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Super Castlevania IV

TitleSuper Castlevania IV
First release1991
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
PlatformSNES / Super Famicom
Genreplatformer
Also known asAkumajo Dracula · Super Castlevania 4
Players1 player
Co-opNo
ESRB ratingE10+ Everyone 10+
Releases
SNES / Super Famicom: 1991-10-31 (NTSC-J), 1991-12-04 (NTSC), 1991-12-04 (PAL)
Wikidata IDQ389254

Super Castlevania IV is a 1991 SNES video game developed by Konami and released by Konami Inc. in the USA on December 4, 1991. THE GRAVEST CASTLEVANIA ADVENTURE BREAKS NEW GROUND... AND BURIES YOU IN IT. A century of Transylvanian tranquility is about to come to a shocking end. Once again the mortifying screams of helpless villagers shake the ground as they huddle against new nightmarish horrors unleashed by the Duke of Darkness, Count Dracula. And this time he has a tombstone with your name on it, Simon Belmont. You must descend into Castle of the Undead and its gruesome ground, accompanied by the most chilling sound effects to ever tingle your spine. Inside, a freshly dug 11 levels maze features the treacherous Terrace of Terror, the dangerous Rotating Dungeon, the Sunken Ruins of Lost Spirits, torture chambers and creature filled caves. Use your whip like a grappling hook and swing past hundreds of traps and a host of ghost freaks, living corpses and hidden goblins. All while dodging or destroying the unpredictable spitting lizards, carnivorous coffins, and more. Find the concealed weapons needed to defeat everything from eerie phantoms to haunted furniture. Then prepare to find yourself face-to-thing with hideous torments like the Tongue Lasher, the Darkest Knight, the Bone-Afide Horseman and the Granite Crusher. When your nerves get shot, use your password and take a breather. But forge on, Simon Belmont, because if you though Dracula was down for the count, he's only just begun to fright!

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q389254) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (1308,89169,108263,114191) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC release) · © Konami · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (6): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Konami · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Sprites (3): fan rips from sprite sites, credited per sheet (ripper, site, rights) in Sprites below; internal use only.
Logo: Konamit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“CastlevaniaIV.svg”)
Sprites
SNES / Super Famicom version · 3 sheets · Super Castlevania IV on The Spriters Resource ↗ (33 sheets on the site; 3 stored here)
Simon Belmont sprite sheet (SNES / Super Famicom)
Simon Belmont
Characters SNES / Super Famicom · 935×1078
Rip by Badbatman3
#21166 · fetched 2026-10-05 19:18 UTC
Enemies sprite sheet (SNES / Super Famicom)
Enemies
Enemies SNES / Super Famicom · 505×2889
Rip by SmithyGCN
#27088 · fetched 2026-10-05 19:18 UTC
Items sprite sheet (SNES / Super Famicom)
Items
Other SNES / Super Famicom · 172×135
Rip by SmithyGCN
#3196 · fetched 2026-10-05 19:18 UTC
Sprite sheets are fan rips of copyrighted game graphics (© Konami), credited to the ripper and linked to their page on the source site; internal use only. “Rip by” is the uploader credit shown on the site. Click a sheet to view it at full size (pixel-exact zoom). More: The Spriters Resource ↗ /
Videos
SNES Longplay [081] Super Castlevania IV (US)
World-of-Longplays · SNES / Super Famicom version · longplay · 1:30:13auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
Super Castlevania IV (SNES) Playthrough
NintendoComplete · SNES / Super Famicom version · longplay · 1:29:36auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
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