Haunted Castle (video game)

Haunted Castle
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Designer(s)Masaaki Kukino[4]
Composer(s)Kenichi Matsubara[5]
Masahiro Ikariko
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SeriesCastlevania
Platform(s)Arcade, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
Release
Genre(s)Action, platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Haunted Castle[a] is a 1987 action-platform game developed and released by Konami for arcades. It is the second arcade game in the Castlevania franchise, following Vs. Castlevania, an arcade port of the original 1986 NES video game released in North America. Unlike the previous arcade title in the franchise, Haunted Castle is not a direct port of an existing console game, but a newly-developed arcade game running on custom JAMMA-based board.

A full remake, Haunted Castle Revisited, was released in 2024 as part of the Castlevania Dominus Collection compilation.

The game has the player controlling Simon Belmont, who embarks on a journey to save his wife Selena from the clutches of Dracula.

  1. ^ "Haunted Castle - Official Konami page (EN)". Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "Haunted Castle - Official Konami page (JP)" (in Japanese). Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Haunted Castle - Official Konami page (EU)". Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  4. ^ Szczepaniak, John (4 August 2014). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. Vol. 1. SMG Szczepaniak. pp. 231–232, 235, 242–245. ISBN 978-0992926021.
  5. ^ Konami Game Music Collection Vol.1 (Media notes). King Records Co., Ltd. 1988. Archived from the original on 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  6. ^ Konami (2010-08-04). Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Konami. Japanese: 歴代の「悪魔城ドラキュラ」シリーズから選ばれた登場キャラクターを操作して、仲間たちと悪魔城に乗り込み、宿敵ドラキュラ伯爵に立ち向かおう。 English translation: Take control of past protagonists from the Castlevania series to brave the Demon Castle alongside friends and defeat the ancient enemy Count Dracula.


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