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.
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.
"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!! 😂
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nearly 11 years later and he _still_ has this labeled as "All Secrets". He doesn't even reveal all the secrets for Normal, let alone the additional ones found on Hard Mode. Looks like he doesn't care about being accurate, just the amount of views and comments.
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.
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
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'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
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.
I was watching Castlevania on Netflix a few days ago and told my friend I’d be playing the games if I could find them on Nintendo. He searched all of the games and apparently this franchise is as old as time. Now o scrapped my original idea and now will be watching other people play them instead 💀
I started from the Castlevania 3 long time ago. and I searched back to this version. I think this version is quite harder than Castlevania 3. I played 3 & 4, and I won both. However, this version is harder to use another weapon except molotov cocktail.
I used to play for hours in this game when young never passed the whole thing, one of the most difficult games ever, I passed mario bros but this game was a impossible to finished LOL.
@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.
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...
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