Video Games Bucket List

Every character you meet becomes a card, and the puzzle is working out where to play them.

Samus sent to exterminate the Metroids on their home planet, on a Game Boy screen with no map.

Four marines in mechs instead of Samus; the co-op spin-off announced to an audibly unhappy room.

A puzzle-platformer where the furniture turns into monsters the moment the light goes out.

Five tree creatures hunt for the last seed of their dying tree, through a world drawn as insects and fungi.

MercurySteam rebuild Metroid II on the 3DS, with a melee counter that changes every encounter.

A first-person Metroid on the DS, aimed with the stylus, with six rival hunters chasing the same relics.

A furry black blob and the cherry taken from him, fought over across dozens of slapstick screens.

Team Ninja give Samus a voice and a chain of command; the entry the series argues about.

Felix the garbage collector against a dictator who rules by loudspeaker, in a city built from folded paper.