I hate the NES so nope
Im hoping they put SNES and N64 games into a virtual system on switch that i would play for months

Only played SMB3 and Doctor Mario the most….
So far… it's disappointing. Lots of good games missing. There is still no news how the continue the service into next year.

I played The Legend of Zelda from start to finish as soon as the service started, and started the 2nd Quest as well. I also played through a full Tecmo Bowl tournament. I've played into the 2nd World of Super Mario Bros. 3. I've played some Donkey Kong and also tried out Solomon's Key which I had never played before. Just recently I started Ninja Gaiden. One day a friend and I played vs each other in Tecmo Bowl, Ice Hockey, and Pro Wrestling which was fun. According to my profile, I've spent 15 hours playing the NES games so far.

I play it sometimes, I played a lot to Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 3 (never played it) and now Metroid (in japanese, to iimprove my japanese)

Me. I'm over 30 hours on the NES Online I think. Most of that has been Dr Mario and The Legend of Zelda. I haven't even played games like Super Mario Bros and Metroid yet, so I'm pretty sure I'll eventually get to 100+ hours with the current selection of games alone.

I get that people who have already played these games may not like the service, but for the people who haven't it's way better than the Virtual Console (which was like €5 per game, now it's about €10 for 30+ games). Of course I do still hope that they add SNES and GB, but they don't need to rush it.

I finished Metroid, GOOD GOD that difficulty spike at the end if you don't have a proper plan. The game is basically a 1-4 in difficulty for the entire thing until the end, where it jacks up to 9 or 10. I tried to avoid save state abuse, but I had to (especially since farming Metroids is faster than the other guys).

I save stated before the last room and spent some time experimenting the best way to get through before making another proper attempt. Metroids aren't the most difficult enemies in the game, it is the flying O things. Up to 3 will spawn on the screen at once, freezing 3 of them isn't too difficult, and you can get to the brain with minimal damage. At the end, freeze 3, jump to the edge and unload 7-10 missiles into the Brain. It's likely you'll accidentally fall or get knocked down into the lava pit in front of her, freeze beam an O and then jump on it to get out.

In the end, I had a max capacity of 220 missiles (assuming the cap is 255, like other NES/SNES). I had 6 Energy Tanks, there are two more that I missed somehow. I am guessing hidden ones like the one I found in the ceiling. Good game, WAY ahead of its time.

On an interesting side note. An interesting name came up in the credits, "Hip Tanaka" - who was also the composer of one of my favourite RPGs, Earthbound - and Earthbound 0 (Mother 1) before that. When you think about the style of Metroid's audio direction, this isn't surprising!

Given it’s some 20 years since my last playtrough I don’t remember the last room being too difficult (I might very well have surpressed the memory of replaying the entire last section of the game 100 times in my first playtrough :P ).

An important question: what ending did you get?

Never played it. I aint playing ancient NES games. Maybe Snes or N64 games then we are talking
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There are nice games in the selection like the Super Mario Bros games, Zelda, Metroid and some others. But a lot of the games are just not worth playing anymore. In a year's time the selection of titles should look quite impressive. I really hope Nintendo uses this as testing ground for a true streaming service. They could charge 50 bucks a year and I'd happily pay that to stream SNES, N64, Gamecube and old handheld games and it would be a goldmine for Nintendo.

I haven't touched the online service. I just haven't had the time, with all of the PS4 stuff that i still have to play.