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Originally Posted by AlecRob

How did the three free games offer not be more successful? it sounds like a pretty good deal to me!:?

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It was pretty successful. Over half of all US Saturns were sold during the promotion. It went from selling 400,000 units total in 1995 (May to December), to selling 500,000 units in one month in December 1996.

Problem is, they did absolutely nothing to build on that success, and after early '97 effectively stopped promoting the system for no apparent reason.

If you let Super Castlevania IV run in title screen demo mode for a long time then it shows you all these weird remix levels that don't appear in the game. It always pissed me off as a kid that I couldn't find them. The one I remember most was an alternate fight with frankenstein. The room you faced him in was different. I think the original was the ice caverns.

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Originally Posted by j_factor

It was pretty successful. Over half of all US Saturns were sold during the promotion. It went from selling 400,000 units total in 1995 (May to December), to selling 500,000 units in one month in December 1996.

Problem is, they did absolutely nothing to build on that success, and after early '97 effectively stopped promoting the system for no apparent reason.

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That's really irritating. They should have had a new bundle in 97 and 98. the 97 bundle should have included Nights into dreams and Daytona CCE, and the '98 bundle should have included Burning Rangers and radiant silvergun:chewie:

Bernie Stolar actively killed the Saturn in 1997 because he believed it didn't have any good games and needed to be replaced and any money spent on marketing it was nothing but a drain on the company's resources. He is on the record saying this.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

Everyone seems to think that game is as good as side-scrolling CV gets. I, however, think its only "good."

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I'm just in the mood for more 16-bit Castlevania. IV is about the only other one I can play on any of my systems. I'll be getting all of them regardless.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

I'm just in the mood for more 16-bit Castlevania. IV is about the only other one I can play on any of my systems. I'll be getting all of them regardless.

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I've been playing a lot of Castlevania Chronicles on my PSP. Despite some incredibly cheap level design, I've really been enjoying it.

I'm thinking I'll try my luck with the Game Boy castlevanias now. :)

Castlevania II is quite nice. You might want to skip over Castlevanta Adventure, though.

Both games have better soundtracks than Super Castlevania, however.

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

Castlevania II is quite nice. You might want to skip over Castlevanta Adventure, though.

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I just did. But II just feels so darn slow (even on the overclocked Super Game Boy). I'm going to have to cycle my way back to it when I don't have a memory of the awesomeness that was the smoothness of Bloodlines. Maybe it's time for another Genesis platformer, methinks.

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Both games have better soundtracks than Super Castlevania, however.

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Come on now. Are you guys going to kiss and make-up or what? I'm not sure about you two, but I know for sure I'll be playing both of them and enjoying them and loving them equally (I'm talking about Bloodlines and Super Castlevania IV).

It's strange to me that this series has such a huge following. They're good games, but they're just as many similar games that are just as good that no one cares about. Maybe it's the horror setting.

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Originally Posted by old man

It's strange to me that this series has such a huge following. They're good games, but they're just as many similar games that are just as good that no one cares about. Maybe it's the horror setting.

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You mean "there are"?

If so name them (But remember. They have to be "just as good").

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Originally Posted by old man

It's strange to me that this series has such a huge following. They're good games, but they're just as many similar games that are just as good that no one cares about. Maybe it's the horror setting.

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I agree. Mega Man is better.

Sorry, responding to this here as well as I don't want to derail the movie thread:

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

Don't you just love how they implied that the entirety of the world's boxing viewership turned their eyes away from good old boxing to watch some geeks work a couple of robots by remote (something even a little kid could do)? Heck, it's cheesy alright. But no, they couldn't go the smart route and imply boxing in the future would become illegal and, thus, the next best thing would ensue. Total "Over the Top" ripoff.

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Sounds naff, but I used to watch a show based on that very concept. "Robot Wars"; hosted by Lister from Red Dwarf (Craig Charles), extremely popular over here in the late 90s to early 2000s. Used to run home from college on a friday night just to watch it. I don't agree with the concept of robots being used to replace humans in boxing (that's just daft), but I do suggest giving the show a watch; there's some clips of it up on Youtube (here's one).

^I used to watch it too.

My take on that was that the movie implied that every singe boxing enthusiast, fan, viewer, etc. would be replacing their love for the sport for something completely non-physical like remote controlling a robot.

Robot Wars, however, was awesome as its own source of entertainment. I remember I would root most for the household types (like something father and son would come up with on the weekend); and I would always root against 1. the kind that was made by a bunch of techies with obvious training and resources or 2. the kind of robot that would be mostly defense, and one single mallet offense. In other words, something like this:

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...6/TerrorHZ.jpg

That's just cheating, imo. ;)

Yeah, the House robots were awesome. Always loved to see them tearing a bot to shreds after a match. :D