So Castle Crashers supposedly released 10 years ago

To honor the occasion I'll share my story of how I found about Castle Crashers and my experience.

I think I've heard the name tossed around various places online way back when I was 10 (2010) didn't know anything about the game, just heard it around. A few years later I merely heard it being mentioned in an Official Xbox Magazine when I was 14 (the issue was from 2010 or 2011 or so, they mentioned how it was a multiplayer game to play with your friends and shit).

Fast forward a few years, I got a Steam account in 2014 and I shared it with my brother and sister. My sister (10 years old at the time) made a friend online through Gmod, and coming during Christmas, we got a Steam card for 50$ to spend (we didnt have too many games on Steam yet). My sister's pal talked to her about Battleblock Theater, since that was somewhat new at the time, and then we ended up buying a copy for my account, and his. Steam had ridiculously good deals at the time, BBT was 90% off for 1.68$ CAD. Looking back it's pretty wild to see that. Anyways, I think he also mentioned Castle Crashers, so we bought that too, only for ourselves though, I think he already had it, and it was about $4.24 CAD at 75% off lol. 

My sister played Battleblock Theater with her buddy a lot, and I actually played Castle Crashers with my sister a lot! We played on our shitty ass laptop, but Castle Crashers still ran like a dream. The laptop screen was actually broken, so we had to set it up at the desk, and connect it to the shitty 4:3 monitor we still had from 2005 (I still use that monitor to this day lol). It was one of the games we had that had local co-op, but I had to connect my broken PS3 controller via some hacky bullshit lol. I remember when we played Castle Crashers, the controller would always be moving the character slightly to the left at all times, so you had to hold right a little bit if you wanted to stay still.

My sister would play as Hatty, since she really liked BBT, and I picked orange knight, for pretty much no reason lol. It was a great time playing through the game with her, probably my favorite memories of playing games with my sister. Althroughout childhood I'd mostly play games with my brother, since he was closer to my age so he had some SKILL. Me and her actually didn't beat the game by ourselves lol. We did get really far by ourselves throughout the year, I think we were a few stages away from beating the game, but then we played online with some rando's and they carried us to the end of the game lol.

A few years later in early 2016 I got into Newgrounds, and it wasn't until then when I realized that Tom Fulp made Castle Crashers AND Newgrounds, so it was like all the pieces in my life were connecting and at that time that was so wild. I didn't pay attention to the opening credits in CC or BBT lolol.

A few more years later (late 2017) I start playing it with my little brothers (twins, 5 years old) and they love it! My controllers broke though so I haven't played that game with them for a while, but everytime I see them they ask to play it

So overall Castle Crashers is pretty sweet, and my fondest memories of playing games with my sister come from that game so god bless it. Hopefully I can get some new controllers and play the game again with my little brothers