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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Vatican29 on September 22, 2010, 02:21:34 AM
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Ladies and gents, this evening I have seen a few people just start on their adventures with Castlevania, and it sparked my curiosity.
Aside from ofrum ranks and all that jazz (no disrespect intended at all) I wanted to see how much history some of us have been able to see unfold.
I started playing Castlevania in 1987....At 7 years old, I had little idea of what I would be able to see come and go in this series. Sometimes, it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have been playing games that long, but honestly, to know that I have really grown up on one series in earnest, well, its a feeling of sweet nostalgia in a way.
How long has everyone else been around Castlevania?
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mid to early 90s... dunno when but before the super nintendo.
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1999, age seven, year of the solar eclipse (lololololololol). Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge, picked up used on a total whim because the cover art was cool. Never looked back. Eleven years..... damn. My favorites so far? All the GBA Castlevanias were extremely exciting to me at the age i played them... Can't pick a favorite though.
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1999, age seven, year of the solar eclipse (lololololololol). Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge, picked up used on a total whim because the cover art was cool. Never looked back. Eleven years..... damn. My favorites so far? All the GBA Castlevanias were extremely exciting to me at the age i played them... Can't pick a favorite though.
Hmm. Where abouts are you from?
US titled CVII as Simon's Quest.
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Somewhere around '90, '91 or '92. I honestly don't know, but the first CV game I ever played was CV2 for the NES. Even though I could not make heads or tails of it and not knowing what to do or where to go, I still enjoyed the gameplay and I still play the game. But my first intoduction to video games themselves started around '86, possibly '87.
Hmm. Where abouts are you from?
US titled CVII as Simon's Quest.
I believe he's reffering to the Gameboy title.
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Hmm. Where abouts are you from?
US titled CVII as Simon's Quest.
He's talking about the GB game.
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I started playing since day 1, not the same day CV was released, but later that year. I've noticed a lot of people keep using the "that being said" phrase in their posts.
That being said, I hope the next generation will come to appreciate the classics & learn not to differentiate between "classicvania" & "metroidvania," they're ALL Castlevania games and should be considered & treated as such.
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Somewhere around '90, '91 or '92. I honestly don't know, but the first CV game I ever played was CV2 for the NES. Even though I could not make heads or tails of it and not knowing what to do or where to go, I still enjoyed the gameplay and I still play the game. But my first intoduction to video games themselves started around '86, possibly '87.
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Sweet. I had the same experience with CVII. HA! I remember trying to figure out the crystal secret with the tornado for a month.
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I started playing since day 1, not the same day CV was released, but later that year. I've noticed a lot of people keep using the "that being said" phrase in their posts.
That being said, I hope the next generation will come to appreciate the classics & learn not to differentiate between "classicvania" & "metroidvania," they're ALL Castlevania games and should be considered & treated as such.
Sorry bout the double, first and foremost.
POWERAGREED with your statement. Spoken like a vet, to be sure.
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That being said, I hope the next generation will come to appreciate the classics & learn not to differentiate between "classicvania" & "metroidvania," they're ALL Castlevania games and should be considered & treated as such.
This makes next to no sense. They're very different kinds of games.
You want to promote ignorance?
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I think he was joking. He was complaining ablout how lots of people use the term 'that being said' and then he literally used that term. I got it. ;D
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They play differently, yes, but people like to think they're so vastly different that the other half aren't considered "real" cv titles, which is nonsense.
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They play differently, yes, but people like to think they're so vastly different that the other half aren't considered "real" cv titles, which is nonsense.
It is nonsense...
23 years is a long time, which is why appreciation is crucial. It's sort of like sitting down with my cousin and have him whoop my arse in Madden and think he's pwning me. Flip on Tecmo Bowl and he can't understand how A) the Bears were the best team at the time or B) how you can possibly function with only 2 buttons.
Fundamentaly, it is still football. As CV is still CV. But, we'd be wandering a bit from the topic, no?
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Ladies and gents, this evening I have seen a few people just start on their adventures with Castlevania, and it sparked my curiosity.
Aside from ofrum ranks and all that jazz (no disrespect intended at all) I wanted to see how much history some of us have been able to see unfold.
I started playing Castlevania in 1987....At 7 years old, I had little idea of what I would be able to see come and go in this series. That being said, it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have been playing games that long, but honestly, to know that I have really grown up on one series in earnest, well, its a feeling of sweet nostalgia in a way.
How long has everyone else been around Castlevania?
Although I've been playing in earnest since NES CV1 back in the 80's, the first Castlevania I actually bought was SCV4 for SNES. Years later, I had almost given up on video games after the Nintendo 64 completely failed to meet my expectations --blocky polygon graphics just hit my off switch. Then in 1998 (quite by chance) a college dorm-mate lent me his Playstation without any attractive games to play --so I headed to the local video store and found Castlevania calling my name. Symphony of the Night completely restored my faith and I bought a Playstation the next day. Today work, marriage, and fatherhood have largely driven games from my life the last few years --I've only found time to play portables now and then *Dracula X Chronicles was a blast* but I haven't owned a home console in over 3 years. But all of that is about to change.
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Although I've been playing in earnest since NES CV1 back in the 80's, the first Castlevania I actually bought was SCV4 for SNES. Years later, I had almost given up on video games after the Nintendo 64 completely failed to meet my expectations --blocky polygon graphics just hit my off switch. Then in 1998 (quite by chance) a college dorm-mate lent me his Playstation without any attractive games to play --so I headed to the local video store and found Castlevania calling my name. Symphony of the Night completely restored my faith and I bought a Playstation the next day. Today work, marriage, and fatherhood have largely driven games from my life the last few years --I've only found time to play portables now and then *Dracula X Chronicles was a blast* but I haven't owned a home console in over 3 years. But all of that is about to change.
HAHA!!!! Hats off to you for sticking with it through the bad title. SOTN did that for many, I think. I had actually PASSED that title several times in the video store because of what 64 almost did.
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To be honest, I don't really even remember the very first time I placed the cartridge in the nes & turned on the TV. It was so long ago, I could only recall my cv experiences like the 2nd or 3rd time afterwards. It was truly mind-blowing.
I also remember being scared to play Ghosts N Goblins in the beginning, for some reason.
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To be honest, I don't really even remember the very first time I placed the cartridge in the nes & turned on the TV. It was so long ago, I could only recall my cv experiences like the 2nd or 3rd time afterwards. It was truly mind-blowing.
I also remember being scared to play Ghosts N Goblins in the beginning, for some reason.
BUWAHAHAAA! Yes yes, that's classic!
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There was a pretty good thread on this subject a number of months ago:
http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2571.0 (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2571.0)
I don't recommend posting in it, since mods around here seem to shun resurrecting old threads :p but you can check out the responses there.
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There was a pretty good thread on this subject a number of months ago:
http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2571.0 (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=2571.0)
I don't recommend posting in it, since mods around here seem to shun resurrecting old threads :p but you can check out the responses there.
I can respect that, for sure....
It's just....tedious...given that this forum is probably one of the most extensive ones out there.
I do not want to piss off the Mod Gods...My apologies.
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My first game was Super Castlevania IV, and that was in 1999 when I was like, 3. I'm 14 now, still like playing Super Castlevania IV.
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Got into the series a year or two ago, I always knew this franchise existed but I never gave it a shot until recently.
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Symphony of the night when it first came out. It was a christmas present for one of my brothers. I really liked it.
At that time I never even heard of the other castlevanias until sometime in 2001.
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I was three when we got an NES in 1991, and I watched my parents play. Sometimes I'd walk around the starting town in Simon's Quest.
I started playing more seriously between the ages of 5-8.
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I first played the series in '88, I think. Started with Castlevania, then played Simon's Quest (the intro music actually scared me, playing it in my room upstairs and alone. :-[ ) Somehow I never got to play Dracula's Curse back then. Then I played SCIV, then later CV64...started to realize how good the series was, but still wasn't a full-fledged fan. Played Symphony of the Night, beat it without knowing about the inverted castle, still liked the series quite a bit, but somehow forgot about it.
Then my sister bought me Lament of Innocence for a birthday present...probably when I was 22 or so...she recognized the series name from when I used to play NES as a kid. I've been a huge fan of the series ever since. Yes, LoI finally made me a huge fan, although my recollection of the previous games probably mattered more than playing LoI itself.
And also, the Castlevania series is a very big reason why I now have games for 11 systems and 4 handhelds. I'd say it's the biggest reason why I got back into retro gaming.
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I first played the series in '88, I think. Started with Castlevania, then played Simon's Quest (the intro music actually scared me, playing it in my room upstairs and alone. :-[ ) Somehow I never got to play Dracula's Curse back then. Then I played SCIV, then later CV64...started to realize how good the series was, but still wasn't a full-fledged fan. Played Symphony of the Night, beat it without knowing about the inverted castle, still liked the series quite a bit, but somehow forgot about it.
Then my sister bought me Lament of Innocence for a birthday present...probably when I was 22 or so...she recognized the series name from when I used to play NES as a kid. I've been a huge fan of the series ever since. Yes, LoI finally made me a huge fan, although my recollection of the previous games probably mattered more than playing LoI itself.
And also, the Castlevania series is a very big reason why I now have games for 11 systems and 4 handhelds. I'd say it's the biggest reason why I got back into retro gaming.
Good points....My controller took flying lessons when the castle flipped. I had already put in 24 hrs of gameplay trying to get map coverage and level enough.... It's kind of sick to know I still have that playthrough saved and now has over 200 hours of random play on it, trying to collect drop items. I like that the series has been somewhat of a gaming inspiration for many of us here.
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Christmas, 1988. I recieved CV1 and CV2 that day. I had heard of both before, but never played them. Needless to say I was hooked from that point on.
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I'll allow this thread only 'cuz there's new people... but yeah my response is inside Freak's thread link, and I've written it a few times soooo yeah. :P
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I'll allow this thread only 'cuz there's new people... but yeah my response is inside Freak's thread link, and I've written it a few times soooo yeah. :P
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Sorry Jorge! I apologized for being lazy. I appreciate the consideration. New blood got me curious is all.
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No that's OK, I don't mind the thread. Again, we've got an influx of new people so the thread is warranted.
I'll just copypasta my previous response. :P
EDIT: Bwaaahahahaah, that thread doesn't have my response! XD Ok...
The first Nintendo game I ever played was Castlevania, actually. When I was very young, I guess around 7 or 8 years old, I came to the USA from Ecuador. In Ecuador, the Atari was the system that was mostly played, until the big videogame crash, which didn't actually affect South America 'til a few years later, and by then my brother-in-law already had a wall of Atari games. Having been raised on joystick and red button, to games like Kangaroo, Pole Position, and Donkey Kong, holding the Nintendo NES controller felt so weird. I actually said "Wh-where's the Joystick?", haha, foolish me. Ironically I'm terrible with joysticks now, and ask for the D-Pad if it's available.
I thought the name was curious. I played the game at a party for the son of a friend of my parents. At the time I hadn't met Mr. Super Mario yet, so my first character was Mr. Simon Belmont. At first I had no idea whipping the candles would give you items. I thought it was just a 'race to the finish without dying' type of game. I learned how to jump, whip, but didn't know how to use stairs for a while (gimme a break, I was young).
I was the first kid to make it to the Merman's Lair, where I died, haha.
So that was my first CV Experience. Had to be 1988 or so. I got a NES a year later and found out I could rent games from a local vhs store. I played and beat CV1, CV2, and CV3 afterwards. Happy Days! :D
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I was 4 in 1990 when I played Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Still the best game in the series
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Ill just post what I said in that other one that was linked =D
I was so young I barely remember it but I used to send the night with my cousins alot and my oldest cousin had an NES. They were the kinda kids that always got whatever they wanted when they wanted so they always had everything new. I think it was 87 or 88 so I was 7 or 8. But I remember us playin the HELL outta mario 1 and duck hunt and then one time when I was there he had CV1 and he wouldnt let me play it but I watch him play it for hours
Then some time passed I forgot all about it and my bday rolled around and I got my own NES and my best friend would come over and spend the night at my house and bring various games he had over and wed play em. This time he brought CV2 and that was it for me. It was all over
I remembered everythin about the first game at my cousins and it all came back to me how awesome it was. I played CV2 that night and didnt stop til I bout passed out. I got him to let me borrow it and its been my fav game of all time ever since
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2004 Castlevania double pack for the GBA last one at EBgames back wall top shelf in a corner. I was bored and just browsing then i see Juste and Soma glaring at me so I took a chance. BEST CHOICE EVER.
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Your signature makes me wanna cry :'(
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Since I was a young gal in the late 80s I've been playing since I first bought Castlevania for the NES.
I still remember finding it in the store and couldn't wait to get home to play it. I've been a Dracula/vampire fan for many years.
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I started early to mid 1990s with CV4, but I didn't really start to like the series until SotN. I am one of the people who prefer the metroidvanias over the classic format. Actually, what I really liked was LoI. They just need to execute it better. It's a 3D metroidvania without the leveling up which adds the same challenge as the classic format as you get farther in the game (well the armor upgrades reduce that, but it's still challenging and requires skill).
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Am I the only one here that seen and played SotN first then CV64?
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It must have been around 1990 - 91... CVIII, I was 9 or 10 yo.
What I remember the most, is the music... It was mind-blowing for a NES game, never heard something like it before that time.
Also the epicness of Trevor, praying... then the lightning!!!
Pure awesomeness
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Am I the only one here that seen and played SotN first then CV64?
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You'd be the only one I'd feel bad for so far, HA! To be spoiled by glory and then taken aback by one of the few blunders in the franchise history is rare.
Then again, you were able to take on a game that was, and still is, iconic in terms of the franchise.
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I think I'll rewrite my FIRST CASTLEVANIA EXPERIENCE ORIGIN STORY for this thread, jiss' because. :o
I was five years old in 1991 when Super Castlevania IV was released. At the time, my brother and I didn't have a Super Nintendo, so we played it at our cousin's house. The game totally blew me away even then with its atmosphere, great graphics, excellent music, and so forth. I played that game and Super Mario World (and Lemmings on his PC) quite extensively back then, whenever we visited, which was quite often.
Around the same time, a friend of my brother's had brought over Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. We still didn't have an SNES by this time, and wouldn't get one for another year or so, so the NES was our main gaming machine. I don't recall if I ever actually played that game or not—actually, I think my brother and his friend let me play it for a little bit after they'd already gotten pretty far, and I died pretty quick—but I watched them play through it till the end. I thought it was a thrill to watch, and the final hallway as you approach Dracula was pretty intense and spooky.
Our cousin got kind of tired of holding on to certain games after he'd played them a bunch, so he would sell them sometimes to my brother (which is how we got the first three Mega Man games). He sold my brother Castlevania IV around '94 or so, and I got to play that game through to the end for the first time finally.
My brother got Symphony of the Night about a year or two after it had come out ('cos he didn't have a PSX until that time), and I completely fell in love with that, of course. Played it through a million times and still love it to this day; it ranks among the best.
It wasn't until Castlevania for the N64 came out that I got really big into the series, however. I loved playing the N64, and I wanted one of my own so I could play it constantly (my brother owned it and played it a lot), plus one of those GXTVs I saw in Diehard GameFan magazine to have in my room to go with it. So I worked for my dad—I was 12 or 13 at the time—and started saving up. Went into a Best Buy one day and saw one of those GLORIOUS (https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/Smileys/classic/tongue.gif) GXTVs showcasing...Castlevania (64)! Played a little bit of the first level and really loved it. So I continued to save up, and got enough funds to buy my own N64, the GXTV, and Castlevania. It was after I played that game incessantly that I decided I now wanted to play all the classics, so I went to FuncoLand and bought the three NES games, and emulated everything else (though I've since collected most of the games). From that point on, I've been a pretty diehard Castlevania fan, buying all the games when they come out...even though a great deal of the games have been kind of subpar. :p
Right. That's my story. :o
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I think I'll rewrite my FIRST CASTLEVANIA EXPERIENCE ORIGIN STORY for this thread, jiss' because. :o
I was five years old in 1991 when Super Castlevania IV was released. At the time, my brother and I didn't have a Super Nintendo, so we played it at our cousin's house. The game totally blew me away even then with its atmosphere, great graphics, excellent music, and so forth. I played that game and Super Mario World (and Lemmings on his PC) quite extensively back then, whenever we visited, which was quite often.
Around the same time, a friend of my brother's had brought over Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. We still didn't have an SNES by this time, and wouldn't get one for another year or so, so the NES was our main gaming machine. I don't recall if I ever actually played that game or not—actually, I think my brother and his friend let me play it for a little bit after they'd already gotten pretty far, and I died pretty quick—but I watched them play through it till the end. I thought it was a thrill to watch, and the final hallway as you approach Dracula was pretty intense and spooky.
Our cousin got kind of tired of holding on to certain games after he'd played them a bunch, so he would sell them sometimes to my brother (which is how we got the first three Mega Man games). He sold my brother Castlevania IV around '94 or so, and I got to play that game through to the end for the first time finally.
My brother got Symphony of the Night about a year or two after it had come out ('cos he didn't have a PSX until that time), and I completely fell in love with that, of course. Played it through a million times and still love it to this day; it ranks among the best.
It wasn't until Castlevania for the N64 came out that I got really big into the series, however. I loved playing the N64, and I wanted one of my own so I could play it constantly (my brother owned it and played it a lot), plus one of those GXTVs I saw in Diehard GameFan magazine to have in my room to go with it. So I worked for my dad—I was 12 or 13 at the time—and started saving up. Went into a Best Buy one day and saw one of those GLORIOUS (https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/Smileys/classic/tongue.gif) GXTVs showcasing...Castlevania (64)! Played a little bit of the first level and really loved it. So I continued to save up, and got enough funds to buy my own N64, the GXTV, and Castlevania. It was after I played that game incessantly that I decided I now wanted to play all the classics, so I went to FuncoLand and bought the three NES games, and emulated everything else (though I've since collected most of the games). From that point on, I've been a pretty diehard Castlevania fan, buying all the games when they come out...even though a great deal of the games have been kind of subpar. :p
Right. That's my story. :o
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That's beautiful.
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It was a long stormy night, I was the younger of all my cousins, 5 at the time. They were really bully and I was one of those cowards annoying little boys, and I had some kind of aversion to "Thriller"(yeah the MJ's vid :P). I was there, alone, with them, and they were bored, so, guess what? I was their entertaiment!.
My cousin had a SNES so he turned it on and began playing Super CVIV, however they waited 'til the cinematic appeared so I could get oh-so-freaked out of the cinematic. I was. I cried like a dying cat after that, tombstone was torn apart. The music didn't help either, the first notes of Simon's theme were so misteryous, then the organ and the skeletons, I was there just crying louder and louder, my cousins laughing louder and louder, I couldn't stand it anymore, I went there and broke their snes into PIECES, I kicked it, punched it then threw it under stairs. OMG It was crazy, it was a christmas and the SNES was my cousin's christmas gift, he was SO mad. He punched my face and some of my teeth just blew out of my mouth. My uncle saw that part so he kicked that //**/*/'s ass and in exchange he gave me the broken SNES to repair it and keep it. Along with that devil game, even the name freaked me out, Castlevania. As you may now i'm colombian and the game's name is not pronounced -ca-zil-va-nee-uh- but kas-tell-buh-nee-ah (it's funny, it's just as Enric Alvarez pronounces it BTW :P ). Even that name freaked me out, I heard "Gimme back my Castlevania!" everytime I went to my cousin's house, it was my nightmare, the shouther that to me, with rage in his eyes, it was so devilish for my child's mind, I just had bad memories of that game, with its name, with its concept, It was my nightmare, part of my fears.
However, years passed, then I had 7, 1999, and i finally took the courage to play the game that was torturing me since 97's christmas.
I remember myself putting the cartridge, so anxious, of course I didn't let the cinematic begin, and then I saw Simon Belmont, there, facing the castle, I could feel his fear, the same I had; I just clicked with him. That Simon-vs-Castle escene was too emotional, so personal, it wasn't Simon, it was ME facing my fears, the devil's castle.
The rest is history, I played the game, never beat Dracula (until 2 years ago :P ) but LOVED the series, the atmosphere, my fears became my pleasure, watching those dark details, those movements, the sense of power and adventure, after putting myself into Simon's avatar I felt too much satisfacion playing the game walking through those amazing levels, I just imagined myself making that epic journey, it was my journey, I loved how the game communicated with me, its atmosphere, its music, it just clicked with my inner self.
And so it has done since then
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My CV experience started around 94 (maybe 93?) when Dad had gotten us a SNES and a shit ton of games for Christmas and, a while later, he god CV4. I was more preoccupied with Mario and Mega Man stuff, but I could not deny even at that young age the atmosphere and awesome music the game oozed. It took a few years before I was willing to play it myself, and later Dad also got SotN thinking he would show it to us when he got really good at it. My brother discovered it early though. It took a while to grow on me, but it soon became my favorite series after I really got into Symphony, and later CV64, then the old NES and Gameboy games. Good times.
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My first encounter with the CV series must've been around 1987. I loved the first CV game, but at that age(I must've been around 6 or 7), I used to stare at the cover and think to myself how badass Simon looked, facing off against the dreaded castle and the giant Dracula face. I mean, even the Dracula face, I thought, looked pretty wicked(even though he obviously has lipstick on). One specific memory I recall vividly that I was actually afraid of the Poison Mind song. It used to give me the chills(as did the boss song in Monster Party, which combined with that one room where the dead spider says, "Sorry, I'm dead!", used to wreck my childhood nerves). A detail I specifically liked was that when you entered some of the boss rooms, the bosses would "make an appearance". Phantom Bat would be resting on the ceiling, looking harmless, then fly down to attack you. Queen Medusa would be a stone bust of a woman, then it would spring to life and fly around the room(which was a nice easter egg featured in LoI, which the intro and general look of the Medusa boss was the same as in the first CV).
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I couldn't stand it anymore, I went there and broke their snes into PIECES, I kicked it, punched it then threw it under stairs.
Ha ha, oh man... It's sad, to hear of a Super NES get t(h)rashed in such a way, but humorous as well.
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Ha ha, oh man... It's sad, to hear of a Super NES get t(h)rashed in such a way, but humorous as well.
Um...does that count as video game heresy?
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My CV experience started around 94 (maybe 93?) when Dad had gotten us a SNES and a shit ton of games for Christmas and, a while later, he god CV4. I was more preoccupied with Mario and Mega Man stuff, but I could not deny even at that young age the atmosphere and awesome music the game oozed. It took a few years before I was willing to play it myself, and later Dad also got SotN thinking he would show it to us when he got really good at it. My brother discovered it early though. It took a while to grow on me, but it soon became my favorite series after I really got into Symphony, and later CV64, then the old NES and Gameboy games. Good times.
Crap! I wish my dad was more like yours!
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Back in my early years, my Castlevania experience was on and off, one minute I remember it, the next I compleatly forget about it.
My first CV game was Bloodlines back in 94 and then forgot about the series untill I played SCV4 like a year. Then once again I didn't keep up with the series again untill 2001 when I picked up Circle of the Moon for the GBA.
Then in 2002 thanks to internet service and G4(back when it talked all about games 18 hours a day) I got caught up with Castlevania again and tried to play the CV games I missed and it's upcoming games.
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Um...does that count as video game heresy?
It's more like the reason behind it and just how pissed off he was that makes it funny. :) Just trashing your cousin's Soopar Nintender. Reading about the act of destroying an SNES made me nearly cry, though. I think of ANY single SNES going through such torment and I get sadz inside. :(
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My first Castlevania game was only back in 2005, when I first play CV64. I guess I was 12 then. I loved it as you could guess, and I bought Dawn when it game out for the DS, and then I got the double pack, and loved those too. After that I started emulating all of the older games in the series.
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Frist game experiences seem to shape the way we perceive how a game should be.
For a long time I could only play the old nes with zelda 2, mickey mousecapades, and mario/duck hunt(94-99)
I played the crap out of zelda 2, and it played the crap out of me.... When I was about ten my older sister pointed out to me that they had a zelda out for the 64. So I mowed lawns for a year and piked it up in 99. My eyes melted from their sockets.....
Years passed and eventualy I started to collect games for the nes. one of the frist ones I bought was the frist Castlevania. By this time most people my age had completely forgotten about 2D games. But all thoses years of zelda2 had me pluging away at it.
Now I'm trying to track down all the Castlevania games.
It's interesting how that works out.
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It's extremely sad how 2D games are kind of a rarity these days, that it's considered "retro gaming." I fail to see why that should be. Different game mechanics are required for a side-scrolling game; it's not like 2D game design is archaic. I hope it's a ridiculous mindset that fades away soon, and we see more 2D games—though ones that are very well-made, and not cheap cashing in of a retro craze.
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I'm proud to say that I've been playing Castlevania since the NES original. However, it wasn't until Simon's Quest that I really became a huge fan.
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Oddly enough the frist CV game I played was the frist in the series, even though it was in 2004.
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My first Castlevania was SotN, I played it back in 2004. and my second Castlevania was Chronicles, I don't really like it back then. But now, I like the classic ones more than the RPG ones.
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I first heard about SotN in 2010, everyone was telling me how good it was and all that. So I got it and played it, and DAMNN I missed out.
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My experience technically started back in the year 1990, when my brother bought Castlevania III. At the time, I was only 4, so I didn't really play as much as I watched. (Well my brother did that 'give her the controller to think she's playing' thing with me.) I really loved watching him play and I fell in love with the music, so much, that a few years later (due to circumstances, my brother didn't live with me anymore.) I was able to find the series later. I remembered Clock Work and Mad Forest and that the game was on the NES, so I went to my local game store (I think Funcoland at the time) and bought all three original NES games, playing them all until I found the songs and thus, the game I'd been looking for. But I ended up liking the first CV so much and III, that I went looking for more. And I've been a rabid fangirl of the series ever since. :)
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I first heard about SotN in 2010, everyone was telling me how good it was and all that. So I got it and played it, and DAMNN I missed out.
I glad the game is still able to capture a player in 2010 with all the newer pretty high res games around.
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I glad the game is still able to capture a player in 2010 with all the newer pretty high res games around.
Hell yeah....
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I just copied what I said in the old thread ;D Here goes;
Back in 1988 or something, just before I got my very own NES, I used to play video games at my friends house. I remember him having four games - Kid Icarus, Ghost's n Goblins, Super Mario Bros 1 and Castlevania. I sucked at Castlevania so I always wanted him to get to level 3 so i could hear Wicked Child (didn't know the song had a name back then though). It was probably the first time I even thought about video game music at all. I borrowed Castlevania from him as soon as I got my NES and got pretty good at it. Never beat it until many years later though.
This reminds me of the first time I played Simon's Quest, which was released in Europe in early 1990 (I think?). I immediately started to whip the villagers! For a second I thought the game was broken, lol. Got hopelessly stuck in that game btw. I think most of us did.
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I just copied what I said in the old thread ;D Here goes;
Back in 1988 or something, just before I got my very own NES, I used to play video games at my friends house. I remember him having four games - Kid Icarus, Ghost's n Goblins, Super Mario Bros 1 and Castlevania. I sucked at Castlevania so I always wanted him to get to level 3 so i could hear Wicked Child (didn't know the song had a name back then though). It was probably the first time I even thought about video game music at all. I borrowed Castlevania from him as soon as I got my NES and got pretty good at it. Never beat it until many years later though.
This reminds me of the first time I played Simon's Quest, which was released in Europe in early 1990 (I think?). I immediately started to whip the villagers! For a second I thought the game was broken, lol. Got hopelessly stuck in that game btw. I think most of us did.
Yeah, I think most of us did. It took me until I read the Simon's Quest Novel to figure out how crytals worked to summon the tornado....
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I glad the game is still able to capture a player in 2010 with all the newer pretty high res games around.
Just like the Nintendo power reviews said while reviewing the original Metroid years after it came out: Good programming never gets old.
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I glad the game is still able to capture a player in 2010 with all the newer pretty high res games around.
Just like the Nintendo power reviews said while reviewing the original Metroid years after it came out: Good programming never gets old.
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Mmmhmm....
Maybe they stick with 2D.
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You know how the general gaming kid stereotype is nowadays, kids are in for the graphics. Well, not me, i'm 14, and I say these games on PS3/360 are crap compared to masterpieces such as SotN and SCIV.
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I just don't get why all these dickbrains have for years held the opinion that polygons are far better than dot art or other forms of 2D graphics. To me it's like comparing CG cartoons to hand-drawn: I'll always, always prefer the latter.
Reminds me of 8th grade, sitting in class talking about how cool Paper Mario is...and my classmate says, "That game looks dumb! It's all 2D and stupid!" He was totally serious, too. It boggled my mind that anyone would say that, and would actually prefer polygons—especially during a time when polygons weren't all up to snuff.
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People like that need to burn! :P
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I think my first brush with Castlevania was probably playing Super Castlevania in a shop(Dixons) when I was a wee lad. I made a few feeble attempts to clear the first level, but obviously in a shop it's only a matter of time before the staff drive you out.
My first proper Castlevania, as in one that I got to sit down and play the whole way through was Symphony of the Night which made me an immediate fan of the series, though I don't remember if the next game I played was Circle of the Moon or Castlevania Chronicles. I was disappointed by Chronicle initially, which was purely my own fault because I bought it without reading the back of the box. I had expected a compilation of old games, but it was actually just one old game re-released, and I was disappointed that Simon lacked much in the range of moves. However, once I really gave the game a bash, I found it to be a solid and engaging old school challenge.
Circle of the Moon was a good game I thought, though a tad hard and it really was a bugger to see the screen half the time on the old GameBoy Advance, and I liked the other Metroidvania games that came out though I thought they suffered from the law of diminishing returns.
I've since gone back and played some of the older Castlevanias though emulation. Super Castlevania IV was great I thought, though it got off to a slow start, and Rondo of Blood didn't do much for me. I've been intent on giving the old Nes games a bash though, as well as the Megadrive Bloodlines game.
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I think my first brush with Castlevania was probably playing Super Castlevania in a shop(Dixons) when I was a wee lad. I made a few feeble attempts to clear the first level, but obviously in a shop it's only a matter of time before the staff drive you out.
My first proper Castlevania, as in one that I got to sit down and play the whole way through was Symphony of the Night which made me an immediate fan of the series, though I don't remember if the next game I played was Circle of the Moon or Castlevania Chronicles. I was disappointed by Chronicle initially, which was purely my own fault because I bought it without reading the back of the box. I had expected a compilation of old games, but it was actually just one old game re-released, and I was disappointed that Simon lacked much in the range of moves. However, once I really gave the game a bash, I found it to be a solid and engaging old school challenge.
Circle of the Moon was a good game I thought, though a tad hard and it really was a bugger to see the screen half the time on the old GameBoy Advance, and I liked the other Metroidvania games that came out though I thought they suffered from the law of diminishing returns.
I've since gone back and played some of the older Castlevanias though emulation. Super Castlevania IV was great I thought, though it got off to a slow start, and Rondo of Blood didn't do much for me. I've been intent on giving the old Nes games a bash though, as well as the Megadrive Bloodlines game.
Give the NES titles a real good bash....so worth the investment.