Haunted Castle (W) / Akumajou Dracula (J)

Haunted Castle is basically an arcade release
of Castlevania. I don't know why someone at
Konami back in 1988 would rename this instead
of Castlevania. Also, this game is jank and
hard to play, especially version M. But
thankfully, M2 released the revisited version
of this game and improves a lot than the
original version of this game.

"T"-san's name is in fact Satoe Terashima also
working on this game. I don't know why wiki
labels her "T" when is indeed in fact, Satoe.

As you know, The game also affects with the
stereo logging problem as Gradius III and
other Konami games that uses that chip.

Also, the title screen gives me creepy vibes.

Anyways, The international version of this
game was released back in 1987 of December,
while the Japanese version also released in
1988 of February, according to Konami's
website, despite the fact that the title
screen says "@1988 KONAMI". Still, I'll
stick to 1987 date on the tags itself.

Track names are taken from "Konami Game Music
Collection Vol.1 [K30X-7705]", Yone2008's VRC6
album and VGMPF. Some of the tracks here are
not included in the CD version of this game,
so I added some of the unreleased tracks such
as the stage 3's secret stage, hurry up, and
time over (idk if its unused or not).


Generated by MAME 0.280 VGM mod
(mame0280-3-g70e4a7232db)

Size reduction:
1. vgm_sro: 12.4 MB -> 4.60 MB (37.0 %)
2. vgm_cmp: 4.60 MB -> 2.73 MB (59.5 %)
Total: 12.4 MB -> 2.73 MB (22.0 %)

External links:
vgmpf:
 https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Haunted_Castle_(ARC)
Wikipedia:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Castle_(video_game)
Konami:
 https://www.konami.com/games/castlevania/eu/en/page/history_1988_ac

— RN22

Source: VGMRips