Review: Metroid

It's so difficult to go back to, but with the VC versions and NES classic is was a lot more tolerable. It's a great game and the fact that the gameplay and progression hold up today is a testament to how great it is. The music is banging too!

For me this was the most immersive NES game, and that was enough for my not-so-skilled young self to keep on playing,

I still remember my rising heart rate during my first attempt at the Mother Brain lair.

When the internet first got popular (late 90s early 2000s) there was a decent community online decidated to exploring the 'glitch' world of the game (where youd go up the door and 'fall' through the floor), it was heavily mapped out.  I had to do with how it was programmed, where the blank squares of the world map still had 'something' in it. Fun times!