Metroids, headcrabs, and facehuggers

[WedNESday]

This is a Metroid after Valve gets its paws on it.

Headcrab from Half-Life 2: Episode Two, © Valve

Er no, that's a facehugger from the Alien movie after Valve gets its hands on it.

[rainwarrior]

Er no, that's a facehugger from the Alien movie after Valve gets its hands on it.

And what is a facehugger from Alien after Nintendo gets its hands on it?

[ShaneM]

This is a Metroid after Valve gets its paws on it.
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Headcrab from Half-Life 2: Episode Two, © Valve

Er no, that's a facehugger from the Alien movie after Valve gets its hands on it.

And what is a facehugger from Alien after Nintendo gets its hands on it?

My turn. What does any of this have to do with VC and original NES games? #gottaloveaddmoments --ShaneM

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For those with enough ADD to need a quick recap:

Someone is disassembling Nintendo's Metroid in order to have a basis about which to discuss differences among the FDS, NES, and Virtual Console versions of the game. Comments to such a disassembly would likely include the name of a character and a species when describing code that calculates their behavior. This person appeared confused about these names, and I gave some visual aids to help remember them.

[JRoatch]

This is Cowboy BeBop at his computer. Except it isn't.

I personally thought that was a classic case of I Am Not Shazam. trying hard not to reference "why can't metroid craw".

[WedNESday]

Er no, that's a facehugger from the Alien movie after Valve gets its hands on it.

And what is a facehugger from Alien after Nintendo gets its hands on it?

The Facehugger and Metroid aren't the same at all. The Metroid latches on top of the head while the Facehugger goes for the face. I don't believe Nintendo got the idea from Alien. It's more like a big floating brain that sucks on your brain.