Castlevania (1986 video game)

Castlevania
North American NES box art
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Director(s)	Hitoshi Akamatsu
Producer(s)	Akihiko Nagata
Programmer(s)	Nobuhiro Matsuoka
Artist(s)	Noriyasu Togakushi
Composer(s)	Kinuyo Yamashita Satoe Terashima
Series	Castlevania
Platform(s)	Famicom Disk System Family Computer Disk System, NES/Famicom, PlayChoice-10, Nintendo VS. System, Commodore 64, Amiga, DOS, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, AT&T Wireless mMode Network
Release	September 26, 1986 Famicom Disk System JP: September 26, 1986 NES/Famicom NA: May 1, 1987 PAL: December 19, 1988 JP: February 5, 1993 PlayChoice-10 & Nintendo VS. System NA: 1987 Commodore 64, Amiga & DOS NA: 1990 PAL: 1990 (C64 version only) Mobile phone JP: 2002 NA: July 7, 2004 PAL: 2004 Microsoft Windows NA: November 16, 2002 Game Boy Advance JP: August 10, 2004 NA: October 25, 2004 PAL: January 7, 2005 AU: November 24, 2005
Genre(s)	Action, platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player

Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame
GameSpot	7.1/10

Castlevania, known in Japan as Akumajou Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ, Akumajō Dorakyura^?, officially translated Devil's Castle Dracula), is an action-platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System video game console in Japan in September 1986. It was ported to cartridge format and released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in May 1987 followed by a European release in 1988.

The game takes place in the year 1691 where players control Simon Belmont who is tasked with defeating the vampire Dracula. It was re-released for the Family Computer (FC) in cartridge format in 1993. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series; it was followed by two more NES games titled Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (released for the NES in 1988) and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989). A fourth game, retelling the events of the original, was released for the Super NES and titled Super Castlevania IV.