Vampire Killer

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Vampire Killer
European box art
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Producer(s)	Akihiko Nagata
Designer(s)	Akihiko Nagata
Programmer(s)	A. Harima Isao Akada Katsuya Nagae
Artist(s)	F. Hayakawa
Composer(s)	Kinuyo Yamashita Satoe Terashima
Series	Castlevania
Platform(s)	MSX2
Release	JP: October 30, 1986 EU: 1987
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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