The heroines in video games are something that today we can see as normal, there are many video games that are developed with some female character as the main character of the game, this decades ago was something strange to see, but as time went by the players accepted it in an excellent way.
Over the years many heroines have surprised all video game players, each with a unique charisma and personality, but there is no doubt that in 1986 a legend was born, this is the most famous bounty hunter today, Samus Aran.
This character was born from the inspiration of two great icons of video games, Makoto Kano who gave the main concept and Hiroji Kiyotake who gave the visual appearance to Samus, the latter is the one who has participated in different video games where Samus stands out as the main character.
For the creation of Samus many references were taken into account, first, the environment in which the video game was focused was inspired by the film ALIEN, so everything that was created had to do with space, strange creatures and a planet that to the eyes of the viewer was completely unknown.
It took approximately 10 months for a small group of novices to create the entire first video game where Samus Aran would make his debut, this was called Metroid, becoming a reference for many videogame creators, however, at the end of its development was given the feminine touch to the character.
At the time of making the design of Samus was never thought of the possibility that it was a woman, always was seen as a character with a protective space suit, when the game was fully finalized its designers wanted to have several endings as a reward depending on the actions of the player, that's when it was decided to remove the suit from Samus.
Several ideas were given, but someone from the programming set said "it would be excellent that she was a woman" from that moment the image of Samus Aran in everyone's mind changed, officially she would become a woman, that's how they looked for several actresses to take her as a reference to create the Samus model without the suit and Kim Basinger was chosen.
As a curious fact the only way to know that she was a woman is to perform certain actions within the game to see the end where they showed their true appearance.
In time Samus would take on a great role in videogames, her mysterious personality, her level of improvement in each videogame and her great ability made her one of the most relevant and ancient heroines. One of the games that had more impact where our heroine is protagonist was Super Metroid launched for the Super Nintendo in 1994 which many consider one of the best games of the saga.
Without a doubt Samus Aran is a symbol within videogames, its creators in the most unexpected way created a legend, any veteran player when seeing his characteristic suit will recognize her by her great trajectory within this industry.
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