Damn bro, I first beat this game when I was 12 and it was such a great feeling. I can only imagine how you must've felt. (To be fair though; I had a book called "How to win at Nintendo" back then. Which was a BIG help on this and many other tough games.) Take that internet tutorials!
@@RealSekiroGamerz In my case, I remember every aspect of this game; its graphics, its gothic atmosphere, its music, and its insane difficulty level. Castlevania is truly an unforgettable masterpiece of a game.
Upvote but disagree...stop watch makes this game the easiest in the whole series. It's why they nerf batted the Hell out of the stop watch in Castlevania IV. You can get a stop watch on the first level from the section of zombies he jumps over at the end of their section. You can literally keep it the entire game and freeze...I believe every single enemy including Dracula. ;)
@@DavidWonn The stop watch worked for me well into the first one just recently. I was playing on my Xbox One X at the time...I think it stopped at Frankenstein and the flea.
Sinn0100 I can only speak for the original NES version. Remakes on future consoles may remove glitches and add hidden features, whether intentionally or not.
@@penman6146 it’s not the og castlevania is pretty dated the only reason someone would really find It that good is if they’re blinded by nostalgia or are just a huge castlevania fanboy
"excuse me is that walmart? could you deliver 800 or so candles to Dracula's mansion? this pesky man with a whip keeps breaking them all" sir, instead of ordering more candles, why not just kill him? "i hired Death himself to kill him, and he just stood there taking a bath in the holy water."
Camero56 I watched this video and laughed at your genius comment maybe a year ago; just stumbled across it again, and you made me laugh all over again! This never stops being hilarious!! 😂
VERY nicely done. That was fun to watch. This game takes me back to the 6th grade. Took me until the 7th grade to pass it (I'm an old man) and I sure as hell died a lot trying; but it was satisfying when I finally beat this game. My mind is blown with how you beat The Grim Reaper - I always used the boomerang. Never seen it done with the holy water.
I've beat it once, i also beat Dracula's curse and Castlevania 4, i know how hard it is :P. Today i replayed this one, got to Dracula fairly easy, but haven't beaten it today since i have to go to sleep :( . Else after like 10 tries i can beat him XD.
I've played this game every year, so kind of know it by default. Dracula's Curse is still hard for me but managed to beat it with Grant. His throwing axe is great on some situations. Super Castlevania IV is pretty easy to me.
I found the first stage pretty easy, only a bit tedious. Sometimes the hit doesn't count. You have to be very close in front of him and jump when the fireballs shoot. Difficult to explain but i think you know what i am talking about. The spawning inside the player is bitch XD Second stage i can only do when i have holywater and double or triple shot.
My brother smashed the controller after killed by the eagles on stage 17 while having a few lives left and tried desperately put the pieces together. He never succeeded.
It's incredible how all of that is burned in my mind. Its been almost 30 years now, I was 8 or 9 when played these games for the first time, in 1990/91.
I died over 100 times trying to learn the whipping technique at the end, but I finally beat Dracula today. Only took a year of my life and 100+ hours! This game is a gem. I only wish more of my friends would play it.
1990 my 4th game, I love it bcuz I still have it, and after so long I still haven't beat this game, this tunes are the best, Im emotional makes me feel like a kid again, tnx alot for this video!!!
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. This is the game that in January 1991 made me a Nintendo Addict. Went on to play Castlevania 3 which was just the best. Then SNES which was awesome too. Thanx...
Amazing how far graphics came from back then but the art design was still so good imo that itbgave you that creepy feeling of being in a castle of the undead. From the torn curtains, blue windows amd candles. Awesome!!! Music was great too.
I can't imagine that any of the Castlevania games would be impossible. Though, from what I've played, this first game is definitely tough. I'm kind of scared to try out the 3rd one. I've heard horror stories about it's difficulty.
@@DADA-yt1pt The japanese version of Castlevania III is easier so that’s probably the best version for a first timer. Still a tough game though no doubt.
As i kid when i would get to the part at 11:00 i would always just stand there staring at he background imagining Dracula waiting for me there. It really gave the game some form of depth for me even though its just a background image.
It is actually incredibly easy to get the Double/Triple upgrades in this game - just destroy about 10 enemies/objects with a special weapon, and you will get it as your next drop. You can exploit this like crazy when you become aware of it.
Superlike! MysticGamer... Because of this video clip you shared, I had a TIME TRAVEL back to 80s :D I used to play this game back in the days :D It really feels good to remember where you started and perhaps a moment of reminiscence of stuff that has become part of your life and perhaps one of the many reasons of where I'm at and what I have become, can you believe that? I can't believe it either and it's so amazing to be one of the millions who witnessed and be part of the age of transition, the STONE-to-MODERN age. Thank you so very much.....Cheers! mate :D
A Castlevania television series was considered in the late 1980s as part of the Super Mario Bros. Power Hour, a one hour animation block of Nintendo focused video game adaptations. Concept art was produced for the project by DIC Animation City. Only the Mario and Zelda segments for the block were ultimately produced, airing in 1989 as part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. A Castlevania film was planned in the late 2000s. However, in December 2007, Rogue Pictures halted active development of Castlevania due to the writers' strike and, later, the sale of the studio to Relativity Media and possibility of a screen actors' guild strike. On May 27, 2009, the Castlevania film was reported as officially canceled.
Great job whooping on this game! Looks like I had as much trouble beating it as others did. Only made it to Frankenstein but I never owned it. Thanks for taking your time to share it!
its very easy to beat Death. Make sure you have the Triple Shot (the III) and Holy Water. Once he drops down from the ceiling, hit his undead ass with the Holy Water once he touches the ground. He'll be stunned and take damage. Not to mention his ass cant move. Keep doing that until he's dead. If you like more of a challenge, use the Holy Cross Boomerangs against him instead.
13Gangland That was an awesome movie by the way and I HAVE woken up on the kitchen counter after a night of blackout partying hahaha. I made that comment to the kid because I get tired of hearing people bitch about not being able to beat a particular game. So I gave him a solution on how to beat it y'know?
You missed one secret where you could have gotten the triple shot at 6:37. Where one of the stone blocks underneath the candle which is next to the small flight of stairs before the first bone dragon.
Sweet! I haven’t seen this game since my NES got taken from me permanently when I was 12. I’m now 46 and I’ve always wondered how it ended. Great upload.
@1:45 you can find an additional 1-up in this room by dropping down to the mid-level platform , then walk and hold left while you run in place against the top platform for a few seconds. The 1-Up will rise up from the left of the screen.
I'm still playing this and I'm in my 40's! I only came here bc I couldn't get past the Grim Reaper board just now. Didn't realize I was close to meeting Dracula! Lol
It's hard but for a newbie like me to get to level 8 just pissing about shows me it can be beaten. It's a very playable game despite its age. Castlevania series is awesome
You missed at least one secret that I'm aware of. The block Simon was standing on at 6:42 contains a double/triple shot. You may not count that as a "secret," because it's not a flashing kind, but it's hidden behind a block, so it absolutely counts as a secret in this game.
What an exemplary, fantastic walk through of Castlevania!!! Brilliant game play, talent & skill to the person who played this!!! Thank God for holy water & above all, thanks for intelligence & reasoning!!! I question the last battle with Dracula when he shot fireballs, u jumped but they still managed to touch u; they did no damage to ur health I noticed?! Maybe it was just my imagination!? Hhmm...I wonder if there was sum game hack at the end to help u progress to conquering the game?! Anyways, u rock!! U killed it!! Thanks for this intriguing, very fun, & incredibly challenging game walkththrough!!! Memories from the past stay with me from this game & this video is a constant reminder of the intensity & rigor of taking time to play this game!!! U sure put ur heart into this!!!! Thanks for uploading this!! What an interesting challenge!! THIS IS MOST DEF A BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!! LUV YOUR WORK!!!!
I’ve came back to this game after years, now I’m stuck on level 15. If you can’t get through level 12-15 to the boss WITH the holy water, I don’t see how you can get through! I almost got to the boss at level 15 with it but died just before. As someone else said this is the OG rage quit game 😂 thanks for the video, learned a ton of secrets
I beat Castlevania III before buying the original. This game isn’t too bad once you’ve conquered the ball busting third entry. Granted it took a LOT of tries to get Dracula’s pattern down.
great game w iconic music now! today's games are visually stunning but many are so complex that it takes the fun away, at least for me. give me a cross pad and an A and B button and i'm good to go. death was hard for me too, but I was able to get past him most times. thanks for the upload!
I remember buying Castlevaina the day it came out, I was 7 years old at the time (Prime NES age) and my friend and I beat the game in two days. It was such a big accomplishment beating NES games and then bragging about it in school and then there were those kids who never believed that you really beat the game. (That's why you always had a friend over to back each other up) Those were some good times!
Nostalgic. Fun, too. Stoker had a paragraph at the very end of Dracula which describes the castle sinking into an open chasm that appears when Dracula is killed. Stoker removed it for some reason before the book was published. It's interesting that the castle here does exactly the same thing.
I like how the sound effects can slightly alter the score of the music due to limited sound channels, really makes the game a little different everytime
Wow! This walkthrough was really good. I want to say three things I consider important: 1. You forgot to break the left block under the candles in 6:43 before go to upstairs. You can find a multiplier for your subweapon, a bag or hearts. 2. Frankenstein almost killed you. Throw a bottle of holy water to Frankenstein every second aprox. as you did it with Death in stage 15, but do it before the hunchman begins to jump. Do the same with bone dragons in stage 12, throw the holy water on their heads when their heads are near the floor. 3. You can kill the Axe Knights (in stages 14 and 15) with a bottle of holy water by jumping and throwing it on their shields. The fire from holy water will kill them easily. By the way, thanks for showing all secrets. I didn't know about the secret in 19:46.
I used to play this game over and over. I could get to the last part and always died, After watching this video, I now know what I did wrong. I did not know that you could go back down the stairs and beef up your hearts before attempting to kill the opponent. I was always too lean on the hearts to pull it off. But 30 years ago, I didn't know about UA-cam either. Oh well, at least I know how the game ends now!
What a great game! Brings back great memories! I always preferred using boomerangs than the holy water. This game is harder to defeat than the coronavirus.
Nice run dude, hard to get no deaths in this while getting all the hidden treasure as well. I thought I knew all the secrets but I didn’t know about the secret in the last hallway with the Medusa heads before the queen Medusa fight. Watched other guides that said “all secrets” before that missed that one.
I just played this game for the first time today, and let me tell you... FUCK MEDUSA HEADS. Okay so I beat the game! I wish I had played this game sooner. It's super fun slaying the forces of evil. :D
11:14 I imagine that must be a bug. Like, I can't imagine why they would intentionally create a secret 1000pt. bonus item that is impossible to retrieve.
@@mOnocularJohn Bullshit! I owned a video game store and you are way off. We bought NES games anywhere from $42 to $58 each, wholesale. Larger retailers sometimes got better pricing than this. Super Mario Bros. 3 was the most expensive game, wholesaling at $58. I made a whopping $1.99 on each one I sold, but it brought people into the store. @Eric Yep I remember Funcoland, they put a lot of mom and pop shops like mine out of business. Amazon and used games at Gamestop have killed off almost all of the rest.
![Simon's Quest [NES] 100% and Best Ending](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NLBVvs_vBjg/mqdefault.jpg)
Took me until I was in my mid-30s, but finally beat this game legit (no save states) for the first time tonight!
fack yeah mate !
too legit to quit
Damn bro, I first beat this game when I was 12 and it was such a great feeling. I can only imagine how you must've felt. (To be fair though; I had a book called "How to win at Nintendo" back then. Which was a BIG help on this and many other tough games.) Take that internet tutorials!
Hats off to you holy shieet I gave up at the bat lmaaooo
Sometimes it's like that. So many classic games I returned to in my 30's that I can actually finish on my own. Congrats.
This is a timeless classic game. I absolutely love this game. And I still remember when I first played it. SO many memories. So much history.
The background music is what I remember properly till now even after it have been years
@@RealSekiroGamerz In my case, I remember every aspect of this game; its graphics, its gothic atmosphere, its music, and its insane difficulty level. Castlevania is truly an unforgettable masterpiece of a game.
@@MatthewTheWolf2029 I do remember the difficulties
My friend lent me this one in 1988. It is one of my favorite games of all time! As my father once said "No one simply walks into Castlevania..."
Absolutely
Here is you friend from 1988. You forgot to give it back. Give it back now!
Simon Belmont does.
The long whip and holy water isn’t a power-up in this game.
It’s a requirement.
Upvote but disagree...stop watch makes this game the easiest in the whole series. It's why they nerf batted the Hell out of the stop watch in Castlevania IV. You can get a stop watch on the first level from the section of zombies he jumps over at the end of their section. You can literally keep it the entire game and freeze...I believe every single enemy including Dracula. ;)
I feel violated after seeing the Death fight getting MEGA CHEESED
Sinn0100 The stopwatch stops working on bosses from the Mummy onward, as noted in my Castlevania FAQ.
@@DavidWonn
The stop watch worked for me well into the first one just recently. I was playing on my Xbox One X at the time...I think it stopped at Frankenstein and the flea.
Sinn0100 I can only speak for the original NES version. Remakes on future consoles may remove glitches and add hidden features, whether intentionally or not.
This is where it all began. The birth of a legendary franchise. My favorite video game series of all time.
I'm gonna hide some meat behind a brick wall just for Simon.
natraan wall chop
hide = beat
EL Derpo pork chop
Jon Soucy u nasty, nasty boy!!
Use salt for a preservative.
"Honey, what are we having for dinner tonight?"
Simon: "Oh, some chicken I found in a wall, and water that explodes when dropped!"
also honey, we now have a cat.
Lamby03 I got it from killing a witch.
Lol XD
It's always amazing to watch someone do what you wish you could do. These old school NES classics are so hard... But the fun factor though.
Back to the Future
I bought Castlevania Anniversary Collection and I've been playing this! It's good so far!
I'm thinking of picking it up from Limited Run while I have the chance.
I did and it's great.
I am playing it on my NES MINI. It has aged well.
The level design, the gameplay, the graphics, the music, were all ahead of their time with this game.
Maybe not the graphics
True. Back when Konami didn't suck d*ck.
How
@@penman6146 it’s not the og castlevania is pretty dated the only reason someone would really find It that good is if they’re blinded by nostalgia or are just a huge castlevania fanboy
@@plugshirt1762 castlevania 1 is my favourite NES game
I've spent my whole life trying to beat this game and you did it in 30 minutes. I can't believe.
first played when i was 5, beat it 23 years later. Love Castlevania. I'm glad it's still around
On second to last level it is hard!!
@@ghvxxgthe lovely hallway to the Grim Reaper, lol
"excuse me is that walmart? could you deliver 800 or so candles to Dracula's mansion? this pesky man with a whip keeps breaking them all"
sir, instead of ordering more candles, why not just kill him?
"i hired Death himself to kill him, and he just stood there taking a bath in the holy water."
Camero56 this is brilliant
Camero56 I watched this video and laughed at your genius comment maybe a year ago; just stumbled across it again, and you made me laugh all over again! This never stops being hilarious!! 😂
What was the point of getting full life after you already beat the game? Lol
Lol
It is funny.
VERY nicely done. That was fun to watch. This game takes me back to the 6th grade. Took me until the 7th grade to pass it (I'm an old man) and I sure as hell died a lot trying; but it was satisfying when I finally beat this game. My mind is blown with how you beat The Grim Reaper - I always used the boomerang. Never seen it done with the holy water.
You can't be that old. Early 40s, I'm guessing?
@@edwardgaines6561 i used boomerang too...we same age bro lol
@@Shayzar1 I used to use boomerang...seems like the game would freeze up sometimes tho
Holy water massacre! 😮
My childhood self would have refused to believe this game could ever be finished.
5:13
"What's he waiting for? ...wait, what in the hell!?"
That's a new one for me. Thanks a bunch for sharing this video, man.
27 years ago I saw the chest coming out from the ground. But never knew how I made it happen. Until now that I see him waiting for it🤣
This is easy to watch, but you have no idea how hard the game is till you try it.
I've beat it once, i also beat Dracula's curse and Castlevania 4, i know how hard it is :P. Today i replayed this one, got to Dracula fairly easy, but haven't beaten it today since i have to go to sleep :( . Else after like 10 tries i can beat him XD.
I've played this game every year, so kind of know it by default. Dracula's Curse is still hard for me but managed to beat it with Grant. His throwing axe is great on some situations. Super Castlevania IV is pretty easy to me.
The first mode of Dracula in Castlevania I is brutal. You need to keep moving when he disappears. He tends to spawn where the player is without it.
I found the first stage pretty easy, only a bit tedious. Sometimes the hit doesn't count. You have to be very close in front of him and jump when the fireballs shoot.
Difficult to explain but i think you know what i am talking about. The spawning inside the player is bitch XD
Second stage i can only do when i have holywater and double or triple shot.
Agreed. :)
The original rage quit game!
My brother smashed the controller after killed by the eagles on stage 17 while having a few lives left and tried desperately put the pieces together. He never succeeded.
Sixpack Korkman you're bros. was and is a sinner
But it can be beaten.
Ghosts 'n Goblins is much harder
III stirs up my rage.
It's incredible how all of that is burned in my mind. Its been almost 30 years now, I was 8 or 9 when played these games for the first time, in 1990/91.
What memories. I beat the reaper with the full morning star with my mom yelling at me and didn't get hit once.
Boring, come back when you beat him with the knife without getting hit.
I did it, but I got hit and I didn't have my mom yelling at me, so I'm not as cool as you.
Welp, now he's in Smash bros and Luigi got killed just for going in there
Yoshi yeuuup
Yeah I could of wish Simon saved Luigi before his soul got taken and he tells him to get outta here then Luigi nodded and runs out of the castle
Dude, its a joke. Jfc
@1998SIMOMEGA i think it means "just fucking chill" or something like that.
@1998SIMOMEGA it means just fry chicken
I died over 100 times trying to learn the whipping technique at the end, but I finally beat Dracula today. Only took a year of my life and 100+ hours!
This game is a gem. I only wish more of my friends would play it.
I'm 30, and I'm caught in a cobweb of bittersweet nostalgia :))
Ziemomysł as a kid i always thought cobweb was Cow-web
Bittersweet is right. Nostalgia is a double-edged.
1990 my 4th game, I love it bcuz I still have it, and after so long I still haven't beat this game, this tunes are the best, Im emotional makes me feel like a kid again, tnx alot for this video!!!
Thank you James Rolfe for introducing me to this series all those years ago.
Did he take you back to the past
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2/9/19 finally beat this game after 22 years one the most hardest game ever and best games
F*ck me. I could never get past the Grim Reaper. Had no idea he was actually that easy.
i also too,
i thought the boomerang was the weapon of choice.
I can’t get to the Mummy Boss......
lol now I’m on Dracula’s Stage
@@roderickspencerjr.2482 nice!
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. This is the game that in January 1991 made me a Nintendo Addict. Went on to play Castlevania 3 which was just the best. Then SNES which was awesome too.
Thanx...
Amazing how far graphics came from back then but the art design was still so good imo that itbgave you that creepy feeling of being in a castle of the undead. From the torn curtains, blue windows amd candles. Awesome!!! Music was great too.
Wow, up until this moment I actually thought this game was impossible... Subbed for re-writing my childhood!
I can't imagine that any of the Castlevania games would be impossible. Though, from what I've played, this first game is definitely tough. I'm kind of scared to try out the 3rd one. I've heard horror stories about it's difficulty.
@@DADA-yt1pt The japanese version of Castlevania III is easier so that’s probably the best version for a first timer. Still a tough game though no doubt.
You made it look real easy! One of the hardest games ever!
As i kid when i would get to the part at 11:00 i would always just stand there staring at he background imagining Dracula waiting for me there. It really gave the game some form of depth for me even though its just a background image.
me too
I never played this game as a kid, but this kind of soundtrack certainly brings back that feel good of childhood.
This game was so hard.
NOSAJ YESLOOW Kids today have *NO* idea the struggle we had to go through in games back then
Ian Finrir ikr
Ian Finrir ok boomer
@@ianfinrir8724 there are plenty of hard games nowadays
I beat this game by cheats
It is actually incredibly easy to get the Double/Triple upgrades in this game - just destroy about 10 enemies/objects with a special weapon, and you will get it as your next drop. You can exploit this like crazy when you become aware of it.
I didn’t know this after all these years, probably because I traditionally always banked my hearts and specials for the boss fights.
Love you. Thanks a million. Never knew this.
Ahhh, so many memories! Never beat it but still loved it. Nice to see so much hidden stuff in it.
The best Castlevania in my opinion.
A nice classic.
I prefer the likes of Aria of Sorrow ;)
Zheoferyth I know right ✌
you end it in 30min bro
Id honestly buy this if it had a save feature
This game is legendary.. Definitely top 5 Nes games imo.. Zelda, SMB3, Castlevania,Punchout, Metroid
Solar Jetman, Metroid, Castlevania, Zelda, Punchout.
🥰
Battletoads
Honorable mentions: Kid Icarus, Contra, Double Dragon ll, Mega Man, and Final Fantasy.
(These are essential in any Nintendo collection)
After Super Mario Brothers 3, this is my all time favorite NES game. I never tire of playing it.
Same here
Just curious, where does Legend of Zelda rank for you?
Superlike! MysticGamer... Because of this video clip you shared, I had a TIME TRAVEL back to 80s :D I used to play this game back in the days :D It really feels good to remember where you started and perhaps a moment of reminiscence of stuff that has become part of your life and perhaps one of the many reasons of where I'm at and what I have become, can you believe that? I can't believe it either and it's so amazing to be one of the millions who witnessed and be part of the age of transition, the STONE-to-MODERN age. Thank you so very much.....Cheers! mate :D
11:00 No one will ever convince me that castle isn't flipping us off.
YES. Thank you. I beat the game on the NES with your help. Dracula may look easy but the timing is so precise, oh mah God.
The soundtrack in this game is so incredibly good even being 8 bit
A Castlevania television series was considered in the late 1980s as part of the Super Mario Bros. Power Hour, a one hour animation block of Nintendo focused video game adaptations. Concept art was produced for the project by DIC Animation City. Only the Mario and Zelda segments for the block were ultimately produced, airing in 1989 as part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
A Castlevania film was planned in the late 2000s. However, in December 2007, Rogue Pictures halted active development of Castlevania due to the writers' strike and, later, the sale of the studio to Relativity Media and possibility of a screen actors' guild strike. On May 27, 2009, the Castlevania film was reported as officially canceled.
One of the first Nintendo games I have ever bought and it will always be my favorite
Great job whooping on this game! Looks like I had as much trouble beating it as others did. Only made it to Frankenstein but I never owned it. Thanks for taking your time to share it!
22:39
That's what he gets for killing Luigi.
yes thats right
Yeah!!!!! 😃😠
Huh? I dont get it
@@troyandrew6154 looks like someone who didn't see the smash bros ultimate direct from 2018
I will have Castlevania music stuck in my head all day now. lol
at least i'm not the only victim......lol
Same tbh
All these years later, I still haven't beaten this game. I've never been able to get past Death.
I finally beat it after 27 years,used cheats and it was still tricky.beat Simon's quest legit though back in 1990.
its very easy to beat Death. Make sure you have the Triple Shot (the III) and Holy Water. Once he drops down from the ceiling, hit his undead ass with the Holy Water once he touches the ground. He'll be stunned and take damage. Not to mention his ass cant move. Keep doing that until he's dead. If you like more of a challenge, use the Holy Cross Boomerangs against him instead.
+Troy Turner Haha what are you, Grandma's Boy? (best stoner movie by the way)
13Gangland That was an awesome movie by the way and I HAVE woken up on the kitchen counter after a night of blackout partying hahaha. I made that comment to the kid because I get tired of hearing people bitch about not being able to beat a particular game. So I gave him a solution on how to beat it y'know?
And fuck Simon's Quest. That game was so goddamn lame. It's a poor man's version of Symphony of the Night.
My dad would always play this when I was a younger lad. I swear I saw him beat the game with just the stopwatch once. Miss these kinds of games tbh
Castlevania is legendary with Spectacular graphics and ABSOLUTELY AWESOME gameplay
Yeah. Mind-blowing graphics. Literal photorealistic image before my eyes
You missed one secret where you could have gotten the triple shot at 6:37. Where one of the stone blocks underneath the candle which is next to the small flight of stairs before the first bone dragon.
That's not a bone dragon
This takes me back to my childhood I love it
Sweet! I haven’t seen this game since my NES got taken from me permanently when I was 12. I’m now 46 and I’ve always wondered how it ended. Great upload.
6:40 You missed a secret on the block you are standing on. I know it's another Double shot but still. It wiuld have been nice to also show that.
It would have been a triple shot since he already had double shot.
+William K antes das estatuas que cospem fogo, bem embaixo de onde o vampiro dorme agarrado
III shot
The entire CV series is so underrated and never got the attention it deserves.
Great game, playing it on my Switch. That soundtrack is incredible.
@1:45 you can find an additional 1-up in this room by dropping down to the mid-level platform , then walk and hold left while you run in place against the top platform for a few seconds. The 1-Up will rise up from the left of the screen.
Great long time ago!
like Yesterday
Thanks for bringing me back to 1991 when I played this game. Nostalgia forever.
I could never beat this game as a kid (I'm 38 now), so I'm grateful for this video.
I'm still playing this and I'm in my 40's! I only came here bc I couldn't get past the Grim Reaper board just now. Didn't realize I was close to meeting Dracula! Lol
Your old lol
@@aaronedwards7178 Yep I sure am dude! 😄
It's hard but for a newbie like me to get to level 8 just pissing about shows me it can be beaten. It's a very playable game despite its age. Castlevania series is awesome
I miss this faceless hero
holyinfantry999 He's back
In smash
Kamauri 64 wanaFyte
His name is Trevor
Alex Sands, this one is Simon, Trevor is in the 3rd NES game.
I can't beleive such a simple game, made such a good franchise
11:16
Exactly _how_ is the player supposed to pick up _that_ secret?? -_-
Maybe it was just a leftover or a glitch.
The players weren't necessarily supposed to find all secrets on their own back then.
Get the power, the nintendo power
You missed at least one secret that I'm aware of. The block Simon was standing on at 6:42 contains a double/triple shot. You may not count that as a "secret," because it's not a flashing kind, but it's hidden behind a block, so it absolutely counts as a secret in this game.
11:00 Is that where Dracula is in the last level, that castle in the background?
yes thats draculas catsle
@@Shayzar1 Huh! Nice Easter Egg.
the castle is giving us the bird lol
Perfect playthrough BRAVO. I haven't done this since 1987, I know what it takes to pull this off. Not an easy feat. You're good.
8:14 One of my favorite music track in the Castlevania franchise
What an exemplary, fantastic walk through of Castlevania!!! Brilliant game play, talent & skill to the person who played this!!! Thank God for holy water & above all, thanks for intelligence & reasoning!!! I question the last battle with Dracula when he shot fireballs, u jumped but they still managed to touch u; they did no damage to ur health I noticed?! Maybe it was just my imagination!? Hhmm...I wonder if there was sum game hack at the end to help u progress to conquering the game?! Anyways, u rock!! U killed it!! Thanks for this intriguing, very fun, & incredibly challenging game walkththrough!!! Memories from the past stay with me from this game & this video is a constant reminder of the intensity & rigor of taking time to play this game!!! U sure put ur heart into this!!!! Thanks for uploading this!! What an interesting challenge!! THIS IS MOST DEF A BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!! LUV YOUR WORK!!!!
18:25
Simon: "Ugh, gotta wait a bit for that axe to disappear... might as well dance to the awesome music while I'm waiting."
I’ve came back to this game after years, now I’m stuck on level 15. If you can’t get through level 12-15 to the boss WITH the holy water, I don’t see how you can get through! I almost got to the boss at level 15 with it but died just before. As someone else said this is the OG rage quit game 😂 thanks for the video, learned a ton of secrets
I beat Castlevania III before buying the original. This game isn’t too bad once you’ve conquered the ball busting third entry. Granted it took a LOT of tries to get Dracula’s pattern down.
great game w iconic music now! today's games are visually stunning but many are so complex that it takes the fun away, at least for me. give me a cross pad and an A and B button and i'm good to go. death was hard for me too, but I was able to get past him most times. thanks for the upload!
I think this is why I always come back to my NES. Simplicity wins every time!
Um verdadeiro clássico dos games !!!
Classic game ! Unforgiveble !!
I remember buying Castlevaina the day it came out, I was 7 years old at the time (Prime NES age) and my friend and I beat the game in two days. It was such a big accomplishment beating NES games and then bragging about it in school and then there were those kids who never believed that you really beat the game. (That's why you always had a friend over to back each other up) Those were some good times!
Damn, everything about this game is so good.
En el stage 12 las primeras escaleras te toca el murcielago entras a otro mundo
@@eduardoranchosdavila8855 imagine replying to someone's comment with other language
Thanks for all the secrets. I've beaten this game so many times and I haven't finished it myself of finding all hidden items.
Nostalgic. Fun, too. Stoker had a paragraph at the very end of Dracula which describes the castle sinking into an open chasm that appears when Dracula is killed. Stoker removed it for some reason before the book was published. It's interesting that the castle here does exactly the same thing.
***** Yes, that could very well be.
One my favorite games to play when I was 10 in the late 80's. Became a fan of the franchise in general.
This is still one of my favorite castlevania games! One oft the best soundtracks 🤩
I like how the sound effects can slightly alter the score of the music due to limited sound channels, really makes the game a little different everytime
Masterful! Definitely going to be studying this run for myself
The 1-up in level 13 is news to me. Thanks for the video.
Wow! This walkthrough was really good. I want to say three things I consider important:
1. You forgot to break the left block under the candles in 6:43 before go to upstairs. You can find a multiplier for your subweapon, a bag or hearts.
2. Frankenstein almost killed you. Throw a bottle of holy water to Frankenstein every second aprox. as you did it with Death in stage 15, but do it before the hunchman begins to jump. Do the same with bone dragons in stage 12, throw the holy water on their heads when their heads are near the floor.
3. You can kill the Axe Knights (in stages 14 and 15) with a bottle of holy water by jumping and throwing it on their shields. The fire from holy water will kill them easily.
By the way, thanks for showing all secrets. I didn't know about the secret in 19:46.
Don't tell them how to play the game like the self claimed perfectionist you are. Just let them play it their own way.
@@bigoof9654 jeez dude, who pissed in your cheerios this morning?
Comment was made two years ago. My views have changed since then. I'm still gonna take the L though.
I was thinking point 3 in my head watching the playthrough and he’s right jump toss holy water at the shield knights gets em everytime
Great video! You missed a Roman numeral at 6:42 though, hidden in the staircase block.
The game that started it all. All we need now is the movie adaptation.
You really want the hollywierd pedos to fuck this up too?
There’s a series on Netflix. I haven’t checked it out yet but it seems to have decent reviews.
I used to play this game over and over. I could get to the last part and always died, After watching this video, I now know what I did wrong. I did not know that you could go back down the stairs and beef up your hearts before attempting to kill the opponent. I was always too lean on the hearts to pull it off. But 30 years ago, I didn't know about UA-cam either. Oh well, at least I know how the game ends now!
What a great game! Brings back great memories! I always preferred using boomerangs than the holy water. This game is harder to defeat than the coronavirus.
Nice run dude, hard to get no deaths in this while getting all the hidden treasure as well. I thought I knew all the secrets but I didn’t know about the secret in the last hallway with the Medusa heads before the queen Medusa fight. Watched other guides that said “all secrets” before that missed that one.
I've got castlevania,Mario,contra,zelda inside of my ADN. I belong to the old gaming school.
eres hispanohablante no? Porque en ingles es DNA no ADN
tu si ah! XD!
eneomaos no you're not. you just played the most mainstream games of the third generation of gaming.
so what?
Dixit Dominus When people try and act edgy by playing old school games haha no different than people who pretend to like old music.
14:57 Wow, the triple shot there out of context XD
Juego que quedó en mis recuerdos
Siento tu dolor
@@un7t783 yo igual
Muy bueno. Y el del video muy tramposo jejejeje
yo nunca pude jugarlo.. a mi me daba mucho miedo )=
Donde lo puedo coneguir?
All those secrets that I never found when I played Castlevania so many years ago.
Many thanks. 🦇
I just played this game for the first time today, and let me tell you... FUCK MEDUSA HEADS.
Okay so I beat the game! I wish I had played this game sooner. It's super fun slaying the forces of evil. :D
It's a really hard game.
Whoever made this video makes it look easy, but you can tell he/she has spent countless hours practicing this game.
DarkZide8 plus all the secret he found
90% of all deaths are Medusa head related!!!!
Hyped for Simon Belmont on Smash Bros. Ultimate.
11:14 I imagine that must be a bug. Like, I can't imagine why they would intentionally create a secret 1000pt. bonus item that is impossible to retrieve.
Essa trilha sonara me tras uma nostalgia 💓
That god-damn hallway before Death nearly gave me an aneurysm xD I love the game, though. It's hard, but seriously satisfying.
i remember paying like $30 to $40 for this cartridge 80's rule
Yeah I used to sell them.. The stores only paid $5 or $6 for them. lol
PCFanatic LetsPlay lol. Me too. Those cheap ass companies. Remember that chain for used games in late 90s? Funcoland?
@@mOnocularJohn Bullshit! I owned a video game store and you are way off. We bought NES games anywhere from $42 to $58 each, wholesale. Larger retailers sometimes got better pricing than this. Super Mario Bros. 3 was the most expensive game, wholesaling at $58. I made a whopping $1.99 on each one I sold, but it brought people into the store.
@Eric Yep I remember Funcoland, they put a lot of mom and pop shops like mine out of business. Amazon and used games at Gamestop have killed off almost all of the rest.
Well I worked at Hills Dept store in the late 1980s and saw all the invoices, since I was in charge of tracking inventory down to the cartridge.
Allot of mom and Pop shops (flea market fleabags) still think they're worth $58 bucks