1205: All In All We're Just Another Piece of Paper In the Inbox

I've talked about the old MS-DOS game "Dracula In London" before but all the pictures have been delinked thus the post is rendered kind of boring. Last night, I played a quick game (you can find it at Archive.org) and tweeted some pictures of the gameplay.

The title screen. This was a public domain game that I played on DOS. It was also one of my favorite early games. pic.twitter.com/RtC4XvuCkR

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

The map screen just gives you a list of what you can do. You don't actually use the map. pic.twitter.com/VIWghSZffO

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Not a lot of detail. Characters are represented by letters and, like an Atari game, you have to use your imagination. pic.twitter.com/2nTMMeakq3

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Inside the Carafax Estate. This is a pretty detailed room. pic.twitter.com/frNIdYq37T

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Here's what Dracula looks like: pic.twitter.com/DKafUaLvVH

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

I hate the spiders. I have 2 characters on it and it still takes 3 turns each to kill it. pic.twitter.com/BjnztzJoCj

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Ugh. Mina just died. Now I have to skip sleeping and watch the graveyard for her shambling vampire corpse.

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Dracula has apparently left London so we're all headed to Transylvania to hunt him down. pic.twitter.com/Gnxs508j4M

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Doodely-doodely-do: He's not at Castle Dracula so the game is over.

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Here's my score. It's bad because Mina died, Dracula survived and Renfield is still insane. pic.twitter.com/cFvy3FE41F

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

I've never had Renfield cured. I've never gotten a perfect score because of Renfield.

— Brian Hall (@tauycreek) June 1, 2015

Maybe if Brutus quit lamenting about how life is the worst and just get some work done then maybe life wouldn't be the worst. I will start using Monday-Ja-Vu though.