Castlevania

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Castlevania
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Companies Konami
First release date Sep 26, 1986
Original platform(s) FDS
Current official platform(s) Official emulation: VC

Sidescrolling platformer

Castlevania
One of the earliest third party NES classics, and one of the best. Castlevania achieves consistently high marks in polish, level design, and in realizing its gothic horror setting through level design, progression, and visuals - no mean feat on the primitive and restricting NES video hardware! There's an unusual sense of consistency and cohesion, you aren't just playing a set of levels, but feel like you are ascending Dracula's massive castle, each stage being a new environment logically connected with the last area and feeling like progress in your quest to reach and defeat him. And this quest is certainly challenging, but unlike so many challenging NES games, this one is slow paced, and will not tax your reflexes or wear out your thumbs with rapid button tapping. A deliberately stiff and heavy control style forces patient, alert, and precise play. Showcases Yamashita's debut soundtrack, beginning a long-running tradition of awesome video game music in the Castlevania series.
Key people Kinuyo Yamashita