Trivia / Super Metroid

• Bad Export for You: The European and Australian Wii U Virtual Console release is the 50Hz SNES version being forced to run at 60Hz, which introduces new glitches that aren't present in the Wii U release in other regions and weren't even present at all in the original European/Australian release.
• Dummied Out:
  • There are some leftover enemies, such as a Yameba-like blob called a Bang, a reflective panel called a Reflec, and a miniature Crocomire called a Stoke.
  • Coding for a Long Beam power-up can be found in the games data, but no item for it exists in-game, as it's now a default feature of Samus' beam.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The appearance of the Varia Suit in Super Metroid and onwards is the result of the Game Boy's lack of color. In the original NES game the Varia Suit was denoted by a Palette Swap. Since the Game Boy was black and white, the suit itself became physically different after being obtained in Metroid II. The design was retained for this game and the rest is history.
• Troubled Production: According to an interview with Yoshio Sakamoto, the game was close to being put down not one, not two, but three times; and one of the game's biggest critics was series co-creator Gunpei Yokoi himself. Reportedly, he often angrily asked the team "It isn't fine art! How long is this gonna take?!".
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to a popular Urban Legend of Zelda, the Japanese version of the game has Samus naked during her death animation, but was covered up in the North American version. In an interview, the developers stated that that Samus being naked was never the case, but was considered during development. The non-canon Metroid EX: Samus and Joey would later feature show a vision of Samus's naked body.
  • Minako Hamano, the secondary composer for the Metroid series next to Kenji Yamamoto, originally did the voice for Samus when she dies. However Yamamoto stated it had to be dropped because her voice sounded too sexual. See here for more details.

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