Castlevania Anniversary Collection (Nintendo Switch) £3.19 @ Nintendo eShop

Thanks op! Have bought it

Should have included Rondo of Blood/Castlevania X, no idea why it didn’t. What’s well done about this collection is that not only can you save anywhere, but you can also rewind, and that’s a particularly cool feature when you’re playing something as nails hard as the first Castlevania on the Gameboy (how they expected people to complete that game with the meagre amount of lives given I don’t know. There’s sections so brutal you have a split second to make the right move at exactly the right point on the screen or its game over). So the rewind function really helps make some of these impossible games possible without tearing your hair out.

There’s the original Japanese versions here too. As far as I’m aware the only difference is the music; they had an extra channel of sound on the Japanese NES (quoting from second-hand sources here) which makes the already brilliant soundtracks even more…. Brillianter!

Worth it for the soundtracks, Super Castlevania IV and Bloodlines alone, and that’s not including all the background notes and info on the making of the games. Bargain!