October 18^th, 2002 (12:00am) - At Cube Clubs across the nation promotional Nintendo DVDs are being distributed. These DVDs include information and screens about upcoming GameCube and GBA games. On them new info about Metroid Prime and Fusion are revealed.

Metroid Prime:

Samus’ adventure on the Nintendo GameCube actually takes place in the past. After the events of the first Metroid Adventure but before Metroid II, Samus learns that there were space pirate vessels in orbit as she fought on the surface of Zebes.

She traces one of these to an orbit of a planet called Talon IV and discovers an enormous space pirate research operation in progress.The Space Pirates are experimenting with a dangerous mutagen called Phazon combining it with local life forms to try to rebuild their army.

Samus must dwelve off deep into magma filled caverns, poisonous mines and icy caves as she tries to stop the space pirates sinister plan.
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