Changing hair colors even more dramatically than her armor, Samus travels through the galaxy in pursuit of the Metroid. Visit chrislovesjapan.com for more content.
What I love about the Japanese commercial for the first Metroid game is that it's Tokusatsu style Samus Aran and for the Japanese commercials for Metroid 2 & Super Metroid they used some stop motion animation.
Japan gets the cooler commercials. Even the Super Metroid commercial was way cooler than the one we got, even shows a glimpse of Ridley and the baby Metroid
Which one? The Blonde one is unknown, but the Japanese woman playing her in the Zero Mission commercial is Chisato Morishita. 9,800 yen is about 100 US dollars today, but in the 1994 when the game was released it was more like 65-70 dollars.