Metroid

[JC]

Dumbest question ever!? -- Doesn't Samus roll into a ball, and how?

[Lorfarius]

Yes she does and not a clue how 

[JC]

Nevermind, you have to find the glowing orb thingy...I just hadn't gone in that direction...

Here's another question: Do you have no lives? Only ENERGY? (You can tell I'm a huge Metroid fan, eh?)

[vgthing]

Yeah, no lives, just energy.
Later in the game, you get upgrades so you have more energy though.
You also get new missiles and a super jumpy ability thing.
I think if you die you have to start at the beginning again, but you get to keep all your upgrades and abilities and such...
I haven't played it in a while though, so I might be wrong about some stuff.

[JC]

Well, the disk version has saves, so I guess that helps.

I'm actually liking the game...but I haven't figured out what I'm supposed to do...probably find something that activates that one portal thingy that won't let me through...

[Lorfarius]

I was umming and aahing about buying this when I just noticed a Metroid disk tucked away at the back of the games collection! 

[vgthing]

What portal thingy?
If it is bluish and on a wall, it is a door. Doors are opened by shooting at them.
It it's pingish, then you need to shoot it with missiles.
Other than that, I don't know of any portal type things. How far are you in the game?

[JC]

Haha...um...doors, portals, whatever...I don't know a thing about missiles, but I've gotten through many doors/portals before with a little shooting. Guess the immediate goal, then, is to acquire missiles or figure out how to use missiles if I've already got them.

[Trium Shockwave]

Metroid is extremely non-linear, which is why it was remarkable at the time. You goal is this:

At the top of the first long vertical shaft you find, there's a door that takes you to a room with a lava pit, two statues, and a door you can't reach. Hey, easy! The end of the game is right there! Not quite... You need to find and defeat the bosses represented by the statues (Kraid and Ridley), then go back to this room, and shoot the statues to make a bridge that lets you into the final area. Go in there, get past the Metroids, kill Mother Brain, then escape.

The fun is, there's no set path for how you go about this. You're just supposed to roam the world finding and collecting upgrades, and take on Kraid and Ridley whenever you feel like you're ready. The main upgrades are Energy Tanks (increase health), and Missile Tanks (increase missile capacity). Once you have missiles, you can switch to them by hitting select, and it takes 5 to open the red doors. There are also other items which affect your ability to get to new areas, like the Morphing Ball, High Jump Boots, the Ice Beam and (perhaps most importantly) the Bombs. Bombs are critical to finding hidden passages and items. Unless you're going by a map, you should be shooting walls and bombing floors all over the place. Other items are optional like the Wave Beam and the infamous Screw Attack, but they do increase your offensive abilities.

One of the enduring challenges of Metroid is how fast you can beat it. You get a better ending depending on your clear time. This becomes a gambit of how few Energy and Missile tanks you can collect and still get through the game.

And, that's pretty much Metroid in a nutshell.

[NationalGameDepot]

JC I can't believe what I am reading!  shakes head....
~~NGD

[JC]

 
   

Heh...I've gained a new respect for the Famicom Disk System while introducing myself to some games I've never played before. I will no longer say I hate the FDS. And I will no longer bad-mouth Metroid.

[133MHz]

You can still hate it for technical reasons .

[Doc]

It took me a long time to finally warm up to the original version of Metroid, but now I love it. I prefer Super Metroid over all of them, but the original is top notch. It's annoying when you get lost, though -- which tends to happen a LOT.

[FamicomFreak]

I liked Metroid when I first played it years and years ago. I was finally able to get another copy of it since the other one was stolen and was able to finish it. The game is very challenging and I love looking for all the items and yes missiles lol After beating it though I wouldn't want to go through all that exploration again.

[Lorfarius]

I liked Metroid when I first played it years and years ago. I was finally able to get another copy of it since the other one was stolen and was able to finish it. The game is very challenging and I love looking for all the items and yes missiles lol After beating it though I wouldn't want to go through all that exploration again.

Thats my biggest problem with it. Far too easy to get lost