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Samus Aran: one of the FIRST video game heroines, based off of Sigorney Weaver in Alien, one of the first action heroines. 

Both parts were originally written for male leads, but the creators decided to try something new.

Samus Aran’s journey took its emotional cues from Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror opus, “Alien.” By coincidence, James Cameron’s “Aliens” arrived that very summer, with Sigourney Weaver in the bug hunting lead. It struck a chord.

“We were partway through the development process,” recalls Sakamoto, “when one of the staff members said Hey, wouldn’t that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman?” 

The vote carried, and on August 6, 1986, Metroid was released for the Famicom Disk System. 

http://games.ign.com/articles/815/815011p1.html

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