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I'm with Golgo, I'd rather drink a gallon of someone else's puke and burn my eyes out with a poker.

Awesome, I listened to one track and then downloaded it
(My wife is gonna think i'm a loon though...)

mmm, Bloodlines (a real Castlevania) with NO Belmonts and 1 stage set in Castlevania...
Only redeeming feature is Michiru Yamane's soundtrack.
To each his own though.

Golgo, No problem. I'd pick up Rondo as it has far more replayability than Rebirth's 6 stages...I think Rondo may be cheaper too.

Rebirth seemed more like an tribute to Castlevania than the real deal.

You can save your progress, when you lose all lives you can save and quit.

Also with Rebirth, at the game start screen push right for 5 seconds to start at previous levels you've completed.

@ Crunc, Rondo has some very tough bosses, However if you unlock Maria you can cheese your way through. minor SPOILERS...

One stage is just one long boss fight and I had a very hard time getting past it.

Cross Fear.
Slash.
Moonfight.

Ugly PSP graphics for the remake? Does that include the remade intro or the pre-boss cut scenes? Castlevania never looked so good...

So no one else is pissed at the fact they release Rebirth and Rondo within two weeks? If I had known I would of only had to wait a week for the far superior Rondo I would of saved my points, I think thats kinda a dirty trick on Nintendo's part.

I love Castlevania to the point that it's my favourite game series, but Rebirth is not worth the points, far too short and not much replay value, it would of been far better suited to the DSi.
Now I'm going to have to wait frigging ages to get any points again >

Bioware got my money this week.

Castlevania won't be the same without Michiru Yamane

Wouldn't it be great if all Wii & DS games came with a option NOT to wave your arms around like a loon and scratch the sh$t out of yr lovely DS screen? I love Indiana Jones and would of bought a version but I really dont want to use the wiimote like a whip and so on, I want to kick back and play games like this, thats why I bought the cube version of Twilight Princess.
There are plenty of games which give you the option to use a classic controller. kudos to those companys that do so.

I traded it in, It comes no-where close to the first one. It's almost as bad as a fan boy remake.
The character swaps are dull and pointless, the level designs were boring & uninspired and trying to grab red coins annoyed the living crap out of me, at least in the first game you had a chance of grabbing red coins and then if you didn't grab them all you had a better chance next time, this one? GAMEFAQS...>

If you love the first game, don't even bother with this one. seriously.
It's insulting & just a cash in.

This is the best Shinobi out there, and that includes the arcade version. Shinobi III has it's moments (jet-powered surfboard) but never comes close. Took me a long time to finish it back in the day unlike #3 and I even recieved a medal for it, presented by the Queen herself.

I love you Nintendo, All is forgiven for the last few months of VC dross.
Don't do it again.
x

"with this outfit, no girl can withstand my power"

Excellent release and a classic C64 game, the sound effects bring back fond memories

@BlackFira, There was a cheat on that last level so you could grenade 006 through a shed, Worked on all difficulty levels too, so opening up those sweet bonus levels were a breeze:)

C'mon, You really believe Pitstop 2 holds up these days compared to other C64 games? How about some Monty Mole, or ATF, Bolderdash, The Batman games, Dizzy series. Do I need to go on?
So yeah, thats me disregarding the C64...

Yay! Another beat em up...:S

Can we please have something different from shooters and beat em ups? Who the hell is in charge of putting VC games out? Sounds like two people, A beat em up maniac and a dribbling moron who's never heard of C64 before.
How about a N64 FPS? Turok 1 & 2 would do nicely, I'm not even going to hold out hope for Doom 64...
Or how about Pilot wings? or a SNES decent platformer? The amount of classic games on C64, and they put out crud like Pitstop 2...
I haven't bought a VC game in months too, I'm temped by Splatter House 2 but I know how hard it is, so thats wasted money.

Rant over and congrats for those waiting for SShowdown 2.

Yes! This was the version I wanted when I d/l the Megadrive version on VC.
Ploughed lots of 10p's into the arcade version of this

Mmm Super Hang-On...

Another Thunder Force III and IV vote

RetroGamer is a great read, I just had to pick up the Manic Miner issue, a two page spread of all the levels! Brought back some great frustrating memories

Just. Want. Some. Pilotwings.

D/L this last night, I wasn't going to till I found it was the same version I played in the ye olde arcades.
Man, it's tough...till I found the option screen o_O

I'll prolly give it a miss, which is a shame because the music on that video is awesome.
The C64 had such a great soundchip...

I'd like to know how this plays with the classic controller, and in terms of difficulty, how does this rate? what game can it compared to?
Also, more ninja games please :TG-16 Shinobi arcade and Revenge of Shinobi for Genesis/Megadrive

I'm sure I can hear the sound of mocking laughter from Japan

And if you need RoB so bad, I suggest forking out for the PSP version while you wait. If you're into Castlevania that bad, chances are you'll have it already.

Dazza, I think it was one of the best scrolling beat-em up's on the Speccy, It had great levels, and if you were lucky enough to have it for the 128k it loaded all in one go and had excellent music.
Loved the car park level with the bikes/bikers (Can't beat a flying kick to a speeding bike!) and the level with those annoying dogs.

One of the few Speccy games I finished

Double Dragon for the Megadrive/Genesis instead please.

We need Target Renegade for the Spectrum 128k

I thought Ninty's plan was to release decent VC games when Wii releases dry up? So why did EU get 4 games on Friday when MKWii came out? Don't you think it would of made sense for EU and NA to get SNES Mario Kart in case people couldn't afford MKWii?
And yeah MKWii is great but really it's not that groundbreaking, Most of the new tracks are meh...

I am really starting to lose intrest in the VC.
For me, at one point Nintendo were starting to pull in front of XBL

My bad then, I always thought it was a true port.
It will be great to play RoB full screen on TV rather than the letterbox the S&L PSP gives you.

What was so bad about the PSP version of RoB? The remake was beautiful and it had the original version on there as well.
The only thing bad on that UMD was the butchered version of SoTN.
Regardless, this is great news and I can't wait to download RoB

Rather just have the whole package rather than drip fed to us.
I don't mind games being delayed if there're adding more stuff to it, but paying for content that really should of came with/or could be unlocked it is kind of a F U to gamers.

I hope the trend stops.

Another Castlevania whore here too so...Yes please! Castlevania and Gradius content will delight me in several strange but erotic ways.
How about releasing some Castlevania Anime on the channel? huh? huh?

And dont give Iga ideas Kenryoku, The SotN remake on the PSP is dreadful

I really hope so Joxe, but from what I've read he (David Braben) expected Elite 4 to be finished roundabout 2012 :S

Interesting, I'll have to check it out but I'd rather just have Elite 4 please.

Yup, great music if you can hear it above the sound of the carnage
Awesome game all round though, The 2nd one is too on rails for me so I'm sticking with this one and waiting for the Amiga versions.

At last a decent game! Super Turrican is getting downloaded soon as I get home

I just remembered a series of games for C64 that I would pick up.

Monty Mole...I played the living crap out of Auf Wiedersehen Monty on the spectrum 128+ (it had music while playing! wooo)

And another vote for Turrican, though I would prefer the Amiga versions.

Dazza, Check out the remake of head over heels http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/
Did the C64 have the Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond Batman game? I'd d/l that np.

Ooh Uridium, great shooter! though I had the speccy version which was great.

Temped, but going to hold out for the Thunderforce series, Prefer ships over mechs (or whatever those things in Lords of Thunder are)

Castlevania III next week please

Damn, I have 2900 points waiting for a decent game...least the wife will happy with Lolo 2 :S

I know how you feel saturnkid, I couldnt wait anymore so I recently bought a PSP just to play Rondo of Blood (Dracula X chronicles)
(will still buy when/if it turns up on VC)

Nice, I just hope we get something like that for N64 games,
I found the classic controller terrible for StarFox64, so much in fact I haven't gone back to playing it and regret my purchase, I had no problem with it using a N64 pad back in the day either.

So, fingers crossed for a N64 pad, I can't see the N64 FPS games working very well without it, I believe this could be the reason why there are NO FPS from the N64 catalogue on the VC.
I wants some Turok 1 & 2 and Doom 64...

Best Castlevania on the VC at the moment, Though It might lose it's crown when Castlevania 3 finally appears.
Even though I prefer the Metroidvanias, This is pretty high up on my all time favourites list.
One of the best Castlevania soundtracks, great graphics and top gameplay.
(Note to Konami, bring back the 8 way whipping!)

5/5

Bought it for the wife, Cant stand it myself but she loves it.
Im no good at puzzle games, I get her to do the puzzles in other games too

Top game, owned it back in the day as well.
A remake on the DS would be great.
4/5

Good stuff guys, great changes.