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Super Metroid came out on the Super Nintendo in 1994, developed and published by Nintendo. It was one of those games that really showed what the SNES could do, with its detailed environments and moody soundtrack setting a standard for the action adventure genre on the platform.

You play as Samus Aran, a bounty hunter exploring the caverns of planet Zebes to recover a stolen Metroid larva. The game is built on screen by screen exploration, with you constantly using new abilities like the Morph Ball to squeeze into tight spaces or the Grappling Beam to swing across gaps. The pacing is deliberate, often tense, as you backtrack through familiar areas with new tools to uncover hidden paths. It feels like a race against yourself to map the world and master its challenges.