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It was released in Japan in 1989, and in North America in 1990, and in Europe by Palcom in 1992. It was later released on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is the third installment in the Castlevania video game series. It is a prequel to the original game, set a
Logo of the Castlevania series. Castlevania is a video game series created and published by Konami.The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with Akumajō Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ, Akumajō Dorakyura, lit.
Castlevania (/ ˌ k æ s əl ˈ v eɪ n i ə /), known in Japan as Akumajō Dracula, [a] [2] is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Konami. The series is largely set in the castle of Count Dracula, the arch-enemy of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters. [3]
"Demon Castle Dracula") is the Japanese name of the Castlevania video game series, as it is known worldwide. In Japan, several games within the series share the Akumajō Dracula name: Castlevania, a 1986 action-platform game developed and published by Konami for the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System.
Nintendo later released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan in 1986, intending to have developers distribute all future games on proprietary 2.8-inch (7.1 cm) floppy disks to avoid the cost and size limitations of cartridges; however, developers began re-releasing FDS games on cartridges as advancements in cartridge technology made them ...
It is a remake of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, which was previously released in Japan on the PC Engine Super CD-ROM 2 in 1993. While the plot is similar to Rondo of Blood and it uses many of that game's graphics, it features new levels and altered gameplay elements, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] rather than being a direct port because of the limits of the ...
Castlevania, known in Japan as Akumajō Dracula, [a] [6] is a 1986 action-platform game developed and published by Konami.It was originally released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System in September 1986, [7] before being ported to cartridge format and released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987 and in Europe in 1988.
The plot of Castlevania was re-used in the games Vampire Killer, Haunted Castle, Super Castlevania IV and Castlevania Chronicles. In the manual of the second game, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest , it is revealed that, in his dying moments at the end of the first game, Dracula placed a curse on Simon, which condemned him to slowly die from his ...