With Zelda this is my best series. I remembered purchase the first one on the NES at age of 13. There was a publicity at TV that was so awesome... Super Metroid was great but I think, for my personnal taste, that Metroid Prime is the peak of the series.
At that time, I remembered the petition over the net cause poeples were mad about the 3d metroid... the first metroid after super metroid. Finely, everybody were happy with the 3d version.