Tradition are evil. They sold a Gamecube + Metroid Prime for 1999 SEK. The voices in my head forced me to buy it!

It took me 17 hours to complete the game. Wasn’t too hard — the only times I actually died were in a few boss fights, and never more than once per boss.

I’ve been a big fan of the Metroid series ever since I played the first Metroid for the good old NES somewhere back in the late 80’s. Around 1992 I sold my NES and bought a SNES instead, and toward the end of 1993 Super Metroid was released. I consider it the best SNES game ever. I still play it via emulator every now and then.

I finished Super Metroid in 13 hours and 21 minutes the first time — and still remember the numbers. Then I shaved it down to five hours the second time. Now I’m replaying Prime on hard mode, and it’s still just as fun as the first time.

For those uninformed heathens who have never heard of the Metroid games, here’s a brief history of the games, if you want to spoil the story completely.

The Gamecube is a rather amazing piece of hardware. The graphics in Metroid Prime are absolutely amazing. And I’ll probably pre-order Zelda: Wind Waker while I’m at it. The Zelda series also rank high on my list.

Update: Here is a d20 conversion of Samus, Mother Brain, Kraid, Ridley and Alpha Metroids, using the Star Wars d20 rules. Is that perverse or what?