MetaFilter posts tagged with castlevania

Somebody's Watching Me Kill Vampires

Servo5678 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:21:16 -0800

Have you ever listened to Rockwell's 1984 smash hit song "Somebody's Watching Me" and realize that it needs more Castlevania? Relax. It's been handled.

Surprise! Fish!

JHarris — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:05:17 -0800

La-Mulana is a Japanese homebrew game, with English translation available, for Windows that exhaustively replicates the experience of playing on an MSX home computer, a machine not sold in the U.S. but was contemporary with the likes of the Commodore 64 and Amiga in other markets. (Fun fact: the "MS" in MSX stands for Microsoft!) Although it looks very much like retro warez, La-Mulana is freeware. It is also notoriously long and difficult, with a character who controls like old-school Castlevania, enemies that will frequently knock you around like a rag doll, puzzles of amazing deviousness, and traps that think nothing of walling up a player without escape, or forever restricting access to certain powerups.

That said, the game does have charm, and is basically a love letter to the MSX hardware. Those who want to see it without beating their hands bloody against the keyboard can watch a guy play through the whole game in 85 installments, cursing at it all along the way.

Click here to play Castlevania

boo_radley — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:26:22 -0800

A miniature version of the metroid-style Castlevania games. It starts off in a teeny tiny window. Try it fullscreen here.

Now you're playing with power.

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:37:21 -0800

They're all here. Or most of them. This will make you dust off your NES/Genesis/Turbo GraphX-16... but this time with a pixel-perfect map of every level of your most beloved games. From Amiga to Xbox. Castlevania, Zelda, and Megaman among hundreds of others and links to even more in-depth sites. Warning - some of these maps are EXTREMELY large, like 13000x5000 large. NSFCW (Not safe for child within)