Kid Dracula (Game Boy)

Kid Dracula is a pair of video game titles by Konami released during the early 90s. There were only two releases in the series: one for the Famicom and one later for the Game Boy. Only the Game Boy version made it to North America.

In Japan, the full titles of the games are Akumajō Special: Boku Dracula-kun, which means Demon Castle Special: I'm Kid Dracula. The Game Boy version was released in North America as simply Kid Dracula.

Kid Dracula is half human, half vampire, as his mother was a mortal. Although he loved his father, he soon learned that spreading his father's evil was wrong. Even as a youngster, he fought for good against evil monsters who threatened humans. Even then he knew how to use a Ball of Destruction. Since Kid Dracula is a vampire, he has the ability to turn into a bat and fly.

Storyline
The story of Kid Dracula is relatively simple. The self-proclaimed Demon King, Kid Dracula, has awoken from a long sleep, only to discover that the dinosaur Galamoth has challenged him (note that Galamoth makes an appearance in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night). Swiping his father's cape, it is then up to Kid Dracula himself to set out on the adventure to destroy the monster.

Connections with Castlevania
The Japanese name of the series is Akumaj&#333; Dracula, which is also the name used in most of the Castlevania games in Japan (but recently abandoned), suggesting a relationship between the two. Many of the backgrounds in the game's first level are very similar to those found in Castlevania games. The music in first level of both the Famicom and Game Boy games is also a happy remix of the first-level music from Castlevania III, called "Beginning". It is very likely, however, that Kid Dracula is a parody of the Castlevania series, with no relation to its storyline.

However, speculation has suggested that Kid Dracula is the son of Dracula, Alucard, from the Castlevania series. This would have to be either Alucard in a super deformed, comic form, or a young Alucard. If one reads the history of Alucard, one notices that at one point, Alucard had emulated his father for the first part of his life, fitting in the possibility that Kid Dracula is indeed Alucard.

It should be noted that the series takes on a more comedic tone which is very much unlike the very serious tone that the Castlevania series takes.

Other appearances
Kid Dracula has also made an appearance in the Super Famicom version of Gokujou Parodius! as selectable character. He is also a hidden selectable character in the game's sequel, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: forever with me, which is the PlayStation and Sega Saturn version of the Super Famicom game, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius .