I never had metroid for the snes, and neither did any of my friends.  Finally, years later, I've started playing to make the wait for other m a bit shorter, and wow.  Apart from the obvious quality of the game, it really takes me back to jet force gemeni.  the resemblance between these 2 games is just amazing, and i can see now where rare must've gotten their inspiration.  Super Metroid must've been been the standard for quality sci fi games back in the day. 

Im just amazed by all the elements that JFG seems to borrow form SM.  Did anyone who played SM before JFG notice this the when they first played JFG?

I don't think many people played Jet Force Gemini. I know I never did.

JFG is a cult classic, it really showed how diverse Rare were in the platform genre, the closest game to compare it today is Rachet and Clank only this was back in the N64 days.