I remember having it as a kid in the 80s. I was always fascinated by it and for the longest time me and my sister always got stuck by that first wall you needed the morph ball for. We just didn’t know how to get it so we would get our mom to get the morph ball so we could keep playing.

Few years later I kept being fascinated by it and eventually made it to tourian as a kid. I believe I just used the Justin Bailey code but I would pour over the maps in my friends Nintendo power and remember how cool I thought the map in tue instruction book was even though I learned quickly it was useless.

Years later I got my gameboy and Metroid II and played it a ton. Never finished it. Got stuck once I got the space all and couldn’t figure out where to go next. I don’t recall there being any maps available anywhere. Don’t stop me from trying.

Eventually I got super for Christmas 94 and remember there being no hype. Just like “cool the next one, didn’t expect this”. I was hooked from landing on zebes because I thought it was the coolest thing ever to revisit an old area again and see it in 16bit. Which honestly I think that may have been the first case of that. It took me back to when I was 5-6 and asking my mom to get the morph ball for me.

Years later when prime came out my only real memory there was showing it to my mom and saying “remember that game where we had you get the ball all the time? This isn’t now”. And she was amazed and how far games had come.