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You start outside, in a graveyard, where you collect spears from either a friendly ghost or a skeleton, depending on [[DifficultyLevels difficulty level]]. Once you have 10-25 spears (again, depending on difficulty) you advance to the castle gate. There you use your spears to shoot a bunch of spooky things (skulls, bats, scorpions, and a knight) that move back and forth across the screen, while avoiding a {{Mummy}} that's trying to kill you with an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]]. Once you've shot all the spooks, you shoot the mummy, and enter the castle.
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You start outside, in a graveyard, where you collect spears from either a friendly ghost or a skeleton, depending on [[DifficultyLevels difficulty level]]. Once you have 10-25 spears (again, depending on difficulty) you advance to the castle gate. There you use your spears to shoot a bunch of spooky things (skulls, bats, scorpions, and a knight) that move back and forth across the screen, while avoiding a {{Mummy}} that's trying to kill you with an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]].axe. Once you've shot all the spooks, you shoot the mummy, and enter the castle.
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* AnAxeToGrind: The mummy guarding the castle chops with an axe in a pattern. You have to memorize the pattern so you can move back and forth beneath him without losing your head.
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* ActionGirl: You can play as a girl rescuing a boy.
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* DistressedDude: In one of the earliest video game examples, one of the objects is for the girl to save the boy from Dracula.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Get a Game Over and "Taps" plays.
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* FinalBoss: Dracula, waiting for you on the top floor of the castle. You can't kill him, you can only use crosses to push him back while you guide your sibling to the exit.
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* {{Mummy}}: A mummy guards the entrance to the castle, and chases after you with an axe. Once you've shot all the other monsters running back and forth above him, you can shoot him and enter the castle.
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* MiniBoss: The mummy. Once you've shot all the other monsters running back and forth above him, you can shoot him and enter the castle.
* {{Mummy}}: A mummy guards the entrance to the castle, and chases after you with an axe. Once you've shot all the other monsters running back and forth above him, you can shoot him and enter the castle.
* {{Mummy}}: A mummy guards the entrance to the castle, and chases after you with an axe.
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* BedsheetGhost: The friendly ghost in the graveyard. With a rainbow bedsheet!
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* BedsheetGhost: The BedsheetGhost or DemBones: Depending on the difficulty level, the friendly ghost spirit in the graveyard. With graveyard is either a ghost (with a rainbow bedsheet!bedsheet!) or a skeleton.
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* SurvivalHorror: One of the earliest examples, along with ''VideoGame/HauntedHouse''.
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* SurvivalHorror: One of the earliest examples, along with ''VideoGame/HauntedHouse''. You're fighting your way past a bunch of horror-themed monsters and through a castle to rescue your sibling from Dracula.
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* Instant180DegreeTurn: You, the knight, and Dracula.
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* Instant180DegreeTurn: You, the knight, and Dracula.Dracula turn around instantly.
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* {{Mummy}}: Chasing after you with an axe!
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* {{Mummy}}: Chasing A mummy guards the entrance to the castle, and chases after you with an axe!axe. Once you've shot all the other monsters running back and forth above him, you can shoot him and enter the castle.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghostmanor_2033.png]] ''Ghost Manor'' was an early SurvivalHorror game for the {{Atari 2600}} and UsefulNotes/VIC20, released in 1983 by Creator/{{XONOX}} as part of their "double-ender" series of two-game cartridges.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghostmanor_2033.png]] ''Ghost Manor'' was an early SurvivalHorror game for the {{Atari UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} and UsefulNotes/VIC20, released in 1983 by Creator/{{XONOX}} as part of their "double-ender" series of two-game cartridges.
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On the Atari 2600, you play either a boy rescuing a girl, or a girl rescuing a boy; you can switch between the two, even in the middle of gameplay. On the {{Atari 7800}} and VIC-20, you can only play the girl. You have to rescue your friend from {{Dracula}}, at the top of a three-story castle.
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On the Atari 2600, you play either a boy rescuing a girl, or a girl rescuing a boy; you can switch between the two, even in the middle of gameplay. On the {{Atari UsefulNotes/{{Atari 7800}} and VIC-20, you can only play the girl. You have to rescue your friend from {{Dracula}}, at the top of a three-story castle.
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