Thirty years ago, Nintendo released its first Metroid game for the Famicom platform. Since then, we’ve seen a few refreshes of the franchise, but none since 2004. Not content with waiting it out for Nintendo to release a version for the current-gen consoles — or the upcoming NX — a group of fans created their own remake of Metroid, and it was awesome. AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) had been in development for more than a decade, and was based on the popular Gameboy title: ‘Metroid II: The Return of Samus.’ On Saturday, the creators launched the full version free of…

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