Recreation of the ‘lost’ 1979 arcade game, Dracula Hunter.
Dracula Hunter was an arcade game released in 1979/80 by Japanese firm Teknon Kogyo. The company disappeared soon afterwards, with the only other games released by them being a bog-standard Space Invaders clone and the ‘sequel’ to Dracula Hunter called Tropical Dive (of which a solitary screenshot exists).
Famously among collectors and retro enthusiasts the arcade version is currently emulated, and while at least one arcade board is known to exist, the owner(s) have not as yet been willing to rip the ROMs and allow the board to be studied so it can be added to MAME.
A few gameplay videos exist on Youtube which presumably were recorded directly from one of these rare boards. Somehow the game did make it into some UK arcades at the time as a number of people on various forums remember playing it, plus all the videos show the English ‘Dracula’ logo versus a Japanese logo in some screenshots.
