There are currently seven games in the main series: Metroid, Metroid 2: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, and MetroidPrime, Metroid Prime: Echoes, and Metroid Prime: Hunters on the Nintendo, Gameboy, Super Nintendo, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Gamecube. There is also a spin-off virtual pinball game. Of these, the most well-known is arguably Super Metroid, which greatly expanded on the nonlinearity of the previous games (Metroid 2 was disappointingly linear, though Metroid itself was not so bad), rewarding creative thinking and a heavy use of "secret" techniques. Super Metroid is considered to be one of the best games available on the SNES, in a class with such games as ChronoTrigger, FinalFantasySix, and LegendofZelda? 3.
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