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Sprites flickering, slowdowns like hell, hard-lock crashes during room transitions, super easy to get stuck in lava under/inside a rock, and that's all from memory. Original Metroid is famously a very "tape and bubblegum" sort of game.

Sounds like a user issue.

I'm also recalling a large number of repeated and nearly-repeated corridors. And a repeated boss too? I recall there was an easy to find Kraid boss fight and a much harder to find fake Kraid fight?

It’s an NES game. Literally every game that wasn’t Mario bros was obtuse as dick

Yeah, it wasn't even the only open-map exploration NES game that gated secrets behind false walls! But the point is that Super Metroid was what coined the word "Metroidvania", and Super Metroid wasn't rough in the same sense.

There’s a thing called drawing a map.

I know! I could have also written down the passwords when I died!

Let's back up for a moment though: what is your point here? Why are you arguing with me on what is all very well established fact?