The Castlevania addict tries to go home, but lacks depth of pocket

By Stephen Munn | October 15, 2008

My history with Castlevania is a long and complex one, but I’ll keep it pretty simple: I started with Simon’s Quest and was hooked solidly. I bought Castlevania III at launch… it goes on from there.

Somewhere along the line all my Castlevania games wandered off. I had complete copies of several of the games… who knows exacly what happened? Anyway, I decided recently to go back and pick up complete copies of all the old games on eBay, and that idea just kind of fell away not long after that. It turns out there are people with an even more overdeveloped sense of nostalgia than me, or at least they have more disposable income to commit to games that can be had much cheaper on Virtual Console.

That wasn’t before I landed a copy of Castlevania: Bloodlines for Genesis, which is one of my favorite games in the series that somehow is thus far overlooked for release on Virtual Console. I’m looking forward to playing that again, though it may have to wait for me to mod my Genesis if it won’t run on my AtGames Megadrive. At any rate, I’ll need to mod my Genesis to play it in stereo sound, since there’s no way to do that at all on the AtGames device.

Next time I try to collect old games, I’ll pick a shorter franchise.