The guy in the green hat is super serious about his run. It's 3:30 in the morning, live next door to a graveyard, a known blood sucker roams the streets - time to go out for a jog. What could go wrong?
My first system was an intelevision. This game and lock n chase were my most played games. This brings back some memories of me sitting there for hours playing this game.
My brother and I had this game as a kid. Loved it, probably one of the most played games we had. I wish they had also ported it to the Atari. Maybe the homebrew scene will move it over? Thanks for the review.
I completely forgot about those little card things that went in the controllers! Wow. It's crazy that these little reminders of life can cause so much nostalgia. Brand new subscriber, btw. I just found your channel today and am loving it. The 80s were a different time. It's good to relive and remember. Great channel.
In these early days especially, there was always a bit of moral panic about games where you played the bad guy and the point was to do evil things, even if they were completely bloodless.
This one was one of my favorite back then with Demon Attack, imagic was my favorite 3rd Party publisher for Intellivision, I bought this game in CIB format last week, this is what Nostalgia does, thanks for the video Jon
Finally, you get around to cover this Imagic gem! I remember playing this game way into the night at my friend's house. We used the zombie to engage in a little bit of coop play. Still think the game looks amazing for the time, as it contains quite a bit of detail. Wonderful memories!
Imagic was awesome. There were literally no bad titles. My brother and I played 2 player. He played the Zombie. Make better use of the bat mode for better scoring. Knock on the door, quick change to bat, get close quick unchange and bite.
They were screaming about this game in congress - that it 'encouraged cop killing' or something. I think it kind of stopped vampire based video games for a few years also, absurd as it was. Then again we all know how real the screaming over "Death Race" was and Mortal Kombat/Night Trap.
I see a tactic to use the vulture as a fast travel bus to move forward away from cop. Just make sure to hop off the “bus” before the end of the screen. 😎
Thanks for sharing. Brings back memories, I think this was one of the last intellivision games I obtained (around the time of release) before favoring my colecovision...I never heard about any related controversy at the time, but I don't recall reading game magazines in the early 80s either.
Thanks for this great video Jon, great memories. I remember in 1983 it was an incredible game, videogame magazines talked about it, praised it, and we kids looked for it in stores, but it was so hard to find, maybe the iMagic distribution was not so well organized in Europe... or was it a tactic to keep demand high? Anyway it is still a rare and expensive cartridge today. Like all iMagic games it was ambitious, it had beautiful graphics, good sound, good ideas, but it ended up being repetitive due to the hardware limitations of the time.
i remember seeing the screen for dracula in my favorite magazine electronic gaming monthly!! i like the way it looks the buildings ect..not alot of variation but still a xool game!
I had a record store that also sold video games 1 block from my house. They liquidated all of their Intellivision games around 1985 so I bought 25 of them at less than $10 ea.
Nice score. I think a lot of us have memories of cheap hauls like that in the 83-85 timeframe. I remember a big bin of 2600 titles sitting out front of my mall's Kay-Bee for $5 each!
@@GenXGrownUp I did the same thing with 3DO when nobody wanted them. I have a massive long box collection that I got very cheap. Some of the games are worth $150 each!
This is what happens when you firmly embed yourself into the Atari camp. You miss out on cool titles like this one. Never heard of Imagic Dracula! Loving this game and that blood and gore is almost too much to handle! Great Friday Play Jon!
So, my remedy to create more adventure and variety into these classic games was to create a story across several games. For example, I would have objectives in one of several games, so, once I completed the objectives my adventures would end. Let's say I started out on Hoth in Empire Strikes back, once I get to a certain point, then I imagine getting on my ship where I would then pop in Asteroids, so on and so forth.
I played Dracula back in 1987 when I briefly had an Intellivision. It was OK but nothing more. Imagic had planned a more elaborate ColecoVision version but the company had gone out of business. They only showed a single screenshot. There's a homebrew version of Dracula coming for the CV that will feature the ideas that screenshot entailed but I haven't read anything from the programmer in some time. Maybe next week we'll get an update.
This game was spectacular in so many ways, the programmer should be awarded the highest coding-awards thinkable. First of all one of the best videogame console graphics of 1983: 1.) For the first time the Intellivision looked no more inferior to a Colecovison with the fantastic pseudo 3-D look of Dracula. 2.) Also the 2-player option was very clever implemented (by presenting another "spooky" character: the zombie) and not found often in that time. 3.) The fact that the running red jogger looked cooler or faster animated than the original prominent "Intellivision Running Man" of Mattel was a fantastic provocation towards Mattel ;-) and a serious prove of Imagics programming-power. 4.) The atmospheric sounds: the thunder sound was cool but surely not that special, but the authentic "knock on the door", even today let me swear it is a digitized sample, but thinking of the small rom capacity that is close to impossible. How did they code that knocking so convincing? Another miracle of Dracula. 'Til today for me one of the best atmospheric and special! games of that era.
I never had this back in the 80s, however I always remember seeing a "screenshot" in one of the magazines that showed a simple 3D room, with a simple, pixelated image of Dracula standing in the doorway spreading his cape out to the sides. I knew it wasn't an actual screenshot, but it looked like it could be as it only used a few colors and looked like something the Intellivision could produce. When I later got to play this game, I kept wondering how you entered the buildings. I guess the image I saw was artwork for a potential port of the game that never happened. The same thing happened with Zaxxon. I saw a small thumbnail image of Zaxxon, supposedly for the Intellivision, that looked quite a bit like the game Starstrike, but with blueish/white walls, and I really thought that was what the Intellivision version looked like. I was disappointed to later find that it looked almost identical to the 2600 version.
It was a weird time. Without an easy way to capture a clean shot of a CRT, most screenshots in ads and on boxes were artists' interpretations of the game. I think we learned pretty quickly to take it with a grain of salt.
I'd not ever seen this game back in the day. I think i was in 7th grade when it came out, but i dont remember seeing it for sale anywhere,because with the subject matter, I would've had to buy it for sure. It's weird, the first i'd ever seen it was back a year ago on one of the vintage gamer channels.
@GenXGrownUp Thank you for that. I was losing and I didn't know what to do. I feel like I can move on from the immense trauma. Back to GTAV, I have people to run down! ;)
That's my first video game system and we had a bunch of games but we never had this. Sadly it's expensive now, even just to collect so I'm sad I'll never get to play it. I have it on an emulator but I don't think it does in television very well due to the controller.
I wonder if the point of using the zombie is not to score points but rather to keep the cop away from you? I read about this game many times after it came out but I never had an Intellivision system.
I'm almost certain you're right. But for me (especially in later nights), it's easier to just avoid him rather than trying to control Drac and the zombie simultaneously. I'm sure it would be easier on a real console with both controllers sitting right in front of me.
This is the best review of this game on youtube. However I think you missed the point of the zombie. The zombie is for 2 player simultaneous-play. If you look up the manual online, you'll see that the zombie even gets it's own score. I played this game 2-player as a kid. Trust me, 2-player mode is way more fun than it sounds. Also can't be sure, but if memory serves I think you're wrong about the game play not changing from level 3 on. Maybe on easy this is true. I seem to remember in the later rounds 2 constables can appear on screen at once, and that's were having a second player becomes vital to survival. Without help, once the stakes start flying and your blood is low it's game over. And I know that vulture gets deadly fast in later rounds. But you have many games to review, and have to manage your time with each. Your review of Dracula for Intellivision is the best there is, hands down. Thank you for putting this forgotten gem in the spotlight.
Thanks for watching! According the the manual, you're mistaken about he zombie. He isn't present at all in two-player simultaneous mode - the second player controls the victims and scores 5 points every time Drac misses with a bite. Here's that section for your reference. 2 Players (Same Time) One player controls Dracula, and the other controls the victim. Players switch roles each night. The player controlling the victim gets 5 points for each bite Dracula takes. To get a good score, move the victim fast so Dracula takes a lot of empty bites! There are no Zombies in this game version. I can't speak to the multiple constables. I've made it to night 6 or 7 and never seen more than one onscreen at a time.
@@GenXGrownUp Ok, I obvious mistook the zombie on the second controller for 2 player mode. Sorry, you were right. I could be wrong about 2 constables. What I know for sure is there was a point in the game where the stakes were thrown so fast, you were stuck. It was impossible to move before the next stake hit you. So we did co-op play, having another person play as the zombies you created. Then I could survive to see many more nights that way. With a second player I could play till my thumbs hurt from those stupid side buttons on the controller. Evil, evil controllers! This and 'Tron Deadly Disc' were my favs for playing for high scores. Again, I loved your review. 😄
Took them until the release of Night Trap and Mortal Kombat to really act on it huh? I was with Atari in the 80s so this one flew right past me shame, looks like it woulda been a hoot lol.
I'd never heard of that one, so I looked it up. Similar horizontal sidewalk scrolling, but seems to be just avoiding all the pedestrians (lots of them).
Imagine spending $30 or $40 on this game in 1983. Talk about disappointing! I would have been less disappointed with Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 and that was the most disappointing game I ever bought back in the day. Pac Man was a close second. Those 2 games jaded me.
Having player 2 control the zombie was beautiful...Imagic had the best games, Swords & Serpents was fantastic
There’s a part of me who thought I made this game up. My friend had this, and I loved it. Thanks for allowing me to revisit it.
Isn't that cool? Thanks for watching and taking the time to tell me about your resolved fever dream! 😁
That crashing static is used in SOOOO many Intellivision games. Instant memory unlocks. 🙂
The guy in the green hat is super serious about his run. It's 3:30 in the morning, live next door to a graveyard, a known blood sucker roams the streets - time to go out for a jog. What could go wrong?
Right? "Give me cardio or give me death!"
That green guy is The Riddle, I suppose he's running away from Batman 😂😂
Neat game! The idea of Dracula in his fancy suit, running down the street after joggers in track suits is very funny!
My first system was an intelevision. This game and lock n chase were my most played games. This brings back some memories of me sitting there for hours playing this game.
My brother and I had this game as a kid. Loved it, probably one of the most played games we had. I wish they had also ported it to the Atari. Maybe the homebrew scene will move it over? Thanks for the review.
You make me so happy with this one…so many memories
Firstly, that does my heart good to hear. 🥰
Secondly, please share! Love to hear memories of how and with whom people remember playing these games.
Spending time with my older brother, seeing this game is like the spark that brings back all these childhood memories
I completely forgot about those little card things that went in the controllers! Wow. It's crazy that these little reminders of life can cause so much nostalgia.
Brand new subscriber, btw. I just found your channel today and am loving it. The 80s were a different time. It's good to relive and remember. Great channel.
In these early days especially, there was always a bit of moral panic about games where you played the bad guy and the point was to do evil things, even if they were completely bloodless.
This one was one of my favorite back then with Demon Attack, imagic was my favorite 3rd Party publisher for Intellivision, I bought this game in CIB format last week, this is what Nostalgia does, thanks for the video Jon
I never even heard of this game until relatively recently. I would have absolutely loved this back then.
This is really cool. I had never seen this game before. Thanks for showing it off.
Finally, you get around to cover this Imagic gem! I remember playing this game way into the night at my friend's house. We used the zombie to engage in a little bit of coop play. Still think the game looks amazing for the time, as it contains quite a bit of detail. Wonderful memories!
Yeah! We used the same zombie co-op strategy in our family. Good times. 😄
Having a second player to man the zombie sounds like the only way to fly! (bat pun intended)
That is one humongous sidewalk
All of Imagic's games were a blast. Atlantis and Beauty and the Beast remain two of my favourite games of all time.
I discovered Beauty and the Beast while doing this series. What a great little title! ruclips.net/video/DBW0nfubLso/видео.html
Imagic was awesome. There were literally no bad titles. My brother and I played 2 player. He played the Zombie. Make better use of the bat mode for better scoring. Knock on the door, quick change to bat, get close quick unchange and bite.
I still love how most modern depictions of Dracula fall into the Lugosi look 🧛This is a neat little game
Sanguineous | relating to, containing, or being the color of blood. Two thumbs up for you on that word, from an almost retired technical editor
I'd hoped somebody would give me a bonus point for that one. Thanks! 🏆
Dracula Vs. Steve Austin! Best mash-up ever ;-) Keep up the awesome work Jon :-)
Thank you for the video, Jon. I used to have that game, back in the 80s for my Intellivision.
I loved this game as a kid! I totally forgot about this game until I saw the box again. Wow, thanks!
I love it when I'm able to remind viewers of favorites they'd forgotten! 😁
Some people claim Super Mario Bros. on NES is the first side scroller, but this game is dated 1982.
Was it the first side scrolling platformer?
@@boriscovidscamson2911 I think it was.
@@boriscovidscamson2911 Jump Bug from 1981 was the first side-scrolling platform game.
@@ilovethe70s forgot about that
I had totally forgotten about this game!! Thank you for bringing back awesome memories
Glad you enjoyed it!
Imagine showing these people back then something like a modern Mortal Kombat. Their heads would explode.
Modern graphics ok, but modern games and gameplay are all released unfinished and mostly not fun.
I remember seeing this for sale at a radio shack as a kid, and the cover creeped the hell out of me!
Glad someone is doing a review of Intellivision games!
They were screaming about this game in congress - that it 'encouraged cop killing' or something. I think it kind of stopped vampire based video games for a few years also, absurd as it was. Then again we all know how real the screaming over "Death Race" was and Mortal Kombat/Night Trap.
I see a tactic to use the vulture as a fast travel bus to move forward away from cop. Just make sure to hop off the “bus” before the end of the screen. 😎
I didn't even think of that! Cool!
@@GenXGrownUpnever heard of this game 😊
At 11:50, "and you burn more blood..." You can imagine the reaction that got! The girls can't stop laughing!!!
This was great coverage! Thanks for making it.
You're welcome! 😊
Thanks for sharing. Brings back memories, I think this was one of the last intellivision games I obtained (around the time of release) before favoring my colecovision...I never heard about any related controversy at the time, but I don't recall reading game magazines in the early 80s either.
Happy to have brought back some memories! Thanks for watching. 😁
Thanks for this great video Jon, great memories.
I remember in 1983 it was an incredible game, videogame magazines talked about it, praised it, and we kids looked for it in stores, but it was so hard to find, maybe the iMagic distribution was not so well organized in Europe... or was it a tactic to keep demand high?
Anyway it is still a rare and expensive cartridge today.
Like all iMagic games it was ambitious, it had beautiful graphics, good sound, good ideas, but it ended up being repetitive due to the hardware limitations of the time.
Happy to have brought back some memories! Thanks for watching. 😁
What an interesting game. I never saw it before . I'm going to try it today. I like it a lot.
I never played this but remember seeing it. Victims are indeed Steve Austin, and the Riddler.
I am watching this with a roomful of vampires. The game controller with the "bite" button has them howling. This is simply too funny!
I am super curious why a ROOMFUL of vampires are watching my video! 🫢
@@GenXGrownUp Erzebet Hunyadi is visiting me for Halloween! A dead Hungarian princess is going to travel with an entourage, isn't she? They're fun!
@@afwalker1921 That makes total sense.
i remember seeing the screen for dracula in my favorite magazine electronic gaming monthly!! i like the way it looks the buildings ect..not alot of variation but still a xool game!
I remember this game coming out but never played it. Thank you for the review!
You're welcome! Happy that you enjoyed watching.
I had a record store that also sold video games 1 block from my house. They liquidated all of their Intellivision games around 1985 so I bought 25 of them at less than $10 ea.
Nice score. I think a lot of us have memories of cheap hauls like that in the 83-85 timeframe. I remember a big bin of 2600 titles sitting out front of my mall's Kay-Bee for $5 each!
@@GenXGrownUp I did the same thing with 3DO when nobody wanted them. I have a massive long box collection that I got very cheap. Some of the games are worth $150 each!
Ya gotta remember this was during the satanic panic
Even our laundry detergent was subject to diabolical forces
This is what happens when you firmly embed yourself into the Atari camp. You miss out on cool titles like this one. Never heard of Imagic Dracula! Loving this game and that blood and gore is almost too much to handle! Great Friday Play Jon!
I'm in that same boat with you. I'm enjoying discovering that library today, though. 😁
This game was so fun back then.
This is the only Intellivision game I own. It's cool that you get to play as the villain in a video game. Especially in that era.
I swear the cover of that game in the thumbnail was also on dracula makeup kits back in the eighties.
These old games are so much fun!
They were BYOI and that made it even better (Bring Your Own Imagination)
Thanks Jon 👊🏻😎🕹️🧛🏻♂️
Wow, I grew up playing Intellivision but never saw this one! Like so many other games on this console, it seems years ahead of its time.
I wish I had Dracula Imagic memories in my Intellivision phase.
I would love to see you do Colecovision 'Venture.' I can still remember the terrifying noise that the Hall Monsters made....
That's a great suggestion - I'll add it to the list!
Dracula as a traveling salesman? I love it!
I had an Intellivision, but I genuinely don’t recall this game! I definitely would have wanted it!
This was my favorite Intellivision game of all time back in the day!
So, my remedy to create more adventure and variety into these classic games was to create a story across several games. For example, I would have objectives in one of several games, so, once I completed the objectives my adventures would end. Let's say I started out on Hoth in Empire Strikes back, once I get to a certain point, then I imagine getting on my ship where I would then pop in Asteroids, so on and so forth.
Love the video bro! I like that game! I used to play it a decent amount! I’m with you, where is the blood and gore? Nope not there! Lol
Another great video thanks again buddy 👍💯
Glad you liked it!
I loved the game on the intellivison, played it all the time.
Great video and thanks for covering another Intellivision game. 😎
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@GenXGrownUp I always enjoy retro content and even more so when it’s Intellivision. 😎
Fun looking game. I love it. Especially all the gore. 😂
Yes, especially the gore. 😁
Great video as expected, I would like to see Intellivision Space Armada!
That's a great idea, I'll add it to the list.
This was such a cool and original game.
I played Dracula back in 1987 when I briefly had an Intellivision. It was OK but nothing more. Imagic had planned a more elaborate ColecoVision version but the company had gone out of business. They only showed a single screenshot. There's a homebrew version of Dracula coming for the CV that will feature the ideas that screenshot entailed but I haven't read anything from the programmer in some time. Maybe next week we'll get an update.
From a 80's kid and if I owned a Intellivision at the time I would probably have fun playing this game. 🙂
Great review loved nosferatu from 1922😊
These videos are a actually good tutorial of how to play these games also looks a fun game
Thanks for watching!
This game was spectacular in so many ways, the programmer should be awarded the highest coding-awards thinkable. First of all one of the best videogame console graphics of 1983: 1.) For the first time the Intellivision looked no more inferior to a Colecovison with the fantastic pseudo 3-D look of Dracula. 2.) Also the 2-player option was very clever implemented (by presenting another "spooky" character: the zombie) and not found often in that time. 3.) The fact that the running red jogger looked cooler or faster animated than the original prominent "Intellivision Running Man" of Mattel was a fantastic provocation towards Mattel ;-) and a serious prove of Imagics programming-power. 4.) The atmospheric sounds: the thunder sound was cool but surely not that special, but the authentic "knock on the door", even today let me swear it is a digitized sample, but thinking of the small rom capacity that is close to impossible. How did they code that knocking so convincing? Another miracle of Dracula. 'Til today for me one of the best atmospheric and special! games of that era.
I never had this back in the 80s, however I always remember seeing a "screenshot" in one of the magazines that showed a simple 3D room, with a simple, pixelated image of Dracula standing in the doorway spreading his cape out to the sides. I knew it wasn't an actual screenshot, but it looked like it could be as it only used a few colors and looked like something the Intellivision could produce. When I later got to play this game, I kept wondering how you entered the buildings. I guess the image I saw was artwork for a potential port of the game that never happened.
The same thing happened with Zaxxon. I saw a small thumbnail image of Zaxxon, supposedly for the Intellivision, that looked quite a bit like the game Starstrike, but with blueish/white walls, and I really thought that was what the Intellivision version looked like. I was disappointed to later find that it looked almost identical to the 2600 version.
The Dracula screenshot you saw was for a Colecovision Dracula game that was announced but never came out (vaporware).
It was a weird time. Without an easy way to capture a clean shot of a CRT, most screenshots in ads and on boxes were artists' interpretations of the game. I think we learned pretty quickly to take it with a grain of salt.
Never played that game
Gonna try that game looks awesome and fun yo play
FYI, some younger viewers may not know Steve Austin was a fictional character from the Six Million Dollar Man.
I'd not ever seen this game back in the day. I think i was in 7th grade when it came out, but i dont remember seeing it for sale anywhere,because with the subject matter, I would've had to buy it for sure. It's weird, the first i'd ever seen it was back a year ago on one of the vintage gamer channels.
What an obscenely violent game this is. Did you see that red guy turn into 50 points?! Too much, man, too much. :)
I know. My apologies for exposing you to such carnage.
@GenXGrownUp
Thank you for that. I was losing and I didn't know what to do. I feel like I can move on from the immense trauma. Back to GTAV, I have people to run down! ;)
This is awesome! No priests with holy water and crosses to stun you though? Still awesome 👏🏼
Right? There's so much more than COULD have been done, starting with a more gothic setting and more impactful enemies.
That's my first video game system and we had a bunch of games but we never had this. Sadly it's expensive now, even just to collect so I'm sad I'll never get to play it. I have it on an emulator but I don't think it does in television very well due to the controller.
I don't even remember this one!!!!
Judging by the huge pavements, Drac is targeting the rich in this game.
He is a Count, after all.
This game looks fun. I had Colecovision instead of Intellivision. One of my favorite games was Venture.
For the time, I think a lot of thought went into the gameplay.
It would be cool if iMagic did som retro stuff.
yeah but they were acquired by Activision years ago and i doubt they are going to bother.
If you want a good laugh read the game description on the cover of the instruction manual
I was expecting the water puddles to be an obstacle. Do they do anything to you? You know the idea that Dracula cannot cross through water logic.
I wondered that, too. But they seem to just be little details to reinforce the curb/street graphics.
Why are some of the buildings yellow?
looks fun never played that game
Green Hat guy is the Riddler =D
OMG that was such a fun game
Intellivision Imagic games were very good.
what type of website do you get those cover arts for your ranking videos from lol
I get art from the cover project and then wrap them around a box shape.
Throwing steaks? I was wondering if Dracula was vegan. Then I saw what was thrown.
🥩 I can see the confusion. 😉
Sanguineous....... Nice
Awesome thank
Glad you liked it!
I wonder if the point of using the zombie is not to score points but rather to keep the cop away from you?
I read about this game many times after it came out but I never had an Intellivision system.
I'm almost certain you're right. But for me (especially in later nights), it's easier to just avoid him rather than trying to control Drac and the zombie simultaneously. I'm sure it would be easier on a real console with both controllers sitting right in front of me.
I have this shenanigans for Intellivision
Was this a new game I never. Heard of it can I still grab it or is it an eBay buy??
You must be fast-forwarding. 😉
@ will it work on the Atari 2600??
@@sade281 From your comments, it sounds like you might enjoy this video if you have time to watch it.
That's quite a good game for intellivision
The victim looks like Stone Cold Steve Austin? What?!
You're messing with me, right?
@@GenXGrownUp yes. I'm old, so I do know who the original Steve Austin is. But I'm guessing half the audience doesn't.
@@jeff-ds2pr My vocal rendition of the theme and reference to bionics just didn't do it, eh? 😉
@@GenXGrownUp Sorry, I missed that part, skipped through the video a bit.
Dracula is public domain, but you are using Bela Lugosi’s likeness on your merch, which is not public domain. Just FYI. ;)
This is the best review of this game on youtube. However I think you missed the point of the zombie. The zombie is for 2 player simultaneous-play. If you look up the manual online, you'll see that the zombie even gets it's own score. I played this game 2-player as a kid. Trust me, 2-player mode is way more fun than it sounds.
Also can't be sure, but if memory serves I think you're wrong about the game play not changing from level 3 on. Maybe on easy this is true. I seem to remember in the later rounds 2 constables can appear on screen at once, and that's were having a second player becomes vital to survival. Without help, once the stakes start flying and your blood is low it's game over. And I know that vulture gets deadly fast in later rounds.
But you have many games to review, and have to manage your time with each.
Your review of Dracula for Intellivision is the best there is, hands down. Thank you for putting this forgotten gem in the spotlight.
Thanks for watching! According the the manual, you're mistaken about he zombie. He isn't present at all in two-player simultaneous mode - the second player controls the victims and scores 5 points every time Drac misses with a bite. Here's that section for your reference.
2 Players (Same Time)
One player controls Dracula, and the other controls the victim. Players switch roles each night.
The player controlling the victim gets 5 points for each bite Dracula takes. To get a good score, move the victim fast so Dracula takes a lot of empty bites! There are no Zombies in this game version.
I can't speak to the multiple constables. I've made it to night 6 or 7 and never seen more than one onscreen at a time.
@@GenXGrownUp Ok, I obvious mistook the zombie on the second controller for 2 player mode. Sorry, you were right.
I could be wrong about 2 constables. What I know for sure is there was a point in the game where the stakes were thrown so fast, you were stuck. It was impossible to move before the next stake hit you. So we did co-op play, having another person play as the zombies you created. Then I could survive to see many more nights that way.
With a second player I could play till my thumbs hurt from those stupid side buttons on the controller. Evil, evil controllers!
This and 'Tron Deadly Disc' were my favs for playing for high scores. Again, I loved your review. 😄
Imagic games were the best!
"Nighthunter,", anyone?
Took them until the release of Night Trap and Mortal Kombat to really act on it huh? I was with Atari in the 80s so this one flew right past me shame, looks like it woulda been a hoot lol.
You think this is violent? Check out a modern Intellivision homebrew called "The Pandora Incident".
Kind of reminds me of the C64 game Bozos Night Out
I'd never heard of that one, so I looked it up. Similar horizontal sidewalk scrolling, but seems to be just avoiding all the pedestrians (lots of them).
Imagine spending $30 or $40 on this game in 1983. Talk about disappointing! I would have been less disappointed with Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 and that was the most disappointing game I ever bought back in the day. Pac Man was a close second. Those 2 games jaded me.