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Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
Marketed outside Romania as Dracula's Castle, it is presented as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler , voivode of Wallachia, whose byname 'Drăculea' resembles that of Dracula. [ 1 ]
Dracula's Castle is the main setting of the video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997), which was designed by Koji Igarashi.Players control the protagonist Alucard as they explore the castle, which was based on the traditional depiction of Castle Dracula from the horror novel by Bram Stoker and related media, and is one of numerous incarnations in the Castlevania series.
"Demon Castle Dracula"), which was later released as Castlevania in the United States (May 1, 1987) and PAL (December 19, 1988). Titles in the series have been released on numerous video game consoles , handheld game consoles , and personal computer platforms, and several have been re-released on multiple platforms and included as part of ...
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse [a] is a 1989 action-platform game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. 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.
Adams said that "Dracula is a creature of the night, the player is a creature of the day, so I was going to need multiple days to tell the story." [ 4 ] As the game was text adventure , he had little memory for the text in the game and counted on players being familiar with imagery from Dracula and Frankenstein stories and could get too in ...
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.
Vlad Țepeș Dracula (Japanese: ドラキュラ・ヴラド・ツェペシュ, Hepburn: Dorakyura Vurado Tsepeshu) or simply known as Dracula (Japanese: ドラキュラ, Hepburn: Dorakyura), real name Mathias Cronqvist, is a fictional character from the Castlevania video game series created by Konami.