Something I don’t really like seeing when someone asks a question like this, is everyone just jerking someone around with their recommendations.

I would advise first to feel your tastes out, what do you feel like doing? What do you think is worth your time and even money to invest in? Whatever you feel gravitates you, go for it.

Shut the fuck up about the woes with your ex. You’re meant to move on and seek new people. Your ex should be old news, out of sight and out of mind. No new potential date should have to hear you crying about your bad marriage, about how things were once good between you and the other person. Because that’s you not letting go, regardless of what you’ve been through.

And if you keep droning on about your past relationships, you are chopping down what interest there is between you and the new person. That’s why you don’t get anyone new.

I love inventors and creative engineers. They are huge parts of the reason that makes the world go round and without them, we wouldn’t have ever made it as far through the ages as we have.

Well in anyone’s defense, considering the time period that game was released in, how was anyone honestly supposed to know? If you didn’t have Nintendo Power helping you and very limited internet access, of course it was very cryptic and very unnecessary.

Kid Dracula was more or less a port of the NES version onto Game Boy so technically doesn’t count.

The only other one I can think of that you might be referring to is Castlevania Legends but they didn’t bother bundling it with this collection for whatever reason.

Meanwhile Steam over there, cutting down support for Windows 7 and 8. Which narrows people’s visitation when it comes to old games. Like, Steam is not notorious for the upkeep of old games, let’s be honest. They never were. The only games they cared about supporting is understandably, their own when it comes to modernizing. But a lot of the time, you see old DOS games released on there, old Win 9x/XP/7/8 .etc games released and they have aged poorly. The publisher nor developer lifts a finger, leaving it to community to do the leg work.

That is why the idea of Valve cutting Windows support offends me, because if you aren’t going to put in the work to make old games work as fluently with modern Windows OSes, why bother cutting support? Because some games, actually ran better on older hardware and yes I get it, coming across old hardware tends to be a challenge but virtualization and emulation doesn’t simply cut it. So that leaves again the only option is for Valve to swing that multi-billion dollar hand around, to get a program, that will make all old games run as well on modern systems.

This is where GOG has always been strong in.

Castlevania and Castlevania III for the NES side.

Super Castlevania IV

The two Game Boy Castlevanias.

They also include the Japanese versions too.

Simple - because it’s not Twitter.

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Should’ve read the signs.

The day GameInformer got shut down. The day IGN bought a handful of them, just to shut them down. Kotaku has been closing some of it’s branches.

Remasters should never be full MSRP price. That’s just cash grabbing to me. And this is from someone who doesn’t particularly care for RTS games.

Considering the political climate shift, I expect both of these to pass anyways.