{"id":1325,"date":"2017-10-02T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2017-10-03T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:41:03","slug":"retro-scan-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1325\/retro-scan-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Castlevania: Symphony of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/castlevania_sotn_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/castlevania_sotn_small.jpg\" alt=\"First Castlevania Symphony of the Night Magazine Advertisement - EGM 1997\" class=\"retroscan size-medium wp-image-1327\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Fear has an address: 677 Bluebonnet Ln., Wichita, Kansas 67218<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>20 years ago today (Oct 2, 1997), Konami released Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in the US.  My life has been demonstrably better ever since.<\/p>\n<p>After reading a review of it in EGM, I knew I had to get the game.  So I did, and it was awesome.  This is probably still my favorite video game &#8212; or at least in the top three.  This is the game that inspired our beloved Metroidvania term and genre, and it&#8217;s still one of my favorite game genres to this day.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1997, p.8-9 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite Castlevania game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear has an address: 677 Bluebonnet Ln., Wichita, Kansas 67218 20 years ago today (Oct 2, 1997), Konami released Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in the US. My life has been demonstrably better ever since. After reading a review of it in EGM, I knew I had to get the game. So I did, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[206,150,83,1493,295,1495,60,1494],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-206","tag-advertisement","tag-anniversaries","tag-castlevania","tag-egm","tag-metroidvania","tag-retro-scan","tag-symphony-of-the-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}