Video game journalist Jeremy Parish, who manages the Metroidvania.com site that has attempted to catalog all known Metroidvania games, acknowledges he helped to popularize the term but had learned it from his former co-worker at 1UP.com, Scott Sharkey, who had used the term to describe the games in the Castlevania series that had adopted some elements from the Metroid series.
Videoherní žurnalista Jeremy Parish, který spravuje web Metroidvania.com která se pokoušela katalogovat všechny známé hry typu Metroidvania uznává, že pomohl zpopularizovat tento termín, ale naučil se ho od svého bývalého spolupracovníka na 1UP.com, Scotta Sharkeyho , který používal tento termín k popisu her v seriálu Castlevania , který přijal některé prvky ze série Metroid.