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Metroid Headquarters
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Metroid Heaquarters (commonly abbreviated as MHQ) was created in June of 2004 by MetroidMaster1914, during what is now considered to be the heyday of Metroid fan creations. The site gained traction initially as a forum before its website was created. It has since undergone many different looks, with 1-2 new website skins being featured every year.
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History
Metroid Headquarters was created as a ProBoards forum by MetroidMaster1914 on June 10, 2004. He created a Geocities website to go with it soon after. Upon realizing that neither the website nor forum was gaining any momentum, he abandoned the Geocities site and replaced the forum with one powered by InvisionFree on July 16, 2004. The new forum slowly gained popularity over the next 1½ years, but it wasn't until late 2005/early 2006 that MetroidMaster1914 began to take a full time interest in the forum.
Throughout 2006 MHQ grew by means of affiliations, a Metroid game release, and a small but thriving community. On January 1, 2007, Metroid Headquarters launched its current website on a free hosted server. That summer it switched over to paid hosting and acquired its current domain, metroidheadquarters.com. Since then the website has undergone constant improvements and feature updates, as well as changed its look many times.
Metroid Headquarters now serves as one of the most visited Metroid fan sites on the Internet, and continues to tweak and improve the quality of its site and content.
Podcast
On December 1st, 2010, MHQ started a monthly podcast wherein various MHQ Staff members get together to discuss news, answer mailbag questions, and produce various segments. They are often accompanied by a special guest, usually someone prominent in the Metroid community, with whom they hold an interview. The podcast now gets over a thousand views each month, and is available for download on iTunes. A new podcast is released the 1st of every month.
Marathon
In addition to holding its usual anniversary festivities, for its 7th Anniversary (2011) MHQ held a 101-hour marathon of all Metroid games. The games were played in chronological order on the hardest difficulty possible, collecting 100% of items and scans, from July 11th, 2011 at 8:00pm CST to July 16th, 2011 at 1:00am CST. This marks the first time that MHQ has done anything to celebrate it's anniversary before the actual date, and also the first time that the majority of the staff will physically meet up in a single location. The marathon was first announced on the June 2011 MHQ Podcast and was announced a day later on their home page.
Staff
Active
| Alias | Position(s) |
|---|---|
| MetroidMaster1914 | Founder and Webmaster |
| Gendreavus | Forum Administrator and Website Contributor |
| Shrander | Website Programmer and Administrator |
| Emperor | Website Administrator and Forum Moderator |
| Dragon | Website Contributor and Forum Moderator |
| Falcool | Podcast Director and Website Contributor |
| FatherBrain230 | Website Content Contributor |
| Axion | Website Contributor |
Former
| Alias | Position |
|---|---|
| DarkFlame | Forum Administrator |
| Baby Drone | Forum Moderator |
| MetaSamus | Forum Moderator |
| Anubis | Forum Moderator |
| Tenka | Forum Moderator |
| Luffy | Forum Moderator |
Trivia
- At the time of its creation, there was another popular Metroid fan site with the name "Metroid HQ" founded by Timothy Jones. It has since ceased operations.
- Although the first MHQ forum was created on June 10, 2004, the website traditionally holds its anniversary on July 16th every year since that is when its current forum was first created.
- MHQ has been known to pull an April Fool's Day prank on its viewers every year since 2007.
- Every year on its anniversary Metroid Headquarters typically unveils a new skin and holds poll contests for its forum members.
- MHQ's founder once went 7 months straight without administrating the (then only) forum, and it was still active when he returned.
- Metroid Headquarters' 2011 101-hour anniversary marathon actually lasted 106 hours.
Previous Skins
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MHQ's 2009, created by Shrander of MHQ
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MHQ's 2010 skin, created by Dragon
External links
| Notable Metroid Websites |
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| Metroid.com · Metroid 2002 · Metroid Database · Metroid Headquarters · Metroid Recon · Metroid Wiki · Metroidover · Shinesparkers · Wikitroid |
