Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit home console developed and released by Nintendo in 1985 as the overseas counterpart to the Family Computer (or Famicom), which itself originally released in Japan in 1983. Only one Metroid game has ever been released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the first Metroid, in 1987. Prior to its overseas release, Metroid was first released in Japan in 1986 as a Family Computer Disk System title. Metroid would later be included as one of the thirty games for the NES Classic Edition.