I was going through old Nintendo Powers

I was going through old Nintendo Powers and saw this poster from Volume 26.  It’s for Metroid II before they even had a name for it.  It looked pretty good but then I realized something odd.  The artist gave Samus boob armor. xD  I suspect the NP artist was like, “well, we found out in Metroid 1 that she’s a girl, so we need to make sure the audience knows, so… boobs!”

For the record, her armor in Metroid II looked like this: