Lol steven...no need to apologize. I don't want this thread to seem elitist. The only one that I have played through A LOT is Super Metroid. My roommate and I were trying to see who could get the fastest time. This was before the internet, so I thought we were doing pretty good beating the game in under and hour and ten minutes. How wrong we were.
Ice beam is great. I just wish that it served the same purpose in the new games as it did in the past. Creating platforms out of bad guys led to some pretty cool shortcuts.