List of rooms in Metroid/Ridley's Lair

This is a list of rooms in Ridley's Lair in Metroid. Larger rooms have their own pages and are linked here. Many of these names are unofficial; such names will be highlighted in quotation marks.
==Eerie Cave==
The Eerie Cave is the first room visited in Ridley's Lair in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Transport to Ridley (Elevator)
:• Block room (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's shortcut (Blue Door)
==Block room==
The "block room" is the first room on the left of the Eerie Cave in Ridley's Lair. It is constructed from white tiles. There is a secret tunnel in the ceiling above the entrance door, but it leads nowhere.
In Victory Techniques for Metroid, as Samus passes through this room she remarks, "Hey! This artificial passage leads into a second one..."Metroid Database translation: https://www.metroiddatabase.com/old_site/manga/manga_strategy_guide_en/ch_0003/page114-115e.png
See here for the room's equivalent in Zero Mission. It was repurposed into a Save Room in the remake.
==Cocoon cavern==
The "cocoon cavern" is a room in Ridley. It appears, with significant differences between versions, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Block room (Blue Door)
:• Imago's hideout (Blue Door)
:• Hall of pillars (Blue Door)
==Imago's hideout==
Imago's hideout is the nesting chamber of Imago in Ridley's Lair.
Items
:• Missile Tank
Connecting rooms
:• Cocoon cavern (Blue Doors)
==Hall of pillars==
The "hall of pillars" is a room in Ridley. It appears, with some differences, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Cocoon cavern (Blue Door)
:• Artificial Passage (Red Hatch)
==Artificial Passage==
The Artificial Passage is a room in Ridley's Lair/Ridley. It appears in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• Energy Tank
Connecting rooms
:• Hall of pillars (Red Hatch)
:• Pronged hall (Blue Door)
:• Multiviola path (Blue Door)
:• Cache Access (Blue Door)
==Pronged hall==
The "pronged hall" is a short corridor located between the upper left half of the Artificial Passage and the shaft of doom. It is composed of white and green tiles, the latter of which are interspersed with chain-like coiling tiles. This room connects the lower parts of the shafts. It is inhabited by multiple Dessgeegas.
See here for the room's equivalent in Zero Mission.
==Path over lava==
The "path over lava" is a room in Ridley's Lair/Ridley. It appears, with differences, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Artificial Passage (Blue Door)
:• Shaft of doom (Blue Door)
==Shaft of doom==
The "shaft of doom" is a room in Ridley. It appears, with differences, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Pronged hall (Blue Door)
:• Path over lava (Blue Door)
:• Zebbo Nest (Red Hatch)
==Zebbo Nest==
The Zebbo Nest is a long corridor that runs through the bottom of Ridley's Lair in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• Missile Tank
Connecting rooms
:• Shaft of doom (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's rightmost shaft (Blue Door)
==Ridley's rightmost shaft==
"Ridley's rightmost shaft" is a room in Ridley's Lair/Ridley. It appears, with differences, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Ridley's shortcut (Blue Door)
:• Middle corridor (Blue Door)
:• Multiviola Nest (Blue Door)
:• Zebbo Nest (Blue Door)
==Middle corridor==
The middle corridor, also known as the middle passage is a room in Ridley's Lair/Ridley. It appears, with significant differences between versions, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• Missile Tank
Connecting rooms
:• Ridley's rightmost shaft (Blue Door)
:• Gambit shaft (Blue Door)
==Gambit shaft==
The "gambit shaft" is a room in Ridley's Lair. It appears, with differences between versions, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Middle corridor (Blue Door)
:• Cache Access (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's room access (Blue Door)
:• Multiviola Nest (Blue Door)
==Cache Access==
"Cache Access" is a straightforward corridor, accessible from the bottom right of the Artificial Passage. It is composed of green and white tiles, with some rows having tiles that resemble chains. Lava is visible below a raised section of the floor, but it cannot be accessed. The room is packed with Dessgeegas. It leads into the gambit shaft.
See here for the room's equivalent in Zero Mission. It can no longer be accessed from the Artificial Passage in that game.
==Multiviola Nest==
The Multiviola Nest is a room in Ridley's Lair in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Ridley's rightmost shaft (Blue Door)
:• Gambit shaft (Blue Door)
==Ridley's room access==
"Ridley's room access" is a corridor in Ridley's Lair and Norfair. It appears in Metroid, Metroid: Zero Mission and Super Metroid, and directly precedes the room containing Ridley himself. Each iteration has differences in design.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Gambit shaft (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's room (Blue Door)
==Ridley's room==
Ridley's room is the room where Ridley is battled in his lair.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Ridley's room access (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's reliquary (Purple Door)
==Ridley's reliquary==
"Ridley's reliquary" is a room in Ridley. It appears, with significant differences between versions, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• Energy Tank
Connecting rooms
:• Ridley's room (Blue Door)
==Ridley's shortcut==
"Ridley's shortcut" is a room in Ridley. It appears, with significant differences between versions, in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission.
Items
:• None
Connecting rooms
:• Eerie Cave (Blue Door)
:• Ridley's rightmost shaft (Blue Door)
==References==
Category:Ridley's Lair