Vampire Killer
Vampire Killer is a side-view flick-screen game where you are a Vampire hunter who has been tasked to remove Dracula from the 12th floor of a block of flats by a client on the floor below. The problem is, as…
Vampire Killer is an adventure developed by Konami, released 30 October 1986 on Wii U and MSX2.
What Vampire Killer is
Vampire Killer is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1986. It is available on Wii U and MSX2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Vampire Killer is a side-view flick-screen game where you are a Vampire hunter who has been tasked to remove Dracula from the 12th floor of a block of flats by a client on the floor below. The problem is, as well as facing and killing a vampire, the job has to be completed before midnight which is only eight minutes away. In your rush to get to the building you have forgotten your equipment like garlic and stakes, which is needed to face Dracula. You have to get to the 12th floor using elevators (which have minds of their own and can take you down as well as up), and you must look behind the doors of each flat for equipment to help you. Some flats are also empty as well as flats that have…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Castlevania series
Vampire Killer is the second of 107 entries we hold in the Castlevania series. The next entry was Vs. Castlevania in 1987.
What it launched against
Vampire Killer launched on 30 October 1986, within three weeks of Portal and Ghosts 'n Goblins.
Released around the same time: Portal, Ghosts 'n Goblins.
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