Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra

The separate Castlevania and contra collections are a better deal because they regularly go on sale and you don't pay much more than this collection and you get way more games plus a digital history book. Konami should take this collection down and just promote the others 2.

Note that this is a straight GOG distribution from the original distribution and this version has not really gotten some touch up or improvements. If you already own the original collection on CD, don't bother.

I remember completing certain parts of some of these and just screaming with joy because I survived somehow. Other times I remember screaming at the screen because I died and I was mad how unfair it was. Such blasts from the past.

A nifty collection I bought well before the Contra Collection or any of the Castlevania collections released. At the time, from a legacy perspective, it was neat, but it had massive limitations. Features the NES Castlevania trilogy and the first two Contra games for NES - and only localised roms in English. Only options configuration are universal control mapping, typical A + B, Start and Select. Offers save and load states, but no shortcuts or keybinds and only one per game, and also can only be played in fullscreen mode. Combined with barebones menus, it is a neat nugget of a bygone time where this was the ONLY collection on PC for these titles, but with Contra 1 through to Hard Corps existing with with their arcade ports and Japanese versions, alongside 3 Castlevania collections and the Requiem pack, there are considerably better polished alternatives.

I owned all these cartridges for my Nintendo growing up and even rented them when they first came out. Great games in a bare minimum presentation.