Still, if you’re dedicated to recreating the experience, it’s worth a trip to your local brick-and-motor neighborhood video game store, which more often than not specializes in selling old video games. Meanwhile, getting an NES is a different story, as finding a working NES in 2017 is a time-consuming task for which few people have the patience. Depending on condition, NES Castlevania games range anywhere between $15 to $80 or $90 on eBay. If in the unlikely event you still have an NES or are willing to shell out for a used, working console, getting an actual Castlevania game cartridge won’t be as expensive or as difficult as you might think. Break out your actual NES and buy Castlevania. If you manage to binge through every half-hour episode in one sitting - which should be easy, since there are only four - and want to check out the original games, like the original Castlevania or Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (the source material for the anime), here’s how you can play them. And the show is pretty dang good written by acclaimed comic book writer Warren Ellis ( Transmetropolitan) and produced by Adi Shankar, a Hollywood producer ( The Grey, Dredd) known for making adult-oriented fan films such as the viral hit POWER/RANGERS. On Friday, internet TV giant Netflix released the dark, violent first season of Castlevania, a new anime based on the classic Konami adventure games released originally on the Nintendo NES.
