I don't remember much of my early gaming life. I remember I had a Sega Genesis and a Playstation growing up and that one of my early childhood obsessions was Mega Man and, of all games, Battle Arena Toshinden 3. Yet I distinctly remember my first time I ever played Metroid Prime. It was at a Wal-Mart demo kiosk somewhere in Texas, I believe; where I first laid eyes upon the game that I would fall in love with. I didn't understand much of the game, as I'm sure a lot of people didn't when they first played the game, but I liked what I saw. Shame I didn't have a GameCube at the time. It wasn't that much longer later when we were visiting relatives in Arkansas, and my aunt Heidi visited at the same time and brought her GameCube and several games, one of which was Metroid Prime. I played through the first area of the game, the Frigate Orpheon, I beat the Parasite Queen, and then I escaped its destruction only to find that I would be flying down onto Tallon IV, where ...