Is there a long running Video Game Series that you would like to get into? A Series that has been arond since the likes of the original Nintendo?

I face the dilemma of wanting to get into the Metroid Series but theres too many games! I mean I can get the Metroid Prime Trilogy for $50, then for the GBA theres Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion. I can probably get both games off ebay combined for about $25. Then off the Wii Virtual Console theres Super Metroid and the original Metroid. Thats Another $20! So far thats $95, but we're not done yet.

I used to have Metroid Prime Hunters but sold it. Now I wouldn't get it again but I don't remember the story in it. Plus I didn't fully beat the last boss. On Top of that my DS is broken that'll make the cost of everything sky rocket! For now though I should just add the total for the Series and Hunters would make it go up by about $20. I'm pretty sure off ebay or some small video game stores I can find it for that price.

That leaves 2 more games in the main series(not including spinoffs). Theres the newly released Metroid: Other M, which by the way, to me, looks Amazingly fun! But thats another $50!!! That is way too much for me right now! Lastly theres the Game Boy only Metroid 2:Return of Samus. Now I can play it on my original GBA but that would be very annoying knowing that theres no backlight. The game is going for about less then $10 on ebat so that might be the cheapest of them all.

The Grand Total for everything is about $175. Thats 10 different games. Now I know that if I get the Metroid Prime Games Seperately it would cost less but I don't feel like playing the games with the Gamecube control otherwise I wouldn't be able to pull myself to finishing them. Some may think that $175 isn't much but I don't work! I'm 16 and finding a job in New York at this Age is difficult! On top of that theres obviously a lot of other stuff I would like to get. Such as the Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep next week.

Anyways I'm heading off topic but I know for all those games I definitly don't need to get them all together. Of Course I can finish one and buy the next one and so on. But it would be nice to have the whole series to play in the order you want. But anyways what do you think? Also whats a Game Series you would like to get into but has been around for a while?