Topic: How long has the ride been?

[Aridale]

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

[Alutwon]

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.

[crisis]

Your signature makes me wanna cry 

[mistressalucard]

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. 

[darkwzrd4]

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).

[X]

Am I the only one here that seen and played SotN first then CV64?

-X

[sad6666]

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

[Vatican29]

Am I the only one here that seen and played SotN first then CV64?

-X

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. 

[Abnormal Freak]

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 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

[Vatican29]

I think I'll rewrite my FIRST CASTLEVANIA EXPERIENCE ORIGIN STORY for this thread, jiss' because.

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 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.

(tear)

That's beautiful.

[Ahasverus]

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 ). 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 ). 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 ) 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

[Munchy]

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.

[DragonSlayr81]

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).

[Abnormal Freak]

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.

[Vatican29]

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?