Actually Pong was first video game. The first version of Pong was maden on the oscilloscope by some dude in the lab
Actually Storyline of castlevania originally count Stoker's novel, and Morris (both of them) was relative to the Belmont bloodline - that why they can kill Dracula, but not as effective as true Belmont can.
They really tried to made a Catlevania 2 a story-driven rpg-like game. They failed in some parts. But the plot was Dracula set a trap in the first game, and now Simon is poisoned with some serious shit and to save himself Simon Belmont have to kill Dracula again, to get refreshing Red Orb and cure himself.
You really was first man on my memory to call ghoul-form of Dracula a cookie-monster)))
And Splinter wasn't born as a rat. He was human, who mutated under the effect of ooze.