---
title: The Count
tags:
- adventure
- Scott Adams adventure games
- text interface
- text only
- vampire
years:
- '1981'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_box_m.jpg
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1981'
  - label: companies
    value: Commodore
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: cartridge
  - label: requirement
    value: 16 KB RAM
  - label: systems
    value: Commodore Vic 20
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 player
  - label: staff
    value: Scott Adams, Andy Finkel
  screenshots:
  - title: title screen
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_s1.png
  - title: start of the adventure
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_s2.png
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_s3.png
  - title: cartridge
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_cart.jpg
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/commodore_vic20_thecount_box.jpg
  machines:
  - /museum/commodore-vic-20
  company: /companies/commodore
  oc_id: 371
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230206002935/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=371
    date: '2023-02-06'
---

"You wake up in a large brass bed in a castle somewhere in Transylvania. Who are you, what are you doing here, and WHY did the postman deliver a bottle of blood? It's LOVE AT FIRST BYTE!"

This is a pure text adventure game. Pirate's Cove was the fifth (and last on the VIC-20) adventure of the "Scott Adams Adventure Games" series.