Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back

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]

Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back
Spanish cover art
Developer(s)Alcachofa Soft
Publisher(s)Digital Dreams Multimedia
Release1996
Genre(s)Graphic adventure
Mode(s)Single player

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In 2012, MeriStation's César Otero noted that the game's politically incorrect style of comedy was "totally outdated nowadays" but nevertheless a "guilty pleasure".[4]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]

See also

References
  1. Ruiz, Clara Castaño (August 12, 2017). "Las mejores aventuras gráficas españolas". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 28, 2019.
  2. Masnou, Gerard (June 2003). "Hispano aventuras gráficas". GameLive PC (in Spanish) (30): 28–33.
  3. 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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