Topic: How many video game systems did you purchase because of Castlevania?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I remember having a Super Gameboy back in the SNES days, those were sweet.  Some of the games had really awesome borders as well.  It was like the precursor to the Gameboy Color. I too spent lots of time perfecting color schemes.

Castlevania Legends has a Super Gameboy border.  It was a blue castle tower.

[Ratty]

Castlevania Legends has a Super Gameboy border.  It was a blue castle tower.

Yep. And each of the levels was color coded. Except for the secret level that was b/w.
I'd rather they had used the cart space and dev time to improve the graphics overall though, I'd have been perfectly fine using the theater boarder I use on the other GB Castlevania games.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Someone improved the graphics in a ROM Hack.  It was a pretty good job.
It was with the JPN Cart.  The ROM Hacker slimmed down Sonia, gave her some armor, and made her use a sword instead of a whip.  The enemies look nicer, too.

Castlevania Legends - Sword Hack

This is just the Sonia graphics hack.  I think the enemies improve in stage 2 though.

[Ratty]

Interesting hack, surprised they changed the weapon. I notice the ghost sprite and the whip/sword projectile were upgraded as well. I've always thought the game was ripe for a fan remake/upgrade but alas I do not have the skills, probably no one who is a big enough fan of the game does.

I've felt for a while that the real problem with the game's graphics is one of detail and color in the backgrounds, rather than particular sprites.
If they had been able to make all of those large blank spaces on the walls black rather than white (like they did in a lot of areas in the NES trilogy) it would provoke the proper sense of shadowed night, rather than just empty space. This I think is what causes most of the gripes with the graphics, often attributed to laziness but which I chalk up to lack of time and space. CVA put in so much detail it seemed to slow the game down, BR had a sweet spot of just enough detail, and with Legends they weren't able to devote enough time or space to duplicate BR's graphical feat.

[derision]

Not a single one. The 'vania's are great and all, but they've never encouraged a console buy from me due to release dates and chance. Hell, I didn't really get into CV until the GBA, so that rules out a bunch of games right there (I ended up playing a lot of the classics digitally or already had the required hardware).

In the cases where I probably would have purchased a system for a CV, one was already around. My younger brother had a PSP for DXC and my roomate had a PS3 for Lords.

[Chernabogue]

Mainly DS. I bought some systems for other games (PS2 for Kingdom Hearts fon instance), but I bought CV as well.

[JR]

Too many. The franchise is the main reason I bought a Gameboy Advance SP (also so I could have something to take with me on a cycling trip one summer), a DS, and a PSP. So I probably wouldn't be interested in handheld gaming at all if it weren't for CV games.

I also went out and re-purchased an NES, SNES, and Genesis at various times for essentially the same reason; even dug up my old N64 from my parents' house. This was also because of a renewed interest in gaming once I got a PS2, but I might not have gotten back into retro gaming if not for Castlevania.

[Ring_of_Varda]

i picked up a gba on release for circle of the moon and i snagged a ds a couple of years after release so that i could get dawn of sorrow after a buddy of mine showed me that CV was still going.

[Omegasigma]

PSP for DXC, thats about it, I stay up to date with most consoles

[squaretex]

In my case, it happened twice. I got the PlayStation for the tag-team of SotN and FF7 (what a way to start my PS1 game library!), and a DS for DoS.

...however, in the case of my GBA, CotM had to wait in line behind the Dragon Warrior 3 remake. That's right...I got a GBA for a GBC game. ;P

[Castlevania Crypt]

In my case, it happened twice. I got the PlayStation for the tag-team of SotN and FF7 (what a way to start my PS1 game library!), and a DS for DoS.

...however, in the case of my GBA, CotM had to wait in line behind the Dragon Warrior 3 remake. That's right...I got a GBA for a GBC game. ;P

My PS1 library started with Resident Evil, but then I got SOTN and thought the game was just as awesome.

Those Dragon Warrior GBC games are pretty good, so are the SNES remakes of them. I knew about them on GBC, but did not purchase because that system was not backlit, and I was not interested. But those games look great on the Gamecube GBA Player.