The time is off by 1 hour for the eastern coast. "3 p.m. PDT" translates to 18h EDT, not 17h.

@Godot: Actually, it's three words.

@Koto: Apparently, but the part at the beginning seems new to me...

Montréal! I'm reserving my places NOW!

The Team Teamwork link has two errors in it...

Otherwise, great podcast Jon!
I've been following you since you went weekly at year's start and I listened to all the previous podcasts as well. I've discovered quite a bit of good music since then. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.

The trailer music reminds me of Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure.

My first Metroid game was the NES one. My brother borrowed it from a friend and we tried navigating the world without getting lost... What an ordeal!

I haven't really touched Metroid again until the release of Super Metroid. It brought distant memories of the first game while creating strong new ones at the same time. I really got immersed in this world and I still keep replaying Super Metroid once in a while.

After another long hiatus in Metroid playing (save for Mother Brain beating in Super Metroid), I rediscovered the series years after the first two Primes got released, but before the third. I mostly played PC games in the ten years after Super Metroid (I never had a N64, nor a Gamecube, I played Nintendo games at my friends' houses). One dear friend of mine heard of my Super Metroid crave and offered me Metroid Prime for my birthday (or was it Christmas...). I really liked it but the change from 2D to 3D bothered me at first, as I was a SNES-era purist. I slowly got accustomed to it though and I think the change was brilliant.

I almost played all Metroid games to date, except for Return of Samus (3DS VC release for the win) and both DS games. I bought Trilogy even if I had the first two in Gamecube version and Other M just after release and I liked them all.

Metroid is by far my favorite game series. I really hope a new 2D game will release soon, in the same vein of Fusion but with more sequence breaking. This it what keeps me replaying Super Metroid. While I liked the story of Fusion or Other M, the linearity bothered me. I find that it removed a lot of replayability.

I downloaded it on day one (or two). Is it quite a good game and the puzzle are sometimes very hard and require multiple restarts to complete. The only complain I have would be the price of the additional worlds. 500 points for one world, when you have 6 bundled with the game (at 800) seems overpriced.

I saw a price drop for 3DS at Wal-Mart this weekend... for 199$! Too bad I already have a 3DS because I could've paid a lot less for the unit and still register before August 12th to benefit form the Ambassador program.

Check your local shops, some might preempt the official price drop by Nintendo.