The History of Metroidvania: Decade One--1980-1990

Jeremy Parish has been writing about video game history for so long that his earliest efforts have long since been lost to the dustbin of history themselves. After a decade and a half of attempting to engage with gaming's present at sites like 1UP, IGN, and USgamer, he now spends all his creative energy recounting the medium's origins as Media Curator at Limited Run Games, the producer of the "Video Works" YouTube series, and occasional host of the Retronauts classic gaming podcast. He currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Cat and an absolute five-alarm fire hazard of a retrogaming capture setup.