February 24th, 2010 • Stephen Munn
I was excited to receive my copy of Castlevania for MS-DOS in the mail, but surprised by one thing: the manual is a universal one, with instructions for all three of the home computer ports of the game. This includes the boot instructions as well as the controls. When I boot the game, it asks me [...]
June 27th, 2009 • Stephen Munn
I’ve mentioned the DOS post of Castlevania a couple of times before, most notably in an article about how to play it on your modern home computers. However, when one wants a collection of video games, one needs the games, not copies of them. As a result, I’ve begun my search for the last three Castlevania [...]
April 18th, 2009 • Stephen Munn
In my game collection, there is no shortage of ways to play Castlevania. I’ve got the NES version on the original NES cartridge, in its Classic NES Series GBA format, in the Castlevania and Contra Windows CD-ROM collection, and of course on Wii Virtual Console. If I spend five more minutes thinking about it, I’ll probably [...]