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The Hello everybody. Welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast, Volume 11, Issue 544.

And in our Metroid series, that is ongoing for now we are up to

Metroid Fusion and joining me Leon Cox in this issue are Brian Edwards hello hello Leah

Haydu hi there and Rich Davison oh I seem to have accidentally roped in the team to another podcast.

We'll let you plug that later.

If you like the panel today, you may be able to hear more of them.

Stay tuned to find out.

But for now, we're going to talk Metroid Fusion.

So we've obviously covered the original Metroid on the NES, the second game on the Game Boy, the third game on this on the Super Nintendo. And then we actually sort of jumped ahead slightly just out of just to sort of mix things up a bit with the with the Metroid Prime, which was of course the first first person 3D installment.

We're now back to the game that is subtitled Metroid 4.

And that is the fourth game in the series of sci-fi 2D arcade adventures from Nintendo.

This was 20 years ago, hence we're covering it now as much as anything

Brian were you clutching your little GBA and your sweaty little pores

yes with a very very sweaty I was in college so I was sweaty all the time

right no I yeah the Metro Fusion was actually the kind of push to get me to get a GBA.

I remember I didn't, you know, I was in college, didn't have a lot of my own spending

money.

And I just remember the, the reviews being so positive and being like, oh, yeah, I, you know,

I definitely wanted a GBA anyway.

And that kind of spawned me.

So along came April and I got my tax return money and instead of putting it to good use,

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