To this day, I'm still really impressed with this game. I mean, this came out in 1986, for crying out loud, a time when a few bits beating the hell out of some other bits counted as a game. But damn, this game is fully developed, challenging, and complex. People do not give those programmers enough credit.

Watching this now as a 32 year old, I wonder how my 8 year old self was ever expected to find his way through this absolute shit storm. Awesome though.

Holy crap! My brother and I used to play this game back in the 80's and it took us MONTHS of all nighters to complete the game! Big ups to whoever this person is lol

I used to play this with my Mom. She was super good at it and always found the new worlds and powers. She would always catch me up on her new findings😁

I felt personally attacked when the Long Beam was the last upgrade.

They forgot to add "speedrun" to the title. I got stuck as soon as he started doing those bomb jumps.

This isnt just a longplay its a speedrun. This guys so pro and Im only 12 mins in.

I remember the first time I beat this game when I was 8 or 9 (which took forever btw). It felt like my life was complete and I rode my bike all the way to my buddy's house to tell him.

Metroid will always have a place in my heart and the music is fantastic too.

Can't believe I actually managed to beat this without a guide. Easily one of the hardest games of its days.

There is no way in hell I would have ever figured this out when I was little. 2o years later and nothing has changed.

This game brings back so many memories. Yeah for its time, it was a very complex game. Without Nintendo Power Magazine, you had no idea what to do. But you start exploring and getting the idea of samus mission. The CODES drove me crazy, to play again where you left off. Sometimes everytime I've finished the entire game, I would wait like 10 seconds before everything blows up to get on the elevator. I just got a kick doing that. Lol. Anyway it was fun.

A Masterpiece providing countless hours of entertainment.

One of the best NES games I ever encountered. Even now as a 40-year-old, I feel like a kid just watching this!😀

Absolute Dominance. I'm playing through this game now so watching this run through is impressive. Timing and jumping is pitch perfect.

all I needed on NES was Metroid, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Super Mario 1-3, Zelda 1-2, Contra, Castlevania and I was good!

Never did beat this as a kid, but I had a pretty good-sized map I drew on paper as I went along. Finally beat Super Metroid today, and now I'm getting the urge to try this again. Then, onward to Metroid II: Return of Samus.

These games are so punishingly difficult. It's not the difficulty that bothers me though. It's the tedium of farming enough health after you die to stand any chance. Anyway, good run!

You are an amazing player.. It was a privilege to watch this. Brings back such good memories.. This game and Mario 3, Mega man, Zelda.. and all those awesome late 80's cartoons Silverhawks!) on tv also =D. I would give anything to go back in time and live it all over again. On a side note, the first gaming console me and my brother ever had was a Colecovision xD.. Pitfall and frogger ftw!

Every now and then the action (jumps, bombs, etc.) and sound effects sync with the music. It's glorious.

Gotta be real- I don’t understand this game, but this play through has truly been amazing to watch. The escape scene after you beat the final boss is just stunning. Also that soundtrack- captivating.

The nostalgia just hit me like a house.

Dedicated to the memory of Justin Bailey....

Now I realize why when I was 7 years old I couldn't beat this game... shit even now I don't think I could... Awesome Video!!

Absolutely astounding. What took me 30 minutes you did in less than 5. I just got this game on my 3DS the other night. I also got Kid Icarus. I thought beating Zelda 2 was hard lol. It's a walk in the park in comparison to NES Metroid. To be honest I can't even figure out how to shoot the rockets, but I will not give up.

The best cartridge I've had! The best game on planet earth 🌎 my Christmas gift in 1986. Now 39. Great memories

Man, you make this look damn easy. tried playing it yesterday and I sucked. Definitely going to need more practice.

This Metroid is underrated as hell... aside from some Kraid's lair rooms, none of the rooms felt unfair. It does feel slower paced than the other games, but there's one thing in this game that makes me keep coming back to this NES classic.... It's HEAVY focus on exploration. Sure there's no map and everything, but to me, that ENHANCES the experience to me. It was fun getting lost in some of the areas to find various upgrades, missile tanks, E tanks, or maybe Kraid and Ridley themselves at their lairs. There's so many paths to take, and with my endless curiosity of what is in this or that area, I always check every nook and cranny to see what item can help me fight and survive against all the creatures of Zebes. Only problem I have with this game is that when you die, you start with 30 energy, which can be frustrating at times, but otherwise, this NES game will forever be in a special place in my heart... This game was extremely phenomenal for its time and I can definitely see why... I love it... my 5th favorite NES game ever and my 3rd favorite 2D Metroid side scroller (Tied with Super Metroid)

Played this game in the 80s and 90s. Finished it a few times back then. Had friends who i watched finish it better than me. More recently finished it on an emulator for the nostalgic value. I did not know until today (25/3/18) that the weapon you picked up at around 21:00 was in the game.

0:11, 0:15, 0:19, 0:23, 0:27, 0:31, 0:33 and 0:40: Let’s go! (0:48) 0:44: Item earned! 2:52 - 3:47: LOW ENERGY! 10:32 - 37:21: Norfair! (24:22 and 31:21) (27:40: DEFEATED!) (37:29: END!) 39:15 - 44:25: Kraids! (41:23: DEFEATED!) (44:34: END!) 46:57 - 48:23: Tourian! (48:24: FINAL BOSS!) 49:25 and 49:30: Escape now!

I have always loved this game! Got it when I was 7 years old! Super Metroid for the SNES is probably the best game ever made!

When I got this game as a kid back in '86, I was lucky enough to have a best friend that had a big guide book for Nintendo games such as Metroid, Rygar, Kid Icarus, and a lot more, so we knew exactly where to go for all the power-ups and Boss battles. Good Times.....

Best music. Best game.

I'm a 3DS Nintendo Ambassdor and I downloaded this game. Games made back in the 80s were much more fun to play than some of the games now. Great play!

Definitely some good skills on this playthrough... the majority of gamers that played this game for the first time in the 80s struggled with it. So if you watch this video you see he does 99% of things on first try flawlessly. The only NES game harder than this was Ninja Gaiden 1 and few select others.. At least this one gave you a password to use to continue. The nostalgia alone is pretty bad when I watched the video. I would lose myself in this game on weekends.. particularly in certain areas where the music and created an atmosphere that creeped you out. This game was truely one of a kind. I know people can experience it now but it is not the same because watching 8 bit graphics to today's standards do not do the game justice. At the time it was innovative and cutting edge. Still feels like it was not long ago when I was 8 years old playing this game on my then super 19 inch TV. If Nintendo would stop with their gimmicky systems and focus on a system that is a dedicated gaming system at its core, they can definitely give Sony and MS a run for their money. Sadly though I think those days are gone. As the more systems are released the more disconnected they get from core gaming. The WiiU is perfect example. They will end up like Sega if they do not do things right on their next system.

So many memories come back to me..., while watching this! I want to go back! Lol..... Thanks for the upload and you did one helluva job, btw!

Forget the other titles. This game, the first will always have a place in my heart and memories. Im 39 now and i still hold this very title in high regards the atmosphere in this title alone has never been captured since.

I remember that triumphant climb to the surface and the revelation that Samus was a woman. Nintendo punked us.

This brings back so many good memories. This is #1 on my games of all time list.

I got close to beating this as a kid without the strat guide, but I got stuck like eveyone else. I had the black covered Nintendo Power guide for this game that you had to actually pay for through Nintendo Power. Unfortunately my cousin asked to borrow it and I never saw that guide ever again. Still have the game, but I bet that old guide is worth more than the game is these days. If you can a actually find a copy of it.

I have never seen this game played so expertly. Nice upload!

How was anyone supposed to find all the hidden areas and secrets in this game? Nuts!

arguably the best game ever, hands down

its ridiculously impressive that anyone was able to beat this game back in the day before internet walkthroughs

Thanks for the memories. Got this game back in 87, took a longer to beat it though

when i was a kid i used to have to jump up and turn the volume down on the tv as the elevator would bring me down to the 3 different boss stages, I think Kraids music was the worse, absolutely terrified me as a child!

Kudos to doing it it was one of the hardest game of its day.

When I was a kid this took me weeks and you did it in less than 1 hour. I know you have it all sorted out but still impressive.

This game is incredible. It's so utterly confusing. How the hell would anyone figure out to bomb these random blocks, or what any of the powerups do? It's "badly designed" but I bet it would have seemed like a literally endless labyrinth to kids back in the day, that would have kept them playing forever, and when they finally figured out how to progress to a new area it would have been an incredible feeling.

This game dominated about 2 years of my childhood

The game is a masterpiece but boy do you have to put the hours in. Ghosts and Goblins hardest game ive played in terms of enemy difficulty but this is the most difficult game to get thru

This is maybe the best gameplay of Metroid available on KZfaq.

Metroid is amazing! I bet that for those people who played it back in the 80s, they either got the strategy guides, asked their friends, or learned through trial and error. One good thing to do in order to beat Metroid is make a map!

One of my top 5 for NES !!

Thanks man this helped me play through this masterpiece. I love this game. Now, onto Metroid II.

I am a Metroid fan and this game ... was easily one of my most favourite in the franchise ranking second behind Metroid fusion for the gba

Next to Blaster Master and Journey to Silius, Metroid had some of the best music from the 8bit era.

The music and mystery made this game. It felt like strange new world. Beautiful game that still holds up all these years later👌

That's onde of the best longplays I've seen in awhile

Mother Brain...Oh how I HATED you.

Not a wasted step! Too good.

One of the best games ever.

Love watching long plays on old systems! Great video!:)

I don't why this game isn't ever called out for being exceptionally difficult. Its much harder than games like Contra.

Metroid was so ahead of its time, it’s unbelievable. Easily my favorite game on the NES

Hard to believe that I managed to finish this one pretty easily without any guides as a kid. Would be a mission impossible for me these days! :D

I haven't played this game since maybe 1990 and it's amazing how much I remember where things are and where you had to go in order to beat the game.

So much nostalgia! Even though I never played this I played Zero Mission :D

this guy: gets the suit upgrade after 9 min meanwhile, me after nine minutes: how much more upwards do i need to go?!

one of the hardest games i have ever played to date. i never knew where i was going and nothing made sense. and yet i carried on lol

I played this every day when I came home from high school just to hear the ending music! Yep, grenade jumping was a thing even in 1987. ;) Back then my friends, my brothers, and myself had heard whispers about the legendary "secret worlds" in this game so we set out to find them. I remember when we discovered how to do that door jump glitch wall scaling trick and then tried doing it everywhere to find the secret worlds. We freaked when we found one for the first time, down in Ridley's hideout... "dude WTF is this???" It was so weird and mysterious. Of course the mystery was dispelled many years later when people hacked apart the game data... (spoiler alert: they're just the result of whole-world map data being accessed from outside of the sub-area you're in thanks to the way the game handles memory.)

Spent hours playing that finally beat it Watching this was like taking a walk down memory lane The 80’s were awesome

Masterful playing! I see some of the comments saying how this game is impossible to beat without a guide and my only response is that there weren't game releases so often back then as there are today. That, and (probably) most of us only got one game every couple of months so we'd spend countless hours a day for many weeks playing one game. I remember playing this game and bombing EVERYWHERE trying to figure out where to go and what to do. Life was so much simpler then. LOL. These days, I'm lucky if I can play an hour every couple of days.

The 80s me salutes you...

This was a TAS speedrun wasn't it? There are times when Samus is in ball form falling and then bam a jump in midair!

One of my favourite games of NES game library.

It took me 10 years to beat this game back in the day. I started at 6 years old. Lol. Thank you mom. You’re the best. 😊

Playing for the first time at age 35, game is easy, IF 1) you draw a map with items on it using grid-paper, and 2) You visit every square on the map to get every item, and 3) You stop to farm your energy back up from time to time so you dont die. Pretty INCREDIBLE game for 1986! Ambitious as fuck for the time era. Music is creepy-good for 8bit 1986 times, something that's a first in gaming history. For 1986's time period i absolutely love the game, think its a gem, if you're willing to draw out the map as you play along. When you were young in the 80's it was fun to have to draw out the map to figure things out, today gamer's don't have or want the patience to do so in a game, but that's part of the fun with this game, it really is! If you complete 1/4 of the game per day its a nice adventure. This game was in a league of it's own for 1986! Shame it didnt interest me as a kid and passed it up the opportunity to play it 30 years ago. Looking forward to playing Super Metroid on the SNES, i heard that game is a masterpiece! *Edit: Update, played & beat it for the first time took me like 5 hours even with a map!...lol Too much backtracking. You dont know any better until you've played through it once and knowing which is the best ways to go.

This guy did more in 3 minutes than I did in my entire childhood. Very very hard game.. good though

My favorite game from 87...11 yrs old. The best NES game! Best music! :)

Another amazing fact about the 8-bit era is that there was so much great music in these games, and all they had to work with were 3 tracks: 2 square wave tracks and 1 triangle wave. There were technically 5 tracks, but Track 4 was used for static and noise effects and Track 5 was reserved for audio samples (think “Double Dribble”). So when composers wanted to make larger sounds that emulated chords (multiple notes sounding simultaneously) they wrote extremely fast arpeggiations of single notes. When the notes are played fast enough, your brain starts to hear them as chords. An example of this is the Castle music in the original Super Mario Brothers.

I’ve heard of this game many times over the years but this is the first time I’ve seen a full play through. Holy mackerel. How does one even remember all the places to go to?! Wow.

This used to scare me as a child.

39:00 That track never fails to sound good. :)

Y-you d-didn’t Get t-the long b-beam u-until la-late in the g-g-game! You truly are a metroid master

Well done. I couldn't beat this game when I was 6 years old now I finally saw the ending. What a tough game

I watched this the whole way through and still didn't feel like the game was being spoiled for me, what a beautiful game

This person is so gangster at this game, they ignore most power ups that I desperately try to collect. Indeed they’re a true master

Replaying this game made me realize how much more patience I had with video games as a kid. I remember having a pad of graph paper beside me as I played and I would write down any passwords and, most importantly, notes and hand drawn maps of my exploration (I was too poor for Nintendo Power). And I loved every second of it. Nowadays if a game came out that required me to manually keep track of passwords and maps it would be a no-buy for me.

I watched my big brother beat the game in '87 or '88, when I was 6 years old. I had no idea that Samus was a woman the whole time, so the ending really blew my little mind. I've never played this game much at all myself, but Super Metroid remains my all-time favorite platformer.

It's crazy watching this now at age 44 and still remembering so vividly timing the jumping & shooting JUST like the person playing in this video. So much trial & error before finally being able to just go and beat it in one goddamn sitting.

Many happy memories playing this. Just got to keep playing it and make sure you have enough tanks for bosses, and keep blasting at them!

insanely impressive playing

just came to see the 100 percent ending

It's not so bad, beating the game. I don't think I could do what this guy did. I can beat the game in 3+ hours with about 1 death after a week of playing it, though. I can't do that trick jump in the second hideout which this guy does at about the 25 min mark. Very impressed. As far as "where to go," you just have to have a system -- start high left in every map and work your way across, then go to the second highest left corner and work your way across. Like reading. Pretty soon, you've memorized the map with a little help from online maps.

Nice job. Those hidden energy tanks could have helped a lot back in the day.

To this day, I still think the music on Kraid's area is probably the best music on the NES. listening to it here at 3AM in almost complete darkness still just creeps me the hell out.

This playing was a thing of perfect beauty at double speed.

Good job. You made it look easy.

And to think, back in our day we did all of this with no maps, little energy and no save spots! Kids today are so spoiled. But I do appreciate the save option:-)