Morning Cup o’ Music

Hooray! Day 3 of the Minibosses and one of the most awesome video game inspired tracks ever made.

There’s something about the original Metroid game that came out on the NES…almost something transcendental about a style of gameplay that would continue to be one of the biggest sellers on any game system. Don’t believe me? Check out a little game called Shadow Complex if you haven’t already for the Xbox 360.

I’m not saying that Metroid is one of the best game series ever made, that’s pretty apparent from how well it’s sold over the years, but I will say that is one of the pioneers in gaming history for having free roam gameplay and completionist tendencies. I don’t think anyone here on this site or in history would disagree that Super Metroid is by far one of the best games ever made, but before it was Super, we had just regular ol’ Metroid and The Minibosses do a damn fine job of making me want to run to my basement to play this game.

Go to their website right now and pick up their album Brass which featured this stunning rendition of many of the game’s best songs. You won’t be disappointed.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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