Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back

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Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back
Drascula El Vampiro box shot.jpg
Spanish cover art
Developer(s)Alcachofa Soft
Publisher(s)Digital Dreams Multimedia
Release1996
Genre(s)Graphic adventure
Mode(s)Single player

Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back (Spanish: Dráscula: El Vampiro) is a 1996 graphic adventure game developed by Alcachofa Soft. It was created in Spain,[1] and was the first adventure game released by Alcachofa.[2] In 1999, Midas Interactive Entertainment released an English version of the game in the United Kingdom. Dráscula tells the story of John Hacker, a realtor who attempts to help "Count Drascula" sell real estate in Transylvania.[3]

In 2017, HobbyConsolas declared Dráscula one of the nine-best Spanish graphic adventure games. The publication's Clara Castaño Ruiz wrote, "[T]ogether with Igor: Objective Uikokahonia, [it was] one of the pioneer games of the genre in our country."[1] In 2012, MeriStation's César Otero noted that the game's politically incorrect style of comedy was "totally outdated nowadays" but nevertheless a "guilty pleasure".[4]

Dráscula was commercially unsuccessful.[5][2] GameLive PC's Gerard Masnou wrote in 2003 that "dismal distribution by DMM has prevented many players from enjoying this little cult classic".[2] In 2008, Jack Allin of Adventure Gamers described the game as "rare".[3] During September of that year, support for the game was added to ScummVM,[6] after Alcachofa handed the source code to the program's team.[7] Alcachofa subsequently re-released Dráscula as freeware.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Ruiz, Clara Castaño (August 12, 2017). "Las mejores aventuras gráficas españolas". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 28, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Masnou, Gerard (June 2003). "Hispano aventuras gráficas". GameLive PC (in Spanish) (30): 28–33.
  3. ^ a b c Allin, Jack (September 9, 2008). "Drascula set free for download". Adventure Gamers. Archived from the original on May 5, 2017.
  4. ^ Otero, César (March 31, 2012). "Regreso al Pasado: Aventuras Gráficas Españolas". MeriStation (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 11, 2019.
  5. ^ de Sales, Adrían Hernán (April 22, 2009). "Crónicas vampíricas". MeriStation (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 7, 2019.
  6. ^ Allin, Jack (September 2, 2008). "Five new games coated with ScummVM". Adventure Gamers. Archived from the original on July 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Cobbett, Richard (December 22, 2017). "How ScummVM is keeping adventure games alive, one old game at a time". PC Gamer US. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019.

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