Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest (NES) - how to start playing it

Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest released in 1987 in Japan on the FDS .
NES release in North America was in 1988 .
NES release in Europe was in 1990 .
The game is set in year 1698 in Europe , 7 years after Simon defeated Dracula but the Dark Lord Dracula before being defeated put a curse on him that drains Simon's life and gave him a sickness .
Simon Belmont after finding out about that , is on the mission to find 5 body parts of Dracula in 5 mansions and burn them in the ruins of Dracula's castle , so that the curse would be removed .

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The reason I lost so much lives is because I am currently very rusty at the game .
But It went better than I exepected it to be .
And this game doesn't deserve the hate it gets , it's just the best in the NES Castlevania trilogy .