Castlevania, known in Japan as Akumajo Dracula, is a gothic horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise about Dracula, created and developed by Konami.
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Castlevania is largely set in the eponymous castle of Count Dracula, the main antagonist of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.
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Castlevania is one of Konami's most successful and prominent franchises; several of its entries are ranked among the best video games ever made.
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Many Castlevania titles have been released for markets in Japan, North America, Europe and Australia on various video game consoles, personal computers and mobile phones, with additional remakes and re-releases.
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The first console title, Castlevania, was released on the Famicom Disk System in 1986 and then in North America in 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System .
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Franchise's first 16-bit home console game, Super Castlevania IV, was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992.
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Castlevania, released for the NES in 1986 is a typical platform game in which the player takes the role of Simon Belmont, a descendant of the Belmont clan, a family of vampire hunters.
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Alucard, first introduced in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, is a reference to the character of the same name from the 1943 film, Son of Dracula.
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Castlevania mainly takes place in the castle of Count Dracula, who resurrects every hundred years to take over the world.
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In Castlevania: Bloodlines, the whip has been inherited by John Morris, the son of Quincey Morris, who is a distant descendant of the Belmonts.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a reboot of the franchise, with its first game set in Southern Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Castlevania was directed and programmed by Hitoshi Akamatsu for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986.
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Castlevania's would be the character designer for several future Castlevania titles.
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KCEK's last Castlevania game was the acclaimed Circle of the Moon, released as a launch title for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.
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Castlevania left in March 2014 to independently create Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a spiritual successor to Castlevania.
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Recent Castlevania titles released under Konami's recent business model include pachinko and slot machines based on the IP.
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The music for the first Castlevania game was composed by Satoe Terashima and Kinuyo Yamashita, of Konami's Kukeiha Club of composers, shortly after graduating from college.
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Super Castlevania IV was named the 11th best game of the SNES by ScrewAttack on their "Top 20 SNES Games".
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Castlevania was a member of the N-Team, a group of mostly video game characters who defended Videoland against the antagonist Mother Brain from Metroid.
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