15 Video Games You'll Play For The Rest Of Your Life

9. Super Metroid

Like Super Mario Bros., Super Metroid is still one of the absolute best examples of the platform genre. To this day, the game has yet to be topped; it was the perfect blend of action and story-telling, and to this day, it continues to be a huge influence on the way people think about gaming.

The series has gone on to do some interesting things, but nothing will ever quite top the original. Metroid Prime came pretty close, but in recent years, the series has gone sour; Metroid Other M was a disaster, and the upcoming Federation Force seems like a huge departure from what made the series such a delight in the first place.

When modern gaming gets you down, you'll always return to Super Metroid, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.