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In the early 1980s,
TSR Hobbies, Inc., the folks that brought you
Dungeons & Dragons, published several "mini-games", dice-driven board games packaged in plastic blister-packs, with gameplay occurring on small paper maps with cardboard tokens.
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In
Vampyre, Game of the Hunt for Dracula (1980), up to six players, each assuming the role of a character from Bram Stoker's book, race across the Transylvanian countryside, through gloomy forests and craggy mountains, to locate and destroy three of Count Dracula's hidden coffins.
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Along the way, they'll encounter swarms of rats, werewolves, murderous gypsies, and even the undead Count himself.
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Players can uncover helpful items like a gun, a crucifix or holy water to give them an advantage in combat, which is resolved with dice rolls and charts. (Sometimes the player encounters nothing, so there are "nothing" tokens too).
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A player can even be bitten by the Count and transform into a Nosferatu, at which point his goal in the game is no longer to find and destroy Dracula's coffins, but to attack his fellow players.
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Once the coffins are found, the hunt for Dracula continues inside his castle (pictured on the reverse side of the map).
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At this stage of the game, the passing of time is tracked on this monster-faced clock using the DAY and NIGHT tokens (all supernatural monsters fight at a disadvantage during the day).
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Other titles in the TSR mini-games series were
They've Invaded Pleasantville (a retro-50s game of alien invasion),
Revolt on Antares (sort of a sci-fi version of the classic imperialist wargame Risk) and
Saga: Age of Heroes (wargaming and adventuring in classic Rome).