Metroid Prime is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. Metroid Prime is the fifth main Metroid game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first-person perspective. It was released in North America in November 2002, and in Japan and Europe the following year. Along with the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, Prime marked the return of the Metroid series after an eight-year hiatus following Super Metroid (1994).
North American and PAL region box art
Samus in battle with a Flying Pirate. The player character is controlled from a first-person perspective.
While Samus is in Morph Ball form, the view changes to a third-person view.
Concept artwork of the Impact Crater
The GameCube is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, in Europe on May 3, 2002, and in Australia on May 17, 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (N64) and the predecessor to the Wii. As a sixth-generation console, the GameCube primarily competed with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
System with controller and memory card
A group of schoolchildren exercise while playing the GameCube in Hilton, Derbyshire.
A Platinum GameCube with a WaveBird Wireless Controller and Game Boy Player attached
Indigo GameCube controller