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| Vampire Killer | |
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 European box art | |
| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Producer(s) | Akihiko Nagata |
| Designer(s) | Akihiko Nagata |
| Programmer(s) |
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| Artist(s) | F. Hayakawa |
| Composer(s) | Kinuyo Yamashita Satoe Terashima |
| Series | Castlevania |
| Platform(s) | MSX2 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Platform, action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Vampire Killer, known in Japan as Akumajō Dracula,[a][1] is a 1986 platform game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2. It is a parallel version of the original Castlevania, which debuted a month earlier for the Famicom Disk System under the same Japanese title. However, the MSX2 version was localized first in Europe and was published without the Castlevania branding that the franchise would start using abroad in 1987 when the NES version was released in North America (where neither Vampire Killer nor the MSX2 platform were released).[2] It was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console on December 17, 2014, in Japan.
Like in Castlevania, the player controls vampire hunter Simon Belmont, who ventures into Dracula's castle armed with a mystical whip inherited from his father, in order to slay the evil count.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ghosts and Ghoulies" (PDF). Konami Software Club. July 1988. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2019-01-28.