Super Metroid is actually the last Metroid title I played, and I absolutely hated it the first time. I got stuck for hours because I didn’t figure out there was a run button, and after that I got stuck permanently when I fell down a gap and had to wall jump out, which I just could not do. This was on the Wii U Virtual Console, and it wasn’t until the game came to 3DS that I went back and finally beat it.

Never did get those Power Bombs at the top of that wall jump shaft, though! Not even with Space Jump!

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