Random: Did You Know The Name Metroid Was Made By Combining ‘Metro’ And ‘Android’?

Originally, it was going to be called ‘Space Hunter’.

Rounding out today’s Metroid fun, celebrating the franchise’s 35th anniversary, it’s time to share an interesting little fact regarding the series’ origins.

In fact, it’s actually Nintendo of America doing the fact sharing; in a tweet posted earlier today, the company let fans in on how the series first got its name – looking through the replies, it seems that plenty of people were completely unaware that this was the case:

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