What got you into the Metroid series?

[DarkPhazonElite]

Please forgive me if I'm recycling an existing topic, but I'd like to know how you all came across the Metroid series, whether it was way back when or just a month ago.

For me, I played the NES Metroid at a 22 year old sister of my babysitter's house when I was 8. I never made it through Brinstar but I never forgot about the series. I wasn't really a gamer until 2006 when I met my husband. I've heard of Metroid Prime here and there and when my husband got me into the Smash Bros games (particularly Brawl) in 2010, his brother was playing it and said "holy crap you can play as Samus out of her suit! She's soooo hot!!" I'm thinking "Who the hell is Samus?!" and they said "the girl from Metroid" and I was like, "so wait, Samus IS Metroid?" (not knowing that Metroids were different characters) and then thinking to myself, "Cool, Metroid is a girl!" and I had a really small interest in Samus as a character. I wasn't sure about getting into Metroid since my husband said he didn't like it (the NES version). So for Christmas, Hubby got me a Wii Points card (along with other things, of course) and I wasn't sure what to use it on. On New Year's for 2011 I decided to give Metroid a shot since I was interested in it for a little while and had to try it. (and my husband got a stomach bug out of nowhere so we couldn't celebrate otherwise...) I thought "if it gets such good ratings it can't be bad!" so I downloaded it onto my Wii and played it and liked it a lot. I admit that a walkthru was helpful and that MB was insanely hard to beat, but it was a good game. I went on to play Super and loved it then Prime and so on and so forth. I've played and beaten all of them except MP2 (which I'm playing right now), MP3, MPH, Fusion, and Pinball. I own all of them (including the Trilogy) except Pinball. So yeah, just over a year and I'm a junkie.

[Tianna]

I can't recall too well, since it's been a very long time and my memories of it are kind of muddled and combined. It has to have been between game rentals and my older brother. I recall playing the original Metroid at some point, but I hadn't owned it. I later came across Super at a rental place, remembered it, and had my mother rent it for me. I enjoyed it enough that eventually when money permitted, I got a copy of my own. I am pretty sure that I played Metroid 2 on my older brother's Game Boy at some point in time.

God, so long ago!

[Zynux]

My first Metroid game was Prime 2, which was ages ago. I had no clue of Metroid, its lore, or anything, I just bought this game (probably because it was a FPS admittingly yeah forgive me I was a noob back then). I enjoyed it, but after that I took a LONG haitus from Metroid. Prime 3 and Other M took my interest, but again I didn't play these games till MUCH later.


My interest in Metroid really started when I was looking for quality SNES games. I just so happen to hear people always talk about Super Metroid on the internet, so I decided to give it a try (which would be my second Metroid game). And it was after that where I decided to play the other ones. I still haven't played Pinball though.

[Remnants]

It all started when I played the NES Metroid when I was a little kid. Boy, did I suck at it! Didn't play it that much since the NES broke not long after. I never forgot about it. Fast forward six and a half years later and I saw the Metroid Fusion commercial on TV. I IMMEDIATELY recognized the Metroid name and I made sure I got the game sooner or later. Loved the game and talked to my cousin about it. In those conversations, names like Metroid Prime and Super Metroid were brought forward. Lo and behold, I got Metroid Prime some time later which sealed the deal for me as a Metroid fan.

[SonicShinespark]

I got a game from my parents called Metroid Fusion the Christmas it was released. Never heard of it, looked different from the other games I played when I was a kid. But once I started playing it, I was hooked. I looked into Prime and was nervous cause I had heard lots of people complaining about how it was in first person. I was scared to spend $50 on a game I didn't know if I liked or not. And it's pretty hard to save up that much money when you're 12.

One of the greatest choices of my life. Ever since then, I've loved Metroid more than any other series. More than Zelda, Elder Scrolls, even Portal or Metal Gear. Metroid is just.... It's amazing in it's own special little way. Nothing will ever be like it.

So what was you're first experience?

[DarkPhazonElite]

Welcome to the board!

I actually started a similar thread to this a few days ago, here's the link.

http://www.metroid-database.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5559

[SonicShinespark]

I got a game from my parents called Metroid Fusion the Christmas it was released. Never heard of it, looked different from the other games I played when I was a kid. But once I started playing it, I was hooked. I looked into Prime and was nervous cause I had heard lots of people complaining about how it was in first person. I was scared to spend $50 on a game I didn't know if I liked or not. And it's pretty hard to save up that much money when you're 12. I unlocked the original Metroid game in prime and played it there. From then on I was hooked and hunted down all the other games.

And yes I'm new here, thanks for pointing me in the right direction RinoaFantasy

[DarkPhazonElite]

No problem, Sonic!

How many of the games have you played so far?

[Tianna]

Personally, I have played all of the Metroid games that didn't have "Prime" in the title. As soon as I saw the first Prime game was set up with FPS type controls, I knew I wouldn't have any fun playing it. I just can't handle separate move/aim/strafe controls and I very much prefer not being in first person perspective. So it was a pretty big bummer for me after growing up with the "Original Trilogy".

[Dark Samus Aran]

I know this might sound... dorky but actually my mother and my uncle played Metroid on the NES when they were little... i asked her what her favourite game was she said "Well, the was this one game... it had little floating creators in it... and a dragon... and a giant brain with an eye." (she forgot kraid ) so i did some reasearch on floating life forms ... and futuristic dragons ...and a giant brain with an eye... so i found what looked like an orange robot... and she was all like "OMG THATS IT! THATS THE ROBOT THINGY!" so i did further reasearch on this ""robot" and found out not only was it a person, BUT A GIRL! and i pretty one at that. soon i found the games. of metroid. Metroid, Metroid II The Return Of Samus, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, Metroid Prime Hunters, and finally Metroid Other M. And now i love her, i know evrything about her. i just love metroid. and this concludes my story of how i got into the metroid series.

[KRAID]

well it was playing the original metroid on the NES that got me into the series.
id never seen anything like it before.

the feeling of isolation no one helping you etc.
what i love was the fact you could not just progress and go where you wanted straight away.

[Dryn]

It all began in '94 when I went to a daycare and a friend of mine owned an SNES and Sega Genesis. He brought Super Metroid one day, and he told me about "Metroid". I had my Talkboy and recorded Brinstar because I loved the theme. I never had the chance to discover Samus was a female on my own because my friend told me, "Metroid is a guy." I received my own Super Metroid and SNES on December 25, 1994. I was pretty happy.

[DarkPhazonElite]

Good stories, you guys!

I really hate that I missed out for so long. I wish I had the true nostalgia like you guys had. Like I said before, I only briefly played NES Metroid when I was 8. Otherwise it's only been over a year that I've been a fan. The only games I feel nostalgic about are Mario 1, 2, 3, Kart, and World, along with a few other random games like Bubble Bobble and Street Fighter 2. Otherwise I lived with my dad and ex stepmom who thought video games were bad for me and would make me dumb, blah blah blah. I officially became a gamer when I was 19, in 2006, beginning with FFVII. My husband has never really played Metroid and said he sucked at the original. He did just recently play and beat Super Metroid. With my complete guidance.

Which makes me wonder...how bass-ackwards is it that a woman is trying to get her husband into Metroid?? I'd think it would usually be the other way around. Don't get me wrong, he fully supports my fandom and bought me all of the other games after I got M1 and SM on the VC, and he even let me make an impromptu trip to get the $70 Prime trilogy, even though I had the stand-alone copies of Prime...he's just ignorant to the awesomeness of the Metroid games for now. I think he needs to play Prime.

[Lucid Flower]

I honestly can not say what exactly got me interested in Metroid, I just cant pin point it? I first played it when I was 6-7 at friends house on his NES. Until then I had only ever played the original Super Mario Bros, Zelda, and Contra at my dad's house. Later I ended up getting a my dad's hand me down NES with a bunch of games someone had gave to him. (He bought a SNES) No more contra for some reason? I played the three castlevainia games and Metroid the most. Later that summer I ended up playing a demo at a KB toy store for Super Metroid and I fucking loved it! Until then I thought I was playing as an abstract Predator kind of creature in colored armor, with an arm gun. Not a person in armor. I forgot about it for a year though until I went back to my dads for the summer and one day he rented it for me for some reason? I would play other peoples save files and just explore with whatever they had wondering how the fuck they even got so far and what I was supposed to do? I also died a lot, so shocker, Awesome armor space ninja is a girl. I loved that because I was a huge fan of Alien and Aliens! Ripley was a bad ass, but not a bad ass space ninja with self destructing armor....that could turn into a ball There was and still is nothing like it to me. My best friend and me beat the game through multiple rentals. We were not prepared for Mother brain and hyper beam at all. I had to wake him up when I discovered Tourian. Fun times! I have beat the game over and over since.

[Apothem]

Way back when I was a lad, deep in the mists of time (early 90s) my father saw fit to introduce me to the wonderful world of digital babysitting/entertainment and started me off with an old NES of his and a few games, chief among them the original Metroid and Mega Man 3. I could never get very far in Metroid but I absolutely adored Mega Man. It wouldn't be for another several years, with the release of Super Metoid and my eventual upgrade to a SNES that I would fall in love with the Metroid series. Years later I got my grubby little hands on a used copy of Metroid II, a game I had long since wanted but which fate (and poor finances) had conspired against my ownership. From Metroid Prime onward I managed to stay in step with the series up to Other M, completing each in kind. I think it's safe to say Metroid is one of the few things in my life that has had a major impact on me.