* Metroid Fusion, a 2002 Game Boy Advance game

* Biologic Space Laboratories, the location of the Metroid Fusion video game

* Metroid Fusion: Some Energy or Missile Tanks are actually enemies in disguise, and usually lead to a room with the real power-up.

Metroid Prime, along with the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, that was released alongside it on the same day in North America, marked the return of the Metroid series after eight years – the last game in the franchise had been 1994's Super Metroid.

Players of the game can gain two features by connecting Prime with Metroid Fusion using a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable: use of the Fusion Suit that Samus wears in Fusion and the ability to play the original Metroid.

There was an official soundtrack released for the game called Metroid Prime and Fusion Original Soundtracks which was supervised by Yamamoto himself.

Parish found the game's premise a saving grace, though ; considering it " ambitious ", he added that it also provided the series a vital crux: " Samus ' actions in Metroid II fuel the plots of both its sequels: Super Metroid Metroid Fusion.

However, since none of the games in the Metroid series up to that point had enjoyed the level of success that Mario and The Legend of Zelda had, Nintendo did not make another Metroid game until eight years later, with the release of Metroid Prime ( GameCube ) and Metroid Fusion ( Game Boy Advance ) in 2002.

Metroid Fusion was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, the same development team that created the 1994 video game Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to which Metroid Fusion visually bears a resemblance.

After Nintendo's action-adventure Metroid had been finished, more staff members were alloted to the development of Kid Icarus.

Yoshio Sakamoto joined the team as soon as he had returned from his vacation after the completion of Metroid.

Super Metroid has had a lasting effect on the video game industry.

Slate found the newly added auto-mapping feature, which charts the player's progress through the game, something that players really needed, noting that it was the only feature in Super Metroid that the original Metroid should have had.

Samus absorbs the nucleus of the SA-X and uses her newly restored Ice Beam to destroy the Omega Metroid, before escaping to her ship that is piloted back to the station by sentient organisms she had saved earlier, which extracts her from the space station before it collides with SR388.

( Games included Super Mario Land 1-3, the new released Donkey Kong which had a special " Super Game Boy " border and color palette, Metroid 2, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Super Star Wars Episode IV, Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Pinball Land, Tennis, World Cup, Alleyway, Dr. Mario, Yoshi, and Tetris.

Various DS games supporting the Rumble Pak ( Metroid Prime Hunters, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and 42 All-Time Classics ) had been released in Europe before the accessory was available.

Retro decided to make the game more challenging than Metroid Prime — which was supposed to familiarize players with the control scheme — and felt that " with the second Prime, we had the ability or the freedom " to do so.

Sakamoto, noting that Metroid Fusions gameplay was drastically different from previous Metroid games, wanted to " show people who had never played a Metroid game prior to Metroid Fusion, the roots of the Metroid franchise, that this is what Metroid is, this is the style of gameplay that Metroid sprang from [...] at the same time, retell the story of Samus ' original mission ".

Comparing the game to Super Metroid, GameSpot thought that Metroid Fusion offered that game's best qualities packaged in a new adventure.

The websites included Luminoth Temple, an Internet forum ; Channel 51, a conspiracy theory website that featured grainy QuickTime videos of Metroid Prime 2 as if it were footage of extraterrestrials ; Orbis Labs, which sold a " self-contained armored machine " called " Battle Sphere ", similar to the Morph Ball ; and Athena Astronautics, which advertised sending women into space, featured a blog, and offered job positions for bounty hunters on Monster. com.

In recent years, few PAL releases have lacked the standard PAL mode and offered 60 Hz only, notably Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for the Nintendo GameCube and Dead or Alive 4 for the Xbox 360.

Sakamoto explained that the developers wanted to make the game connect to Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on the GameCube, but the fact that both their release dates were far apart and not enough development time to implement connectivity features prevented them from doing so.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

In the Metroid Prime series, Phazon is a highly radioactive, self-regenerating mineral with organic properties that is generated by the sentient planet Phaaze.

The rewritable aspect of the disks also opened up new possibilities ; games such as The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus were released to the FDS with a save feature.

It was reissued in 1990 as part of Nintendo's " Classic Series ", along with Zelda II, Metroid, Super Mario Bros., and other games.

As in previous Metroid games, Prime takes place in a large, open-ended world with different regions connected by elevators.

Items from previous Metroid games appear, with altered functions.

Prime is one of the first Metroid games to address the reason Samus does not start with power-ups attained in previous games ; she begins the game with certain upgrades, but during an explosion on the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, they are all lost.

When producer Shigeru Miyamoto visited Retro in 2000, he did not like the games being produced, but suggested the development of a new Metroid game, considering the studio could deal well with the license after seeing the prototype of a first-person shooter engine they created.

The Japanese crew, which included producers Miyamoto, Kensuke Tanabe and Kenji Miki, as well as game designer and Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, communicated with the Texas-based studio through emails, monthly phone conferences and personal gatherings.

Retro Studios developed the storyline of Metroid Prime under the supervision of Yoshio Sakamoto who verified the plot ideas to be consistent with the lore of the series ' earlier entries.

On May, the game was showcased at E3 2001, with its name confirmed as Metroid Prime.

The initial Tallon Overworld theme is a remix of Metroid < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Brinstar theme, the music in Magmoor Caverns is a remix of Super Metroid < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Lower Norfair area, and the music during the fight with Meta Ridley is a remix of the Ridley boss music first featured in Super Metroid, which has been remixed and featured in most Metroid games since.

Shortly before the release of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in 2004, Nintendo released a GameCube bundle with a copy of Prime containing a special second disc, featuring both a preview trailer and a demo for Echoes, a timeline of Metroid games and an art gallery.

In Metroid Prime Hunters, Spire is a rock-like, silicon-based alien.

John Carmack announced the game and said that touch screen controls would not be implemented as much as in Metroid Prime Hunters, for example.

* The Colossus, the name of a Space Pirate ship from the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

* Aurora Unit, an element of the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

* The Grapple Beam from the Metroid series, which allows the player to attach to and swing from special points or surfaces, as well as the Charge Beam from Metroid Prime and its sequels, which allows the player to draw power-ups in from a distance.

* Metroid Prime, a first-person adventure video game for Nintendo GameCube and Wii

* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a 2007 action-adventure game

* Trace, a fictional character in the game Metroid Prime Hunters

The video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes involves a world, " Aether ", having an alternate self in the, " Dark " realm, universe, or dimension.

* Metroid Prime, a game in Nintendo's Metroid franchise

* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a 2007 video game for the Nintendo Wii

* The Ing, a race of dark creatures in the 2004 video game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America in 2002 and in Japan and Europe the following year.

Metroid Prime is the first of the three part Prime storyline, which takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus.