Returning to Metroid

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Yoshio Sakamoto worked at Nintendo before he co-created Metroid, but it was his sci-fi series - one that that spawned a whole genre - which made him famous.
Along with the late Gunpei Yokoi, Sakamoto developed Metroid for NES. He had already cut his teeth on classic such as Balloon Fight and Donkey Kong Jr. The same year as Metroid, he also shipped Kid Icarus.
But it was Metroid which stuck, and Metroid which received a sequel in 1991: Metroid 2, the game which Nintendo is now readying for re-release on 3DS in the shape of souped-up remake Metroid: Samus Returns.
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