Castlevania Games Konami Forgot

[@st1ka]

For this video, I had to use some outside footage, so a big thank you to channels in question and be sure to follow them ^^ Castlevania the arcade: www.youtube.com/@Richter8700 Symphony of the Night LCD: www.youtube.com/@MrVile Castlevania Pachi: www.youtube.com/@tanicochannel2194 Castlevania Valiant Guardian: www.youtube.com/@PandaJockSlots Castlevania Labyrinth of Fire: www.youtube.com/@RandomSlots

[@The-Crystal-Warrior]

You can do this for almost every series Also There are Licensed Metal Slug java games that are clones of Advance Wars Just saying this becouse it looks like you like obscure games

[@The-Crystal-Warrior]

The name of the game is metal Slug tactics

[@brycestrife5605]

Buddy, this is some premium content. You could have easily spread this out over 4 different videos and I would have been happy to watch them all.

[@st1ka]

yeah very true. I'll probably do something similar

[@st1ka]

thank you! I went all out with this one ^^

[@simplemindedsage]

Fyi, only the European Konami GB collections were colorized. The original Japanese versions have grey carts. The European versions also released in a different order, so the numbering isn't consistent with the Japanese versions. The Japanese versions also featured cute anime girls on the game select screens that were removed for the European releases.

[@st1ka]

Wow I had no idea! Thank you so much for the correction ^_^

[@P5dfsf64g36]

@@st1ka 1:04 wait isn't the MSX port were also released in Europe under the name Vampire Killer?

[@st1ka]

Whoops! You are correct! For some reason I was sure the game was a Japan exclusive, but you are correct!

[@P5dfsf64g36]

@@st1ka can't blame much it's probably because the obscure nature of the MSX and it's game outside of Japan the MSX saw very limited release where PAL got both Vampire Killer and Metal Gear on MSX while NA got neither

[@st1ka]

@@P5dfsf64g36 yeah i often have to remind myself that the MSX version of Metal Gear also launched outside Japan

[@rodrigodavet7512]

Fun fact about Harmony of Despair, each version actually has a exclusive multiplayer mode, meaning the X360 version has online only multiplayer, while the PS3 has local only multiplayer. I have no idea why they did it that way, but it's kinda cool in a way.

[@st1ka]

haha wow, I did not know that.

[@DonkeyOfDestiny]

Both versions have online co-op, ps3 came out about a year later and added local co-op.

[@st1ka]

@@DonkeyOfDestiny ah thank you for the clarification ^^

[@remvaizor3522]

Harmony of Despair on PS3 was so much fun. I used to play it couch co-op with my wife. I think I even bought all the DLC for the game.

[@mauriciocrispimsanchesesil6480]

Excelente vídeo. Eu sempre fiquei como eles eram criativos em fazer os cenários de fundo dos jogos de Game Boy.

[@st1ka]

Muito obrigado ^^

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

Was waiting to see Castlevania Puzzle of the Night....

[@st1ka]

Yeah, looking back I really should have included that one.

[@Ming1975]

Oh yeah! I never got to finish Konami World!

[@st1ka]

Oh yeah the game is pretty difficult

[@RevivalHorror]

01:00 the MSX arr also on Europe bein called Vampire Killer

[@st1ka]

whoops!

[@armorbearer9702]

I never knew Castevania was so huge in China. I am more surprised that they included skeleton enemies in their knock off games(40:09). China is usually not comfortable with skeletons.

[@st1ka]

sadly I have no context as to why it's so big there

[@StockeTepes]

Really fascinating to see all the Java games together here, a lot of them honestly look they could be REALLY fun if ported to modern hardware. Seeing them over the past few years I never realized just how many there were 😮 And straight up having them sold as "Castlevania" titles LMAO. Really interesting deep dive great video!

[@st1ka]

Yeah, this was a rabbit hole I just stumbled onto haha

[@RobotronSage]

You've gotta be joking right

[@robertdanker6193]

Fantastic video!! Even as a hardcore Castlevaina fan I was still surprised at how many versions I never knew about, plus all the bootlegs too!! Keep up the amazing work!!👍👍👍👍

[@st1ka]

aww thanks man! I really appreciate the super like, thank you so much! :D

[@aaronpischke5019]

Incredible video! I consider myself a pretty diehard Castlevania fan, but many of these titles are new to me. Thank you so much for your incredible research and dedication! You're definitely one of my very favorite gaming KZbinrs! 💜

[@st1ka]

thank you! Glad you liked it! ^^

[@Geneolgia]

Great video! It's probably hard to make a video like this and not think that Konami outright forgot about the franchise as a whole in favor of NFTs

[@st1ka]

yeah, the series is so dormant :\

[@pikaarceus]

14:33 The Game Boy color version of Castlevania the adventure and belmont revenge were actually exclusive to europe. Yes the Konami GB collection series was released in both europe and japan, but they were regular black and white games in their japanease release. They were enhanced for the GBC for european market.

[@st1ka]

damn! that makes them even more rare. A shame they're not in the modern compilations :\

[@streetmagik3105]

It's sad that the Rebirth series is lost on WiiWare and not even available for purchase anymore. M2 did a good job on all 3 (Contra, Gradius, and Castlevania), considering they were low budget. Also, I was unfortunate enough to get the Simon's Quest Tiger handheld as a stocking stuffer as a kid. It's painfully bad, lol.

[@st1ka]

Yeah I literally got bored of Simon's Quest after 5 minutes haha

[@LethargicGM]

A comment and like for the algorithm.

[@st1ka]

haha thank you

[@MrAnon00]

Awww, I thought Castlevania Legends for Gameboy would be on here. That was such a fun game. I wish they didn't retcon and strike that one from the series.

[@st1ka]

Originally I was going to include it, but the video was so long that I ended up cutting it for time >_>

[@zanegandini5350]

DOS Castlevania actually has a third sound option using the Tandy 3-voice chip, which is basically just a Master System soundchip. By default, the rom floating around on the internet is missing one of the files needed to support this, but I swiped it from the DOS port of Altered Beast. I'd say I prefer it to the Adlib/soundblaster option. I actually did get to play Castlevania: The Arcade once at Round One in Great Lakes Crossing, but that machine is no longer there. While it is rare to find, I can honestly say you aren't missing out on much by not playing it, as it isn't something that holds your interest for more than a few minutes. Still, it's odd that it never got ported to the Wii, as it was quite a popular system at the time and the wiimotes are pretty much the same as the controllers used in the arcade machine. Maybe they could have given it some extra content to justify being a home release, but sadly they never did.

[@st1ka]

oh interesting, I did not know that. I'll have to try it out and see how it sounds.

[@zanegandini5350]

@@st1ka Someone on KZbin uploaded the Tandy soundtrack in case you don't feel like playing the game just to hear it.

[@st1ka]

even better! Gonna check it out

[@zanegandini5350]

@@st1ka Let me know what you think of it

[@ImperatorGrausam]

Just a minor tidbit: the MSX version of Castlevania was not only released in Japan. It was also released in Europe under the name "Vampire Killer", and perhaps other places the MSX was popular in, particularly South America and the Middle East as well.

[@st1ka]

Whoops! For some reason I was sure it was a Japan exclusive, but you are correct

[@IconGamesBR]

Also, both the NES and the MSX2 were developed at the same time - one is not a 'port' or a 'remake' of the other. The NES version was released in Sept. 1986 while Akumajō Dracula for MSX2 was in October, the same year.

[@jakebreaker]

Lots of fond memories of Harmony of Despair. Deciding who picks Soma to jump off skulls. 1v1 death matches where the players trade deaths and grind out their subweapons. The thrill of the 8 bit Simon Belmont getting released. God, I miss those times.

[@st1ka]

It's the sad fate of all multiplayer games. Eventually people move on to something else and you have no way of recreating those experiences.

[@tsm688]

The adlib card never got finessed the way chiptunes did in europe. So you hear the same janky patches used everywhere.

[@Meximagician]

I think I found the same java game repository, let's see if I can transcribe any of these titles for google translate to work... 36:47 秦殇:千年轮回 means _Qin Shang: Millennium Reincarnation._ Shang itself translates to "to die young" but with Qin being a last name, Shang is likely a first name. 38:30 吸血鬼之恶糜城堡 is _Vampire's Evil Castle_ 39:07 恶魔城:血之召顺 is _Castlevania: Summoning of Blood,_ yes even the Chinese title says Castlevania! 39:46 古堡魅影 means _Phantom of the Castle,_ there's also a subtitle in there somewhere, but I can't read it well enough to transcribe 41:05 弑神錄:黑暗卷轴 means _Godslayer: The Dark Scroll,_ which is a title that is criminally wasted on a bootleg. 41:27 猎魔人 is _Witch Hunter_ or just _Witcher_ 42:17 looks like all the _Castlevania Demon_ games are from a Chinese series 斩妖伏魔录 which means _Demon Slayer,_ presumably unrelated to the same-named anime.

[@st1ka]

OMG That's amazing! Thank you!

[@KasumiKenshirou]

39:07, Technically 恶魔城 is the Japanese title Demon Castle rather than literally being the English word "Castlevania", but you're point still stands that they just ripped off the title of the original game.

[@jamesk8147]

Harmony of Despair is a super underrated game. Breaks my heart that it has no support.

[@st1ka]

I can definitely see the potential, but playing it now, alone... it was clear it wasn't made to be played alone

[@DarkMirria1]

I wish they’d port it to Switch and have it with local and online co-op multiplayer.

[@st1ka]

@@DarkMirria1 Oh now THAT would be cool

[@paranormalzen]

Good work. I hope this video will do well for you since it has such a well-known game title.

[@st1ka]

I hope so too xD

[@royshaheer]

This is a crazy list of ultimate obscure collection of games. I wonder which other franchise can top this.

[@st1ka]

Oh I'm sure there's others. I just need to dig deep xD

[@the-engneer]

I thought I knew every side scroller Castlevania, but this video definitely surprised me! Well done

[@st1ka]

Thank you! I try ^^

[@catvideojogos]

Master of Darkeness , for me ! Thanks !!! 😁

[@st1ka]

haha

[@AgentLevitar]

I would so so so sooooo love for Konami to release a a DS games collection or a PS2 collection. I never got Dawn of Sorrow to run properly on my emulator. It was always so slow.

[@st1ka]

Oh man I'd love that

[@Mankey619]

If Konami decide to make another collection in the near future. I’d definitely want: Castlevania MSX Castlevania Chronicles Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth Castlevania MS-DOS These are the list of Castlevania games I want Konami to bring into the collection.

[@st1ka]

Oh same here! I'd also want the gameboy color DX versions and Castlevania Legends.

[@RetroBreak]

Brilliant video! Must have taken forever to track all these down and record!

[@st1ka]

Yeah, this one was a ton of work xD

[@xTerrySunderlandx]

I finished aria of sorrow on my cellphone at the time it was released and yes, the framerate IS like that on the phone , BUT... like you said, games on cellphone at that time where not good at all, and this one was AMAZING, tough it's not the complete game, final boss is the fire demon.

[@st1ka]

ah how interesting! A shame it isn't complete.

[@WorldofFood]

Always impressed by how in depth your videos are. Must take a pretty intense amount of research. You gotta stop putting lewd in the thumbnail though. The clickbait has to stop!! 😂

[@st1ka]

Haha sorry. But the truth is the videos perform better when I do xD

[@Pridetoons]

Thank You for this video! I love the Castlevania series!

[@st1ka]

glad you liked it ^^

[@AfroRyan]

Oh, and you missed the weird puzzle game conversion of Symphony of the Night. It even released on Windows Phones with Xbox Achievements.

[@st1ka]

Yeah I missed that one, ah well.

[@badenialshreebley91]

Just rewatched it! Great video as always st1ka, I would love to see more stuff like this, that wai wai game gave me really heavy monster party vibes, I’d love to play that sometime!

[@st1ka]

aww thanks man!

[@rafaelmonteirocdj]

I had the same feeling

[@Conniekiee]

Castlevania Amiga has always felt like those bootleg games christians and catholics make to teach kids about the bible 💀💔

[@st1ka]

Haha, if I didn't have to keep a comment pinned thanking the other channels, I'd pin this comment

[@Mety333]

awesome work collecting footage and information on all these games!

[@st1ka]

Thank you! I try! ^^

[@Tonba1]

How the fuck could you even stomach the Ms dos version? Its like 2 frames per year

[@st1ka]

It actually didn't play that bad. I've seen and played worse xD

[@fatenabu1]

you can now emulate the arcade game

[@SteelWolf13]

Love your accent. And I know you said "Simon the tHUrd." But when i first heard it i picked up "Simon the turd". I chuckled and though how bad is that relative that he's not even cannon and is referred to as a turd? -Awesome video.

[@st1ka]

You'd be surprised at how many times I re-recorded that like trying to say "third"

[@BronyNumber4096]

Same. I thought he was insulting the character.

[@AmigaCammy]

Wow, that was an informative video, so many versions of the game I didn't even know about. I have kind of a soft spot for LCD games so I'd be curious to play the Tiger ones. I am so happy you included the new Amiga port of Castlevania, it was created by Dante for a yearly game-making competition I run for the Amiga community and we all really hope he gets it finished, the Amiga deserves a good port and was always capable of it.

[@st1ka]

Glad you enjoyed the video ^^ and yeah I'm hoping castlevania AGA gets completed some day.

[@Voultar]

This is amazing!

[@st1ka]

thank you haha

[@jasonstone1496]

Castlevania Arcade 2009 with the wii style controls is pretty good overall. I was fortunate enough to play it after using an arcade locator so I drove to play it in person. It definitely should have been ported as well as the Silent Hill arcade light gun game. Both deserve a 2nd life.

[@st1ka]

Man I wish I could play it

[@almaelma11]

God you made me add a LOT more games to my list with this video. So good~ thank you once again St1ka :)

[@st1ka]

I try :D

[@grzegozsliz5371]

Where is ...Castlevania on Nintendo 64? Castlevania on PC Engine?(chi no rondo) Castlevania PC? Castlevania NES rules. 1 and 3. PS 1 Symphony of the night was great. Greets from Poland. Sub and like.

[@st1ka]

Those are too well known. I wanted to talk about the unknown ones. :)

[@grzegozsliz5371]

@@st1ka I know :)

[@st1ka]

@@grzegozsliz5371 oh :P

[@DanJackson1977]

As for the TIGER SOTN game.. do those games even have rom chips, or are they just hardwired games... sort of like early 70s arcade games prior to ROM chips being used? I may be wrong I thought the only way to remake LCD handhelds was a sort of "simulation" of the hardware rather than "emulation" as you'd do with an arcade or console game.

[@a2lan123]

Funnily enough I heard about most of the games showcased here. Castlevania X68000/Chronicles was my favorite pretty obscure discovery. The fact it subverted the original was mind-blowing, and it has my favorite rendition of Simon's theme. Still didn't knew about some stuff like the GBC ports, though. I should try to put my hand on those. (also please tell me what you said about 90's European developers doesn't apply past 2000 cause I don't want my fan project to turn into a euro platformer...)

[@st1ka]

Oh yeah, I was just referring to 90s euro devs. Mostly Amiga 90s devs xD

[@illusorywall]

Yoo you did not disappoint with the Amiga coverage, and I was happy to see Robocop 3D show up onscreen for a moment. The only thing I feel compelled to add is a comment about the soundtrack- It's very lifelessly ported to the sample set they used and there's some wrong notes in the level 1 theme. It sounds horrible. The best thing from the Amiga version was the completely new title theme. It's a pretty neat, albeit simple track. It seems they were probably better suited to making something original rather than porting Castlevania in the first place.

[@st1ka]

I actually wanted to say more about the Amiga version, but I ended up trimming the review to about half because the video was too long. It seems like the Amiga version was farmed out to some devs in Hungary and I'd wager they had never heard about Castlevania nor were they aware of how big the franchise was in the US and western europe

[@Beavernator]

I thought I was one of thevonly people that played nearly EVERY Castlevania... I was a bit obsessed with Castlevania back in the day, so I actively hunted down obscure stuff... There were even some Castlevania 4 total conversion mods done by actual devs... Like completely different games... Wish I could play those...

[@st1ka]

whoa that's amazing!

[@piotrtomaszewski2518]

36:48 This one is called "Prince of Qin - Millenium Reincarnation". Pretty fun game. I finished both versions. The one you are showing and partially translated to english. Main character is called Kamui. From abilities after upgrading he has short dash, slide, double jump, glide in air, magical attacks based on elemental rune. In 3 locations he has to transform into wolf, bat and mist, sadly only for transportation and not a gameplay. And the main map in stage select is kind of similar to Order of Ecclesia. Fun time playing.I reccomend to try it out.

[@ElFreakinCid]

Adventure ReBirth seriously needs to be rereleased, as does Dracula X Chronicles. Maybe if Konami ever gives us a Castlevania DS Collection, those can be included as bonuses, or they could do a rerelease pack of all the ReBirth titles. Also, worth noting is that Haunted Castle really was never originally meant to be a Castlevania game. That's no rumor, it's just true--they hastily threw in Simon Belmont and some familiar music into what was meant to be an original project at the request of Konami higher-ups who thought it would perform better under the Akumajo Dracula title.

[@adzi6164]

tbf I've played the Aria of Sorrow mobile version, and while it definitely wasn't GBA-perfect, it was definitely better in all aspects than the version you've shown here. It had a smoother framerate, as well as actually displaying the HP and MP bars on the screen. this is frankly the issue/quirk with the J2ME games - lots of them had lots of different versions to fit on different phones. Sometimes getting a yar-har-har downloaded .jar file of another version could get you a better game than you'd get from the version supposedly-better for your phone. I remember that I might've been playing a version of Aria of Sorrow that was supposed to be played on models with lower resolution - the game still had some scaling mechanisms, which ended up with sprites being small, but no screen-crunch at all. about the Dawn of Sorrow... funnily enough, the version of DoS you're showing is closer in quality to the version of AoS I had. Meanwhile, my version of DoS was... poor. Framerate was perfect, sprites were good, but no backgrounds, and the game wasn't even trying to replicate DoS. Game was just a linear path, with no story, no dialogues, and just a few bosses, ending with the fight with Aguni. 37:23 penta = five 43:32 yoo, the dude has a scar that he didn't have in the previous game

[@cyka_delik9537]

There's an active harmony of despair online community, btw. PS3 emulated with RPCS3 seems to be the most popular method....tho there are still some people organizing games for Xbox 360 and PS3

[@Blade_Corps]

For Castlevania Arcade, I actually regular an arcade that has it, it's janky but fun. Though it does tire your arm out.

[@Chazreal]

ROFLMAO @ 19:36 I had the Castlevania Tiger game, and like all tiger games, its unplayable garbage, and a perpetual reminder how cheap your parents can be, getting these instead of their NES alternatives at the time.

[@oldfan4049]

28:34 - It's a very bad music XDDDD 32:52 - actually, the spritework is better in the other versions of the game where the sprites are not AS huge. I mean, you know, sometimes less is more🤭 34:24 - yeah, it's indeed an emulation issue 🤔 36:08 - OH YES, BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! I loved those chinese clones. Btw, chinese mobile developers also tried to copy a couple of other games many-many times, namely Metal Slug, King of Fighters, Contra, Devil May Cry and Adventure Island, but sometimes they even outright ported some of those, don't know if they have had any rights to do this, but you should watch/play those. If you'll need help in finding any mobile ROMs or info about those clones just tell me, I'll try to help ^, ^ Btw, I've completed *Castlevnia: Resurrection* , *Castlevania: The Undead Contract* , *Castlevania: Vampire Castle* , *Castlevania Dungeon* and the whole *Castlevania Demon* series. All of those were translated to russian by some awesome fans in like 2007-2010 39:08 - as I were saying, many of those were translated or at least tackled by fans, so there's a huge chance that that 'castlevania rpg' line was added by someone else (perhaps, by the person who translated the title menu) and not by the developers)) Btw, do you have a link to that one, I've never played it and want to try it out)) 43:24 - actually, all of those were translated to russian, as I've already mentioned.

[@MechagirlSachiko]

The characters on Castlevania Demon 2, 3 and 4 are borrowed from Silver Night's Crusaders, a brazilian Castlevania-like made with OpenBOR. I'd recognize those character designs anywhere.

[@Riitje]

Man, I love Harmony of Despair. Used to play this on PS3 back in the day when there were still people playing it. Even got it on my Xbox Series X just because I liked it that much. No one online now though.

[@Tsalviatti]

What a horrible night to have a curse!

[@st1ka]

Haha

[@flamespear86]

The anniversary version of the original GB game is actually pretty good since it doesn't suffer ftom the same slowdown. It really is roo bad they didn't include the GBC remake but meh emulators are everywhere so it's fine.

[@LPetal86]

Thanks for the great video--can't think of any of the games not already on this list because I'm pretty sure you covered them all! Long live Castlevania, which deserves better releases than what we've currently gotten from Konami lately!

[@st1ka]

At this point, I'm just hoping Konami farms out Castlevania to a third party studio. Whathever happens, I'm sure it's better than being dead like it is now.

[@theepicslayer7sss101]

while not official, a nice one i found is "Castlevania: Simon's Destiny" a DooM total conversion mod that turn it into a FPS CastleVaina!

[@sonamyfreak]

Castlevania Harmony of Despair was so much fun when it was alive so yeah you needed people who knew what they were doing

[@st1ka]

yeah, I think the concept is neat, but it requires a specific set of friends imo

[@ImmoralFlame314]

Looks like I need to get back into Harmony of Despair.

[@NIGH11]

Great video Stiks ! Never heard of a lot of this stuff , especially those GBA and DS to phone ports

[@st1ka]

Thank you so much man, glad you liked thee video

[@BLAFGAFLRETURNS]

Love the video, worth a subscribe definitely. As for music, I do arrange as a hobby, and Castlevania tends to be the most requested for music, so I have done a lot of track remakes for it, but I'm glad someone pointed out these obscure titles, it gives me more chance to see all the different ways Castlevania evolved, especially with music. Have a good day 😁

[@st1ka]

Thank you! glad you enjoyed the video and hope you make some kickass tunes :D

[@Deepfriedsoldier]

Absolutely loved harmony of despair, played it with my husband and we both had a blast. We took out the bosses just fine with two of us.

[@TheTurnipKing]

1:07 Scrolling isn't really the MSX's forte. Which isn't to say that it CAN'T do it, but they decided not to here.

[@Akitoscorpio1]

Okay i'm not crazy right? But the sprites in those Castlevania demon games look like they came from, Silver Night Crusaders, or the other way around.

[@gemini_starr]

I know it's not a port, but have you seen Castlevania: Seal of the Curse by Arkhouse? It's absolutely brutal, but I love the art style and the alternate story.

[@CyprusBeyblade]

42:48 I named my channel after this character's surname. Good to see it getting a review!

[@st1ka]

haha that's awesome!

[@abyssiondeportergil5404]

Man, i hope someone makes a translation to 'shengui diguo zhi emo cheng'. Excellent video as usual.

[@ChaosMissile]

Feel like Ive seen the hero of the Castlevania Demon 3/4/ Castle of Shadows in some other game...but as the penultimate boss.

[@williamlinck1144]

Great video! Only one I can think of not featured, was Castlevania puzzle encore of the night.

[@st1ka]

Yeah, looking back, I should have mentioned that one.

[@neojeets]

Epic video, man! So many Castlevania games I never knew existed.

[@st1ka]

Thank you! It was quite the rabbit hole I found myself digging into :P

[@MechaGodAnri]

I spent so much time on Harmony of Despair with friends. I kind of was hoping they'd do something more with it at some point but unfortunately not.

[@ClawMacKain]

The white haired sprite at 36:38 is obviously a pixel art version of Devil May Cry's Dante.

[@Phantomsangel]

That Castlevania machine is at Round 1 in Fox valley Mall in Aurora if anyone is curious.

[@ozmaphase2]

This is by far the best rare Castlevania compilation video ever made. Bravo! I learned SO much from this. Thank you!

[@st1ka]

Thank you! I try! :D

[@pcsala648]

Dawn of Sorrow on Java phones was really good. I believe I played it on my Sony Walkman phone.

[@vegeta4882]

Castlevania the arcade actually got found a while ago. Not sure what emulator it is its been a minute

[@CushionSapp]

Count Dracula from Castlevania was a playable racer in Konomi Krazy Racers. Does that count as a Castlevania game?

[@skepticaltile]

I definitely wouldn't have included bootleg or fanmade games in a video meant to showcase obscure releases in a franchise.

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

Harmony of Dispair rules, as long as you're playing with friends and using voice chat. But in that context, it's super fun.

[@st1ka]

Yeah I feel like this was clearly made to be played online. Sadly though, I couldn't find anyone to play with :(

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

@@st1ka Shoulda asked me! 😂

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

The funny side of that Empire of Ghosts game, is that the developer (Sintax, I think...) made some asset flips using the same game, but other ip's, like one rip-off of the Zook Hero series (Which itself already was a Mega Man rip-off), and one with Dragon Quest VIII theme. All using the same map, enemy positions and such.

[@st1ka]

yep very true! :D

[@brianfarkas8172]

Commodore 64/128 was incredible for its time. So easy to hack the games.

[@Conan_the_Based]

I feel like half of these are just "Can it run Doom" challenges for the different operating systems.

[@karawapo]

The Taiwan bootleg Castlevania for GBC reminds me of the GBC Castlevania-like game Konami made for the GBC, based on HUNTER x HUNTER.

[@st1ka]

Ooh I'll have to check it out

[@DaedalosC9]

Forgot Encore of the Night, exclusive for the iPhone users, a Tetris like puzzle game with the SotN theme

[@st1ka]

Oh yeah, there's that one. Whoops!

[@DaedalosC9]

@@st1ka even fans forgot about it, curiously now that I check more videos, it doesn't look half as bad as I remember

[@st1ka]

@@DaedalosC9 I think at this point, we're just all so disappointed with Konami that even these games seem appealing now :P

[@DaedalosC9]

@@st1ka a sad truth, at least Netflix is keeping them alive

[@st1ka]

@@DaedalosC9 Indeed, I loved the Castlevania "anime" and I'm eagerly awaiting the new one.

[@GothicXlightning]

my beloved Simon's Quest,., hey i still own the NES Cartridge and that little Tiger device and it's majestic Best cover Art ever yeah i did a tattoo of it in one of my shoulders cos CVII Simon's Quest is among the most underrated and under appreciated NES classic of all times

[@st1ka]

Haha that's awesome

[@SillyEwe]

The Amiga version has that Zelda CDi jank to it. The Medusa heads had me chuckle.

[@galcha51]

Wow, Konami sure milked Castlevania as much as they could :| Some of the games really catch my attention, like the X68000 version ! Great video as always man.

[@st1ka]

haha right?!

[@erikreber3695]

"You gotta love what they did to poor Dracula here" What in the hell?-?

[@3rdStrikeMike]

What an absolutely fantastic video! You passed my expectations less than halfway through. I was anxiously awaiting this one since you mentioned it was coming. What I knew was going to be a home run turned into a game winning grand slam! Well done! Keep up the amazing work 👏👏👏

[@st1ka]

haha thank you so much man. This one was a TON of work ^^

[@3rdStrikeMike]

@@st1ka It definitely shows! You dug deep for a series that totally deserves it. I'm giving this a share with a ton of people. It deserves a boatload of views!

[@st1ka]

@@3rdStrikeMike haha thanks man, I appreciate it

[@LastBastion]

34:31 yeah probably emulation issue, nokia at that era can run gameboy game with little stuter.

[@sadadbelbanes1]

I really miss CV: HOD. I made a lot of friends playing that game. I was super excited to see that they kept the servers alive and made it backwards compatible for Xbox one. Hope this video gets more people playing?

[@st1ka]

Hopefully it does. The idea is pretty great, but it clearly wasn't made to be played alone

[@TheDracioN]

I like how you say there are two awesome tracks, yet they make my ears bleed. >.

[@jackmcglion8337]

You sound like Malkovich from jontron.

[@st1ka]

You mean he sounds like me 😎

[@jackmcglion8337]

​@@st1ka I figured that was the case.

[@st1ka]

@@jackmcglion8337 hehe :P

[@ChaossX77]

18:34 A port of this would've been perfect for the Wii, kinect, or move!

[@borrisg4972]

Haunted Castle is regarded as stupidly hard, but it seems to be the opposite case of the idea that the Japanese got the harder game versions. If you play the Castlevania Collection and change it to the Japanese games, it's not much harder than U.S. Super Castlevania. Everything hits for a minimum of twice as much damage in the U.S. version, up to 50% health per hit even in the first level. I have the Switch version though so I don't know if that's actually just a version difference.

[@jonathanbetenbender307]

That's accurate. I got to stage 5 on the US version, but threw in the towel. Sucks cuz behind that ball crushingly difficult game is a bit of a hidden gem. Way too much artificial difficulty. Super Castlevania was the opposite; I literally only found two spots in the whole game with artificial difficulty (one was a falling platform section under a room). Just wanted to point out I don't actually consider it a hidden gem just that it had untapped potential; it had great graphics for the time and ran smooth, the slow trodding movement actually works for it (every movement has to be done with intention).

[@FranckOA42]

Really interesting video, too bad for the crappy clickbait miniature tho. Thankfully I discovered your channel through another of your video with a way better miniature and started binge watching them afterward. (I discovered that a long time ago I had previously blocked some of your videos when they appeared on my recomendation list because of their clickbait style miniatures).

[@st1ka]

Sadly, if it weren't for the thumbnails, chances are my videos wouldn't even have half the views 😅

[@FFVison]

Castlevania 1 ports with no wall meat? Sacrilege! There is a SOTN port for Android phones as well. I know a buddy of mine played that on his phone for a while and he said it was actually quite good. Heh, I did actually have Castlevania Adventure for the Gameboy (OG Gameboy, no Pocket, no Color, no Advance). That game was quite sluggish with its controls. I think I got to the third level and I think there were four. I also had the Tiger Electronics Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest. It was... ungood.

[@st1ka]

Oh interesting i gotta check out that port then