I got Metroid for my 8th birthday, I was stoked that my mom finally picked out a awesome game for once. I didn't care about nothing else for a few weeks, all I wanted to do was to play Metroid. My friends would come over and stay up all night trying to figure out where to go. The 80s, what a incredible time to be a kid!!!
I look at this video now through the eyes and thoughts of a 12 year old not the 50 year old guy I am now hahahaha. It's so awesome to go back in time! The other thing I realized is how many times I had to play i,e.die to know exactly when to jump and shoot. I'm kinda running through it in my mind as Im watching and its slowly coming back. IT was like almost 40 yrs ago ahaha
Like Mario, Zelda, and Mega Man, this series has evolved gracefully. Challenging stages, epic music, great sci-fi storylines, and a legendary character.
Also liked the fact that you could practically make up cheat codes on it and it would take you somewhere in the game. Although sometimes it was in a void or wall so you'd have to reset. haha
Even though I was terrible at this game on the NES, I did manage to beat it at some point, and then get through it in the new game + quick enough to get a good ending. It left enough of an impression that I was extremely excited to get Super Metroid my senior year of high school. I spent so much time with that game before heading off to college. I made maps using graph paper, and plotted the shortest route to get through as quick as I could. I couldn't be more excited for Dread!
The suitless Samus mode is insane, harder than the Hard Mode in Zero Mission What do you mean there are more Metroids and Rinkas? I can't beat that mode without an Infinite Health Cheat or at least 10 Energy Tanks!
If you liked this, you won't like Dread... Or Fusion... They're very linear, this time you don't find the most optimal way, the game guides you through the most optimal way (which is, at the same time the less optimal way)
The style for the original Metroid game was designed to be a cross between the side-scrolling gameplay of the Super Mario series, the exploration and puzzle-solving aspects of The Legend of Zelda series, and inspiration from science fiction, particularly Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien.
I love this game. The start of another one of my favorite Nintendo franchises. It may be a little stiff compared to other Metroid games (and limited with its 1Mbit cart), but it still holds a lot of sequence breaking potential and fun gameplay. Screw Kraid though.
I just switched to dropping into a ball and bombing them to death. Missiles were a chore! Hmmm. Maybe I ought to play through and try missiles again, for nostalgia's sake😁
OK... Raise your hand if you use to think that Samus was a dude and not a girl playing this as a kid. *EDIT:* I like how people are *_still_* replying to my 3 year old comment lol.
Another thing I didn't realize until now was how much Metroid truly pushed the NES. On top of the massive map for 1986, comes clever usages of sprites for the HUD in order to keep a fullscreen view. That along with all the stuff that can happen pushes the sprite count so high and the CPU so much, I've had the screen literally blank on me for a few frames several times during some truly demanding moments, like Ridley's fight (Full HUD = 16 sprites, Ridley = 14 sprites or possibly more (sprite tearing can be seen on the doors sometimes), Samus = around 10 sprites, 2 doors = 12 sprites, etc, and that's not accounting for the projectiles and other sprite sorcery I may have missed) A lot of 1986 Nintendo games were really daring, weren't they?
Yeah when the screen changed you did see a noticeable lag when there were many running around. I noticed this as a kid too, but didn't know any better and just thought oh its loading...ok.
Zero Mission is the definitive version of Metroid 1 (and IMO the best Metroid game), but still have fond memories playing this as a kid and trying to map out Zebes and its many secrets.
I love at the end how she waves bye!!!! I haven't played this game since there abouts 1989. While you were playing I was saying where to go and which direction to turn. Amazing how my memories all came back just watching you play. Thanks for the memories!!!!!! The best game ever!!!!!
Great game, though Super Metroid is definitely my favourite installment. I generally prefer the -vania part to Metroid-, but this and SM are exceptions to the rule... not to mention that one of my favourite Master System games, Wonder Boy III, could be made thanks to their existence!
There are better ways to play the first Metroid game, namely Zero Mission, but I'll ALWAYS love the original, mostly because me and a couple of friends of mine would sit for hours at my place and try to figure it all out. Damn was it hard, but there was really nothing like it at the time, and the fun of making your own maps with some buddies can't ever be replicated.
The power of nostalgia this game has is amazing. I didn't even own this game as a kid. It was my friend, Brendan, that owned it. Regardless, the first couple of minutes take me all the way back to those days in a flash.
HAPPY 35TH, METROID! Aside from _Castlevania_ , this is my other most favorite series. It's the isolated feeling you get while exploring an unfriendly alien world teeming with critters just waiting to eat you alive, while you poke and prod around looking for secrets to unlock the deep, dark chambers of said world. The only thing I don't like about the original game is the cheap deaths I suffered on occasion with enemies following me through doors and getting stuck, and the occasionally stiff jumps when you're trying to navigate those lava pits. Still, the atmosphere was solidly established with this and I think it's a title anybody who likes video games should at least try once.
A true NES classic, though it hasn't aged as well as Super Metroid, which is my favorite one of the whole franchise. Have you checked out Metroid: Zero Mission? It's basically a remake of this game!
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID PLAYING METROID, I USED TO SHOOT TO THE FLYING CROISSANTS TO HEAR THE NOISE, THEN THE GREEN FLYING CORNS, ANOTHER STRANGE WHERE THE BUGS I USED TO THINK WERE BIRDS
Metroid is one of those NES classics that hasn't aged well like other first party titles, aside from the moody setting and great music. I think it would've benefitted from slightly better graphics, battery save and not starting with 30 frickin' energy every time you die
It would'ver had to come out in 88 then, because that's when ga,ming on the NES, and arcades took a graphically dramatic turn and games started really looking good. Realize this is an early black box game, and carts were smaller in the beginning of the NES's lifespan.
Looking back, the original Metroid was cool when it was new, but it didn't age well, especially since it doesn't have a map and was hard as hell. Super Metroid fixed everything. I did manage to beat and get the best ending once, which really was (and is) shocking to look at.
Bro you actually played through this one. What can i say about NES Metriod. I spent many hours trying to figure out where to go. And since there's no map its like your lost buddy.
Thanks for the guide! I played Metroid Zero a bunch of times but could still never beat this one. The items seem better hidden in this one. I finally decided it was time.
This is my favorite NES game, thought I only realized it later on in life. Everything Zero Mission did to "improve" completely stripped it on its identity and is everything I believe is wrong with modern gaming. The original Metroid is really rough for all the reasons you pointed out, but it's total lack of navigational assistance, unclear objectives, and eventual demands it makes of you to find as much ammunition as you can have catapulted it into the realm of "they don't make em like this anymore" and I really appreciate and miss that now. Metroid II was less fun, but did something totally unique and Super Metroid refined and perfected the structure the same way A Link to the Past did for its NES counterpart. Fusion and Zero Mission, however, came across as little more than expansions of Super and today the 2D Metroids, as great as the 3DS and Switch games truly are, don't seem much interested in doing anything more than adding small tweaks to a very familiar formula.
I had fun making it to Ridley and beating him, but I dislike how you start each game with only 30 health points and a few missiles. The farming is really tedious indeed. Still, I'm impressed at how revolutionary the game was for the time, and its killer soundtrack. I also love the numerous visual and audio glitches. The game frequently slows down, elements on the screen flicker, sometimes the music and sound effects playback mess up. Often, you'll hear a loud crashing noise when taking an elevator. It feels like the game is held together with a few strips of adhesive tape, and it's about to fall apart. Such a strange experience. By the way, it came out in 1986, on the Famicom Disk System. Not 1987.
I might be in a minority, but I actually like that it doesn't have a map. I think it's cool that the game expects some terrain orientation from you. Though this would be a lot better if locations looked more distinct from each other.
I liked it too. It felt so open, but yeah, the copy and paste rooms do get a bit old. It's a bit confusing when some of the close together rooms look exactly the same.
I 100% agree. Zero Mission's "improvements" stripped it of its identity. What makes Metroid memorable is that we had to remember it in order to succeed.
I never got into this game as a kid. I Didn’t really understand it. I think what would have made a difference is if you had all your abilities for a brief time at the beginning, then something happens so you loose your powers. Then I would have understood what I was playing for.
funny thing is, even when I got the ending where Samus revealed to be a woman, I thought that "Woman" was another character and not actually Samus back then. I think it only took me years later with reading Nintendo Power comic like Captain N where Samus Aran is in the comic, unlike in the cartoon, to realized that woman is actually Samus Aran.
Nice playthrough 👍 I wanted to know what happened in the game but didn't want to play through it so you came through. Especially with the game rated for 7 hours 😂
Metroid may seem archaic now, but I have never had as a fascinating a video game experience as the first time I finished this game back in the 80's. For me, only the original Zelda came close.
It’s crazy how both evolved over the years but I liked the newer metroids probably more than the latest Zelda’s. Not crazy about breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom. Just way too Skyrim like with decisions etc.
Friend: shall we go to the movies and watch that new Marvel movie?? Me: I'm sorry but I'm busy with work. Sit at home literally with popcorn watching this... 😅😅
It's still one of the best games for NES. Now, I'd recommend you to play the Metroid II EJRTQ colorization in the same style as Super Mario Land 2 DX. I want to see it.
Damn this is great. So many memories. Wow. When life was simple. ....come home from school go to my friends house and get down on some Nintendo while drinking Koolaid and eating snacks. Hey quick question if someone can help me out real quick please. If i haven't played my Super Nintendo in over 25-30 years do u think it would still work if i have it put away in one of those system cases? Thanks in advance
Even if this very first Metroid game is bad or good as i still think many most nes games are always good no matter what! Even Super Metroid SNES is my most favorite Meteoid games, though I think Super Metroid overshadowed Metroid NES!
The reviewers saying Dread is too hard and needs save states clearly never played the original Metroid. Only the Japanese version had save files! We had a legal pad full of 24 character alphanumeric passwords that wouldn't even heal you when you start. I love this game, but it is so unforgiving. Zero Mission is the better version, but I have nostalgia for this one.
I watched this whole thing just to see the OG ending. and I'd like to remind everyone that this ending was originally supposed to be a joke. The Game manual for this game called Samus "He" throughout it. it was a huge shock to people when they realized Samus was a woman, the first female video game hero in history.
I've recently been playing classic games I feel I ought to have played and beating games I never finished. This game comes up again and again on various lists of must-play games, but to be honest, I have no desire to take this one on. I don't mind a game which encourages or requires exploration, but I absolutely despise games where you're expected to try every action available on every inch of the map just on the off-chance there's a secret. Even worse is when this kind of laborious scouring of the environment is necessary to proceed. I just fail to see how figuratively bashing your head against miles of brick wall until you find the one brick that comes loose can be considered fun. If the argument is that it's the satisfaction that comes from finally finding the secret/way forward, I think the person making that argument has confused a sense of relief with a sense of achievement. What have you actually achieved? It didn't take skill and you haven't figured anything out. Spending countless hours being bored/frustrated in exchange for that "Aha!" moment just doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade. I'll watch a play-through to see what the game had to offer, but drawing maps combined with this style of exploration isn't my idea of fun. Edit: After having watched the play-through, I'm even more glad I didn't attempt this game because in addition to being generally obtuse, it commits another gameplay sin; subverting established logic. You're taught through experience that water/lava hurts you... except for on this one screen where it doesn't and there's a hidden path. Nothing annoys me more in games than moments which make you say "How was I supposed to know that?". It's rage inducing in the same way a game will require you to have a certain item to progress/defeat an enemy, but you don't know that and don't know said item exists, so you waste time attempting something that's impossible, but you don't know that because there's no indication it's impossible. Such game design choices just completely lack respect for a player's time.
Well, maybe it was for the "pseudo-intelligent" not the critical or probing type which runs on something else...? ( don't get me wrong-played it ) < but i wasn't INTO it >
Metroid for NES is cool but i think the final boss should have been more than a head that did not move. Kind of like the mother brain in Super Metroid. Still a really cool game for Nintendo i have Metroid and love it an awesome game the NES my favorite game system just love it!!!!
At 48m, you should have learned the bomb farming technique by then. You're wasting time waiting for them to spawn. Just ball up on the pipe and repeatedly drop bombs on the pipe.
Holy crap. I grew up on Super Metroid, it’s in my top 5 games of all time. I never realized this one was just a way crappier version of it though!! Haha
My first ever console was n64 and my older cousins tell me there were better nintendos out there and they show me metroid and super metroid on nintendo and super nintendo. This series and zelda literally made me nintendo fan. 32 and still playing switch. Hope there will be new metroid titles soon. I'm really hyped for upcoming switch 2 and maybe aaa metroid game on it?
I got Metroid for my 8th birthday, I was stoked that my mom finally picked out a awesome game for once. I didn't care about nothing else for a few weeks, all I wanted to do was to play Metroid. My friends would come over and stay up all night trying to figure out where to go. The 80s, what a incredible time to be a kid!!!
I look at this video now through the eyes and thoughts of a 12 year old not the 50 year old guy I am now hahahaha. It's so awesome to go back in time! The other thing I realized is how many times I had to play i,e.die to know exactly when to jump and shoot. I'm kinda running through it in my mind as Im watching and its slowly coming back. IT was like almost 40 yrs ago ahaha
Like Mario, Zelda, and Mega Man, this series has evolved gracefully. Challenging stages, epic music, great sci-fi storylines, and a legendary character.
Gotta say SMB, Zelda and Metroid were some of the greatest games ever made. Another great one was Ninja Gaiden.
Happy October, everybody! Who else can't wait for Metroid Dread?
Me! Finally we get something post fusion!
I'm *STOKED* for *_"Dread."_*
Happy October, to you, dude! I cannot wait for Metroid Dread! Meanwhile, I'm off to check out that Famicom ending. For science.
I'm looking forward to it too. A sequel to Fusion will definitely keep me interested and wanting Prime 4 even more.
The 19 year patience was worth it!
Very challenging old school NES game with epic music.
Also liked the fact that you could practically make up cheat codes on it and it would take you somewhere in the game. Although sometimes it was in a void or wall so you'd have to reset. haha
Even though I was terrible at this game on the NES, I did manage to beat it at some point, and then get through it in the new game + quick enough to get a good ending. It left enough of an impression that I was extremely excited to get Super Metroid my senior year of high school. I spent so much time with that game before heading off to college. I made maps using graph paper, and plotted the shortest route to get through as quick as I could.
I couldn't be more excited for Dread!
Cool
The suitless Samus mode is insane, harder than the Hard Mode in Zero Mission
What do you mean there are more Metroids and Rinkas? I can't beat that mode without an Infinite Health Cheat or at least 10 Energy Tanks!
If you liked this, you won't like Dread... Or Fusion... They're very linear, this time you don't find the most optimal way, the game guides you through the most optimal way (which is, at the same time the less optimal way)
metroid prime 4 finally next year after 7 years of waiting..
The atmosphere and music of the NES and SNES Metroid games is unmatched.
😄👍
It's 6 August in Japan 🇯🇵, which means it's the 37th anniversary of Metroid!
Not to be *that* person but, something else is attached to this date just saying 😐
@@cyceansok? We are talking about Metroid here, not anything else fool.
Such a nostalgic game. Really digging this playthrough!
The style for the original Metroid game was designed to be a cross between the side-scrolling gameplay of the Super Mario series, the exploration and puzzle-solving aspects of The Legend of Zelda series, and inspiration from science fiction, particularly Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien.
Is that why Ridley is named the way he is?
@@weeadoolo908exactly! :)
Most of the games back then were side-scrolling
I never knew the game showed the mission's brief , cause I always start the game right away.
Thanks!
Thank you very much! 😀
Thank you! I watch it every night to sleep. The 8 bits really relaxme
Yes, its very therapeutic for me as well, along with the music 🙂
I love this game. The start of another one of my favorite Nintendo franchises. It may be a little stiff compared to other Metroid games (and limited with its 1Mbit cart), but it still holds a lot of sequence breaking potential and fun gameplay. Screw Kraid though.
Yeah Kraid was really hard, compared to Ridley
I just switched to dropping into a ball and bombing them to death. Missiles were a chore! Hmmm. Maybe I ought to play through and try missiles again, for nostalgia's sake😁
Just beat the game tonight for the first time using your guide! 👌🏽
Congrats!
Haven't played this since 1987. Think I still have it memorized.
Damn,THAT was Betterer Than a Hollywood movie...aNO slow Parts
Another NES legend / veteran / classic from the past making a visit in 2021!
Thanks to this game, I would forever look for secret areas in future games.
OK... Raise your hand if you use to think that Samus was a dude and not a girl playing this as a kid.
*EDIT:* I like how people are *_still_* replying to my 3 year old comment lol.
Believe me, we ALL thought Samus was a dude. In fact, the game's original manual said Samus is a guy!
I thought Samus was a guy when I played Smash Melee in like 2010 and didn’t know Samus was a girl until I saw Other M on a store shelf once
When i saw Her for the First Time (on Super Mario Bros Crossover) i always thought she were Just a Robot.
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Yep. We were all 🤯 when we beat the first runs then Samus shows up in a bikini.
My first Metroid game was Metroid II : Return Of Samus (GB) and I loved it back in 1991 , I was only 6 years old at the time.
good moves samus y la duracion del jego exacto que esta samus sin armadura buen video
i remember playing this at a friends house across the street back in the day
Another thing I didn't realize until now was how much Metroid truly pushed the NES.
On top of the massive map for 1986, comes clever usages of sprites for the HUD in order to keep a fullscreen view. That along with all the stuff that can happen pushes the sprite count so high and the CPU so much, I've had the screen literally blank on me for a few frames several times during some truly demanding moments, like Ridley's fight (Full HUD = 16 sprites, Ridley = 14 sprites or possibly more (sprite tearing can be seen on the doors sometimes), Samus = around 10 sprites, 2 doors = 12 sprites, etc, and that's not accounting for the projectiles and other sprite sorcery I may have missed)
A lot of 1986 Nintendo games were really daring, weren't they?
Yeah when the screen changed you did see a noticeable lag when there were many running around. I noticed this as a kid too, but didn't know any better and just thought oh its loading...ok.
shocking to see how little of the game i played as a kid, never managed to beat it lol
I never did either !! But played for hoursssss at a time 🎉
Zero Mission is the definitive version of Metroid 1 (and IMO the best Metroid game), but still have fond memories playing this as a kid and trying to map out Zebes and its many secrets.
@Sharmat Really? Have no problems doing it under two hours.
I love at the end how she waves bye!!!! I haven't played this game since there abouts 1989. While you were playing I was saying where to go and which direction to turn. Amazing how my memories all came back just watching you play. Thanks for the memories!!!!!! The best game ever!!!!!
Great game, though Super Metroid is definitely my favourite installment. I generally prefer the -vania part to Metroid-, but this and SM are exceptions to the rule... not to mention that one of my favourite Master System games, Wonder Boy III, could be made thanks to their existence!
There are better ways to play the first Metroid game, namely Zero Mission, but I'll ALWAYS love the original, mostly because me and a couple of friends of mine would sit for hours at my place and try to figure it all out. Damn was it hard, but there was really nothing like it at the time, and the fun of making your own maps with some buddies can't ever be replicated.
Amazing playthrough!! Thank you so much for making this channel. I really enjoy your videos.
The power of nostalgia this game has is amazing. I didn't even own this game as a kid. It was my friend, Brendan, that owned it. Regardless, the first couple of minutes take me all the way back to those days in a flash.
A nice retro game from my childhood, I still play it via an application, an emulator, and also on the nintendo nes mini
HAPPY 35TH, METROID! Aside from _Castlevania_ , this is my other most favorite series. It's the isolated feeling you get while exploring an unfriendly alien world teeming with critters just waiting to eat you alive, while you poke and prod around looking for secrets to unlock the deep, dark chambers of said world. The only thing I don't like about the original game is the cheap deaths I suffered on occasion with enemies following me through doors and getting stuck, and the occasionally stiff jumps when you're trying to navigate those lava pits. Still, the atmosphere was solidly established with this and I think it's a title anybody who likes video games should at least try once.
I like the sequencing used here, I would agree that’s the intended route from the developers and good for a longplay
A true NES classic, though it hasn't aged as well as Super Metroid, which is my favorite one of the whole franchise. Have you checked out Metroid: Zero Mission? It's basically a remake of this game!
You must always remember.
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-The Power of One.
And after you beat Metroid zero mission, you unlock the original Metroid game as well.
If you grew up with it as a young kid there is no other...
1:36:57
I only just now noticed Mother Brain has an eye looking at Sammy’s that flashes white and black.
Also love that this game is also on the NES Classic!!
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID PLAYING METROID, I USED TO SHOOT TO THE FLYING CROISSANTS TO HEAR THE NOISE, THEN THE GREEN FLYING CORNS, ANOTHER STRANGE WHERE THE BUGS I USED TO THINK WERE BIRDS
Metroid is one of those NES classics that hasn't aged well like other first party titles, aside from the moody setting and great music. I think it would've benefitted from slightly better graphics, battery save and not starting with 30 frickin' energy every time you die
It would'ver had to come out in 88 then, because that's when ga,ming on the NES, and arcades took a graphically dramatic turn and games started really looking good. Realize this is an early black box game, and carts were smaller in the beginning of the NES's lifespan.
@@Bloodreign1 released in 87.
I’ll agree with the battery save and the 30 energy every time you die 😂,
But I actually love the original pixel art graphics!
Sounds to me that you’re looking for the Famicom Disk System original
Try First Mission. It’s a remake.
I like this videogame, greetings from Guaranda, Ecuador.
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In the Japanese version, you get the best ending in under three hours. In this version, you get it in under an hour.
What!? So, the Japanese version is more lenient with getting the good ending? 3 hours versus just 1?
@@Dorian_Scott Yes. Hard to believe, I know.
i'll Literally go to this Version.
That’s actually pretty interesting
Impossible if you ask me. I never played the original, even I did for the first time with a walkthrough, it will take me longer than just an hour.
Screwattack…. My favorite!
Varia suit is my favorite!
I played this for hours at night all the time
Never beat the Game 🧬
But loved exploring everywhere 💯💯
21:02 The most nostalgic part.
Looking back, the original Metroid was cool when it was new, but it didn't age well, especially since it doesn't have a map and was hard as hell. Super Metroid fixed everything. I did manage to beat and get the best ending once, which really was (and is) shocking to look at.
Neither first megaman or this aged well
Always is hard do the first step in a New concept
Bro you actually played through this one. What can i say about NES Metriod. I spent many hours trying to figure out where to go. And since there's no map its like your lost buddy.
Thanks for the guide! I played Metroid Zero a bunch of times but could still never beat this one. The items seem better hidden in this one. I finally decided it was time.
I think that out of every upgrade that Samus has, the only one that stayed, regardless of them getting removed after each game, is the long beam.
Is it just me that feels lost in watching the game? How did he/she know where to go in the game without a map
They've probably played this game multiple games and have it memorized
@@OldEnemy1Nintendo magazine used to give tips and tricks, and maps
Metroid forever ❤️❤️🥰🥰
This is my favorite NES game, thought I only realized it later on in life. Everything Zero Mission did to "improve" completely stripped it on its identity and is everything I believe is wrong with modern gaming. The original Metroid is really rough for all the reasons you pointed out, but it's total lack of navigational assistance, unclear objectives, and eventual demands it makes of you to find as much ammunition as you can have catapulted it into the realm of "they don't make em like this anymore" and I really appreciate and miss that now. Metroid II was less fun, but did something totally unique and Super Metroid refined and perfected the structure the same way A Link to the Past did for its NES counterpart. Fusion and Zero Mission, however, came across as little more than expansions of Super and today the 2D Metroids, as great as the 3DS and Switch games truly are, don't seem much interested in doing anything more than adding small tweaks to a very familiar formula.
The greatest game of all time.
I had fun making it to Ridley and beating him, but I dislike how you start each game with only 30 health points and a few missiles. The farming is really tedious indeed. Still, I'm impressed at how revolutionary the game was for the time, and its killer soundtrack.
I also love the numerous visual and audio glitches. The game frequently slows down, elements on the screen flicker, sometimes the music and sound effects playback mess up. Often, you'll hear a loud crashing noise when taking an elevator. It feels like the game is held together with a few strips of adhesive tape, and it's about to fall apart. Such a strange experience.
By the way, it came out in 1986, on the Famicom Disk System. Not 1987.
I might be in a minority, but I actually like that it doesn't have a map. I think it's cool that the game expects some terrain orientation from you. Though this would be a lot better if locations looked more distinct from each other.
I liked it too. It felt so open, but yeah, the copy and paste rooms do get a bit old. It's a bit confusing when some of the close together rooms look exactly the same.
I 100% agree. Zero Mission's "improvements" stripped it of its identity. What makes Metroid memorable is that we had to remember it in order to succeed.
Anyone else here after the Prime 4 first look trailer?
ANOTHER THING, THIS GAME REMAINS ME THE DIFFERENT STAGES FROM THE GAME BLASTER MASTER
I never got into this game as a kid. I Didn’t really understand it. I think what would have made a difference is if you had all your abilities for a brief time at the beginning, then something happens so you loose your powers. Then I would have understood what I was playing for.
funny thing is, even when I got the ending where Samus revealed to be a woman, I thought that "Woman" was another character and not actually Samus back then. I think it only took me years later with reading Nintendo Power comic like Captain N where Samus Aran is in the comic, unlike in the cartoon, to realized that woman is actually Samus Aran.
Are you gonna do a walkthrough for Super Metroid next Friday?
1:16:02 I get to this room but there is no boss! Worse yet, in the next room there is no energy tank!!! What am I doing wrong? Did I play too slowly?
I could never beat this on NES. Maybe I’ll try again as my game and system are still in good shape. But watching this is satisfying.
Ridley got trolled hard
This doesn't look like you used Savestates. You're a pro gamer!
Thanks! :)
Nice playthrough 👍 I wanted to know what happened in the game but didn't want to play through it so you came through. Especially with the game rated for 7 hours 😂
I never could beat this game!
Man this game is difficult to play but amazing too yay
Metroid may seem archaic now, but I have never had as a fascinating a video game experience as the first time I finished this game back in the 80's. For me, only the original Zelda came close.
It’s crazy how both evolved over the years but I liked the newer metroids probably more than the latest Zelda’s. Not crazy about breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom. Just way too Skyrim like with decisions etc.
Makes playing it fun.
Friend: shall we go to the movies and watch that new Marvel movie??
Me: I'm sorry but I'm busy with work. Sit at home literally with popcorn watching this... 😅😅
I mean, modern Marvel so...
Love that game!!
Does anyone else think whenever Samus enters a portal it sounds like the Looney Toons “OOOooohhWOOOP!” sound effect.
The best game ever right up there with goonies and metal gear.
38:40 talk about a shortcut 😳
It's still one of the best games for NES.
Now, I'd recommend you to play the Metroid II EJRTQ colorization in the same style as Super Mario Land 2 DX. I want to see it.
This game was so easy to get lost. No clue how anyone beat it without a great map
Man I could not keep track of the map. Seemed like the same 10 rooms over and over again.
Damn this is great. So many memories. Wow. When life was simple. ....come home from school go to my friends house and get down on some Nintendo while drinking Koolaid and eating snacks. Hey quick question if someone can help me out real quick please. If i haven't played my Super Nintendo in over 25-30 years do u think it would still work if i have it put away in one of those system cases? Thanks in advance
Why is the planet called Zebeth in this game but item Zebes in Super Metroid?
Just a difference in translation is all.
Metroid or Crystalis? Hi, im trying to decide It. Very different games, but i can choose only one to buy It, which one should I choose?
Crystalis! Underrated
Still makes me so nervous watching you play, lol
you playing all these to celebrate the release of dread?
How many units of this game were sold?
It sold about 2 million and 7 hundred thousand copies of the game
I'm here for the start
wtf? i didn't even know you can shortcut this way in kraid's lair. every time i get there it's complete random if i find the way to his lair
Despite being more than 30yo I'm playing this for the first time haha
Who is watching this after playing Metroid Dread? 😅
Even if this very first Metroid game is bad or good as i still think many most nes games are always good no matter what!
Even Super Metroid SNES is my most favorite Meteoid games, though I think Super Metroid overshadowed Metroid NES!
Ngl the nes music is a banger
The reviewers saying Dread is too hard and needs save states clearly never played the original Metroid. Only the Japanese version had save files! We had a legal pad full of 24 character alphanumeric passwords that wouldn't even heal you when you start. I love this game, but it is so unforgiving. Zero Mission is the better version, but I have nostalgia for this one.
Great game. Superb
Great work. Thanks
Not the best-aged Metroid but it's still pretty fun if you give it a chance.
I watched this whole thing just to see the OG ending. and I'd like to remind everyone that this ending was originally supposed to be a joke. The Game manual for this game called Samus "He" throughout it. it was a huge shock to people when they realized Samus was a woman, the first female video game hero in history.
It's a Metroid weekend for you I see
I've recently been playing classic games I feel I ought to have played and beating games I never finished. This game comes up again and again on various lists of must-play games, but to be honest, I have no desire to take this one on.
I don't mind a game which encourages or requires exploration, but I absolutely despise games where you're expected to try every action available on every inch of the map just on the off-chance there's a secret. Even worse is when this kind of laborious scouring of the environment is necessary to proceed.
I just fail to see how figuratively bashing your head against miles of brick wall until you find the one brick that comes loose can be considered fun. If the argument is that it's the satisfaction that comes from finally finding the secret/way forward, I think the person making that argument has confused a sense of relief with a sense of achievement. What have you actually achieved? It didn't take skill and you haven't figured anything out. Spending countless hours being bored/frustrated in exchange for that "Aha!" moment just doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade.
I'll watch a play-through to see what the game had to offer, but drawing maps combined with this style of exploration isn't my idea of fun.
Edit: After having watched the play-through, I'm even more glad I didn't attempt this game because in addition to being generally obtuse, it commits another gameplay sin; subverting established logic. You're taught through experience that water/lava hurts you... except for on this one screen where it doesn't and there's a hidden path.
Nothing annoys me more in games than moments which make you say "How was I supposed to know that?". It's rage inducing in the same way a game will require you to have a certain item to progress/defeat an enemy, but you don't know that and don't know said item exists, so you waste time attempting something that's impossible, but you don't know that because there's no indication it's impossible. Such game design choices just completely lack respect for a player's time.
Yup. I’m 43. I grew up with the NES. And games being Nintendo Hard weren’t fun, they were frustrating and we quit on them. I never enjoyed this game.
Well, maybe it was for
the "pseudo-intelligent"
not the critical or probing
type which runs on something else...?
( don't get me wrong-played it )
< but i wasn't INTO it >
Metroid for NES is cool but i think the final boss should have been more than a head that did not move. Kind of like the mother brain in Super Metroid. Still a really cool game for Nintendo i have Metroid and love it an awesome game the NES my favorite game system just love it!!!!
Dang hard game.
At 48m, you should have learned the bomb farming technique by then. You're wasting time waiting for them to spawn. Just ball up on the pipe and repeatedly drop bombs on the pipe.
Holy crap. I grew up on Super Metroid, it’s in my top 5 games of all time. I never realized this one was just a way crappier version of it though!! Haha
Hahaha 😂😂
So true bro
I mean I have love for this game
But my god. Zero mission on gba, the remake of this, is WAY better.
My first ever console was n64 and my older cousins tell me there were better nintendos out there and they show me metroid and super metroid on nintendo and super nintendo. This series and zelda literally made me nintendo fan. 32 and still playing switch. Hope there will be new metroid titles soon. I'm really hyped for upcoming switch 2 and maybe aaa metroid game on it?
**METROID WAS LIKE A MAZE FULL OF MAZES, NEVER KNEW WHERE TO GO N SHIT....**