Didn't you read? Xhe had no idea of Metroid back then! How was xhe supposed to find out there were other games where you could play as women? Super Mario Bros 2 (or Mario USA for the "ackshually it's doki doki panic in Japan and afgadgsk" ones...) let you choose Peach as your character but seems like xhe didn't know that either! Castlevania 3 also lets you recruit a woman as a playable partner, but considering she marries Trevor and forms a powerful family with him, it wouldn't surprise me if terfoids don't consider her "stronk womyn".The original Metroid, an action game for the Family Computer Disk System, was developed by Nintendo's Research & Development 1 (R&D1) and released in Japan on August 6, 1986
Also a female lead..