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The Castlevania series found a perfect format and design on Nintendo

entertainment system. Even at its weakest that is Simon's quest. The NES

trilogy nevertheless enjoyed a perfect combination of style and mechanics with

one perfectly complementing the other. Castlevania however did not fare so

well when adventure onto other platforms and adopted other formats.

Arcade's spin-off haunted castle turned out to be a clumsy and heinously

unfair exercise in player abuse while Castlevania the adventure for Game Boy

lacked the balance and refinement to match its superb visuals and music. The

mechanics and feel of classic Castlevania really were tied to the NES hardware.

Its color palette, its sprite sizes and limitations, its distinct audio

processor and the crazy add-on chips Konami tech wizards like Keedinori

Meizawa cobbled together to help power the games. But as with all things time

marched along and Konami was eventually forced to leave the NES behind. The

series ended up putting in an appearance on all three next-generation consoles,

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