This is a review of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest for the NES. Now "Simon's Quest" is the official sequel to "Castlevania" on the NES. Unfortunately, the Game was bashed by many gamers particularly ...

Nailing a trilogy can be a make-or-break moment for a game series. The first game debuts to critical and commercial success, players the world over fall in love with it, and then the second game does ...

Konami released this game-changing title in Japan on August 28th, 1987, and it wouldn’t be released in the United States for another year on November 24th, 1988. It had a profound effect on the ...

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Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

The NES might be old enough to be thinking about retirement, but it has a killers row of amazing games that still hold up in ...

As for the games in question, they need little introduction. Anyone who is a gaming enthusiast — interested in NES, SNES, and Game Boy games — will be very familiar with the Castlevania series. For ...

This is a game that took things a step outside the traditional Castlevania series. Of all the Castlevania games released on the NES, this one I have the fondest memories of. This one was set apart in ...

Oct 31, 2013 - The Castlevania Trilogy on NES represents some of the best - and more underrated - games ever created. And they continue to proudly represent the horror genre even three decades after ...

When Simon's Quest dropped on the NES in 1988, many gamers were confused. The gameplay mechanics of the original Castlevania remained intact, but there was a whole lot more that had been added that ...