Castlevania Release Info

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Platform	Location	Release Date
Famicom	Japan	September 26, 1986
Nintendo	United States	May 1, 1987
Nintendo	Europe	December 19, 1988
Nintendo	Japan	February 5, 1993
Game Boy Advance	Japan	August 10, 2004
Game Boy Advance	United States	October 25, 2004
Game Boy Advance	Europe	January 7, 2005
Game Boy Advance	Australia	November 24, 2005
Wii Virtual Console	Europe	March 23, 2007
Wii Virtual Console	United States	April 30, 2007
Wii Virtual Console	Japan	July 17, 2007

Notes

In Japan it is known as Akumajo Dracula, which translates to Demon Castle Dracula

In 1990 the game was ported to 3 different computer systems:
Commodore 64, Amiga Home Computer, and IBM PC

In 2002 it was released on the Windows PC as part of the Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania and Contra.
All 3 of the NES Castlevania games were part of this compilation along with Contra and Super C

It has been released several times for play on cell phones since 2002

Remakes/Alternate Versions

Vampire Killer, which is very similar to Castlevania was released in Japan on the MSX2 in October 1986

An arcade version titled Haunted Castle was released in 1988. It has an alternate storyline, but there are many
similarities between that and Castevania

Castlevania was re-released with improved graphics in 1993 as Akumajō Dracula for the Sharp X68000 hardware

Castevania Chronicles was released on the Sony Playstation in 2001. It contained an arranged version of the game,
as well as a port of Akumajō Dracula from the X68000

Super Castlevania IV on the SNES is considered to be a retelling and expanded version of the original Castlevania
game as it takes place in the same year, 1691