Possible future easter eggs to Nintendo's Metroid ('86) in '88 Sunsoft video game, Blaster Master. The title reversed was the name of a formidable duo that fought Mel Gibson in 1985 post apocalyptic action thriller Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
- Stage 1: "The Forest" has an underwater area with a creature called Moeba, it looks similar to the Metroid (a kind of jelly fish with fangs).
- Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto credited Ridley Scott's Alien ('79) as a big influence in the aesthetics of Metroid.
- Mel Gibson acted in The Year Of Living Dangerously (1982) with Alien's Sigourney Weaver.
- Scott considered Gibson for the lead in Gladiator (2000) which he turned down.
- Mini Boss 2 in Metroid is named Ridley.
- The Final Boss of stage 1 in Blaster Master is named Mother Brain, same spelling as the final enemy of Metroid.
