Topic: How long has the ride been?

[Vatican29]

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! 

[Kingshango]

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.

[Abnormal Freak]

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. :(

[Harrycombs]

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.

[DragonsAndCarpetBags]

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.

[Abnormal Freak]

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.

[Thomas Belmont]

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.

[DragonsAndCarpetBags]

Oddly enough the frist CV game I played was the frist in the series, even though it was in 2004.

[Pemburu Vampir]

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.

[AwkwardGamer]

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.

[Kamirine]

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.

[Kale]

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.

[Vatican29]

I glad the game is still able to capture a player in 2010 with all the newer pretty high res games around.

Hell yeah....

[shelverton.]

I just copied what I said in the old thread  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.

[Vatican29]

I just copied what I said in the old thread  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....