Journey To The Heart of Castlevania

Via Press the Buttons, a website entitled The Castlevania Dungeon. Everything you could want to know about the Belmonts and their quest against undead ickyness is detailed here, with extensive plot details and screenshots. The site also has several features, including details on who made the games, magazine scans from previews and reviews, and Simon Belmont on Captain N.

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This site has been around for years

[Zork the Almighty]

This site has been around for at least 6-7 years.

Re:This site has been around for years

[Guppy06]

"This site has been around for at least 6-7 years."

Seriously, why doesn't Slashdot post a link to Zophar's Domain while we're on the subject of old video game sites.

However, as long as we're talking about sites hosting on classicgaming.com, I'll throw in my two cents and say I prefer the Metroid Database myself...

Re:This site has been around for years

[HunterZ]

Mod parent up. I was going to say the same thing :)

I do have a problem with zophar.net though - it isn't getting updated very often these days. I recently searched google and found a few other sites that had more recent updates (and more of them). I also noticed that the emulation scene seems to have slowed down a bit in the last year or so...

Re:This site has been around for years

[MilenCent]

There are dozens of these kinds of sites, maybe of them hosted by Classic Gaming. I've seen several for Zelda, a few for Mario, one for Blaster Master, one for Shmups in general, one for the Guardian Legend, etc, etc.

Still my favorite, although it's been officially dead for five years now, is |tsr's NES Archive. Oh |tsr, where have you gone?

Re:This site has been around for years

[Muramasa]

tsr is fenegi now.

This is his blog:
http://www.video-fenky.com/

He writes for gaming magazines these days.

Re:This site has been around for years

[MilenCent]

Ah, cool! Glad to see he's still around.

Yes..

[sinner0423]

The classicgaming site is kind of old, the only really interesting link one would find on it would be the emulation one.

I love the little disclaimer they have regarding the "24 hour rule" about downloading roms. It's about as good as the whole Bill Clinton Privacy Act of 1995 I see on every other irc channel.

I wish stuff like that actually worked - I'd warn all the cops that walking up to my window automatically disqualifies me from any speeding tickets.

Nevertheless...

[Ranma-sensei]

I think it's pretty cool that old sites like this get mentioned - even if the more fascinating thing about this one is - for me, personally - that it's been around for at LEAST 8 years. Pretty cool, eh?

News just in...

[LewieP]

some games get fansites

OSTs

[SecretMethod70]

One of the coolest things about this site for me is the soundtrack stuff it has. Castlevania has had some awesome music, and even more awesome albums of it. I found this site a couple years ago and would HIGHLY recommend the Dracula New Classic, Dracula Battle Perfect Selection, and Dracula Battle 2 Perfect Selection albums. Some of the best video game music albums ever. Not to mention there's no way in Hell most people will hear Dracula New Classic if they don't get it from this site - last time I looked, it went for around $200 on ebay!

Re:OSTs

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd also recommend checking out Zophar's Domain, they have a great selection of the original castlevania chiptunes (among others) and also a nice selection of different players. Castlevania IV and Symphony of the Night are still remarkable, much better than many redbook soundtracks.

http://www.zophar.net/music.html

What?

[Flyboy Connor]

Submitting a story about an old website on your favorite retro-game can get you accepted? I have gone about this completely the wrong way!

Re:What?

[WidescreenFreak]

The incompetent mods strike again. This should have been +5 insightful or a combination of insightful/funny by now because he's absolutely right. A fan site that has been around for years gets picked as a topic of the day? If this was the criteria for a submission, we'd have tens of thousands of fan sites getting /. headlines every month.

That's not to say that the mentioned web site is not of particular value; but considering that this is a site that touts "News for Nerds", that also assumes that nerds know how to use search engines for fan sites that have been around for a long time. And this is not news particularly when you consider that the first three letters of "news" is "new", which this web site is not.

Karma be damned in this particular instance. I've learned that many times negative moderation means that the poster is right but the mods just don't like the fact that the poster was right.

time periods

[CoffeeJedi]

i know that the series jumped around a bit in the Belmont family history, but was there ever a game set in the 20th century?

i always thought a good Castlevania game could be done during or before World War II, with a Wolfenstein-esque story of Drac aligning himself with the nazis in a bit of comic-book geekery

Re:time periods

[Tempest_2084]

IIRC Castlevania Bloodlines (Genesis) was set in the early 20th Century (World War I era). There was a level where you went through a German factory and had to defeat skeletons that were wearing army helmets. There was also a level that was cut out of the final version that featured a German dirigible in the background.

Re:time periods

[Anonymous Coward]

The latest GBA castlevania (Aria of Sorrow) took place in 2000 I think, right on the millennium? I can't remember exactly, but it was around then.

I think a WW2 setting would be great, I've liked how those stories turned out in comics like Fable and Hellboy.

Re:time periods

[MilenCent]

Aria of Sorrows (and the upcoming, DS sequel) takes place in the future, after a mysterious event that was supposed to have taken place in the year 2000 that resulted in Drac's castle being sealed away "inside an eclipse." Interestingly, although the game takes place in the future you wouldn't know it by the graphics, except for a few cool weapons found late in the game, you'd think it was the 16th century still.

DS videos

[rishistar]

Their Dawn of Sorry page also has no link to any of the rather groovy trailers. http://www.gamershell.com/download_8186.shtml

Geez...

[Tickenest]

Well, if today is "Old NES Game Fansite Day", I'll mention my NES Contra Strategy Guide, the web's premier guide to Contra.

A better, more organized site

[EazyCheeze]

with LOTS of graphics and sprites, and very well-written backstory and speculation: Mr. P's Castlevania Realm! I've always preferred this site to Classicgaming's one, although I did discover the Blood Debts fanfic on Classicgaming's Castlevania Dungeon. Very very cool fanfic.

I have the issue in the first link!

[MyDixieWrecked]

Holy crap. I've got that issue sitting on my desk. For some reason that issue of EGM has been sitting on my desk for years and I don't know why.

it's weird to see it on-screen.