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It's true...FINALLY!?
Samus Aran has been seen at SpaceWorld!
But does that mean anything?

Spaceworld 2000 has come and gone, and for the first time in years, it has hit the gaming world like a bombshell. Thanks to the unveiling of the Nintendo Gamecube and GameBoy Advance, people are once again buzzing about the company that made apes, plumbers and elves famous.

Demonstration footage of what the Gamecube can do shocked us all with incredible-looking clips featuring Wave Race, Link & Ganondorf, and Luigi; but of course, one of the biggest shocks of all was the sight of Samus Aran hightailing it down a corridor, being chased by hundreds of bug-like alien creatures. If you saw the camcorder version of the demo that IGN showed, you heard the huge pop from the crowd when they saw Samus onscreen -- it was the loudest cheer any segment of the demo received.

Immediately, the press was shooting off reports that we fans were finally getting what we've wanted since 1994 -- another Metroid game, or at least another adventure with our favorite space-age bounty huntress. However, as soon as word spread about Ms. Aran's long-awaited return, Nintendo stepped in and assured us that everything we saw on that demo video was just that -- demonstrations, and not necessarily indicative of games that will be released on the Gamecube.

So what do we know? What don't we know? What do we think we know? What's been said, what's been shown, and who's behind it all? Since Nintendo says that what we saw and heard at Spaceworld is all we're going to get until E3 next May, I've decided to compile a report of the information that's available on Metroid and point you in the direction of media files pertaining to the Metroid topic on other news sites.

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--TJ