Platform: Famicom Disk System
Region: NTSC-J
Country: Japan
Developer(s): Konami
Publishers(s): Konami
ReleaseDate: 1986-09-26
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Akumajou Dracula
Also know as: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania | Akumajō Dracula | Akumajō Dorakyura | Demon Castle Dracula
Akumajō Dracula (also known as Castlevania) is a 1986 Famicom Disk System side-scrolling horror action platformer video game developed and released by Konami in Japan on September 26, 1986. Transylvania enjoyed a century of peace thanks to the legendary hero, Christopher Belmont, a vampire hunter who vanquished Count Dracula one hundred years earlier with a holy whip named Vampire Killer. While the Easter celebration carried on with a grand carnival, evil men gathered in a monastery at the edge of the village and conducted a black mass to resurrect Count Dracula. The men succeeded in bringing their master back. A bolt of lightning enveloped the monastery where they held the rite, signaling the resurrection of Count Dracula. When the Count returned, his Castle, which had fallen one hundred years prior, reappeared in Transylvania, and his legions of loyal minions reformed. Simon Belmont, the descendant of Christopher Belmont, knew that as a member of the Belmont Clan and the current wielder of the Vampire Killer whip, it was his duty to bring peace and stability back to Transylvania by destroying Dracula.
ESRB Rating: E - Everyone
Genre(s): Action | Platform | Horror
