My earliest memories are with Super Metroid in Maridia, when I got lost so bad it wasn't funny anymore, and that hypnotizing music kept rotating in my head. It was painful to check every wall and floor, to finally find a new passage but then realizing it's just another dead end. It took me hours if not days to bypass that. Of course I checked the entire rest of the map as well, because the right path could be literally everywhere. Then I somehow stumbled upon Draygon after a long and tedious route, and I got my ass whipped pretty easily. It was frustrating.
I still loved it, though, it was an amazing experience. I liked to let the intro run by and watched these short videos where the game shows certain gameplay things by itself. Among them were these awesome Power Bomb combos that Snyps mentioned earlier. I was so happy when I tried to recreate the videos and figured out by myself how to do it. That alone took the game to a whole new level for me.
Back then I hated wall jumping. Couldn't properly do it at all. Nowadays I even used to speedrun this game, that's how much I love it. It is my favrite game of all time.
