Classic Game Room - METROID review for NES 

Nothing like playing Metroid on an NES hooked up to a CRT, drinking beer and blasting Soundgarden in the summer heat.

I suddenly have the urge to replay this entire series

I still have this game unlocked on my Metroid Zero Mission. Great game also perfect when playing in the dark.

Metroid was an instant classic. It came out when I was 8 & many late nights were spent on the couch with it. Kid Icarus is my all time NES fave,but it's HARD!

Mark, you've done a great justice by my favorite game of all time (and given me some ideas to include in my review). Well done as always, sir!

Some of the best NES music ever, and thats saying a lot !!! Kraid's Theme still gives me chills to this day.

I got the Nintendo Player's Guide (the big black book of NES games) in 87. at the time that was the only map of Metriod I knew of. unless you count the hand drawn maps me and my friends tried to make. Ahh the pre-internet years, that was like the strong age.

Nintendo Power published a full guide in the nineties. I never finished this game until getting that map.

This game came out 2 years before I was born. The first game like this I played and beaten was Blaster Master around 4 or 5 years old. I never had Metroid on the NES but my story is when I was probably around 6, my cousin had bought Super Metroid on the SNES. I watched him complete the entire game...then I ran through the game right after he did. I didn't miss anything he missed. Since then I have to beat it once a year, and I still cant 100% complete the game.

One of the most influential games evar...owned it since 86

Not sure if this has been said yet, but the original 1987 "Official Nintendo Players Guide" contained maps for Metroid, though can't recall if it featured item locations or not. Also, like you, I had a 7800 during the NES days, though I didn't get an NES until 2000. Still, that world shattering feeling we had when going from playing Food Fight or Asteroids, then to a friends place to play Super Mario... not even in the same league... By the time Mario 3 and Link's Adventure came around, even Ballblazer looked pathetic.

Just beat Super Metroid a few months ago for the first time as part of the "Cartridge Club" - and have been dying to go back and play Metroid ever since. This review sealed the deal - I'm breaking out my NES tonight!

The atmosphere and playing this game in the dark is what makes it more enjoyable.

Thanks for posting this wonderful review and reminiscence about gaming in the 1980. This makes your reviews so great.

It was the first NES game I played back in the day from start to finish

This and Rygar are the first two games I ever played and the only NES games I ever owned.

Watching this review, and I'm suddenly a 15 year old kid with so much spare time playing the hell out of this game. :( I got chills when the different scenes were shown. I haven't even thought to play it in 25 years, and I didn't even recognize a couple of the areas. The elevator trip down scene for some reason jogged a really weird sense of nostalgia. I reeaallllly loved this game. Just an absolute masterpiece.

I love how often content comes out on this channel. Hard to keep up.

Justin Bailey

It's still my favorite Metroid-game! Because of the great atmosphere!

By far my favorite NES game. Just awesome then and still today.

Great review man! Really enjoyed this one. :)

when I saw it in my recommended, it had exactly 70000 views.

Cracking review that. One of your best I'd say

Yo Mark!!! This was an excellent review :)

To this day the menu music of this game gives me goosebumps. Ahh the nostalgia. One of the best NES games created.

WOW! I did not realize this game came out the same year I was born!

Nintendo hasn't even put out a Metroid side shooter since Zero Mission in 2004. That's right. 10 years without a PROPER Metroid title. I liked the Prime series but you can't beat Metroid the way it was supposed to be played.

your gameroom looks awesome man.

Awesome review man,game is great and very challenging but such a nostalgic game and great series.

There was a map for LOZ in the 1st issue of Nintendo Power. Was glad to find a copy of it one day at a mall.

I remember that a few years ago I couldn't get past anything, so a friend told me the NARPASSWORD thing, I completed it several times with that, but when I finally got my hands in a map, I got the best ending + all the extra energy tanks

I managed to beat the Famicom Disk System version without so much as glancing at a map and I got most of the missile expansions. I still have my NES password for the second quest with every power up and the Justin Bailey costume unlocked. The second quest playthrough was so much fun.

You actually made me wanna play this game!

That intro!! haha so fucking EPIC

Metroid is certainly one of my all-time favorite games.

first game we got (other than mario/uck hunt) when we got our NES back in the day.

The feels... Oh the feels... I

I played this on GBA as Zero Mission, it was awesome!!

Cara vc tem uma incrível coleção de games.

I would love to see a review of super metroid!

Does anyone have an opinion on which virtual console version is preferable? Wii u or 3DS?

I have the issue of Nintendo Power Magazine with the fold out map for metroid.

My memories are very similar to yours on Metroid. Except, a friend brought it over and I hated it at first. "Where do I go? What do I do? Where's my points? Why would I want to "build up" my character?" I hated the game...until I borrowed it for the weekend. Now it's one of my favorite games of all time. It's so much more than just another shooter. Great review!

It was actually 1987 by the time the USA got Metroid on the American Nintendo entertainment system

"How did we find it back in the day?" Because unlike today's brats we would go out and explore the games. We wouldn't let a giant arrow tell us where to go. I had Metroid on the gameboy (i didn't had a nes :( ). I was a 9 or 10 years old i think when it was released. With my tiny young brain i could figure out that if i was a ball i could fit into hole. I also knew that as a ball you could drop explosives. That in their turn could blow parts of the level up, making new ways. I just tried things. If i saw a hole somewhere i would try to go in, drop explosives and see if a new path would open up to me. I didn't need a ingame guide telling me where to go, i would figure it out some how. And if not me then a friend probably would or my brother would find something out. We didn't had internet in those days (yeah it didn't exist yet). I had a club nintendo subscription but never got the magazine with the walktrough in it so it was all up to me to discover it. Offcourse i didn't play the game every day as i was stuck very often and that would get annoying at times. Yet it never stopped me from returning and trying another approach or have a friend try something who might have had another vision on it. And this was what gaming was about, your skills, your brain. Games weren't there to hold your hand and tell you what to do. They where there for you to play them (sorry but most games of today pretty much play themselves). It was up to you to figure out how to get to the next level, or in this case get anywhere and find items you needed to progress. I still wonder how it happened that the gamer of today became such a brainless turd that needs their hands hold all the way and still brag about their skills. What skills do you have as a gamer when you can't even play a game that a kid played who couldn't even speak or read English back then? Who had no idea what he got into with the game but still got far. Simply by trying. But god forbid you have to figure things out yourself these day's. God forbid you are stuck for longer then 5 minutes cause that is annoying, and annoying means bad these days. How can you as gamer grow in skills when your skills aren't tested? How can you become better at games when the games make it so easy for you? I miss the time that games where a challange. Did i get to finish the games? No, not often no. I didn't care, the reward wasn't in seeing the end credits. The reward was in getting passed that part you got stuck at. Progressing each time you played. That you remembered where things where. That you memorized the dangers and how to deal with them. People of today have such a weird look at games. Even developers seem to have forgotten what games where about. It was not the end, it was the freaking journey. How can i feel satisfied as gamer today that i finished a game, when the game is really short and easy to play? Games in the past where not even that much longer, but they where more challenging and there for took much longer to complete. I don't ask of every game to be hard, we had plenty of easy games as well in those days, but exploration hardly seems to be a thing anymore, and often the game press go all whiny when a game challenges you "its to hard and frustrating, they should have included a map, they should tell you where to go" grab a paper and pencil you spoiled brat and do what games used to do, trigger your brain!

From what I've heard, there was a complete map in the very first issue of Nintendo Power.

I played Metroid 1 for the first time right after finishing Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion, and because my standards for the series was so high at the time, I was greatly disappointed and expected something different. But as the years have passed, I've grown to respect the game for what it was and frankly I'm jealous that I couldn't have enjoyed it when it was brand new like you did, Mark.

cool video thanks for sharing :-)

"Welcome to classic game room, it's a new year" Uh you're like 6 months behind.

The system that started a franchise and one of my favorite NES games ^_^

This was the first game I bought with my own money. Busted out the graph paper and drew my own maps as I played. Still have 'em and use 'em.

When's the vectrex port coming out?

Never got into Metroid. I was all over the NES, but the game that blew my mind in those days was the original Castlevania. Still love that game to death.

You're right, I was repeating what he said in the beginning of the video. It was a long time ago mate lol

It's really sad that we will never have games like this again.

The very first Nintendo Power issue had the map. That's what I used back in the day. I think it had a Zelda map, too. I remember getting the issue for free at Wal-Mart.

I knew Ms- Pac-man was just Pac-man crossdressing. Think about it, It's not Pac-woman.

Omg I love this game!

I'm surprised you're just now doing this one. I've seen your Metroid 2 review. That was pretty long ago.

Can we get long versions of your theme songs?

I remember this game. I remember it was a pain in the ass, but in a good way. I would often get lost when trying to explore. Just hours of..Damn that is the same hallway. I have gone in a circle!

Yeah, I hear ya Mark. My friends all had a NES, and I was stuck with Atari consoles until Christmas 1990. Oh, I was so jealous- but I still had over 100 games for the 2600 and half the 7800 library, which kinda made my friends jealous. They'd get a new game MAYBE every three to eight months, I'd get ten new ones just from my paper route money alone (not to mention when my parents would get me more). We won't get into the games dad kept under his bed...

I'm now imagining Ms Pacman and Birdo dating. Thanks, Mark.

I remember Metroid as one of the first true exploration games I played, maybe I played it before the first legend of zelda I don't remember.

My question is, why haven't you done a review or anything on the Atomiswave????

Did anyone ever have the cartridge with a yellow background in the image, the wording 'Metroid' on the top and Samus kneeling down and facing away from the cartridge? I have not seen that anywhere since I had it when I was a kid.

Oh and btw to those wondering why he says its a new year in the begining this video is a re-upload. Look at the copyright text at the end (says 2013)

This is by far, THE most difficult Metroid game.

Nintendo Power Did indeed have the map, I think it was in the first issue. along with Zeldas map

Yay! I have a copy of the new game Metroid! The NES comes tomorrow!

Metroid is still my favorite NES game. I had this game memorized when I was a kid. I love Zelda but playing Metroid for the first time was mind blowing after spending my first few gaming years on the Atari2600. The music is still the best NES music ever made and the graphics were great also. Metroid had great gameplay and was very challenging but not frustrating like ghosts and goblins.

I cant beleve you havent review this

Nintendo power did have a map of metroids. I didn't get my own copy until the re-ralease after Super Metroid came out. By then Nintendo Power published the complete maps of the first 2 Metroid games. I wasn't as good at exploring as my friends

I still love this game, but man, without a map its easy to get lost.

_Taunt:_ *What's the name of the song?*

Playing this game right now for the first time. It's weird to see it pixelated since I play it on emulator with a filter. Seriously good game though. Love the music on my 450 wat sound system.

Huh. I would have thought you would have reviewed this one already. Still though. Awesome game.

I didn't own an NES, so Zillion for the SEGA MASTER SYSTEM, was my Metroid. It's a cool game.

Is kind of like Mega Man, but jumps higher and can become a rolling attacking ball.

The game "Draconus" for the Atari 800XL was a very interesting and similar option to Metroid.

Why does mark say its a new year?

1:48 "Back in 1987 or '88 when this was new" I believe the year you are looking for is 1986. :P

I like my Japanese version better. You can actually save!

So, I believe you can freeze Kraid’s projectiles!

The copyright at the end says 2013.

I remember seeing the cover art to that but never played it. I would have hated it.

This is the most menacing metroid game. Not just gameplay wise but music and atmosphere wise. SM was moody, but this game had downright evil vibes at times.

JUSTIN BAILEY ------ ------ This password spawned you at a point in the game where you could find a nearby energy tank that maxes out your health.

This was the first video game I ever beat. 1989, 8 years old. To this day, it's still one of my all-time favorites on any system.

The only thing about the game that made it challenge bing for me was not having a map. Not even one that showed where you are and where you have been. I went in so many circles haha Great game

i miss this intro

the influence this game has is obvious, I don't know if I would playing this game now because it's sequels have surpassed it in every way, but I will say the first metroid has one of the best atmosphere's for a game ever made you really feel like your all alone isolated from the the rest of the universe.

The best video game company of all time to this day

Best games on NES

played it on switch online.. spent a few hours on it.. hate it beyond all imaginable ratings I could give it. On the other hand I love super metroid on SNES. Love.

Thexder Forever!

One of the best games ever made!!!

Well, if it hasn't been mentioned before: JUSTIN BAILEY But man, this was a tough game back then. I usually got tired of wandering around at some point.

I still onw my NES copy METROID :D but my is the Yellow copy :p I for one think the Yellow copy looks better but I know that the first way it came out :)