Alien’s concession inspired one of the best science fiction video games ever

Seven years have passed Ridley Scott’s “Alien” in 1979 The arrival of the “foreigners” made by James Cameron “foreigners” in 1986. At that time, while a new generation of science fiction films was capturing the imagination of the cinema pioneers, there was another major media shift at home in the world of video game. Nintendo Famicom in Japan, by 86, released its way to the United States, where it revolutionized the home games market with a series of very influential titles.

You know the names: “Super Mario Bros.” , “The Legend of Zelda”, and a little less on the hierarchy of fame, a game called “Metroid”, which has been born its popular privilege on a large scale still strong to this day. Where most of the Great First Party games were held in Nintendo in worlds or versions of the real world, “Metroid” has placed players in the very advanced space suit of the bonus fishermen between the galaxies of Samos Aran. From there, the character is followed to the closed planet of Zebis on a mission to destroy the most dangerous species of exotic predators in the galaxy: the named lonely.

If this is very similar to “foreigners”, this is not a coincidence. “Metroid” acquired its own share of the 1979 Scott’s original masterpiece, from the hypothesis of extremely violent foreigners to the biological mechanical aesthetic of HR Giger. “Since I made the first” Metroid “game, I was influenced by films such as” Alien “, as explained by the series and co -author Yoshio Sakamoto in an interview with 2021 with Famitsu (Translated from Japanese). “The global view of the organic design of HR Giger, tormented with mechanical elements, is also a key theme for” Metroid “.

Once you know that “Metroid” was directly inspired by “Alien”, you will start noticing all kinds of small similarities. First of all, placing the protagonist in a main work game was not common at the time, and although there is nothing I could find to prove that the sex of Samos was explicitly inspired by Eileen Ribli from Sigournyy Weaver, a quick look at her big and curly hair in that first match indicates a strong effect. “We were part through the development operations when one of the employees said,” hey, is this not a great kind if it turns out that this person inside the lawsuit was a woman? ” IGN In 2004.

The metro themselves, while it is completely different in looking at Xenomorphs of “Alien” privilegeFill the same role mainly-a super-detected composer in the maximum space-one of the tools related to old foreigners-a threat to all the galaxy. You can even argue that “Metroid” expects some of Lore Scott to ultimately bring it to the property with his pre -films “Prometheus” and “Alien: Daultant”. In fact, the first “Metroid” game in the old race of Chozo, like birds and biological engineering as the pre -metro, similar to the role that engineers played in those films.

There are smaller details as well. Is it a coincidence that Ridley, the huge space dragon who killed my father Samos and her enemy works in all games, with the same name Ridley Scott? Or that the vital mechanical mechanical computer discount in the first game, Mother Brain, is a single word to have the same name as the mother computer on board Nostromo?

“All members of the team were affected by HR GIGER design,” Sakamoto told Retro Gamer in 2009. The obsessed den), “I think they were aware that such designs would be a good match for the” Metroid “world that we have already set.”

Film inspiration and unique settings of “Metroid” games have long made a major candidate to adapt the big screen, but unfortunately, all previous efforts to produce the movie “Metroid” in follow -up failed. A real effort was made in the early first decade of the twentieth century, with Again when John Woo was attached to directing the movie “Metroid” directly. However, the creative differences between Nintendo and those involved on the side of the film from the project led to long stalls in planning, and everything in the end faded.

All of this happened at a time when Nintendo was a special protection of its main characteristics-a understandable concern, given the absolute catastrophe that was “Super Mario Bros.”. film. These days, the company returned to the cinematic scene with great success. The 2023 animated movie was “Super Mario Bros.” Great successAnd nintendo follows this with a The live movie “Legend of Zelda” This was currently assigned to theaters on May 7, 2027.

Can all this modern movement get the Metroid fans finally for the great adventure they were waiting for? It is definitely possible. Unfortunately, “Metroid” is almost popular these days such as “Mario” and “Zelda”, but with a large new real estate entry, “Metroid Prime 4: Beyond”, which will be released in the near future, attention can increase again. If the movie happens, it will definitely be more suitable for the family than “strange” films. At the same time, it will be impossible to honestly adapt the games and not bring some of the same DNA.