This means that I now find myself returning to the trilogy, watching the first instalment back-asswards from a distance of 18-years.
The Metroid series is one of Nintendo's most enduring, with the first instalment released back in 1986.
The final instalment, There and Back Again, will be released a year later.
In this first instalment, he looks back into press history to consider the problematic relationship between "freedom of the press" and the "free market".
Warner Bros has recently greenlit a second instalment off the back of advance hype for Eddie Redmayne's performance as swashbuckling magizoologist Newt Scamander.
The final instalment, There and Back Again, is due to arrive in summer 2014 after being announced as a belated addition in July.
Marginally better than Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines or Terminator: Salvation but still light years short of either The Terminator or Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this utterly unnecessary (if occasionally entertaining) fifth instalment takes us back to 1984, where history is being rewritten once again.
Every time the second instalment in the Back to the Future trilogy (the best trilogy of all time, incidentally) is repeated on ITV2, the sports nerd in me asks a simple question: if old Biff came back from the future with a Sports Almanac that detailed the results of every major sporting event for 50 years, which bet would I place to make my fortune?
The Bill has been through a number of format changes in its 26-year history, switching from 60-minute episodes to half-hour instalments and then back again.
He helped her apply for a discretionary payment, which she has been granted until next year, but because she is paying off earlier arrears in instalments, and paying back earlier loans, her income has been cut and she too is sitting without the heating on.
The day before his death, he posted an update to Twitter expressing his excitement about the upcoming seventh instalment: "The boys are back.
