If there is one videogame franchise that transitioned perfectly between different eras and hardware while successfully mixing things up considerably between each installment, it's Konami's classic Castlevania/Akumajou Dracula (Dracula's Demonic Castle) series.īorn in Nintendo's Famicom Disk System peripheral (a floppy disk/diskette drive for the japanese NES) in 1986 as a rather standard action-platformer with (in?)famously stiff gameplay, the original Akumajou Dracula was a surprise hit, receiving ports for the MSX2 OS (under the name of Vampire Killer), arcades (under the name of Haunted Castle) and finally a cartridge conversion (which was re-released much later in Japan with selectable difficulty levels) for the western NES, whose success made the Castlevania name stick to the franchise like industrial glue, at least in non-asian territories.
Castlevania - Rondo of Blood (english translation) Review by: pollution_skunk - 10/10
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