www.longplays.org Played By: Tarosan One of the hardest Nintendo games ever made and the most memorable for having the first female lead character. - Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!
Damn the nostalgia. I used to play this game on my parents NES for hours. When I got lost, my dad told me to take notes. So I got a spiral notebook, a pencil, a pencil sharpener, and an eraser and jotted down everything I came across. Still have the NoteBook today!
Fun fact: the Japanese version is slightly more difficult by complete accident. When they ported the game from the Famicom Disk System to a NES cartridge they unintentionally broke one of the AI behavior randomizers. For example in the Famicom version Ridley spits his fireballs in completely random arcs instead of all the same arc as seen in this video.
Metroid was one of the first NES games I had.. I'm 31 now and this game STILL somehow gives me goosebumps when I play it. Some of the lower levels & music just give me the creeps to this day. JUSTIN BAILEY ______ ______
+wysoft i am 31 also and my dad bought me this game when i was a kid.. i hated it tho as i was never able to figure out how to progress.. it was like a huge confusing maze
Cloud Air back in the day Metroid really required a subscription to Nintendo Power. I remember our local library had Nintendo Power issues, and you could copy the maps on the copy machine.
Agreed. I remember playing NES games like Ice Climber, Super Mario Bros, Wrecking Crew - all very innocent and positive. When I started playing Metroid, I got a complete different feeling. The music gave me goosebumps. At the time I had just seen the movies "Alien" and "Aliens", and got some of the same feeling with this game. When watching this video I caught myself getting goosebumps again.
They had a map in the Nintendo players guide book, it came out years before the SNES. Nintendo put out mags years before the SNES. There was the Nintendo Fun club magazine, that morphed into Nintendo Power about the time SMB II came out.
Great Vid, thx. Metroid is one of my all time favorites. I had one complete go through saved on VHS for many years. Would play it in the background while doing other things. Fun to do it again.
This was the first game to really highlight the importance of game guides for me. It took my entire family playing this and keeping a notepad of continue codes to beat this back when it came out.
Hardest game or not, it's definitely advanced for the time. When you consider how many sprites Samus has for movement alone, whether it's somersaulting, firing straight up while walking, or whatever else, and then compare it to Mega Man...there IS no comparison. I love the Blue Bomber, but he can't fire straight up without armor, most of the time not even then. This is true even on the PS2, when he should be able to, yet Samus could do so from the beginning. Until I saw this clip, I didn't think that was possible on the NES. Mind blown.
+Andrew Smith Am I the only one who always knew that Samus was a female character? I mean, her sprite in the very first game is very distinctively female to me, everything from the way she stands to the way she runs.
An interesting (but weird) thing is that, if anyone has a copy of the Official Nintendo Player's Guide (page 54 in my book) many of the lesser enemies actually have names! They actually took the time to give names to these little fidjuts scuttling, bouncing and flying about. They only named 18 critters (not counting the bosses), but it's still a nice touch! If I'm going to get exploded, I'd at least like to know by _what._
This game is an 8-bit masterpiece. The music, the graphics, the play control, the story, the exploration, the power ups, the characters, the surprise at the end... 10/10. ;-)
The Metroid series was my favorite series in gaming of all time. AND IT STILL IS (Edit: If you saw my profile picture before it got... ech...ii??, it was Ridley. So sorry for anyone that got confused xD)
+Aggressive Attitude Era Holy shit, Zero Mission was AWESOME. It added so much to the original aka one of the best NES games, so therefore, makes Zero Mission. best GBA game. (Past Mother 3 but that's Japanese only so...)
This game had a rather creepy atmosphere for such a great action shooter. The title screen music is cold and minimal, it gives me a feeling of loneliness. Just put yourself in Samus's boots... You're in deep space, all alone, and everything on this planet is trying to kill you. Thankfully the main theme kicks in when you descend.
I LOVE Metroid. Fusion and Zero Mission are so underrated and I remember seeing SA-X for the first time and Adam saying it’s you!!! The music and atmosphere for these games are perfect.
This game brings back memories. I remember having a guide book that Nintendo Power sold to help get me through a few parts in this game when I was a kid. It had a black cover if I remember correctly. It's a shame that I no longer have that book. I'm sure it'd be worth something to someone seeing that I had the only copy among my friends. I've never seen that book again. Still happily have my NES and Metroid though. ^_^
Along with Xband Soundtrack, The Adventures of Batman and Robin for Sega Genesis, Metroid has my favorite music ever in any game. Super Metroid is my favorite. Amazing soundtrack.
this and kid icarus came out the same day. i played this game for the first week and got kid the next. and still love them both almost a quarter century later.
As a kid, i couldn't beat this game until i found the justin baily code or whatever it was, but what i remember was how awesome all the power ups were, like the missles and jump boots.
I always laughed a little hearing Samus get hurt in this game because it sounded like a fart of varying lengths and tones. They still do make me chuckle to this day. 1:02:42 I always had troubles getting out of this long drop as well.
Metroid. Once of the best classic games ever. I always wonder why they never made a Metroid 2 for the NES. They made Metroid 2 for the gameboy which I played that one. It was frustration has heck.
Marcus Devine yea, Return of Samus was frustrating, but I thought it was awesome Even for a GB game And when I heard that one of my favorite GB games was getting a remake this September? I almost shat myself
May I ask. In which order did you get the upgrades? I couldn't quite make it out which is which except for the 2 first ones (morph ball and long beam). Also, why did the game not register that 7th energy tank you took at 1:21:33? You had 6 before, yet it still shows 6 blue squares after you picked it up.
Kids will never know the sheer joy, and challenge of these old games. I hope there are some parents out there introducing their kids to these absolute classics.
The “Brinstar Depths” theme in the franchise’s original NES glory definitely has nostalgia to its sequel updated version on the Brinstar Depths stage in “Super Smash Bros. Melee!”
@CAWGregoryBlack I remember the Justin bailey code, i called her the princess, from the captain nintendo cartoon. Back in the days. Also started with some upgrades like wave beam.
It's the Varia Suit, it reduces damage form lava and heat, in later games it reduces all forms of damage by a little bit, but it mainly negates heat damage down to nothing except for when your directly in lava.
Yes. This is do to various controls that were made tight in super metroid. Also, the final battle is a lot tougher in my opinion. Another thing to point out, is the complete lack of a map. With all that said, this is a superb game that got me hooked when I bought it when it came out and made me want to play every metroid after.
I spent a whole day trying to beat this game. I finally made it to mother brain, then ran out of missiles thanks to being knocked around by those flying donut things. I died because I fell into the lava and Samus’ character disappeared because of that glitch. I couldn’t see where he was to get out.
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