Dracula Hunter (1980, Teknon Kougyou)
An obscure arcade game where you play as a priest protecting a princess from swarms of vampires. Possibly the first vampire arcade game, it was decently popular in Japan, but never saw an international release, and the game may be lost, as it had a small run and no one has dumped the rom. I first heard about it through a video by The Fragnostic, as of part of his cancelled Dead Pixels series, covering the history of horror games (he also mentions another lost vampire arcade game, the 1982 game Vampire by Brass International).
The game was at least popular enough to earn a cult following. A doujin dev going by the name Shilfy-Yo made a short fan sequel called Dracula Buster, made in the shoot’em up maker software Dezaemon 2 for the Sega Saturn in 1999.
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