Where to find every major item in Metroid (NES)
Locations of the Morph Ball, Bombs, Long Beam, Ice Beam, Varia, High Jump Boots, Screw Attack and Wave Beam.
Original 1986 Metroid as adapted for the international NES release in 1987. These guides use the NES password system and original Zebes areas. The Famicom Disk System save menu, Zero Mission remake, later Metroid movement abilities and sequence-breaking glitches are excluded.
Maru Mari (Morph Ball)
Go left from the start in Brinstar. Past the large raised block at the west end of the opening corridor, the Maru Mari sits on a Chozo statue.
Long Beam
In western Brinstar. Return across the bridge to the west side, take the left door and blast the red door with missiles.
Bombs
In Brinstar, to the right through the vertical shafts. At the end of a chamber that looks like the Long Beam room, open the red door with missiles.
Ice Beam
Below western Brinstar: from the first Energy Tank, go through the left door and drop through the bridge over the false acid. A second Ice Beam is in Norfair, so you can swap back from the Wave Beam before Tourian.
Varia
Behind a high blue door in western Brinstar. Freeze a Waver with the Ice Beam to use it as a platform, then open the red door inside.
High Jump Boots
In Norfair. From the elevator, take the right door, cross the lava corridor to the rightmost shaft, bomb through the false floor and open the red door with missiles.
Screw Attack
In Norfair, after the High Jump Boots. Bomb through the floor below the Chozo statue, freeze enemies as platforms and climb through the ceiling of the first green room to the door.
Wave Beam
In Norfair. From the Screw Attack room, go to the far-left shaft, bomb through its false floor and follow the green bubble corridors to the left door. Picking it up replaces the Ice Beam.
More Metroid quick answers
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