When did Castlevania come out?

Castlevania was released on 26 January 1999 for Nintendo 64.

Castlevania (1999) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Castlevania

Take control of Reinhardt Schneider, a whip-toting Vampire Killer who has waited his whole life to meet his destiny, or Carrie Fernandez, a young girl with a strong magical presence who is mysteriously drawn…

75 26 January 1999

What Castlevania is

Castlevania is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1999. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Castlevania games debut on the N64 this is the first Castlevania game in 3D. However, the goal of the game remains the same: defeat Dracula and his monsters. The player can choose to be Reinhardt Schneider with traditional whip or Carrie Fernandez who uses magic. A new feature is the presence of an in-game clock that switches time from day to night.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Castlevania series

Castlevania is the 33rd of 107 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness in 1999. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Castlevania IV at 100.

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How it was received

Castlevania holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Castlevania launched on 26 January 1999, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VIII, Super Smash Bros., Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and SimCity 3000. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VIII, Super Smash Bros., Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, SimCity 3000.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer