Castlevania is an action-platformer which has received numerous video game awards.
 Tomb Raider became one of the bestselling series on the PlayStation, along with Insomniac Games' Spyro and Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot, one of the few 3D games to stick with linear levels
 The music for the first Castlevania game was composed by Satoe Terashima and Kinuyo Yamashita, of Konami Kukeiha Club of composers, shortly after graduating from college

