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The Movie
The
game is based _on1he new Francis Ford
Coppola movie
Draoula
which is
based on the
original
story 'by
Bram Stoker. COPPola has created such blockbuster movies as
The Godfather I,
1.1
&
1/1
and
Apocalypse Now.
'The story begins with the Romanian Prince Vtad and his armies· waging war against the Turks. He.
retcrns
from'
'battle
only to_find his be:laved Elizabeth lying .dsad in a
po,ol
of blood, She had received .a
deceitful letter stating that
Prinoe
Vlad
had
been Killed in
battle,
$0
she tlung
herself
from the castle turret,
Dracula renounces
God
and vows to avenge her death with "AUthe powers of
darkness",
then
drinks
a
cup
of
her blood.
The story goes on with Dracula
going
through various transformations from a
young
man
to
an old
man,
a
WOlf,
a bat, and also
a
green
mist
The
main story Tine
is Dracula ti)'ing to win the hand of Mlna, whom he thinks is the reincarnation of'
EUzabeth, and the_
bat les
he
must
do,
with Van
Helsing,the
·Vamplre
kIHer' who is trying to destroy him.
Dracula
ls.a
MUST
SEe: movie which
opens
in the United States November 13th, 1992, Yes,
that's Friday: the 13th. What good
,iming.
The Game
The game designer tried to toltowths story tine as dosely as possible with the features on this
ganie.
At
the, Very top of the playfield is 1he entrance to 'Video. Mode' Whl'oh
slmulates
'wolves' being
hunted in
th'9
graveyard.
The
len side represents
the
'Cartax
Abby',.
Dracula's manor house in London.
The
right
side is 'Dracula'S Castle' in
ROfllania.
The shot ,under the right ramp leads
Into
a
'_coffin!,
plas
there are many'more movie
tle-Ins.
My favorile feature is the
'gTe- n
mist'. When certai n shots are made a
ball
is transported across
the playlield
by
means of a magnet
under
the
board. AUght also
moves
in
unison
with
the magnet.. The
playfield
art in that area is a
"mist'
and
when
the light
and
barmove
it
seems that
tne
ball is
floating
in the
'mist'.