Unidentified distress beacon received! Bounty hunters Max Roberts and Logan Moore answer the call to investigate Tallon IV and Metroid’s pivotal move into first-person. Did a Texas-based studio really make one of the all-timers or was Samus better off left in the 90s?

• Developer – Retro Studios
• Platform – Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Switch
• Release Date – November 18, 2002
  • Remastered - February 8, 2023
• Game Director – Mark Pacini
• Producers – Shigeru Miyamoto, Kensuke Tanabe, Kenji Miki, Akira Otani, and Michael Mann
• Composers – Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma

Metacritic – 97/100 (GC) 94/100 (Switch)

• Metroid Prime Wikipedia
• Metroid Prime: Blast Ball
• Millennial Gaming Speak – Episode 5 - Nintendo News and Kojima Confusion
• Metroid Prime’s various endings
• S1E3 - Paper Mario - The Thousand-Year Door
• The World Design of Dark Souls | Boss Keys – GMTK
• The World Design of Metroid Prime | Boss Keys – GMTK
• MIGS 2007: Retro Studios On The Journey Of Metroid Prime
• Metroid Prime Roundtable QA
  • Miyamoto’s quote on the Morph Ball was in regards to just the third-person element, not the game at large. My apologies.
• My Journey to Becoming a Map Maker – A Video Essay
• Soundtrack
  • Nintendo Music
  • YouTube

This episode was originally recorded on October 14, 2023.

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