Talk:Castlevania (1986 video game)

message: They take up half the page, and seem to not add all that much to the actual article itself. Hbdragon88 22:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Screenshots look fine to me, always good to have a overview about the different incarnations of a game and how they looked compared to each other. -- Grumbel 02:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are all of the screenshots necessary? 

message: Could someone clarify the use of the name "Dracula" in the original NES game? I own the original NES American release, and it [i]specifically[/i] avoids calling the vampire "Dracula," and instead calls him "The Count." By the NES American release of "Simon's Quest," he is called "Dracula," but not before. It sounds like there may have been copyright worries here ala Conan/Case Closed.
Please note - perhaps the Japanese version of the game used the name "Dracula," but the American version disparity should be addressed. --L. 22:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dracula? 

message: Not really sure if it is relevant for the article, but one thing I find confusing about the Castlevania series is that they use hearts as mana or energie for the second weapon and not for filling the life energie. Does anybody know why Castlevania does use hearts for that purpose, which seems to conflict with the conventions in basically all other games I know. -- Grumbel 02:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearts as Mana/SecondWeapon-Energie? 

message: Regarding Castlevania, in almost every article except this one is stated that the MSX2 Vampire Killer is the original version of the first Castlevania, which came out before the Nintendo FDS version. IF this is true, shouldn´t it be included here?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.141.237.211 (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MSX2 Vampire Killer the original version? 

message: All the sources I've read that refer to exact release dates point to the following:
Akumajô Dracula- 22 September 1986, Famicom Disk System
Vampire Killer- 30 October 1986, MSX2 Home Computer
Castlevania- 1 May 1987, Nintendo Entertainment System
This information can be found at Moby Games, among other places.  Although I still have these games today and played them when I was much, much younger, I don't remember myself (obviously), the exact release dates of them.
Regardless, there are several other places that attest that Vampire Killer is an "adaptation" of Akumajô Dracula, such as the Castlevania Dungeon and VG Museum.
So, it seems that the "first game" came out in September (whether it was the 22 or the 26) and then was adapted into a more difficult and more RPG-like version called Vampire Killer, named after the whip Simon used.
--Yahweh 22:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vampire Killer is the Second Game, I believe 

message: In this article it is stated that Simon is the great-grandson of Christopher Belmont, but this seems unlikely.  Christopher Belmont fought Dracula from 1576-91 and Simon didn't fight Dracula until a century later (1691-98).  Thus, it seems more likely that Simon is Christopher's great-great-grandson, or in other words, as stated on the Simon Belmont article, the great-grandson of Soleiyu Belmont (who "came of age" in 1591). --Yahweh 22:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: chronicles manual says he is the great grandson of christopher. end92.14.217.219 (talk) 10:40, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simon Belmont 

message: The plot section seems to be marketing copy. Even if it isn't, it could use with sprucing up. Lots42 (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot 

message: In the Castlevania manual, it states that the game can be played by two alternating players. It also states that by pressing SELECT at the title screen you switch to 2-player mode. Was this a planned feature that was never used? 72.161.200.85 (talk) 03:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of Players 

message: I don't know much about the Castlevania series beyond the original game, but the second paragraph in the header seems to contradict itself:
:"The storyline of Castlevania is part of the fictional universe of the Castlevania series, which features the struggle between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the vampire lord Dracula. The game is set in the past relative to its predecessors and the plot follows the adventures of Simon Belmont, a descendant of Trevor Belmont."
Castlevania being the first game in the series (first released, mind you--I'm given to understand that the stories in some games in the series are set chronologically before the original's), how can it have predecessors?  Assuming that what is meant is that these other games are predecessors in the chronology of the series, as opposed to the timeline of the games' releases, then Castlevania can't be "set in the past relative" to those games if their stories precede Castlevania's chronologically.
Could someone in the know clear this up? -- Pennyforth (talk) 06:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory paragraph? 

message: I remember playing some sort of side-scrolling, black and white, castle/dungeon game on an early Macintosh computer.  I thought it was Castlevania, but I don't see a version that was release for the Mac platform.  Does anyone know what game this might have been?  Faint memories recall a castle, bats flying around, and similar basic gameplay to most Castlevania games.  -Speedeep (talk) 13:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Castlevania-like game on Macintosh? 

message: What is the pressumed value of the original Castlevania arcade machine, all original, unserviced and in proper working condition?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.224.148 (talk) 04:20, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Value of the Original Castlevania Arcade machine 

message: so, they just took some celebrities' names and changed them at random? what's the point? is that supposed to be funny? was the game made by grade schoolers?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.242.135.36 (talk) 22:35, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  whats up with the credits 

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message: I remember seeing this at my local arcade, exact same game as the NES version, however. Should this be noted, maybe it was on one of the playchoice machines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.48.105.202 (talk) 05:01, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it would have been one of the PlayChoice units. The only arcade-specific Castlevania game is Haunted Castle, which was rather different as it wasn't initially intended as a Castlevania game but was made into one during development. oknazevad (talk) 09:33, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Also an arcade game

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Not moved - No consensus for the proposed move. Essentially the primary topic here is disputed. (non-admin closure)  FOARP (talk) 09:41, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Castlevania (1986 video game) →  – Definitely the most-known game titled simply 'Castlevania'. A google search of "Castlevania" "video game" produces only series articles or articles about this game (It might eventually produce a non-NES article, but I haven't seen it). The video game disambig isn't even used for another game, so it's a bit of a waste, and people can be easily directed to the other entries with a disambignote at the top. Cukie Gherkin (talk) 01:03, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: While I, of course, support the generally accepted concept of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, I am against incomplete disambiguation. Having stated that, I am aware of the existence of Wikipedia:Partially disambiguated page names#List of reported partially disambiguated article titles and their characteristics, all of which are the result of WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. Thus, if a sufficient number of votes support this nomination, Castlevania (video game) will have the opportunity of joining the list. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:01, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Oppose. Completely unnecessary added ambiguity in a place where none currently is. Gonnym (talk) 16:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 31 January 2024