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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Developer: Psygnosis

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1993-11^[1]	$59.9559.95^[2]	T-93065
BR	1994		063050

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Bram Stoker's Dracula is a Sega Mega-CD full-motion video action platform game developed by Psygnosis and published by Sony Imagesoft. Based on the 1992 horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula, it was released exclusively in the United States in November 1993^[1], and is most notable for representing its stage backgrounds with a stream of pre-rendered, scrolling full-motion video, and its Mortal Kombat-like digitized character sprites of the film's actors.

Gameplay

Side scrolling action similar to the Irem classic "Kung Fu master". is for punches, is for kicks and jumps. + is a jump kick focusing on enemies coming from straight above. Some stages feature branching paths, e.g. hold up + forward while walking under the silver orb in stage 2 to avoid the library section in favour of an hallway.

Versions

There are two versions of this game. The first version was released as a stand alone title, while the second version came as part of the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Bram Stoker's Dracula bundle. Content wise these versions are identical, however, the bundled version seems to be much less prone to in-game freezing, a serious problem in this over one hour long game lacking a save feature.

Magazine articles

Main article: Bram Stoker's Dracula (Mega-CD)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #45: "April 1993" (1993-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #14: "August/September 1993" (1993-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #15: "October/November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)

Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #145: "December 1993" (1993-11-15)

Print advert in Consoles + (FR) #25: "Novembre 1993" (1993-1x-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

53

^[3]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

60

^[2]

Mega (UK)

PAL

49

^[4]

Mega (UK)

PAL

25

^[5]

Mega Action (UK)

NTSC-U

70

^[6]

Mega Force (FR)

74

^[7]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

PAL

51

^[8]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

45

^[9]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

41

^[10]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

76

^[11]

Sega Zone (UK)

PAL

28

^[12]

Todo Sega (ES)

84

^[13]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

18

^[14]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[15]

	53
Based on 14 reviews

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Mega-CD)

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual Reg Card

Mega-CD, BR
Cover
Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

443,373,168

CD (US)

T-93065

References

[:File:GamePro_US_052.pdf_p213-1] 1.0 ^1.1 GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 213

[:File:GamePro_US_055.pdf_p78-2] 2.0 ^2.1 GamePro, "February 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 78

[:File:EGM_US_054.pdf_p46-3] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 46

[:File:Mega_UK_15.pdf_p59-4] Mega, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 59

[:File:Mega_UK_10.pdf_p40-5] Mega, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-17), page 40

[:File:MegaAction_UK_09.pdf_p44-6] Mega Action, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-30), page 44

[:File:MegaForce_FR_24.pdf_p100-7] Mega Force, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 1994-01-08), page 100

[:File:MeanMachinesSega10UK.pdf_p80-8] Mean Machines Sega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-06-30), page 80

[:File:SegaPower_UK_49.pdf_p84-9] Sega Power, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-xx), page 84

[:File:SegaPower_UK_44.pdf_p48-10] Sega Power, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-03), page 48

[:File:SegaPro_UK_29.pdf_p42-11] Sega Pro, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 42

[:File:SegaZone_UK_14.pdf_p62-12] Sega Zone, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-25), page 62

[:File:TodoSega_ES_10.pdf_p72-13] Todo Sega, "Enero 1994" (ES; 199x-xx-xx), page 72

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1994-03.pdf_p73-14] Video Games, "3/94" (DE; 1994-02-23), page 73

[:File:VideoGames_US_63.pdf_p82-15] VideoGames, "April 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 82

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-{{stub}}'''''Bram Stoker's Dracula''''' for the [[Sega Mega-CD]] is a video game based on [[wikipedia:Bram Stoker's Dracula|the movie of the same name]]. Though it shares the same title, it is not related to the [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (Mega Drive)|Sega Mega Drive game]] by [[Traveller's Tales]] or the [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (8-bit)|Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear game]] by [[Probe]]. The Mega-CD version was only released in the Americas.
+{{stub}}'''''Bram Stoker's Dracula''''' is a [[Sega Mega-CD]] [[full-motion video]] action platform game developed by [[Psygnosis]] and published by [[Sony Imagesoft]]. Based on the 1992 horror film ''[[wikipedia:Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)|Bram Stoker's Dracula]]'', it was released exclusively in the United States in November 1993{{magref|gamepro|52|213}}, and is most notable for representing its stage backgrounds with a stream of pre-rendered, scrolling full-motion video, and its ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''-like digitized character sprites of the film's actors.
-Considering the time it was released, the game was a bit of a curiosity as it streams video sequences to create the background. The backgrounds were likely pre-rendered in a 3D software studio, while most of the characters were digitized, as also seen in [[Mortal Kombat]].
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Gameplay

Versions

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References