Buy Metroid Prime Trilogy in the UK, get Metroid free

by JC Fletcher on Aug 13th 2009 10:50AM

If you're in the UK and your Metroid Prime Trilogy purchase will be the second time you've bought one of the Prime games, Nintendo has an enticing offer for you. Be one of the first 5,000 to purchase the Wii collection and register it on Club Nintendo, and, provided you've registered Metroid Prime 1, 2, or 3 in the past, you'll get a free Virtual Console download of the NES Metroid game.

Sure, if you're a big enough Metroid fan to be buying Trilogy despite already owning the game, it's likely you already have Metroid, either on the NES, the Virtual Console, or as a connection bonus on the GameCube Metroid Prime disc. But it's still wonderful precedent to have Nintendo giving away a Virtual Console game to promote a new release.

But why limit it only to the suckers buying one of the games twice? And why only 5,000? A Virtual Console download costs Nintendo nothing.

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Tags: europe, metroid, metroid-prime, metroid-prime-trilogy, retro-studios, uk, virtual-console

Reader Comments (9)

meh.

Metroid Prime has the original Metroid as an unlockable. Did they remove it ?

don't get me wrong i love the franchise, and I enjoy the first one but doesn't seem that cool. Anyway Metroid Zero Mission is such an amazing remake I don't feel that I ever want to play the original again.

Metroid Zero Mission: Loved it.

Also see: Metroid Fusion for great GBA fun.

Oh come on JC, you should know Nintendo's MO right now. Merciless profit, with very little resolve for the end user.

See, that's just weak sauce.

They couldn't throw out Super Metroid at least? And Metroid is an unlockable in Prime 1!

Stole my "weak sauce" comment.

I like the way you think proton.

I think the free T-shirt and art book are good enough for me. Plus I already own Metroid and it kinda sucks compared to Super Metroid and the GBA games.