To celebrate the acclaimed franchise’s big three-five, let’s take a stroll back to the castles of Transylvania, equip ourselves with Simon Belmont’s whip, and revisit the origins of Castlevania.
Players fell in love with the dark and horrific side-scrolling franchise as they slew floating Medusa heads, scavenged for additional heart refills, and jammed out to a somewhat iconic soundtrack. Castlevania would prove its worth and legend as it competed with the likes of The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and later Mega Man, and Final Fantasy-all of which would become pop culture phenomenons. Making its debut in 1986, Castlevania-along with Nintendo’s favorite intergalactic bounty hunter, Samus-ushered in a new game genre (now known as Metroidvania) and brought forth a certain prestige to Konami within the gaming industry, especially during the NES and SNES generations of gaming. Spanning over the course of three whole decades, Castlevania has told the story of the Belmont family bloodline versus the wrath of Vlad Tepes, the nightwalker better known as “Dracula.” When you think of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, what interpretation does your mind conjure up? Is it Edward Cullen, the teen heartthrob from Twilight? Or is it the irreverent version of Adam Sandler’s Count Dracula from Hotel Transylvania? Regardless of which iteration of the fanged icon you choose to imagine, one thing is sure: one of the best iterations of the character to ever exist comes in the form of Konami’s classic genre-defining NES game Castlevania.
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