Denmark
Finally got my Bram Stokers Dracula pin shopped.
Bought it for about 3 months ago in a not working condition for about 850$ - havent played BSD before and usually dont buy games I havent played - but with all the posetive feedback and the price, I bought it unseen. (well would have bought most any dmd game for that price unseen)
I've been busy the last months, so the Dracula was left in a corner.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to get it fixed - I was also very interested in playing it after reading all the posetive reviews.
When I got it, it was partly taken apart and very very dirty!
I stripped the playfield allmost completely - all posts, screws, guides etc has been tumbled or polished.
I was quite surprised about the amount of parts on the playfield - definitely one of the more difficult games to shop.
Some electronic work - a bad coil transistor, transmitter for the long opto, some mecanical switches, a broken target, a broken EOS switch and a flipperrebuild as I allways do!
Had to make a gatewire for the right gate myselves as they're currently unavailable in europe - took a few trys to get right.
A few todos remain like a remote battery holder and a bad GI connector.
I have now played about 50 games on it.
My initial impression is - WOW!
It is a one trick pony for sure, but its just so much fun and challenging to get those multiballs stacked - have not succeded in stacking all three yet, that damn castle lock is killing me!
With volume crancked up the jackpot callouts and dmd animations are just amazing and very rewarding. Feels great killing dracula in his coffein!
Playfield layout it well thought-out - allways something to shoot for!
A pity the bats and rats mode are basically the same!
Before playing it I was thinking about installing standard flippers instead of the shorter lightning ones - well I seem to loose most balls in the outlanes, so no need for longer flippers for now.
The menu has a lot of settings to tweak the gameplay - might just adjust that damn castle lock timer a bit and possibly increase the chance of getting something good from Mystery award instead of just points.
Thats just my Dracula experience - have to go now - Dracula is waiting!
Vancouver, BC
Breda
New Windsor, MD
