Castlevania is an action-platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the conolses Famicon in Japan in September 1986. Later the game was released for most home computers inc. Amiga and PC (DOS).

The game takes place in 1691 where players control Simon Belmont who is tasked with defeating the vampire Dracula.

Castlevania uses platform gameplay and is divided into six blocks of three stages each, for a total of 18 stages. Simon can move, jump, crouch, climb stairs, and use a magic whip as his primary combat weapon. The player begins the game with three lives, and must complete the current block of stages before a timer runs out. When all lives are lost, the player may continue from the start of the block in which the game ended.