So, How did YOU find out about Cave Story?

Heard about Cave Story from a Cave Story 3D ad on the back of Nintendo Power.
Later I was browsing the demos section of the wii shop, and found the Cave Story demo.
I Downloaded the demo and tryed it.
A few months later, I heard online that Cave Story was free on PC, so I downloaded it.

 

First, I'll have to take you back to the period,

2010:
I was a 15 year-old boy who could sit on the computer for hours, then I was scrolling through images on deviantART and saw a picture labeled Quote and Curly "What stupid F**king names..." I thought. Hey, I was Irish, I'm not anymore, but I was at that point. I looked at the picture and I was like, "Oh cool some neat art for a game, I wonder what this game is" It said Cave Story in the description, yet I kept searching for a name because Cave Story doesn't sound like the name of a frequently proclaimed, Only Game on Earth. And after hours of searching through comments, I bit the bullet and searched up Cave Story, the game was up for download on this site. I played it, it was fun.

2012:
So, I was playing the game (And by "playing" I mean getting my anal cavity whooped by every boss.) when the question popped in my head, "Walkthroughs?" I typed in Cave Story again and came across this website, after playing through the game with absolutely no help whatsoever (Lie) I saw there was a forum for the game. I decided that people actually do need to hear my incredibly skewed opinion on the game and things in it, and signed up.

This probably explains a lot, but I don't know what exactly.

 

Saw fanart from raizy (who made the webcomic slightly damned) of the game that said that if I hadn't played that game then I needed to. When I hit Mimiga Village I realised that this game was much more than first cave led me to believe and pulled some all-nighters.

 

I happen to have, and still like an anime/manga called Hayate no Gotoku! aka Hayate the Combat Butler, and,
while searching for related games, I found this, From there, I saw what was, and is still, the latest blog post, you can read it for yourselves.

 

Friend asked me to draw Balrog for her.
I was curious why in the actual fuck he is a flying toaster, and googled "Balrog toaster".
Then I found Cave Story.

 

Back when Cave Story first was translated I had probably seen the game on Romhacking.net or something... I saw the screenshots, and I didn't see anything special. Graphics looked pretty so-so.

And frankly I had alot of other games to play, so I didn't even consider playing it.

I had been following Ys translations however... and I met a user named SkyeWelse. He quickly convinced me to try this game, and that he had a community forums...

The rest is history~

 

I was reading a copy of Nintendo Power a few years ago and I found an article of the game as WiiWare. How much I really wanted to play the game because it looked good. Last Winter, my uncle gave me his 3DS and it had some games downloaded to it and I found the DSiWare port of Cave Story. As soon as I started playing the game I fell in love with the story, the music, the graphics, and the controls. It felt very nostalgic when I played it.

 

I honestly don't remember the very first time I found out about the game but it was probably somebody on the GMG forums, who convinced me to go Google it and download the Mac version from the website. Yup. I don't even remember how long ago but it was before Cave Story + or Wii or any of the retail versions were released.

 

Around September 2012 i was looking for random demos to play on the wii, and found cave story. I found the forums by looking up questions.

 

Hi, new member.
Anyways, I found Cave Story through the PSP port.
I thought the psp port was the original, but then I found out it was originally on the pc.
Been a big time fan ever since.

 

I actually found out about Cave Story when it was added to the Mirai Gamer Forums way back in the past. I wish I still had my first account I used back then though.

 

I found out about it from Nintendo week. Got the demo. then realized it was a freeware.

 

I found out from a walkthrough by an awesome guy called PkGam.

 

Browing through the translation patches at Aeon Genesis... I honestly don't remember how long ago. Probably not too long after the translation was made.

 

I've known about it for ages but never got because I thought it was a wii exclusive and was oblivious to the original version and then one day while browsing steam (this month in fact) I decided to search "cave" and there it was cave story plus and that is how I gotit

I've known about it for ages but never got because I thought it was a wii exclusive and was oblivious to the original version and then one day while browsing steam (this month in fact) I decided to search "cave" and there it was cave story plus and that is how I gotit

 

How I found out Cave Story? Well, it started in when I was in middle school. One of my friends told me about a game that was a platformer that had elements of Metroid and Castlevania (known nowadays as Metroidvanias). Better yet it was free for PC! I went into the game completely blind (has it should be) and I fell in love (mainly with the character "Sue" ). Also many of the fan fictions are AMAZING!

Spoiler

When Tokoro died, it was one of the saddest deaths in all of the games I have played.

 

A year or so ago my friend was playing it at school and I thought it looked neat. Gave it a try, but never really got back to it till last month. Played it, beat it. Been continuing playing it on and off ever since.

 

I saw lots of stuff about it, so I searched it up to see what Cave Story was, played it, and loved it.

 

Well, I saw it mentioned in my copy of the official nintendo magazene under the wii ware section. I googled it and found it was avalible as pc freeware so I downloaded it and gave it a go.

 

I'd heard the game being mentioned around here and there but I'm never too sure why I never looked into it further. I ended up stumbling across the soundtrack on YouTube and after giving it a listen I was instantly hooked and downloaded the freeware version. Haven't looked back since! ^^