History VideoGame / Elvira

* ToServeMan: The main course in the dining room - a woman's cut-off head which is still alive and some veggies.

A series of point and click/role playing computer games based loosely around the Cassandra Peterson character Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}}. In 1990, [=HorrorSoft=] Games released the first installment, ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark''. The game was surprisingly well received by critics and adventure/horror fans, and in 1991 the follow-up, ''Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus'' was released to even better reviews than the original.

* ProlongedVideoGameSequel: The game boasts about having five times as many locations as the original, at a whopping '''4000'''. Though a huge chunk of that is used for an insect cave and a dungeon.

* AbsoluteCleavage: No points for guessing who that trope applies to.

A series of point and click/role playing computer games based loosely around the Cassandra Peterson character Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}}. In 1990, [=HorrorSoft=] Games released the first installment, ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark''. The game was surprisingly well received by critics and adventure/horror fans, and in 1992 the follow-up, ''Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus'' was released to even better reviews than the original.

A series of point and click/role playing computer games based loosely around the Cassandra Peterson character Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}}. In 1990, [=HorrorSoft=] Games released the first installment, ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark''. The game was surprisingly well received by critics and adventure/horror fans, and in 1992 the follow-up, ''Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus'' was released to even better reviews than the original. In addition to being surprisingly good, the games were also known for being [[TrialAndErrorGameplay ridiculously]] [[NintendoHard challenging]] and ridiculously frightening, while maintaining a dark, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Not surprisingly, the majority of laughs came from Elvira's [[DeadpanSnarker comments]].

* ProlongedVideoGameSequel: The game boasts about having five times as many locations as the original, at a whopping 4000. Though a huge chunk of that is used for an insect cave and a dungeon.

* PiranhaProblem: You can try taking the key from the aquarium in the office, but if you do, the piranhas inside will bite your hand off.

* NonCombatEXP: You're granted experience for going into unexplored map squares and casting spells. Technically, you could get unlimited experience by preparing and casting a lot of fthree spells (but you'd have to wait for your Power Points to regenerate, so it would take a ''long'' time.)

* PiranhaProblem: You can try taking things from an aquarium, but if you do, piranhas will bite your hand off.
* PotionBrewingMechanic: You can create magical potions by combining various ingredients you found. For example, consuming Herbal Honey gives you knowledge of the true names of all plants and eating Alphabet Soup gave you knowledge of Runes.

* SpellBook: You have a book that lists spells, P.P. cost, ingredients required, and effects.

* SpikesOfDoom: One of the traps leads down a pit of spikes, resulting in death by impalement.

* ToServeMan: The main course in the dining room - a woman's cut-off head which is still alive and some veggies

* GeniusSerum: There's an intelligence enhancement spell the player could cast on themselves. The in game effect was that any spells the player mixed while under the Brain Boost's influence were themselves rendered more potent or generated more charges to use. Brain Boost itself could only get the latter, preventing it from being enhanced.

* PerversePuppet: If one of the books you find in the library of the Haunted House is by any indication, all the monsters you fight through the game are animatronic puppets created by the studio´s crew that have become sentinent and turned evil, including Cerberus.