Took me until I was in my mid-30s, but finally beat this game legit (no save states) for the first time tonight!

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..."

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.

"Honey, what are we having for dinner tonight?" Simon: "Oh, some chicken I found in a wall, and water that explodes when dropped!"

I'm gonna hide some meat behind a brick wall just for Simon.

The long whip and holy water isn’t a power-up in this game. It’s a requirement.

This is where it all began. The birth of a legendary franchise. My favorite video game series of all time.

The original rage quit game!

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.

The level design, the gameplay, the graphics, the music, were all ahead of their time with this game.

I bought Castlevania Anniversary Collection and I've been playing this! It's good so far!

first played when i was 5, beat it 23 years later. Love Castlevania. I'm glad it's still around

"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."

F*ck me. I could never get past the Grim Reaper. Had no idea he was actually that easy.

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.

Welp, now he's in Smash bros and Luigi got killed just for going in there

This is easy to watch, but you have no idea how hard the game is till you try it.

I've spent my whole life trying to beat this game and you did it in 30 minutes. I can't believe.

My childhood self would have refused to believe this game could ever be finished.

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.

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.

2/9/19 finally beat this game after 22 years one the most hardest game ever and best games

I'm 30, and I'm caught in a cobweb of bittersweet nostalgia :))

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.

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!!!

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.

Castlevania is legendary with Spectacular graphics and ABSOLUTELY AWESOME gameplay

22:39 That's what he gets for killing Luigi.

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.

The best Castlevania in my opinion.

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.

All these years later, I still haven't beaten this game. I've never been able to get past Death.

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.

Thank you James Rolfe for introducing me to this series all those years ago.

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.

8:14 One of my favorite music track in the Castlevania franchise

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...

Great long time ago!

I will have Castlevania music stuck in my head all day now. lol

Ahhh, so many memories! Never beat it but still loved it. Nice to see so much hidden stuff in it.

You made it look real easy! One of the hardest games ever!

The soundtrack in this game is so incredibly good even being 8 bit

After Super Mario Brothers 3, this is my all time favorite NES game. I never tire of playing it.

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

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."

This game is legendary.. Definitely top 5 Nes games imo.. Zelda, SMB3, Castlevania,Punchout, Metroid

Great game, playing it on my Switch. That soundtrack is incredible.

One of the first Nintendo games I have ever bought and it will always be my favorite

@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, up until this moment I actually thought this game was impossible... Subbed for re-writing my childhood!

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.

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

This takes me back to my childhood I love it

Masterful! Definitely going to be studying this run for myself

Juego que quedó en mis recuerdos

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!

This is still one of my favorite castlevania games! One oft the best soundtracks 🤩

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

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.

Thanks for this. So great!

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.

11:16 Exactly _how_ is the player supposed to pick up _that_ secret?? -_-

I can't beleive such a simple game, made such a good franchise

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

Um verdadeiro clássico dos games !!! Classic game ! Unforgiveble !!

One my favorite games to play when I was 10 in the late 80's. Became a fan of the franchise in general.

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.

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 could never beat this game as a kid (I'm 38 now), so I'm grateful for this video.

Thanks for putting this up! I always wondered how it ended.

11:00 No one will ever convince me that castle isn't flipping us off.

Hyped for Simon Belmont on Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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.

The first time the bat came off the ceiling it scared the shit out of me. I was never able to get past the 2nd level until much later so I associate the first 2 levels with one part of my childhood, and the 3rd level and beyond with a different time period.

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

I've got castlevania,Mario,contra,zelda inside of my ADN. I belong to the old gaming school.

Damn, everything about this game is so good.

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.

Awesome work on the video! You nailed it :)

i remember paying like $30 to $40 for this cartridge 80's rule

The game that started it all. All we need now is the movie adaptation.

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!

The 1-up in level 13 is news to me. Thanks for the video.

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.

Essa trilha sonara me tras uma nostalgia 💓

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.

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!

jogava de mais esse jogo quando eu era criança. muito bom

What was up with the secret before the mummies. Some programmer either thought it was funny or they misplaced it

Spent countless of hrs infront of tv playing this game, damn 30+ yrs ago🤯 _CLASSIC_ _CLASSIC_ _CLASSIC_

Me entretuve un muy buen rato con tu video, Gracias!!!.

Me lembro da primeira vez que finalizei esse jogo, foi numa virada de ano, mas achoq ue finalizo ele em menos tempo

I NEVER would have thought that the Holy Water would make Level 5 so much easier...

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.

The entire CV series is so underrated and never got the attention it deserves.

con este juego recorde mi infancia :'D que hermoso *~* ya ni me acordaba de este juego ya ni los niños de ahora juegan esto puro xbox :'v

Simon for Smash y’all!