A massive 1997 compilation spanning every Castlevania game from the NES through the TurboGrafx-16 era. This Music Collection covers the entire classic run, from the Famicom Disk System original through Vampire's Kiss on SNES.
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Hearing "Vampire Killer" evolve from the NES version to the X68000 remake to the PC Engine rendition is genuinely fascinating. "Bloody Tears" from Simon's Quest shows up and then keeps reappearing across later entries in new forms.
The Genesis/Mega Drive Bloodlines tracks bring a completely different crunch. Haunted Castle's arcade versions have this raw, boomy quality. Even Kid Dracula gets represented, both the Famicom and Game Boy versions. This is the Castlevania archive, plain and simple.
If you want to trace how one franchise's sound evolved across nearly every platform of its era, this is where you go.