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Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler.

The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open the door at the end of each level. All that has to be done dodging bats and the Dracula himself.

As mentioned before, the graphics are taken from the original game, but despite that, they look great and the animation is smooth. This new version includes a nice background music that sets the proper mood for the game.

After some shots fired by others over CSDb comments, MP Software clarifies that in this new version “the basic code has been rewritten in assembly, the bonus-time has been introduced, the hi-score with relative saving, a different musical base has been inserted, a mechanism has been implemented to help you understand when you can get on, get off the stairs and take the objects. The original credits are been inserted.”

The game is available for free on CSDb. There is also a cracked version allowing unlimited lives provided by Hotuko Force.

Link: CSDb