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They're having a "Month of Metroid". They're releasing the NES Metroid in the coming days to Virtual Console, then releasing Super Metroid I think the 23rd, and then the pièce de résistance, Metroid Corruption at the end of the month.

The videos are pretty awesome -- the battle scene especially looks like a lot of fun.

What gets me excited the most, though, is simply the ability to try out the new cursor for the game. I know that sounds silly, but that is easily the best implementation of a cursor from any game on Wii. It works really really well. It is apparently the real deal from Corruption, so if that is any indication of how much Retro has perfected the FPS controls, I'm psyched.

It's also a good thing Nintendo is trying here by advertising on the Virtual Console. I'm sure you all have noticed the complete lack of Metroid hype or advertising, especially odd considering it's releasing at the end of this month. This is a good experiment for them. By having a download, they can see exactly how many people download the video demo, and then correlate that to how many people actually buy the game.

Certainly this isn't a groundbreaking method, PC game makers have been doing it for, what--decades? But when Nintendo does anything so unlike them I want to encourage it.