T-shirts Page Updated

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Just updated our T-Shirts page. This is every Metroid-inspired design available through Once Upon a Tee. You can’t find this catalog anywhere else.

Most, if not all, of these designs are also available in women’s, youth, hoodies, sweatshirts, mousepads, canvas prints, totebags, throw pillows, and more.

New designs added:

Reminder to click through each thumbnail as it provides us with a small commission every time you make a purchase. Thank you!!

T-shirts page

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Metroid Prime Visual Retrospective Launching Summer 2025

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METROID AMIGOS! 2025 is shaping up to be a big year for us Metroid fans. Nintendo and Piggyback have announced Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective, a 212-page book exploring the development of the first three Metroid Prime games and Metroid Prime Remastered. Launching summer 2025, the book will feature developer insights, producer notes, and an introduction by series producer Kensuke Tanabe.

 

Created in collaboration with Nintendo and Retro Studios, the book offers a premium design with a stitch-bound cloth hardcover and high-quality art paper. Priced at $49.99, it will showcase Samus Aran in an etched metallic design on the cover.

 

Fans can expect a behind-the-scenes look at the series’ transformation from skepticism—when Metroid Prime first introduced a first-person perspective—to critical acclaim. While it won’t include details on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, 2025 is still packed with excitement for the franchise!

 

Pre-order Available on Amazon & Barnes & Noble

 

 

Fan Stuff, Media, Merch

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METROID MARATHON SEPTEMBER 2024

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Due to some life obligations, we are pushing back the marathon 1 month this year and having it throughout the month of September. Join us as we play through nearly every Metroid game, have fun, and enter giveaways along the way.
Also for the first time ever, we will be taking donations, with 99% of proceeds going to the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund.
Here’s the schedule:

Multistreaming on 3 different platforms:
See you next mission…which is tonight at 8pm CST!

Community, Fan Stuff, Website

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Metroid Prime 4 Developer on Creating the HUD for Samus

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Jon Wofford, the Lead UI Artist at Retro Studios, shares his excitement about the reveal trailer for “Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.” He highlights the HUD, which he has meticulously crafted to honor the Metroid Prime legacy while incorporating modern updates. He credits Jordan Johnson for the UI technology and Nina Morris for her work on the scan holograms. Wofford details various aspects of the HUD, including its combat functionality, scanning animations, and the Morph Ball HUD. Check out his Artstation for more details: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JvXzev

 

 

Community, Metroid News

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Metroid Prime 4 Beyond Japanese Microsite

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Yesterday, Nintendo of Japan launched its microsite for Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. It’s nothing more than the logo, a link to the trailer and a year, however, there is a video playing in the background depicting footage of the environment we saw Samus walk into during the last few seconds of the trailer. Since the footage is darkened on the site, it’s hard to make out the details. But there’s hope! A clever fan has already ripped the background video and enhanced it so we can see the environment in its full glory:

What do you think of this new environment? Will MP4 take place on multiple planets like Corruption and Hunters or will it take place on 1 like Prime and/or have different dimensions Echoes? Time will tell…

Fan Stuff, Metroid News, YouTube

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Announcement Trailer

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Without words. Nintendo blew everyone’s collective minds by showing the first trailer for Metroid Prime 4 as the last game of today’s Direct. Watch it below:

 

RELEASE DATE: 2025

I don’t have much to say right now as I’m still regaining my composure, but more impressions will be made soon, right here and on our socials.

Screenshots from the trailer

Lastly, let’s not forget to mention that starting TODAY, Metroid Zero Mission is now available to play on Nintendo Switch Online’s GBA emulator (Expansion Pass).

Metroid News, YouTube

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30 Years of Super Metroid

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For the most part, I do think annual celebrations of game releases is a tad bit pretentious, especially when it comes to an entire website dedicated to the franchise, but here we are. Today (well, technically yesterday in Japan) we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Metroid‘s release.

Metroidvanias today are all the rage. I think this year alone, we’ve had at least 5 or more AAA Metroidvanias released. Two of them I am extremely excited to play – Prince of Persia the Lost Crown and ULTROS.

 

But I digress. Back to celebrating Super.  How to celebrate? You could actually sit down and play Super Metroid.

There are a ton of ways you can play Super Metroid:

 

  • Play an actual game cartridge on a SNES or use a SupaBoy if you want to go portable.
  • Play it on Wii Virtual Console
  • Play it on Wii U Virtual Console
  • Play it on Switch SNES service
  • Play it on a New 3DS
  • Play it on a SNES Mini console
  • Play it on an emulator (there’s plenty to choose from – bSNES, SNES9X, ZSNES, MESEN, RetroArch)
  • And many other ways if you’re clever enough to know how.

Or if you’re not in a gaming mood, watch this commercial:

Or you could watch this promo video that the commercial was cut from and we offer the exclusive translation for:

Or you could watch this fantastic 14 minute documentary on the game’s development history by Jordan A.H.:

Or continue to RT/share our social media content. It’s up to you.

 

Anyway, yay, 30 years of Super Metroid. I love it, you love it, we all love it. Don’t stop loving it, and keep telling people it’s the best……cuz it is.

 

 

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to doing my taxes.

Anniversaries, Fan Stuff, Metroid News

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