Game · Metroid 3
Super Metroid
Automap plus wordless environmental cues made ability-gated exploration navigable; the genre's reference text.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Super Metroid inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
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1986
1994
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