Nick
Musician & Library Dude
Nick is a musician, gardener, cat dad, and library dude. He is an amateur early hip-hop historian and avid wrestling enthusiast. It was his life's goal to share his excitement for Metroid on a long-form podcast and now that he's finished that story, he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. Maybe piracy.
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April 23, 2025
S3E04: Metroid and Metroid II -or- Aran, So Far Away
Our theme song-genius Kristal Fields is back on board with her friend Nick to talk Metroid (NES, 1987) and Metroid II: Return of Samus (Game Boy, 1991) with Mike and Jaymo as part of their epic quest to research and review every retro game in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog! In this episode, we’ll work out just what a Metroid really is, where the Narpas Sword that World of Warcraft ‘borrowed’ from this series came from, in way the Alien franchise influenced Planet Zebes, and how Justin Bai...