The Great Metroid Retrospective
The Great Metroid Retrospective  
Podcast: The MinnMax Show
Published On: Thu Aug 12 2021
Description: Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Suriel Vazquez, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava run down the full history of Metroid and share details from the series' origins and development. We talk about Metroid Dread on the Nintendo Switch and the MinnMax community ranks their favorite entries. We then share highlights from Nintendo's Indie World Showcase and Suriel Vazquez talks about playing Axiom Verge 2. Then Janet Garcia joins us to answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Give underprivileged kids in North Minneapolis a chance to learn an instrument for free with our charity drive for Hopewell Music! https://www.givemn.org/crossfade Help support MinnMax's supporters! https://dustbiters.com https://www.iam8bit.com Fatal X Blade on YouTube - https://bit.ly/3jTfl4C To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below... 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:50 - The origins of Metroid 00:24:32 - Super Metroid 00:32:54 - Metroid's Yoshio Sakamoto 00:42:40 - Metroid Prime series 00:50:39 - Metroid: Other M/Federation Force 01:01:34 - Ranking the Metroid series 01:06:18 - Axiom Verge 2 01:12:36 - Nintendo Indie World showcase 01:14:47 - CrossFade’s HopeWell Music School Charity Drive 01:17:46 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters 01:19:03 - Thanking iam8bit 01:21:48 - Community questions 02:01:43 - Get A Load Of This JeffM's GALOT - https://youtu.be/-7x3CbbR-ns Suriel's GALOT - https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1423218128134279171 Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3NiPAQBec Janet's GALOT - https://twitter.com/Cammglo/status/1423447799543304194 Community GALOT -https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/08/rice-rice-baby-japanese-parents-send-relatives-rice-in-lieu-of-newborns Follow us on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Subscribe to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/minnmax Please support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Buy MinnMax merch here - https://minnmax.com/merch Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/minnmaxshow Go behind the scenes on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/minnmaxshow Join the Thank You Crew over on Patreon to add your name to this list! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Fatal x Blade YouTube Channel The State of the Scene Podcast Joshua Bucy Clemens Zobel Kris Iam8bit Zachary Pligge Ludwig Roque Andrew Uerkwitz Andrew vala BeatenDownBrian Best of the Rest Podcast Jawarhello Mirko Arico-Torreno Call Me By Your Game Podcast mark seliga John Higby PrettyGoodPrinting.com Clint Farley Drew Waranis Steve Bamdad Starkiller Logan Krause Purebrednumber6 Spider_Dan SlyckNic SpiralInYourEyes Preetham Yarlagadda Dan Villone