Castlevania, known as Akumajō Dracula in Japan, is a console video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan in September 1986. A year later, in May 1987 it was ported to cartridge format and released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System followed by a European release in 1988. It was re-released for the Family Computer in cartridge format in Japan in 1993. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series. The player takes control of Simon Belmont in the year 1691, who must defeat the vampire Dracula. A sequel,... Simon's Quest, was released for the NES a few years later. Castlevania is a typical platform game of the 8-bit era: the game is composed of six levels, which are played in a strictly linear progression. The player controls Simon Belmont throughout the game. The A button allows Simon Belmont to jump just like other platformer games, such as Super Mario Bros., but he can only jump straight up, left, or right; there is no midair control.
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