The Great Metroid Retrospective
The MinnMax Show
MinnMax
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
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
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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
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Min Max Show podcast I'm Ben Hansen |
| 0:27.0 | Mark Yafaba. Hello, his friends call him Jeff, um, we're joined by Cereal Vascas. My friends also call me Jeff. It's really confusing. Yeah, and we're joined by Kyle Hylh李ard. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello, no one calls me Jeff. I'm people in it. You're lucky if people call you anything, buddy |
| 0:43.2 | We're here to celebrate the Metro head franchise |
| 0:46.0 | That is what this episode of the podcast is all about a big old Metroid retrospective |
| 0:50.6 | In, I don't know, to help train, to help prepare for Metroid Dread coming out surprisingly soon, I guess in October. |
| 0:58.6 | Um, then we have the surprise release of Axiom Verge to this week, and surprise number two is Serial's been playing a little bit of it. Yes, Serial? |
| 1:07.6 | Yep, I have. |
| 1:08.6 | Great, we'll talk about all that fun stuff, and then back half of the show we're going to be joined by Janik Garcia, |
| 1:13.6 | fellow cohorts are going to answer a bunch of community questions to people submitted over on Patreon. |
| 1:18.6 | Uh, and just, you know, classic reminder, if you're like every once in a while, you gotta reset things. |
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| 1:48.6 | We appreciate it. |
| 1:49.6 | All right. |
| 1:50.6 | Metroid everybody. |
| 1:51.6 | Metroid dreads coming up, and uh, you start to look back on the Metroid franchise, the Metroid series going back to |
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