See, I never had an SNES so I never got to play Super Metroid when it originally came out. I knew about it though and wanted to play it, so when I first got on the Internet the first thing I did was search for Metroid sites and found the Metroid Database, which if it wasn’t the only Metroid fansite at the time, it was certainly the biggest. In any case, I read all their stuff on Super Metroid and basically spoiled myself on the game.

So by the time I actually played it for real and got to that bridge I assumed you needed the Speed Booster to get past it. I didn’t realize that the dash button made Samus run faster even without it.