Talk:Vampire Killer (video game)/@comment-179.208.190.33-20180129131636

It´s a common mistake to believe Vampire Killer is a ´remake´, since it´s actually the original game. Konami started the development for the MSX2 system in 1985, by the hands of Nagata Akihiko. The group responsible for the Nintendo games saw it as a potential game and entered a parallel development, taking advantage of a better scroll system in the NES system, than in the MSX. It´s visible that the NES inferior pallete is the remake of the superior MSX2 color, not the other way around. Akamatsu Hitoshi took the task of developing to the NES system, following the design purposed by Nagata. Both games take the advantage of what the systems have better to offer. The MSX the superior smoother graphics and the NES the more fluid scroll.

The production of both games ended kind of simultaniously. Being simpler and not being produced in cartridges, the famicom version was available and released first, but it is far from true that it is the original one. The MSX2 version was released a few days later, mostly due to production problems and the atempt to use the yet to be released SCC sound chip. Since the SCC was still not viable, it was made on PSG and released a few days later, creating the legend that the MSX version is a remake (which would be a superior remake)