If you look up "Metroid Series" on Wikipedia.com, and scroll down, you would get this:
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The release order of games in the Metroid series is as follows:
Metroid (1986 - NES / Famicom Disk System, re-released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 as a part of the Classic NES Series)
Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991 - Game Boy)
Super Metroid (1994 - SNES)
Metroid Prime (2002 - Nintendo GameCube)
Metroid Fusion (2002 - Game Boy Advance)
Metroid: Zero Mission (2004 - Game Boy Advance)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004 - Nintendo GameCube)
Metroid Prime: Hunters - (2005 - Nintendo DS)
Metroid Prime Pinball - (2005 - Nintendo DS)
Metroid Prime 3 (TBA - Nintendo Revolution)
The chronology of the Metroid fictional universe does not match its release order. It is as follows:
Metroid: Zero Mission (an enhanced remake of the original Metroid)
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Super Metroid
Metroid Fusion
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This is the exact timeline as listed on Wikipedia, and that is how the series goes. Everyone on the net, aside from you Dai Grepher, knows that this is the official timeline of Metroid, and that ZM replaces the original Metroid in that timeline.
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Also found on that same page Under Metroid Prime:
According to the fictional universe that the Metroid series is set in, Metroid Prime is the interquel of the first two installments of the Metroid series, the original Metroid and Metroid II: The Return of Samus. |