Editing Retro Studios

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{{Infobox Company
|title         = Retro Studios, Inc.
|logo          = [[File:Retro_Studios.png|250px]]
|type          = Subsidiary
|founded       = September 21, 1998
|headquarters  = {{flag|USA}} Austin, Texas
|key_people    = Michael Kelbaugh: President & CEO<br>Tim Little<br>Vince Joly<br>Ryan Harris
|industry      = Video Game Development
|products      = Video Games
|num_employees = 79
|parent        = [[Nintendo]]
|website       = [https://www.retrostudios.com Retro Studios, Inc.]
|interwiki     = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Retro Studios
}}
'''Retro Studios''' is an American-based video game development company and a subsidiary of [[Nintendo]]. Founded on September 21st, 1998 and officially launching on October 1st of that year, Retro Studios was conceived as an alliance between Nintendo and {{iw|wikipedia|Jeff Spangenberg}} to develop more mature titles for the upcoming {{s|nintendowiki|GameCube}}. Initially headquartered in Spangenberg's house, the quickly growing team moved to an office in early 1999 and immediately entered four different titles into preproduction. These titles include an American football game titled ''NFL Retro Football'', a role playing game titled ''Raven Blade'', a vehicular combat game with the working titles ''Car Combat'' and ''Thunder Rally'', and an action adventure game with the working title ''Action-Adventure''. None of these games were making significant progress before {{s|nintendowiki|Shigeru Miyamoto}} visited the studio in 2000. He was overall disappointed in what he saw, but thought there was potential in the engine they made for ''Action-Adventure'', which he suggested would work with a new {{uv|Metroid}} game. After receiving the license to make a Metroid game, all four previous games were canceled and their staff were moved to work on what would become ''Metroid Prime''. On May 2nd, 2002, Nintendo purchased Retro from Spangenberg, and reclassified the studio as a first party developer. Nintendo and Spangenberg split on bad terms due to Spangenberg misusing Nintendo's money, a lack of communication caused by his poor work ethic and absenteeism, and hosting his ''Sinful Summer'' personal softcore pornographic website on Retro's internal servers. Spangenberg would later found Topheavy Studios, whose first and only game, as well as the last game which Spangenberg was credited on, was ''{{s|wikipedia|The Guy Game}}''.

After the critical and financial success of ''Metroid Prime'', Retro would work on two sequels, ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' and ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', as well as remaster the trilogy and collecting them into the ''Metroid Prime: Trilogy''. Retro would then develop for the {{uv|Donkey Kong}} franchise with ''{{s|mariowiki|Donkey Kong Country Returns}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze}}''. Retro would also collaborate with Nintendo EAD on the development of ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart 7}}''. On January 24th, 2019, Nintendo announced that they were not satisfied with the development of ''Metroid Prime 4'' under its original, unannounced developer (allegedly [[Bandai Namco]]), and the project would completely restart under Retro. During the February 8, 2023 [[Nintendo Direct]], Retro Studios was revealed to have made ''{{s|metroidwiki|Metroid Prime Remastered}}'' with a digital release date of that day. The next entry, ''Metroid Prime 4: Beyond'', was finally released for [[Nintendo Switch]] as well as an upgraded [[Nintendo Switch 2]] Edition on December 4, 2025. 

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''==
[[Frigate Orpheon]], a location from ''Metroid Prime'', appears as a playable stage in ''Brawl'', with the Parasite Queen cameoing in the background. The tracks {{SSBBMusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Parasite Queen}}, {{SSBBMusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Meta Ridley}}, and {{SSBBMusicLink|Metroid|Multiplayer (Metroid Prime 2)}} are directly ported from the ''Metroid Prime'' series, while the opening and menu theme are [[List of SSBB Music (Metroid series)#Opening/Menu (Metroid Prime)|remixed]] into a new track for the game.

[[Meta Ridley]], a prominent enemy in ''Metroid Prime'', appears as a boss in the [[Subspace Emissary]], where the player fights him on the [[Falcon Flyer]].

Several creations in Retro Studio's ''Metroid Prime'' series, including [[Samus Aran]]'s Dark Suit, Dark Samus, and Meta Ridley, appear as trophies. Several other characters appear as stickers.

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''==
Dark Samus appears as an [[Assist Trophy]] in the game, using different Phazon attacks from the ''Metroid Prime'' series. {{SSB4MusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Parasite Queen}}, {{SSB4MusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Meta Ridley}}, and {{SSB4MusicLink|Metroid|Multiplayer (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes)}} return from ''Brawl'' as music tracks, and {{SSB4MusicLink|Metroid|Psycho Bits}} from ''{{s|metroidwiki|Metroid Prime Hunters}}'' also appears as a track.

The [[mariowiki:Rainbow Road (3DS)|Rainbow Road from ''Mario Kart 7'']] appears as a [[Rainbow Road|playable stage]], with [[List of SSB4 Music (Super Mario Bros. series)#Rainbow Road (Mario Kart 7)|its theme]] ported directly from the game appearing on the stage as well. The theme also appears alongside the Rainbow Road themes from ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart DS}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart: Super Circuit}}'' to form a {{SSB4MusicLink|Super Mario Bros.|Rainbow Road Medley}}. In addition, there is a music track called {{SSB4MusicLink|Super Mario Bros.|Circuit (Mario Kart 7)}}, featuring the Circuit theme from ''Mario Kart 7'' in {{forwiiu}}.

''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' is represented with a stage based on [[Jungle Hijinx]], the first stage of the game; it incorporates the layered design of the levels within ''Country Returns''. The track {{SSB4MusicLink|Donkey Kong|Gear Getaway}} receives a new remix for the game, as well as the [[List of SSB4 Music (Donkey Kong series)#Donkey Kong Country Returns (Vocals)|main theme of the game]]. The [[List of SSB4 Music (Donkey Kong series)#Donkey Kong Country Returns|original version]] of the main theme, the {{SSB4MusicLink|Donkey Kong|Jungle Hijinx}} level theme, and the {{SSB4MusicLink|Donkey Kong|Mole Patrol}} theme are directly ported from ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'', and {{SSB4MusicLink|Donkey Kong|Mangrove Cove}} and {{SSB4MusicLink|Donkey Kong|Swinger Flinger}} tracks are directly ported from ''Tropical Freeze''.

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==
Dark Samus appears as a [[Dark Samus (SSBU)|playable fighter]], as an Echo of {{SSBU|Samus}}, and Meta Ridley appears as an alternate costume of {{SSBU|Ridley}}. Frigate Orpheon reappears as a stage, and {{SSBUMusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Parasite Queen}} received a new remix; all other ''Metroid Prime'' tracks appear in the ''Metroid'' universe's music selection. Previous ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'', ''Tropical Freeze'', and ''Mario Kart 7'' music tracks return as well. Multiple Retro Studios-created ''Donkey Kong'' and ''Metroid'' characters also appear as [[Spirits]].

==Trivia==
*Retro Studios is the second company outside of Japan to have representation in ''Smash'' via a playable character, with Retro Studios having created [[Dark Samus]], after [[Rare]] (who having created [[Diddy Kong]], [[King K. Rool]], [[Banjo]] and [[Kazooie]]), and preceding Mojang Studios (who having created [[Steve]]). 
**Coincidentally, the first two companies have made significant contributions to the {{uv|Donkey Kong}} franchise, with Rare having worked on the original ''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy and ''Donkey Kong 64'' while Retro Studios developed both ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' and ''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''.

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