Thanks Jeff. Nice to meet you.

Discovered metroid at a k-mart in 2002. Back then I would always go to the k-marts and play what was in their GBA's. I played Metroid Fusion, then I saw commercials and about a week later I had to buy the game, and so I did.

moving to gen. Metroid.

I've always known there had to be someone out there who played Fusion as their first metroid game. What do you think of it now that you have played the others (assuming you have)?

After playing all of the other games, I still love fusion. Fusion is my favorite and probably always will be. It just seemed like it has everything necessary to a metroid game except its a bit linear.

I don't remember if I played Fusion or Prime first, but at any rate, Fusion was my first classic Metroid game. Naturally, I still love it for its nostalgic value (yes, I am young enough to find Fusion nostalgic, don't laugh at me), but it is also a very good game in and of itself. However, once I played Super Metroid, it became my co-favorite of the series alongside Prime.

But I still love Fusion and greatly enjoy playing through it every once in a while.

I discovered Metroid II: Return Of Samus when I was about 8 (I didn't beat it till last year finally ). However it was definently Zero Mission and Prime that got me REALLY hooked into the series. I got both for Christmas in about the 4th grade and fell in love with these games.


And now 6 years after that wonderfull day, I have played and beat every single game (including Pinball).

I'm 20 (I'm assuming that is older than you) and I find Fusion nostalgic. 2003 (at the moment, 10 years from now obviously it will be different) is my personal last year of "nostalgic" feelings towards games, so Prime and Fusion fall in that category.

My first metroid was prime 1 back when it was released. I never would have bought it if I hadn’t: 1.found it a used game shop and 2. I played samus on SSB. Now, of course; like everyone else I thought samus was a he robot or something, but never in my wildest dreams did I think she was a she. Needless to say I got a shock when I saw the opening cut scene for prime 1 and found out what I thought was a he was a she. That right there pretty much ruined the game for me (stupid I know), but I decided to keep playing it. I finally gave up shortly after I defeated the hive totem because I thought the game was ridiculous since I couldn’t get to half of the doors I saw. Well after three years of it sitting on the shelf collecting dust I decided to play it again for a reason I can’t explain. Well to make a very long story short, after I defeated Flaghhra and was able to go to magmoor and phendrana I loved the game. I couldn’t put it down and I have been a metroid fan ever since, and I also own and have beaten every metroid.

Imagine what it was like for those of us who found out samus' gender in 1987 when it was revealed to us by beating the game in the required amount of time. Talk about a mind-fuck! And then to actually PLAY as suitless samus....that was weird. I had spent so many hours playing as this character, we had been through so much together, and all the while I thought the character was male. I think that moment was what really got me hooked on the series. It had special significance for me since I am female and nearly every other gamer I knew at the time was male. I felt validated somehow. (lol)

My older brother got Super Metroid for Christmas in 1995, he played through the opening sequence a bit, then decided to play Diddy's Kong Quest instead, then he had to go back to his mom's the next day but the memory never left me.

I remembered SM when I first played SSB for N64 and though Samus was really cool, and when a friend told me Samus was a girl I assumed they were lying at first, but came to accept it. When Prime/Fusion came out, I wanted Prime badly and thought Fusion looked cool, but couldn't afford to buy a new console and eventually forgot. In Summer 2004 I bought a Gamecube used, and on August 23rd 2004 bought Prime, but didn't actually play it until August 28th, 2004.

I played it off and on until November or so, when I finally beat it with 100% and felt like I had ended world hunger, I got Echoes that following Christmas, then obtained every other game except for RoS and Hunters and the rest is history...

Prime will forever be a defining moment in my gaming life, it is by far my favorite anything. SM and Prime constantly battle for my "best game of all time", but I think my final decision is Prime by a hair.

I too would have to agree that Prime was a watershed moment in my life as far as gaming goes.

Very rarely has a game so utterly impressed me like Prime did when I finally did start to play and get into it.

Prime is up there with Myst and Mario 64 on the level of "awe" it gave me when I first played it.

I hate to admit it, but here goes: The first time I played Prime, I hated it and didn't play it again for months. I was one of those people who was panicking about the idea of metroid going to FP perspective. When I bought it upon release date, I couldn't let go of those ideas and decided I hated it the first time I got lost in chozo ruins. It was only after hearing so many rave reviews that I decided to actually open my mind a little and play it again. Now it's in my top 5 games of all time. I still love 2D metroid more though.

I started with Super Metroid.
The funny thing is that my aunt bought a SNES for herself and Super Metroid came bundled with it.
She did not understand the game at all and become rather upset with it and decided to give it to me.
I became upset as well but it was an amazing frustration...I was pissed but didn't stop playing.
Now I own all of the Metroid games except for Metroid Prime Hunters & Metroid Pinball.
I love this franchise with a passion.