![]() Players can replenish health by finding hidden meat in the walls and can gain a new life by gaining a certain number of points (which are gained by defeating enemies, picking up money bags, and completing a block). Each screen transition leads to a new stage players will eventually reach an area where they have to deplete a boss' life meter which allows them to progress. Once he loses all lives, he begins at the beginning of the block of stages players are in (of which there are six). ![]() When his life meter is depleted or he falls into a pit, he will lose a life. Simon has a life meter and begins with three lives. Simon's whip has a delay between the player's button input and Simon's use of it. The credits feature modified names of film actors such as Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Christopher Lee.Ĭastlevania uses platform gameplay and gives Simon a Magic Whip to use as his standard method of combat as well as move and jump. He escapes the castle as it crumbles apart and credits roll. Simon encounters Dracula in his lair and defeats him. Simon battles numerous bosses along his way, including Frankenstein, Igor, the Mummy Man, the Phantom Bat, Queen Medusa, the Grim Reaper, and Count Dracula himself. ![]() IGN ranked it 19 among their favourite NES games.Ĭastlevania puts players in control of Simon Belmont as he travels through Count Dracula's castle, which emerges every 100 years. It sold impressively and is considered an NES classic by PC World, while Nintendo Power and Game Informer ranked it in their best video games list (at 22 and 48 respectively). It has received critical acclaim ever since its original release. A fourth game was released for the Super NES and titled Super Castlevania IV.Ĭastlevania is often considered to be one of the best games on the NES. 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). It was re-released for the Family Computer (FC) in cartridge format in 1993. The game takes place in the year 1691 where players control Simon Belmont who is tasked with defeating the vampire Dracula. ![]() 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. ![]() We are working on the others.Ĭastlevania, known in Japan as Akumajou Dracula is a action-platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System video game console in Japan in September 1986. This game can be played also in a version for DOS. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java). ![]()
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