Metroid: Every Main Series Game Ranked Worst To Best

10. Metroid (1986)

Some debut titles in video game franchises, like 1986's Super Mario Bros and 1991's Sonic The Hedgehog, have remained classics and fan favourites decades after their original release, laying the foundation for the games to come while also remaining wonderfully playable and enjoyable to this day.

1986's Metroid, released on the humble NES, is not one of these games.

While Nintendo's ambitious space-themed adventure platformer certainly laid the groundwork for the games to follow (even pioneering a whole genre of its own, influencing Metroidvania titles such as Hollow Knight over thirty years after its release), the original Metroid title is a pain to play today.

The lack of a world map, clumsy controls, long stretches of anonymous corridors and the most obnoxious password system seen in gaming, Metroid is as interesting a curio as it is infuriating a game.

Its 2004 Gameboy Advance remake, however, is another story...