This always happens after editing each issue, I find a game I now want to play or remember a game I have not played in a while I wanted to give a second chance. So I tried to speed run Zero Mission last night (I will fail at it becaue I am just past Kraid and the clock is at 58min, but give me a break I have not played it in over a year now) and while I was in the options menu I noticed something I completly forgot about earlier: Zero Mission to Fusion link up.

Now all you get for doing it is the Gallery from Fusion, but I didn’t have a linker cable when I first got the game so I put it out of my head. Lastnight though, I was really excitied about it. I thought it may give me another reason to take a look at the game (like hard mode for example). What I got was the standard fare (more and more removed armor from Samus) ending shots then some weirdness came up.

I am not really sure how to get these endings (?) or Plot elements (?) but there were pictures of Samus getting trained by the Chozo (is that right? Those owl like creatures that inhibited Zebes before the metroid invasion). There was not just one either, it was more like Kraid killed Samus’ Father (who was trying to use a small gun) then the Chozo take her and train her from a snotty little kid to a ripped-jean-daisy-duke-style teenager.

Now I am left with more questions than answers. Some are related to the Metroid cannon and others are related to Nintendo. But mainly, what the hell these images from the gallery really are and what unlocked them in Fusion?

Then of all the messed up things that happen this morning I run across this from :