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The Sharp X68000 never ceases to amaze me, there's a reason why they are still so expensive

Man the Arrange version of Chroincles goes HARD on the music

I wept tears of joy when I saw the Amiga version. Actually, no - I just wept.

49:56 this soundtrack still gives me a cold shiver. So good.

Amiga is my fave computer of all time, but come on everyone together "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING".

no Castlevania Harmony of Despair? Stage 10 is literally the whole NES game adapted to the new gameplay mechanics

I originally played the arcade version way back when before we for a Nintendo. Convinced my dad to get it as our second game. He was skeptical, but fell in love with it. Also, the Amiga version always makes me laugh. Instead of a castle, it's like Dracula lives in a town house with a bunch of jumping redheads instead of zombies. Lol.

The guy even divides the video in named time stamps for us... Bro, thanks for the great work! Sub and liked, as always!

Vampire Hunter for the MSX looks like an interesting take on the game with adventure elements.

I think the Sharp X68000 is the best "refresh" of the original. It's not a complete re-imagining. Just the same game with a fresh coat of paint. There's some new ideas in there, but they're kept sparse. With Super Castlevania, but nothing held back upgrading the core game. In this case I honestly like the overhaul better, but respect the sharp version's excellent presentation.

This sure makes appreciate the nes version of Castlevania, I’m not going to criticize other releases but for me the nes holds a special place in my heart. Thank you for your fantastic work.

Why does the DOS one sound like how I imagined an 80s club would sound?

I like the X68000 Version the most. I like how the footage of the PC MS-DOS version has the correct aspect ratio. The MSX version however was clearly running on PAL 50Hz, you have to set the region to japan so the game runs as it should.

"Oh god, there's a C64 version? At least, the music's bound to be goo... nevermind." Seriously, this Kris Hatlelid sure is no Hülsbeck, Hubbard or Follin.

Finally a video about Castlevania 1! I hoped you'd do one.

Famicom: The original. A nearly perfect game. NES: Lacking features, but otherwise is just as good as it's Disk System counterpart. Playchoice 10: Why didn't they make the timer match the one in-game? Vs.: Making the in game timer go faster works, too. Amiga: I wanna like the graphics, but the sound, music and the enemies are all messed up, and the gameplay is so choppy. DOS: Well at least they used Vampire Killer for the opening level. Too bad it's making me wish they had forgone the music entirely. C64: You know, this doesn't look bad for a Commodore game. I bet it's probably more fun than most of the other PC releases. Sharp X68000: The exception being this one. This is definitely the best PC version, even if it's not a 1:1 port. It's still a great remake. Chronicles (both versions): The Sharp version, but on a system that already had Symphony of the Night. I feel like a port of Rondo was obvious considering the connection to SotN, but I can't complain with Chronicles being so good. GBA: Squished, but still a solid version. Java: It's Java. Wasn't expecting much, and didn't get much. I kinda like Simon's sprite, though. Anniversary: A great emulation. I particularly enjoy the Record feature so I can watch my best runs. MSX (Vampire Killer): There's a reason Kojima had to invent a new genre to get a good game on this thing. The exploration is kinda cool, but Castlevania isn't really a game that the MSX can do justice. Arcade (Haunted Castle): I like the music. Everything else? Not really. Once you learn the game, it can be fun, but it's not what I would call a good game. SNES (SCV4): A great game, to be sure, but I dont think it's as good as the game it's a reimagining of. Level 3 can go fuck itself, but the others are pretty good. The whip and jump controls are improved, but I like the old whip better. The jump is fine, but why use subweapons unless its a triple Cross for boss fights? Your whip is just too good, and it makes the subweapons mostly useless. If you want a game that improves the jump, but keeps the whip while improving subweapons, Rondo of Blood is a perfect example. Even Bloodlines got it right by limiting the angles you can whip and when you can hit from those angles. I like Super Castlevania, but I dont see what makes it the best like some people have said it is.

The Amiga version cracks me up.

Until today for me, Super Castlevania IV continues to be one of the best games ever.

Thanks for this video comparison!!!

29:14 - Somecallmejohnny - It's party time!

Title Screen, Game Start, Stage Start, Boss Battle, Stage Clear, and Game Over

Let’s Compare Castlevania 1: Famicom Disk System (1986) 2: NES (1987) 3: Arcade (Playchoice-10) (1987) 4: Arcade (Vs Castlevania) (1987) 5: Amiga (1990) 6: Pc Dos (1990) 7: Commodore 64 (1990) 8: Sharp X68000 (Castlevania Chronicles) (1993) 9: Playstation (Castlevania Chronicles) (2001) 10: Playstation (Castlevania Chronicles) (2001) 11: Game Boy Advance (Classic NES Series) (2004) 12: J2me (2004) 13: J2me (2004) 14: Castlevania Anniversary Collection (2019) 15: Msx (1986) 16: Arcade (Haunted Castle) (1988) 17: Super Nintendo (Super Castlevania Iv) (1991)

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The C64 port, actually ain't half bad.

Imagine if there was a Castlevania Chronicles on the 32X... That would have been a good port that makes use of all the audio and visual capabilities if it wasn't for the Super 32X not selling well and it being released at, uncomfortably, the same time as the Sega Saturn. Although the Sharp X86000 sounds too good to be translated to Mega Drive code, there are still tricks and clever design that can be used.

C64 version looks and sounds fairly good.

Awesome comparison. \m/ castlevania is one of my favorite video games. from this video, I personally like the nes version, the ps1 version, the arcade version, and the snes version.

Amazing video ^^ That's gonna be an hour well spent ^^

The zombies from the Amiga Versions really creeps me out, they are so strange looking!

Great video. Question: Was Vampire Killer for the MSX considered since is a parallel version of the FDS version?

The Java version may look kinda bad but God does it sound good.

The NES gave me so much Nostalgia when i came to the 3th Stage called wicked child i fell so good by caming to the 3th Stage with the Great Sound Track

That Sharp x68000 version looks and sounds amazing.

@ retrosutra 19:10 WOW! I didn't know the Sharp X68000 was capable to handle the music so well in that version with only 8 FM channels and 1 channel for 16-bit DAC samples... and it's not even a version, it's much better than that considering that is a major remake/remastered version of the original game! If that version should be ported to the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, this could make the console very succesful to handle all of this good stuff from the X68000, especially the game's OST if they made it right. 28:48 I love how the enemy boss theme and the Stage Clear music sounds much better and different in this remake than what the NES/FDS version had and I also love the way they have remixed the theme of the original game in the Arrange Mode of the PlayStation version, it's just... SO DOPE! AND OH, THAT MIDI GUITAR IN THIS REMIX... IT SOUNDS SO REAL!!! Those developers at Konami must have worked THIS hard to make the X68000 and the SNES versions REALLY stand out from the competitors in a good way, especially the original NES version!

Castlevania Chronicles (original style) was my favorite because they reimagined Classic Simon in a new outfit

On Commodore 64 Simon Belmont walks with some level of funk

You couldn't wait 2 more days till spooktober when this would have been perfect

13:14 Ah, the days of DOS... The days when every human character had literal white skin.

I'm a huge Castlevania fan. Used to own Chronicles for the PS1 and didn't think much of it at the time. Looks like he's power walking all the time.

1094 Castlevania Lament of Innocence 1476 Castlevania III Dracula's Curse 1479 Castlevania Curse of Darkness 1576 The Castlevania Adventure 1591 Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge 1666 Castlevania Resurrection 1691 Castlevania 1698 Castlevania II Simon's Quest 1699 Super Castlevania IV 1748 Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance 1792 Castlevania Rondo of Blood 1797 Castlevania Symphony of The Night 1810 Castlevania Order of Ecclesia 1830 Castlevania Circle of The Moon 1844 Castlevania Legacy of Darkness 1852 Castlevania (Nintendo 64) 1897 Dracula 1917 Castlevania Bloodlines 1944 Castlevania Portrait of Ruin 1999 The Demon Castle War 2035 Castlevania Aria of Sorrow 2036 Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow

They all do a passable job on the chiptunes too. They understood how important and good the soundtrack was.

Played NES and Chronicles games. I like boss theme in Chronicles arrange mode the most.

Wow I only had the nintendo version!! Didn't know there were so many other console versions of this game!

Despite all the parts that came after, and even if the Lords of Shadow/Mirror of Fate Roobot series tells the best story for me - Super Castelvania IV - still transports the most coherent atmosphere.

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Simon got the animan studios walking

The best version was saved for last, love it!

If someone could mesh together the MSX and NES/Famicom versions I believe it would be a true masterpiece

Not going to look at opcode's Colecovision port of Castlevania? It requires Super Game Module (2 I think) but it's hella impressive

Castlevania (NES) US and Japanese versions are my favorites.

Super Castlevania is just the best looking and playing game here.

I'm surprised the C64 port looked and sounded as good as it did.

Veo que me falta jugar algunas versiones como la Amiga, PC DOS, Mobiles. 43:13 La MSX lo probe una vez, pero me parecio tedioso estar buscando llavecitas para encontrar la puerta correcta, parecia un RPG, y casi lo comparo con el CV2, al final no lo pude pasar, no por la dificultad, si no porque me aburria estar buscando llaves ocultos en paredes de donde menos lo pienso y a veces me perdía.

Missed the opportunity to add Castlevania HD texture pack for NES as a BONUS

I didn’t know there were castlevania arcades. Cool Also whoever played all this had got some skill

The MSX version had great background music. However, the game could not be interrupted because there was no way to save the game, even though the levels were large. The content was also different from the NES version, which was frustrating for children who could not play the NES version.

46:37 This is my jam!

First look at zombies on amiga, and you already know that they f****d it up hard.

You forgot to include the SC-55 music in PSX Castlevania Chronicles. That music was the best, better than arranged imo.

The Amiga version feels so uncanny, because it's so close to being an accurate port, but every difference sticks out like a sore thumb

The Arcades with Nintendo Games inside called Play Choise 5 it has famous NES Games in Gaming Halls with Billiard

Amiga: Such an awesome soundtrack Dos/Como64: My ears are bleading..... X68: What a badass version

Good comparison, but I would've added the Intellivision hombrew version; it's really impressive considering the system's limitations!

The arcade version could not be compared to any other because it was shrunk down to fit 15% of the screen so you can't see it. But thanks for sharing.

DOS music made me want to jab pencils into my ears. Goodness.

Those zombies in the amiga version 🤣🤣🤣

Castlevania Chronicles is my favourite version.

where to get the j2me port? also, is that the android soundfont you're using?

I always wondered why some ports of games put music in wrong levels? like the Amiga port of this for example has the 3rd stage theme instead of the 1st.

If you want to get technical you have to put in haunted castle in your video as well cuz that was the first version of Castlevania and it was for the MSX

Sharp X68000/Chronicles will always be my favorite version of Castlevania 1.

I love this game!

Wait, are you sure those were the EARLIEST J2ME versions? I swear there was an 8-bit version with non detailed graphics.

The C64 and DOS conversions by Unlimited Software sound like the arranger only ever listened to the NES version only once while piss drunk, then wrote all the notes from memory.

Weird to call the one on the 68000 chronicles when that is the PlayStation title and it is just Akumajo Dracula so I guess using the translation everyone else uses it would just be Castlevania again.

Is it just me or does the music in the Commodore version slap

There is one missing from this list. Castlevania: A Spectrum Interlude for the Spectrum 128K. I've played it on my ZX Spectrum Next and it's good.

The MSX 2 version was actually harder. You have to look for those keys.

Vampire Hunter on the MSX2 is an intetesting variation but it's also really tough and unfair. The worst of the bunch is the arcade version. The only reedeming factor is the soundtrack which is of the usual high quality on the series.

No Bloodlines (Genesis)? The first stage is also a remake of the NES one and I would say it's a lot more faithful than the SNES one.

Chronicles was underrated, although it did start Simon's weird gothic phase...

Dude! Why couldn't we get a port of the Sharp X6800 version of Castlevania on the Castlevania Collection for current-gen consoles?

the amiga version is terrifying

I'm looking at 15:14 and I was like "wait, was that cross boomerang is supposed to do that in DOS?" "TAKE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

The AMIGA versión looks like if it was made by the guys from Dark Castle

Very good job ! But where is "Castelvania Rebirth" ??? (WiiWare) Is the must version...

I think the Amiga version looked really interesting, its a shame the scrolling is a bit weird

The SharpX is the best looking and sounding, but my favorite is still Super Castlevania 4. Also, is it just me or is that not a very strange version of "Wicked Child" playing in the Amiga version.

The C64 and MS-DOS ports are done by the same group that did TMNT for those systems IIRC

The NES and Famicom versions aren't really the same, since the Famicom cartridge release came years later, with an added Easy dificulty which gives the player 30 hearts, 10 lives and you don't lose your power-ups (sub-weapons and/or multipliers) when you die. The easy mode also removes the dreaded knockback. Don't go "ooooh, it's easy", because no. The game still is hard as balls, it's just less stress inducing

My favorite game.

Looks like someone tried to play the C64 version on a PAL machine. You need to put your emulator in NTSC mode for NTSC games, please. It's running at 4/5 normal speed, that's why the music sounds weird.

I don't think super castlevania really counts , but COMMODOR 64 looked like it had the best control and easy timing. 👍

I am disappointed. No obligatory Spectrum port? What was Konami thinking! Ever great game needs an obligatory Spectrum port to ruin it. But we do have the C64 and MSX, though to be honest they aren't half bad really. They played to the strengths of the MSX to make the most of its limitations and actually made a decent port for that system. But the only disappointing ports are Amiga and the awful PC port. I am surprised the game used EGA modes, I thought it had a VGA mode as well but it appears they didn't bother with 13h modes. That would have helped it out quite a bit as at least they would have had some smooth scrolling and latched writes. But great comparison as always! I loved this game as a kid on the nintendo.

Cv chronicles, Super castlevania 4 and Haunted Castle(technically) are just remakes of CV1, the whole Simon Belmont must defeat Dracula again part in the cv4 scrolling text was added for the American release and makes no sense whatsoever as the text implies a hundred years has passed since Simon defeated dracula prior to this game, also Cv1 was changed to cv 4 in order as Simon is a decendant of Trevor Belmont from cv3 making it somewhat correct in a chronologic order Lament of innocence being the first game in chronological order followed by cv3 then Curse of darkness then the gb games With Christopher Belmont castlevania adventures 1 & 2(Cv rebirth for wii which is a remake/retelling of the story of Cv adventure 1 in the same way as Chronicles/HC/scv4 was to cv1) then Simon's story begins with cv1 & cv2 simons quest followed by harmony of dissonance, rondo of blood/dracula x/ vampire kiss then Symphony of the night followed by order of ecclesia, castlevania bloodlines(generations), Portrait of ruins and then the final games in the timeline aria and dawn of Sorrow. The rest of the games like the 64 ones, circle of the moon and cv legends for gb are side stories and not actually canon to the main games.

I'm sure it's been said, by now, but _Castlevania Chronicles_ was not a port. It was a reimagining, just like _Super Castlevania IV_ and _Haunted Castle._

En los recreativos de mi barrio hubo una placa de haunted castle pero con el nombre vampire killer como en msx.Una versión bastante desconocida de la franquicia

And here I am, thinking it's just jarring that neither whipping candles nor getting hearts or other power-ups gives you score directly. It seems that in modern gaming doing just about anything that has an impact on the level gets you score, and that's if the game scores you at all. But speaking of torches and hearts, why didn't you whip more torches, kill the last bat in block 1-2, or whip while collecting the orb until SCV4?