Return to Castlevania’s roots with Arcade Archives’ Worried Castle

Simon Belmont makes the jump to coin-op

This week’s liberate from the staunch of us over at Hamster returns to the formative years of indubitably one of gaming most-loved franchises, as Konami’s whip-crackin’ adventure Worried Castle joins the Nintendo Swap Arcade Archives fluctuate.

Released in arcades motivate in 1988, Worried Castle became the first Castlevania title developed particularly for the coin-op market, following the dwelling console success of 1986’s Castlevania and Vampire Killer, and 1987’s Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. A hodge-podge of lore and aspects from the monster-looking out collection, Worried Castle sees Simon Belmont battle thru six phases in expose to rescue his wife Serena from the wicked Depend Dracula. Oh, we also catch to watch our boy Simon getting married in a slick white tuxedo… throughout the middle-ages.

Inspect the motion within the video below, courtesy of YouTuber NintendoComplete.

Despite the punch-up in tech energy, Worried Castle aspects a lot of mechanics and parts familiar to Castlevania, from its areas and monsters, to its exhaust of whips, morning stars, and throwable sub-weapons. Worried Castle also contains both remixes and debuts of quite a lot of licensed Castlevania topics. For many, Worried Castle became an entry into the Castlevania franchise, and while it’s rarely up there as indubitably one of many collection’ ideal iterations, its significance in bringing the legendary model to a powerful broader target market can now not be discounted.

Worried Castle is now available to download on Nintendo Swap, priced at $8. It became beforehand launched on PS4. It could per chance perchance per chance presumably merely serene also be worthy that Worried Castle is equipped as share of the Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection, even supposing the Hamster liberate lets in avid gamers the choice of Japanese, U.S., or European ROM sets.