Konami, Castlevania JP history

Cite as: Konami, Castlevania JP history
Original: https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/jp/ja/page/history_1986_fcd
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250522161939id_/https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/jp/ja/page/history_1986_fcd
Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: none stated
Credit: Konami Digital Entertainment
Notes: Official series history. Japanese heading fields identify 1986-09-26 and Family Computer Disk System; the page also calls the game the series' first entry and discusses the whip.

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Konami released Castlevania in Japan, as Akumajō Dracula for the Famicom Disk System, on September 26, 1986.	`heading fieldsheading fields`	Publisher
Konami calls Castlevania the first game of its series, released about half a year after the Famicom Disk System appeared.	`Game`	Publisher
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.	`StoryStory`	Publisher
Konami's history says the action games of the time attacked with punches and kicks or with projectiles, and that Castlevania's whip, a moment slower to strike but a little longer in reach, was new to players; the feel of swinging it is still found only in the series.	`GameGameGame`	Publisher
Konami's history names the game's atmosphere, Western monsters such as Frankenstein's monster, the wolf man, and Death set to grave, solemn music, as another reason the game has stayed loved for years.	`GameGame`	Publisher