1. Super Metroid Best. Game. Ever. What sets Super Metroid apart from the rest of the video gaming world can easily be described with a single word: atmosphere. System Shock 2 had it, Metroid Prime has it, but Super Metroid is it's king. The game starts on a space station which has fallen under Space Pirate attack. As Samus traverses the dimley lit corridors, littered with the corpses of the station's workers, she comes accross Ridley, one of Mother Brain's leitenants from Metroid, alive and well and in possesion of the last Metroid. After a brief fight, the game continues on the planet below, in Mother Brain's reconstructed fortress. The world of Super Metroid is filled to the brime with tiny, insignificant details, which take the traditional meaning of atmosphere in a video game and blow it up ten fold. Every inch of ground, if not acting as a nod to Metroid games past, is loaded with visual details and bring the game to life. Super Metroid also controls like a dream, thanks in part to the fact that the control scheme is completely remappable. But that's just part of the winning combination. The controls are highly responsive. Not once will a missed jump or death to a boss be the result of inadiquit controls. Metroid's core exploration mechanic has evolved quite a bit since it debuted in 1986. Super Metroid achieves the perfect balance between exploration and reward, always tempting you by keeping exactly what you want just outside of your current reach. Super Metroid is not only the pinnacle of 2D gaming, but the pinnacle of video gaming as we know it.