Greatest arcade game to play at ShowBiz Pizza as a kid! Still play It still to this day as an 43 old man… Something about this game always brings the Nostalgia memories of the 1980’s & 1990’s!
I always found this game challenging along with most nes games. I just recently downloaded some nes games and wow playing them on a phone made them 100xs more challenging.
Oh God, I can't imagine. NES games are hard enough with a real NES pad! Touch screen inputs must make games like this totally unplayable. Even the mushy buttons on an old Razor phone would be better 🤣
To make your NES experience on a phone way better, use a bluetooth controller like PS4 or Xbox One. Be sure to use RetroArch to emulate NES games, either with the core Nestopia or FCEUmm, and set the Run-Ahead Frames setting (in the Latency options for your chosen core) to either 1 or 2. Run-Ahead Frames is a feature that reduces the button-to-pixel delay (aka input lag) and a phone with powerful specs is required to take advantage of it. Might eat up more battery, but it's worth it.
Kind of interesting how the game remained arcade exclusive in the US. Safe to assume they planned a US release but ultimately scrapped it, seeing that it was also included on PlayChoice-10 machines which were used to demonstrate upcoming NES releases.
I can attest that this one's hard after playing it on the Switch Arcade Archives. I imagine the third loop's where the players stopped loading quarters into the machine and called it a day.
This is really interesting. I knew about Vs. Super Mario Bros but not Castlevania. Although, this looks like a more difficult version of the game... with brighter visuals - Just like Vs. Super Mario Bros.
There were a couple of Vs. games that had major changes from their NES versions. Have you seen Vs. Duck Hunt? You can shoot the dog in that one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-af3ovX30wOk.html
Tbh this was always the way of quarter-munchers . Its possible to beat those games with one quarter but only after you know the games knicks-knacks perfect to every aspect.
Oh, M type. No thank you lol. Trying to play that is like trying to make sense of anything Donald Trump says. It's excruciating. The K version was a lot of fun though.
You really know how to use the Holy Water. In Nintendo Power's premiere issue, it said to use the Stopwatch on Medusa, the daggers on the Mummies, and the Boomerangs on the Grim Reaper. Maybe I should try your strategy from now on.
I remember these Vs. machines. Most of them had a timer built in so you had to keep pumping quarters even (especially!) if you were destroying the game.
Wasn't it the Playchoice-10 games that did that? You paid for time instead of credits? There was a version of Castlevania for that too, but it was pretty much identical to the NES game besides the color.
Definitely thinking of the PlayChoice. All Nintendo Vs games operated the way non-sports/non-racing games did - a credit meant a number of tries rather than timed play. By the time Castlevania came to the Vs. System, most of those games were played in the sit down "red tent" machines. Red tents had a screen on each side, and each side played a game (sometimes they were the same, but often they housed two different games).
That was the PlayChoice-10 machine. The VS machines just charged 1 quarter/game like a regular arcade machine, and some of the VS arcade games had differences from the console versions (like in the arcade version of Duck Hunt, you could shoot the dog)
Vs machines had two screens in one wedge shaped cabinet. It was not possible to see the other screen from the one you were playing. I remember seeing Super Mario Bros on one screen but that game had already has a timer on NES
I don't remember the flicker in this version, but I remember the demo scene with the bone snake in the hallway from some pool hall or bowling alley when I was a kid
Funny you ask, I'm actually rendering out a brand new 4K video of the PC version of Phantasmagoria as I type this :) I do plan on doing both of those at some point. I still need to figure out a good way to reliably run KQ8 though. The CD drive is dead in my old Pentium 200 which sucks because I have 3DFX card installed in that machine and KQ8 runs pretty nicely on it.
I've got a very good Death Battles idea Merlin the educated but sometimes very forgettable vs Gondolf The Grey makes perfect sense after all both of them these are great wizards .
