Super Metroid hurt me

[QBert]

If you're actually looking for wall jump help, the trick is to push away from the wall, and then hit the jump button a half second later, NOT to do them simultaneously.

If you end up giving it another shot, good luck!

I did this too the first time I played it....took me a while too.
Damn games! hehe

Great Story!

[Mr. Smashy]

Maybe the pain is just God punishing you for using FAQs.
I find the wall jumping to be much easier when I only use 1 wall instead of 2 (like those little green guys). It also helps me get some other cool items earlier in the game.

[Rogmeister]

I agree with the others...great post. I'd like to read more stories like that as well. My first time with Super Metroid was a long session, too...I didn't hurt my hands or anything but I was playing it until dawn...

[rbudrick]

God, I remember when the original Gameboy came out and I played Tetris for so many hours each day for days upon days in a row. I started seeing Tetris shapes EVERYWHERE. It was really tripped out. I'd start seeing them fall from all over the place. The craziest thing about it was that when I closed my eyes, there was a full, lit up tetris game going on with random blocks and everything. Yes, I was playing a Tetris game, using my eyelids as a screen. I mean , when the blocks fell, they stayed there too...I didn't lose track of them. It was like the game code was burned into my head. I could play just about as good a game in my head as I did on the GB, as even the game in my head was difficult, whereas I often lost.

Sometimes when I work for too long on trying to translate some really difficult japanese tesxt, I'll start seeing Kanji shapes all over the place.

-Rob

[Ed Oscuro]

Yes, I was playing a Tetris game, using my eyelids as a screen. I mean , when the blocks fell, they stayed there too...I didn't lose track of them.

Yeah, it's funny how that works...that's not quite proof positive of ghosts and that sort of thing, but if a brain can do this...I've had times where I've seen things "on my eyelids" at random times, cartoon-like characters and such. Fun, but with Tetris I'd imagine it to be a bit scary, too

[Hakkenden]

I once played street Fighter Alpha 3 long enogh to get a blister (no analog)
and I play Tetris so long somtimes that I hear the music endlessly. And even thoght I was going to be shot by people after only playing XII for about 3 days in a row.
But none of that compares to what happened to you ..you poor devil.
I made my brother do the wall jumps for me he was good at them.