't going to cut it. Zelda, the first Famicom Disk game, presented a gigantic world full of secret rooms and dungeons to explore. They also provided a whopping 128K storage capacity, as opposed to the 4K limit of Atari 2600 cartridges. They were cheaper to produce and sold for 3/5ths the price of SEGA's cartridge games. Essentially an external disk drive, it plugged into the Famicom's cartridge slot and ran games off proprietary 3" floppy disks. Atari was MIA.Įven better, the Famicom Disk System peripheral was doing great guns in Japan. A 33-year old phenom named Shigeru Miyamoto successfully put the industry crash of '83 firmly in the rearview mirror with back-to-back hits, Super Mario Bros. They had a three-year head start on SEGA's Master System. After a shaky start full of hardware malfunctions and product recalls, Nintendo's Famicom owned the home console market. They were called Metroids, and they were about to become her life's work. Kill the pirate leader Mother Brain and destroy all research into a parasitic creature created by the Chozo, Samus's own benefactors, as the ultimate bio-weapon. Samus Aran appeared on the surface of planet Zebes, an agile tank on two legs with a cannon on her arm and a contract to fulfill. It gave her prime opportunities to exact missile-heavy vengeance on the pirates who murdered her family. It was the Chozo who equipped Samus with physics-defying combat armor, making her the Galactic Federation's go-to girl for suicide missions in the dark, lonely corners of the universe. ![]() Years later, we'd learn she's an orphan twice over, parents killed by a vicious pirate dragon named Ridley, and then raised by the Chozo, a now-extinct alien race. Even her gender was kept secret throughout the first game, backed by an instruction booklet that told his backstory. Her text dialogue rarely gives much away, either. Maybe that's why nobody's heard Samus speak a single word in over two decades of free-form pirate extermination. ![]()
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