Topic: Happy 30th Birthday Castlevania!

[EstebanT]

Konami is clearly doing nothing to celebrate and thus probably no games in development. We will all miss you! But you will live on within the Bloodstained games and community.

[zangetsu468]

Is it officially today?
Happy Birthday Belmont Clan 

[Shiroi Koumori]

Cheers to both the legacy of Castlevania and us oldies! hahahaha.
By the way, I'm just promoting that the sprite contest in celebration of the anniversary is about to end and in less than a day. I will open up the poll for all you guys to vote for the winner after the deadline.

[zangetsu468]

Sadly I can't 'Sprite', but I can drink one

[Nagumo]

[Ratty]

Happy birthday to what feels like a dear old friend. Ahh Castlevania 1, the day I beat you was one of my happiest and proudest gaming moments.

While I think CV3 is the best Castlevania on the NES, 1 has an undeniable charm. A true classic that remains evocative and enjoyable today, and will still be so in another 30 years. (Though my reflexes might not let me play it much anymore by that time!)

[Jop]

Happy Birthday!!!

Relly didnt know what to do, this is simple but hope you like it XD

[X]

Happy birthday Castlevania! And to us oldies whom discovered the tantalizing magic of this game from the beginning. A one-hit wonder that became much more so as the years ticked by.

[Dremn]

Happy Birthday Castlevania!

I would like to hope the future will bring us more great games in this franchise, or maybe the spirit of the series will happily move on into Bloodstained.

[Gunlord]

As it happens, ish my birthday today too What a coincidence!

[Thy Gory Rory]

Always celebrating this long running series! I just hope Konami starts to acknowledge it more for the fans still around... Happy 30th Castlevania! I mainly lurk but had to pop out and pay my respects.

[XombieMike]

What a great night for the humans to pay tribute to Dracula. We Ill need such a savior as Konami though.

For the same reasons you won't hear Kojima talk about Metal Gear you can't expect to hear IGA talk about Castlevania. It's sad. Like Konami took away their children. To hell with Konami. IGA has my full support moving forward in the genre.

Who knows, maybe every 100 years the franchise will get a reboot that actually works out. I think the classicvania's and metroidvanias we have are more than enough to count it as the best gaming franchise ever. Ya know... I even liked Mirror of Fate except for that plot. I'm not holding onto hope, so don't take this next sentence as that, but if the NX is partially mobile and Konami is focusing on mobile and gambling machines, maybe there is something not too far ahead that resembles a real Castlevania.

[Belmont Stakes]

Old fart here. Just wanted to keep the spirit of all the puns and memes and tropes and sitch. So with that I say what a horrible night to have the curse of knowing I was 13 when this game came out. When I first played this game in the states nearly a year later maybe longer I thought little of it at first as SMB had my fancy. Yeah now that I think about it my younger bro got the NES for his 8th birthday which was 4 days prior to the states getting this golden nugget of a hair puller of a nut tugger of an ass cracker of a pingas snapper of a hootnanny of a game. So anyway I was I think a freshman in high school when I first played it. I could not get very far in it becuase I did not know about going up or down steps or how to use the sub weapon. In this remarkable time we live in with Youtube walk-throughs and in game Tutor the Turtles it makes me now appreciate poorly written instruction manuals. I could have beaten CVII if I had given more respect to the manuals. In any case I beat this game as a sophmore in June of 89 after beating number 2 first. Yeah I don't much believe in order. All the same beating this game and Ninja Gaiden in the same year along with Batman, Bionic Commando, Zelda II and Mega Man II made realize that we gamers  actually do have skill. We had to, games like these demanded it becuase the games were so very well thought out. What do all these games have in common? They followed, yes even Zelda II followed the formula that Castlevania laid the ground work for. A remarkable title that stands alone as a prototype challenging puzzle platformer. I appreciate what SCVIV and SOTN did for the series but this is the title that is the flag bearer, the origin of what the series is. A hard charging, mind crushing, ball busting, heart breaking, psyche smashing, therapy causing, AVGN creating gaming experience that Konami is utter dipshits not to return to. By all means have your cake and your Bloodstained if it brings those yo-yos to their senses. This Akuma Jou Dracula is where gaming should return to. Happy Birthday to the biggest neglected brain child of gaming. Cheers, cheers, cheers, may Vania live 3000 years.

[theANdROId]

Happy B-Day CV!  You'll never really be "old" in my eyes!

[redrum]

what's a castlevania