 Welcome back to the video game storytime event calendar where we dispense tiny pieces of useless trivia instead of tiny pieces of delicious chocolate. Metroid on the NES is notable for featuring a female protagonist, whose name was METRO- I mean, Samus Aran. So why is Samus a woman? Yoshio Sakamoto, a designer who worked on the game, said, once we entered the final stage of development, we started talking about having different endings depending on how long it took players to clear the game. We wanted to prepare a reward for people who cleared it more quickly. Then someone said, it would be a shocker if Samus turned out to be a woman, and everyone thought that would be interesting and wanted to do it, so we decided it right away. People who played it back then were shocked, and even now people talk about it like a kind of legend. So Samus Aran was made a woman primarily to surprise the player at the end of the game. Tune in tomorrow for the next video in this nonsensical challenge we've set ourselves.