Topic: What was your first shot at "the Game, the Myth, the Legend"?

[Lumi Kløvstad]

As we all know, Castlevania "Classic" has seen a metric hyper-mega-ultra-ton of ports and rereleases, some being fairly straightforward, like the Wii Virtual Console release, and others being... well... a bit on the "different" side of things.

Castlevania Classic is on my list of MUST PLAY entries in the series. Any newcomer who wants to play the series must play this game at some point before they can be called a proper fan, in my eyes. But more on that in a different topic.

Fortunately, this amazingly well put-together title is available from a gazillion different sources.

Which source provided you with your first outing with Simon, the Whip, and the Bathead? Mine was the GBA release.

[Dremn]

Via Emulator, but I eventually got it on Wii Virtual Console.

I felt so damn proud of myself when I finally beat it.

[beingthehero]

Emulator. I think it might have been from this very website.
But "officially", I finally got it for the GBA.

[Flame]

Eeeemulator.

IM WAITING FOR MY CASTLEVANIA COLLECTION, KONAMI.

[Thomas Belmont]

I'm proud to say I started out the series with the original on NES. However, I really got in to the series with part 2.

[Nail_Bombed]

Played the first 2 on a neighbour's NES back in the mists of time.... end of primary school got Adventure and Belmont's Revenge for the GB..... then got reintroduced to the series through emulation, and the GBA games.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

First NES game, ever!  I went to a party for my parents' friends' kids and they had the NES.  Having played Atari, I had NO IDEA how to handle the D-pad.  I think at one point I said "where's the joystick"?  I didn't know you had to whip the candles and kept getting killed by the fast Black Panthers.

I would get one 'turn' at the game and would make it only to the Merman's Lair.  I was only 9.  I was so proud that I got the furthest in the game, out of all the kids.

I did not get to play that game again until way later, at least two years, when I got my own NES, and "General Video", a movie rental place, started renting out NES games as well.   Took me a while, but I actually beat the game.  Interestingly enough, I forgot about the game until I was able to rent part III.  Once I played part III I was like "Did I play this before?  I'm getting a strange feeling that I had..."  and then I reached Block 8 - The Castle Halls, and was like "O_O I KNOW THIS!!!"

It was a year later that the rental store had CV1, finally.  By then I was a pro since I was conditioned by CVIII and CVII, though CVII was kinda weird 'cuz when I beat it, it said I still died (took too long).

Ahh... the memories...

[Charlotte-nyo:3]

Dat NES release.

[PFG9000]

The NES cartridge around 1988.  I was 7.  I loved it, and I also sucked at it.  I couldn't get past the crushers on stage 2.  I used to look at the back of the box with the screenshot from the clocktower, and I would fantasize about how cool that stage must look.  At one point I even tried writing a Castlevania novel (thought I think that was inspired by Super CV4).  It was really, really bad.

[Reinhart77]

my first outing was with the original NES game, not sure how long it'd been out, but pretty sure it was before Simon's Quest was out.  my parents wanted me to be a friend for a special needs kid down the apartment hall, and, well, he had a Nintendo and Castlevania, so it was fun going over there.  i remember drawing pictures of all the enemies that i encountered in the game.

[TheouAegis]

My first was... um.... Hm

I don't remember very well, but my first I think was Simon's Quest. I know the Commodore 64 version of Castlevania wasn't my first because I remember recognizing the title when I saw it. I don't recall ever playing Castlevania before that, so it had to be Simon's Quest first. Dracula's Curse was the first Castlevania I ever bought, but I played Castlevania The Adventure before that (and hated it). But Simon's Quest was my favorite for the longest while, even more than CV3 cuz CV3 kept pissing me off.

[JR]

Original NES game. When I was a kid, my dad would rent videos every week, and he'd usually let me rent a game. I remember renting this along with Wizards and Warriors for the 2nd or 3rd time. I was kind of frustrated by the difficulty, especially compared to Wizards and Warriors. But I was still totally hooked on the atmosphere and the looks of the stages. In fact, I first saw maps of the levels when I got this:



Castlevania was one of the games that I'd look at the level maps and just drool over. There were a handful of games in that thing that I wanted to play really badly, and this one was near or at the top.

[Sumac]

For the first time I played it on the NES-clone somewhere in 1993 or 1994. Couldn't completed it (stuck on the mummies), but managed to finish it 6 years later.

[Aridale]

Original NES for me too. I have a cousin thats a lil older than me and I spent the night at their house a lot when I was really young and he had CV1. That was it I was hooked. Shortly after CV2 came out and my best friend in grade school got it and brought it over to my house when he spent the night. It was all down hill from there. Still my fav game of all time

[Reinhart77]

I'm heading over to Rusty Quarters arcade today in Minneapolis.  They have a copy of Vs. Castlevania, so this will be my first time trying that version of the game.  It'll be interesting to see how far I can get on one quarter.