VC Friday: A huddle of Halloween horrors

With a fresh Halloween upon us, Nintendo has settled on a horror theme for its latest update to the PAL Virtual Console. Nintendo restricting itself in this way could have gone tragically wrong -- they could have given us something terrible like Friday the 13th, for example -- but instead the results are ... really, really good.

• Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse -- NES -- 500 Nintendo Points

• Devil World -- NES -- 500 Nintendo Points

• Ghosts 'N Goblins -- NES -- 500 Nintendo Points

Normally we'd whoop unashamedly for Ghosts 'N Goblins alone, but Castlevania III, which is yet to be released on the U.S. or Japanese Virtual Consoles? And Devil World, which North America has also been waiting on (for almost a quarter of a century)? Yeah, we'll take those. Watch bone-chilling footage of all three past the break.

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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES)


Devil World (NES)


Ghosts 'N Goblins (NES)