Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker, released in April 1993 by Williams Electronics Games, is a licensed pinball machine drawing on the Dracula mythos and designed by Barry Oursler and Mark Sprenger, with art also by Sprenger. Running on the Williams WPC platform, it's a solid-state machine that arrived amid a wave of licensed, character-driven pinball titles in the early 1990s.

The game's gameplay is built around three multiball modes that can be stacked together for a total of four balls in play simultaneously -- a notable technical achievement showcasing Williams' engineering at the time. The game also features an autoplunger, two ramps, and unique flippers with a lightning bolt pattern molded into them, reportedly 1/8 inch shorter than standard Williams flippers. A magnet beneath the playfield slowly transports a captured ball across the mid-playfield; hitting that ball to dislodge it triggers Mist Multiball, one of several ways players can build toward the game's four-ball multiball.

Bram Stoker's design leans into a Gothic, atmospheric playfield befitting its horror theme. With 6,801 units confirmed produced, it had a solid production run for the era, and its combination of stacked multiball modes and moving-magnet mechanic remains a distinctive technical signature among early-90s Williams machines.