I remember the day I first played Metroid on the NES. Back when I was around 7, me and my little brother were with my parents at an electronics shop to get a new TV for the living room (That 21” Hitachi got one heck of a good life! ?). As my parents were discussing with the shop clerk, we noticed a NES was plugged in on one of the TVs (the shop seemingly set it there to make the wait more bearable for young kids having to follow their parents there or something).
The cart that was in was Metroid. We had never played a game like this by that point. We had a Colecovision and a C64 at home but didn’t have a NES. We both got hooked by the game design, the visuals, the exploration-based gameplay, and the power-ups (that morph ball was so neat, I remember thinking.). We got to play maybe a little over an hour, and the game left a huge impression on me. It wasn’t until around Super Metroid came out that I got to replay the original and finish it, but Super was waiting for me then and that title cemented the series as one of my all-time favourites. Super Metroid unbudgingly holding a spot in my top 5 games of all time since then.
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