SIMON BELMONT ORIGINAL MOVIE
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Simon Belmont was born in the year 1669 as the heir to the Belmont Clan and the legendary “Vampire Killer”, a magical Belmont whip they used to slay any and all bloodsuckers. The first protagonist, and what many people know as the original hero of Castlevania, is Simon Belmont. The story of Castlevania chronicles the lives of the Belmonts, a family of vampire hunters who are locked in an ever-raging battle with Count Dracula. Read More: Challenge accepted: 5 of the most difficult games you’ll ever play Simon Belmont (Castlevania) Here’s to you Bill, one of the first gaming action heroes to bless our existence. In 2010 Nintendo Power magazine (which was one of the longest running gaming magazines in the US) named Bill their 17 th favourite hero in gaming because of his aptitude for saving the world.

SIMON BELMONT ORIGINAL MOVIE

His appearance was based on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his name was a combination of Bill (Bill Paxton) and Rizer (Paul Reiser), both of whom played in the movie Aliens.īill’s last true appearance was in the Playstation exclusive, Contra: Shattered Soldier (2002), although a clone version of him did appear in Neo Contra (2004). His likeness was a mash-up of several action movie starts.

Don’t mess with Bill.īill Rizer first appeared in 1987 with the release of the original Contra. Bill didn’t like this so he decided to start his own little group, the Contra Force, and did what he did best, killed every single one of the unwelcome bastards. Soon after the Red Falcon appeared, a sadistic group of highly intelligent aliens bent on world domination. Naturally he picked up his gun and, without breaking a sweat, brought the Commonwealth crippling to its knees. That was until he saw his Imperial comrades execute a group of innocents. The hero of this unforgiving run and gun title is the all round somersaulting bad ass, Bill Rizer.īill used to be a high ranking war hero in the Commonwealth Army. To this day it is one of the most hardcore and gruelling challenges I’ve faced in my gaming years. Those of you who have been gaming for a long time will surely know of the once prolific action platformer, Contra. Read More: From Liquid to Solid: a Metal Gear Retrospective Bill Rizer (Contra) This icon and his legacy will be remembered for many years to come.

SIMON BELMONT ORIGINAL SERIES

The Metal Gear series is one of, it not the greatest gaming sagas to exist and at its helm sits Solid Snake, the hero of the franchise. The only exception is Kiefer Sutherland who will be voicing Solid Snake in the latest and final instalment of the franchise, The Phantom Pain. The same actors have been voicing Solid Snake since then (Akio Otsuka voicing the Japanese version and David Hayter the American). The 1998 title was also the first one to employ voice acting. It wasn’t until 1998, with the release of Metal Gear Solid (the first in the series to make use of 3D graphics), that Solid Snake took on his own appearance thanks to Japanese illustrator, Yoji Shinkawa. He was the newest rookie recruit of the FOXHOUND special forces team, an elite US Black Ops team that specialised in stealthy dealings with “local revolutions, regional complications, and global terrorist activities in ‘unauthorized” combat zones too politically sensitive to intervene through conventional mean.”Įarly versions of Solid Snake were loosely based on movie actions stars like Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel) from Escape from New York. Solid Snake first appeared in the original Metal Gear back in 1987. And leading it into the gaming hall of fame is the legendary FOXHOUND operative, Solid Snake. The Metal Gear series, the brain child of genius developer Hideo Kojima, is undoubtedly the greatest gaming franchise to emerge from the Konami enterprise. May your legacy live on forever… Solid Snake (Metal Gear series) So we here at Gearburn want to pay our respect to three legendary individuals that help put Konami on the map, they who have accompanied us on many epic adventures and kept us company into the early hours of the morning. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean the end of these characters, we probably won’t ever see them in their former glory and probably not see another icon join their ranks.

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