Williams’ Bram Stoker’s Dracula, released in 1993 and designed by Barry Oursler with art by Mark Sprenger, brings the gothic romance of Coppola’s 1992 film to a fast, atmospheric playfield. Its signature feature is genuinely eerie: a magnet beneath the playfield slowly transports a captured ball in a straight line across the mid-playfield, and dislodging that ghostly “mist” ball with the ball in play starts Mist Multiball — a mechanic that feels as supernatural as the film it celebrates. Even the flippers are special, molded with lightning-bolt patterns and reportedly a touch shorter than standard.
The deep heart of the game is multiball stacking. Dracula offers three distinct multiball modes, and the explicit goal is to avoid playing any one alone — instead building until you can launch two or three at once for a glorious four-ball assault. Three left-ramp shots start the Bats mode, where making fifteen quick switch hits locks in a big bonus value for the rest of the game, and looping the left ramp safely racks those hits without risking the pop bumpers.
There’s clever depth throughout, from the video mode (which lights an extra ball after enough successful runs) to the trick of locking a ball in the coffin to feed the pops during Bats or Rats. Moody, fast, and built around that hauntingly effective mist magnet, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an underrated Oursler classic — a gothic thriller that rewards the patient player who saves it all up for one bloody, multiball-stacked crescendo.