{"id":933,"date":"2010-09-04T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-09-04T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:43:55","slug":"2002%e2%80%b2s-halloween-pumpkin-metroid-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2010\/09\/04\/2002%e2%80%b2s-halloween-pumpkin-metroid-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\u2032s Halloween Pumpkin: Metroid Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my 2002 Halloween pumpkin, I decided to go with the biggest and best game of the holiday season&#8230;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/\">Nintendo<\/a> and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/retrostudios.com\/\">Retro Studios<\/a>&#8216; Metroid Prime!  This game, to this day, ranks amongst the best video games of all time.  Just look at it&#8217;s overall ranking on GameRankings.com for proof.  Anyways, with the amazing live action commercial of the title, the the excellent scores coming out, and the strong desire I had to play another console <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/metroid.com\/\">Metroid<\/a> game (the first since Super Metroid, several years prior), it was an easy choice of what to carve.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_0_06713.Large.jpg?u=6f166a42-990a-4b52-bf7d-43ab4a82125c\" alt=\"Me carving my Metroid Prime pumpkin\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s me carving my Metroid Prime pumpkin.  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_0_06713.JPG?uid=b6b6a508-9f8f-4a30-babd-f3724a299a46\">Larger pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_A_169b9.Large.jpg?u=25feca1e-9130-4714-8e9a-c4a919e008ba\" alt=\"The front of my Metroid Prime pumpkin\" \/><br \/>\nI got that Metroid Prime t-shirt from E3 earlier that year.  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_A_169b9.JPG?uid=d10e58b2-1f33-4472-acd2-03022774a4ee\">Larger pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_B_938f5.Large.jpg?u=50383bb0-ea4f-46ce-89b2-8d5a74d44ef9\" alt=\"Metroid Prime talk on EGM on CNN\" \/><br \/>\nMy good friend <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitmob.com\/profile\/shoe\">Dan &#8220;Shoe&#8221; Hsu<\/a> from <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmmag.com\/\">Electronic Gaming Monthly<\/a> had a segment on CNN called &#8220;EGM on CNN&#8221;.  Since he loved Metroid Prime (along with Mak MacDonald and the rest of the EGM crew), I decided to help promote them.  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_B_938f5.JPG?uid=298704b5-d211-43bf-9458-ab64b36ad141\">Larger pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_C_af13a.Large.jpg?u=35f4e6b7-120a-4e5b-b4a9-c1e482225d13\" alt=\"The back of my Metroid Prime pumpkin.\" \/><br \/>\nSince I had a big pumpkin to work with, I carved out &#8220;Metroid Prime 11-18-02&#8221; to help promote the game.  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/app.onlinephotofiler.com\/Images\/A_0\/0\/5\/5\/5500\/Halloween_2002_Metroid_Prime_C_af13a.JPG?uid=c7c18e16-781b-446f-8f8b-1e8c5a4b5c18\">Larger pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of the people in my neighborhood were very impressed.  The kids loved it and the parents decided to tune into the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> show to learn more about Metroid Prime!  By now, more people started coming to my house, specifically to see my video game themed pumpkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my 2002 Halloween pumpkin, I decided to go with the biggest and best game of the holiday season&#8230;Nintendo and Retro Studios&#8216; Metroid Prime! This game, to this day, ranks amongst the best video games of all time. Just look at it&#8217;s overall ranking on GameRankings.com for proof. Anyways, with the amazing live action commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[447],"tags":[690,451,488,692,694,695,693,95,26,691,114,425,507,362,20,485,9,39,490,113,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}