Asking for the year of release will probably give it away so can you give it within 5 years? e.g 1990-1995

edit: Just had a thought, is it Maniac Mansion?

Yep, you're right! It's actually a FMV adventure game and guess who plays Dracula? Jeff Goldblum!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5z-YCTNYi0]Here's the vampire dance scene for your viewing pleasure...

It's actually a very good and funny game, especially that bit above I've linked, so if you have a chance, give the game a spin. It might be a bit harder with the licensing issues to get it over to GOG though.

Here's a trailer included in a 'Making of - Behind the Scenes' video: Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand

I've never finished it although I should still have it. Somewhere... or somewhere else...



Anyway, here is the new one:

After this long (and profitable!) voyage I should visit a bath house first. Look who we have here... my competitor is taking a bath too! Maybe I should pay him a little so that during the upcoming elections... nah, no point in doing that. Waste of money. I can't boost my popularity quickly enough to have any hope to win. Better luck next time. After a bath let's go to a church and pray a little so that they may think I'm respectable. Well, I should get married and have some children too. People usually think that somebody with a family is more trustworthy. So let me stockpile some food and drinks, I'll need it for a wedding fest. The better the party the bigger dowry I'll get! I just need to find and hire a captain so that I can send an expedition looking for new lands. Too bad that every time I visit a tavern only pirates are sitting there. I don't want anybody sees me talking with them. I can have serious problems because of that.

Sounds a lot like Patrician - I just started playing Patrician III, and I'm still on the confusing end of the learning curve.

I even had Patrician III in mind :D I love this game but it can be a bit confusing at the beginning. One tip: don't build ANY facilities to produce your own goods early in the game. Nor in the middle. Trust me - you can afford to run your own factories only when you are really rich. Some of my early runs were spoiled because I made an assumption that producing goods is much better then getting them via trade. Well, technically it's true but you need some reserves to pull that off efficiently.

Civ 5? ;)

Actually, the Gandhi of Civ III is probably the one that always irks me most - either that or Civ IV - but yes, that's the one. As soon as he appears at the diplomacy table, I know there's trouble ahead.

All yours!

Well, swords are even farther in your future than factories ;) Swords are used by town watch units but you'll have to become a lord major of a town to train new town watch units and as you can imagine it's not that easy to be elected ;) Cutlasses can be useful a bit earlier - they can be equipped by your sailors and help during hand-to-hand fights. But that's still nothing you should worry early in the game.

I know the answer but I'll let somebody else continue the game. EDIT: it's been answered already while I was typing my response ;)

Yeah, I read a funny article why he acts the way he does, it's strange that they didn't fix it.

Is there someone who hasn't gotten a turn yet who'd like to play? If not, then I'll post one soon.

If you don't mind I'd like to post one :-)

*wack* ok... this gate hits really hard, somehow it needs to stay open. Perhaps some magic buzz? *wack* there needs to be something somewhere to help us through...

Game genre?

Point and click adventure :-)

Does this scene somehow involves... a frog?

Nope, I don't think so at least there is no frog anywhere^^
(I am really stuck at that spot right now, but since there is no water or swamp or frog anywhere I don't think one will appear) :D