Oct 6, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
This week we played through (with a guide) Castlevania II: Simon's Quest for the NES! Join us next week for some game that involves the 13th on the NES!
All right.
It was released in the United States in 1988, 1987 in Japan.
The genre, um, it's a non-linear, open world, action-adventure RPG.
Oh, yeah.
I think RPG kinda takes all of that, but RPGs can be all sorts of styles, and this one is, like, a side-scrolling action-adventure.
More freedom
... your character and collect items and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, more freedom.
Oh, I said the open world, kinda.
Yep, yep.
I wanted to throw this out here too.
Ooh.
Or number three.
Sorry, it's not number three, it's number five.
I'm, I mis- I misspoke.
Number five.
Still pretty good.
All right.
It was released in the United States in 1988, 1987 in Japan.
The genre, um, it's a non-linear, open world, action-adventure RPG.
Oh, yeah.
I think RPG kinda takes all of that, but RPGs can be all sorts of styles, and this one is, like, a side-scrolling action-adventure.
More freedom
... your character and collect items and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, more freedom.
Oh, I said the open world, kinda.
Yep, yep.
I wanted to throw this out here too.
Ooh.
Or number three.
Sorry, it's not number three, it's number five.
I'm, I mis- I misspoke.
Number five.
Still pretty good.
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