Konami announce Arcade, Castlevania and Contra Collections for Switch

Konami has unveiled a trio of Anniversary Collections for Contra, Castlevania and a selection of its Arcade games.

The Arcade Collection will be out first on April 18th, with the Contra and Castlevania Collections to arrive later this Winter in Australia. They’re all digital releases at this stage, and have an included eBook with artwork and behind the scenes design documents that have never before been shown to the public.

The complete list of games in the Arcade Collection is as follows;

• Haunted Castle
• Typhoon (A-Jax)
• Nemesis (Gradius)
• Vulcan Venture (Gradius III)
• Life Force (Salamander)
• Thunder Cross
• Scramble
• Twinbee

The Contra and Castlevania Collections will have 8 games, but only four each have been revealed so far;

• Castlevania
• Castlevania III Dracula’s Curse
• Castlevania II Belmont’s Revenge
• Super Castlevania IV

• Contra
• Super Contra
• Super C
• Contra III The Alien Wars

Konami has opened an official website for the collections here.