Castlevania NES manual

Cite as: Castlevania NES manual
Original: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NABQE_en.pdf
sha256: 3e07beb9597281e66f445362d68e682331ca4dedaa88ea8b7b208299e2ea6f09
Archived: https://archive.org/download/nesclassiceditionmanuals/CLV-P-NABQE.pdf
Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: © Konami; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition manuals, Internet Archive item nesclassiceditionmanuals
Notes: Facsimile of the NES instruction booklet; read the archive.org PDF scan, printed p. 4 (PDF p. 4), for the introduction and How to Play.

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In Konami's story, Dracula returns on an Easter night a hundred years after Christopher Belmont destroyed him, and Simon, of the Belmont line, goes alone into Dracula's castle with a whip handed down from his father.	`PDF p. 4, Introduction`	Publisher
Castlevania is for one player, who takes the hero through the passages and stairways of the castle, six floors of it, to a final duel with the Count in the tower.	`PDF p. 4, How to PlayPDF p. 4, How to PlayPDF p. 4, IntroductionPDF p. 4, Introduction`	Manual
Each stage has a head creature, whose damage a meter on screen tracks; it leaves a magic crystal that restores all of Simon's lost power.	`PDF p. 6, The ScreenPDF p. 12, The WeaponsPDF p. 12, The Weapons`	Manual
Besides the whip, Simon finds weapons hidden along his path or inside creatures, among them a dagger, an axe, a fire bomb, a boomerang, and a watch that stops enemies for 5 small hearts a use; the hearts he collects give him extra shots.	`PDF p. 10, The WeaponsPDF p. 11, The WeaponsPDF p. 11, The Weapons`	Manual
The morning star strengthens the whip twice, a short chain at the first upgrade and a long chain at the second.	`PDF p. 11, The WeaponsPDF p. 11, The Weapons`	Manual
A pork chop, hidden in the background and revealed by a whip stroke, restores part of Simon's lost power.	`PDF p. 12, The WeaponsPDF p. 12, The WeaponsPDF p. 12, The Weapons`	Manual