Good Games, Bad Design takes aim at Dracula’s Curse

With all the love I have built up over the years for Dracula’s Curse, I never really took a step back to look at the raw design. Having played through it perhaps a dozen times, I barely see the game while it’s passing me by. It turns out the design is really not very good. The [...]

Simon Belmont raids the mushroom kingdom, whips goombas

Check out this great “Super Mario Crossover” that’s making the rounds. It’s a flash game where you select from a batch of classic NES heroes and play through Super Mario Bros. The characters control like they always did, and it’s spectacularly done. Of course, I played as my favorite, Simon. Whip goombas and they make the [...]

Super Complete: Castlevania for NES

Castlevania first edition for sale

For the first issue of Super Complete, I’ve chosen to begin at what most consider the beginning: the original Castlevania for NES. This is one of the most interesting games with respect to collecting, because of the number of variants and the history behind the game’s production.

Castlevania had at least three variants. I’ll start by talking about the first variant, which is generally the most desirable.

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Hot Topic is now selling Castlevania shirts

A trip to my local Hot Topic store today netted me this great Castlevania shirt. It has a classic image of the title screen of the first Castlevania on NES, complete with “push start key” text. While I’m not generally one to dump $19 on a tee shirt, I couldn’t resist this.

On the other hand, what [...]

The Video Game Bosses’ Lament

Everything we’ve been wondering about our enemies in video games, it turns out, is true. The only guy with a brain in his head… er, a brain in her jar… is the one in charge. Dracula’s contribution to this is some of the funniest.

Source: CollegeHumor via Kotaku
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