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Title: BEFORE VAMPIRE KILLER...THERE WAS VAMPIRE KILLER
Post by: beingthehero on March 14, 2014, 11:32:27 AM

http://www.gamefaqs.com/sinclair/949233-vampire-killer/images/box-105919 (http://www.gamefaqs.com/sinclair/949233-vampire-killer/images/box-105919)

Yes, there was a game called Vampire Killer released two years before Vampire Killer. It was released for the Sinclair Spectrum, which nobody here has ever played on.

Going by the box art it featured Benjamin Franklin punching a weirdly bulky skeletor. Also Dracula looks a lot like the manual art from our beloved Vampire Killer: http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/Images/Scans/VK/akdramsx_09.jpg (http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/Images/Scans/VK/akdramsx_09.jpg)

Going by this, it was a not-horribly-fun-looking sidescroller (feat. elevators.)

(http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/v/VampireKiller.gif)

The menu screen is incredible:

(http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/v/gif/VampireKiller.gif)

Title: Re: BEFORE VAMPIRE KILLER...THERE WAS VAMPIRE KILLER
Post by: X on March 14, 2014, 06:56:17 PM

Huh! Wow... Never even knew this game existed till now. Good find beingthehero!