Vampire Castle

by Mike Bassman

1980

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Only for the historians, June 29, 2025

A short and simple game about killing Dracula before midnight.

This was my first text adventure and it surely did not give young me a good impression of the IF genre. It's a very simple game that nonetheless manages to score “cruel” on the fairness scale, as you can inadventently get into a walking dead state by doing very reasonable actions. Its only redeeming value for me is that it was one of my first successful reverse engineering attempts, to which the simple GWBASIC code of the DOS version lends well.

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