I finally accomplished a lifelong goal of mine. And that was to beat the original Metroid... and I did it TWICE!!! Just a couple of weeks ago, I had beaten it on the Wii via Virtual Console receiving the next to bad ending (Samus facing forward waving at you in full armor.) So when the game restarted, I played again from start to Mother Brain in one night, only being killed by the defenses. The next night, I finished it again with Samus in her leotard ending. And to celebrate, I bought of set of 5 1" diameter Metroid pins from eBay. I was always interested in Metroid but for some reason I never played the original on the NES. I have a GBA version which I piddled with. But it wasn't until I downloaded it from the Virtual Console I finally sunk my teeth in it. Of course I'll be downloading Super Metroid some time after I play a few other games on my current list.
Edit: Here are the pins I ordered...
