video games

Many moons ago I was playing through Metroid for the millionth time. My normal goal in Metroid was to secure all 255 missiles before going to hash Metroids. This time I played it a little different - see how few missiles I could get and still defeat Mother Brain. So I was ripping through the Zebbetites at 155 missiles and I busted open the 'Brain's shell and was pumping rockets into her. At around 70 missiles remaining I obliterated her and began the long ascention to the elevator. As was tradition, I turned on my missiles to make Samus pink (Varia of course) and climbed into the elevator. No big deal, yawn, yawn. Maybe this time I might get the helmet taken off. I couldn't tell how often that happened, but it seemed pretty rare to me. Imagine my surprise when I saw Samus in a bikini. Holy shitters! I found a new ending! No big deal, though, really. My little brother (cka Poo) was watching me play through this time and before I turned off Metroid, he asked if he could play with my guy now. Why not? I was approaching six hours of pure NES for the day anyway and it was time to move onto GameBoy. I walked out of the room to get some food and Poo started going nuts. "Joey! Get in here! Get in here!" I dashed in and motherfucker if I didn't see Poo playing as a woman! I couldn't believe. Of course he turned the controller over to me and let me play through Metroid once again. Just to see if there were any more cool endings after that. When I later realized that the key to getting the woman ending was to play through quickly, I cursed the millions of times I just played through to get every missile and every item