It took a couple years to catch on, but people eventually found the site, and its popularity grew as I received lots of emails from other fans. (Above: Various iterations and evolutions of the MDb when I was running it) I learned HTML out of a book which, I think, was actually called “Creating Cool Web Pages with HTML.” HAHA this is totally that bookįinally, when I thought everything was perfect, I uploaded the site to my local ISP (we’re talking dial-up and long URLs here, kids), and there it was. But since I didn’t own a scanner in 1996, I had no other choice but to access the school’s equipment behind their back! (Do you know how hard it is to keep your games in mint condition while stashing them in your book bag and trying to be quick about it?) I spent many late nights using MS Paint to create pixel graphics (by hand!) such as logos and Samus sprites. I had to sneak my Metroid games and Nintendo Power magazines into the desktop publishing lab at college so that I could scan them - I had asked permission to do so, but my instructors said no, because it was copyrighted material. After putting together as much research as I could from magazines and personal experience (including re-playing all the games and taking detailed notes on strategies and nuances), I cobbled together enough information to create a website I called the Metroid Database. Long story short, I settled on Metroid as a topic for a website, since I was a huge fan and felt I knew enough about it to create a respectable resource for other Metroid fans to visit.
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In 1996, when I got my first PC and the internet was becoming mainstream, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and start making websites for fun.
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I became a fan of many, many series and genres and titles, including Zelda, Castlevania, Mario, Sonic, shmups, etc., but Metroid was clearly my jam and was in no danger of vacating my #1 spot. Once I got my own copy, I played it over and over, learning to navigate Zebes and discovering all the game’s hidden secrets and glitches.įast-forwarding a bit, I experienced Metroid II and Super Metroid as well, and loved them. I saw Metroid as a direct descendant of those games, taken to the next level, and it immediately became (and still remains) my favorite NES game. In my Atari 2600-playing days, pre-’88, some of my favorite games were Adventure, Haunted House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and those sorts of multi-screen adventures.
I got my first NES at age 14 in 1988, and one of my buddies brought Metroid over and played all the way through it while I watched in fascination. I first discovered Metroid through my gamer friends in the mid-to-late ’80s. With Nintendo’s announcement of two new Metroid games at this year’s E3 (Metroid Prime 4 for Switch and Metroid: Samus Returns for 3DS, which is out this Friday and also which I will probably be writing about more than once), I thought now would be a good time for me to write a little something about my history of Metroid fandom, and how I brought it to the internet over 20 years ago with the first dedicated Metroid website, the Metroid Database!
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