Completing Ghostbusters 1 on the C64

[macelar07]

Arrrrghhhhh! Glory to he who has clocked Ghostbusters c64. I still haven't "laid those demons to rest" I played this game a LOT as a kid and still haven't beaten it. Played it again tonight and it beat me. I won't rest until I've done it.

[1978rharris]

absolutely awesome. I still have my commodore 64 boxed, with tape deck and joystick. And more importantly, the old bugger still works!! I have this game and still find it addictive! lovely stuff!

[superbran2008]

wel dun i havent got this game for my c 64 but i hav still got myne with all the cartrajes and tape deck lol

[IsawaMitaka]

Ah, memories. I used to love this game on my C64 before it died. This and the first 3 SSI AD&D Gold Box games were probably the most played games for me.

[LambadLambadLambda]

Huh? I used to play this with my sister and we'd beat the game every time. You just have to time it right when you enter the building. It's probably a lot easier with 2 players.

[reitimi]

this is a nightmare! I NEVER, really NEVER got to the end of this game, and I know I cannot die before I beat it!!!!!!!!

[pointman127]

Fun video, I played this a lot when I was 6 years, but I never really figured out what I was doing, I didnt have fun and I never got anywhere.

[worldwhore3]

i love the way you set this video up. 'putting the demons to rest' made me LOL. i also appreciate how horribly editied this video is - how it just cuts off at the end with noone really knowing exactly what the hell is going on.

[rnrbishop]

its easier if you go to the left of puffy then run in as he jumps to the right

[thedddemon]

I've beaten the game many times as a kid, no problem ;)

[LordMakai]

I don't think I ever got off the first level when I was a kid! Might have to undust my old C64 and give it another go :o)

[b1itz91]

friggin british pple lol.

[Grinlore]

Well i will gloat. I first finished this when i was 10. But then again, I am a bad arse nintendo gen gamer with mad tight skills. lol

[steveasat2]

God bless savestates and all who use them. Kind of makes putting up with buggy software as a kid worth it because it's all the sweeter to restore when you remember what a pain it was not being able to.

[leechdom]

you just had to time it right. wow.. they got up there really fast.

[KentaroDoe]

You got to Stay Puft with only $13100?! I've got up to $999900, which is the highest it will go, and it still says I don't have enough.

[Grinlore]

to get to Stay Puff you only have to have more money then you started with when the keymaster and gatekeeper get to zuul.

[FulciLives]

I had this on my C-64 back in the day and I remember that end part ... trying to et between his feet ... was damn hard ... BUT ... I did beat it way back when :)

Loved that game and it was the reason I forced my poor mother to buy me a floppy drive for the C-64 as it was one of the first floppy only games.

[Albertopoyo]

hehe well done, had this game a few years after it was released on my C-128. You should post a walkthrough on this game, some of us, where overwhelmed early in the game by ghosts attacking at the same time on different spots.

[dave1033a]

I remember that, when you got hit he laughed mockingly at you, stay puft shit house!!!

[RDVoDkA]

GHOSTBUSTARS HAHAHAHAHAHA

[snake2006]

I finally beat it in Grade 12. When I decided to try it again just to put that demon to bed.

Man it's so easy as a adult, but as a kid. Damn

[nightfire620]

"he slimed me"

[dkorda]

bad-ass

[BJR2536]

The Marshmallow Man scene in this was better than the Sega version, but I am disappointed that they didn't have the final battle with Gozer included. It took me a number of times before I actually beat this.

[Pikestaff]

Getting past the Marshmallow Man was seriously one of the hardest things ever.

[Zoomer30]

OH NO! THEY KILLED KENNY!

[TubularMonkey]

Excellent video. I grew up with this game. We got it in 1983 or 84. When I eventually got to Mr Staypuft, I'd have to get my dad to beat him. As people have said, it is impossible to beat the dark marshmallow overlord when you are a kid! Well done. The souls of a million dead ghostbusters can finally rest.

[Almuric7]

I used to be able to time it, but now I've forgotten how!!!

[tuberumor]

wow, I never could get past him... thanks for posting this...*crosses off "Must defeat SPMM"* from his "100 Things I gotta do before I die" list

[kenraux]

way to go! I coild never kill kill him either!

[splattermania]

I was haunted (no pun intended... ok just a little bit) too on the marshmallow bit of the game, i could go round and get the best car, all the extra bits and bobs but still couldn't get past the marshmallow man GRRR!!

[u46vef33]

yes remember completing this years ago was totally addicted at the time one of the first c64 games with sound synthesis.

[sirmolio]

Action Biker. Mastertronic. Forever.

[IAmPie]

You can emulate a Commodore 64 even without owning one.

It's public domain now, no copyrights, nothing.

Use it as you like.

[djbracey28]

how do i do this?

[Xifihas]

There is a much easier way to get past stay-puft, enter the door from the side, hugging the wall.

[rloadah]

oh man. that brought a small tear to my eye.. finally I can sleep again... no.. wait.. I'm still haunted by Impossible Mission :)

[Honorarius]

This guy is my idol...

[sternkern]

I never completed that game, thanks for showing us the end :)

[unsightly]

That was a decade well spent then.

[dantshaw]

I can see why I never even knew what was going on, watching my next door neighbour play this I must have been about four or five years old. They called it a wasted youth- but who's laughing now? eat my advanced hand-eye co-ordination & problem solving skills!

[Kill2Smile]

I had on the spectrum and I could never find the fucking marshmallow man anywhere I swear it's not on that version.

[schneil]

Yep it is!!! You had to get more money than you started out withm, wait till the timer got to 9999, then go to the building marked "ZUUL". You get the bouncing marshmallow man sequence just like in the above vid.

[Kill2Smile]

Damn! I bet I stilll couldn't do it. Ghostbusters and Spectrum are my two fondest childhood memories LOL xD

[khisanth75]

yeah this is frustating to say the least. did it back in the day plenty of times.

[Synthetikrose]

Ooooo I played that Commodore 64 Ghostbusters as a kid. We figured out the only way to beat the game was to get an amazing amount of money with a minimum amount of marshmallow. How did you find the marshmallow man?????????

[rloadah]

Make sure you buy bait for your car at the start. Then when the Marshmallow man started thrashing buildings, you should press B on the keyboard to use the bait... My problem was that I didn't have any manual because I was a filthy double-tape-deck pirate :P

[TransferAir]

Only real Nerds (positiv meaning) can finish this game!!! It was so hard to do it, gratulations.

hello to all GB-Fans from Munich (I think everybody knows the Oktoberfest) greetings from there.

[helenlovejoy]

I don't think we ever completed it as kids. I remember getting squashed over and over and over by that damn marshmallow man, though. I also remember how many expletives could be heard from the computer room when my brother would play... There wasn't enough soap in the whole world to keep that mouth clean when he was trying to wrap the game.

[jeramie1983]

umm..okay...why did I just watch this?

[daveparton]

I completed this when I had it as a kid (I was about 12 at the time) but it took so many nights of me and my brother taking it in turns over and over, seeing that ending brought the memories of our triumph flooding back!

[thehcd]

way to go!!!!

[chloeakers]

Wow I really liked the music XDD I remember my sister and her friends trying to play this game and getting angry over it :p

[5ndimes]

So good!! I really believed that getting past the Marshmallow man's legs was impossible. Cheers

[MikeZdoesit]

Thank you !! we had the same problem when we were younger. I had no idea we were so close to finishing it. cheers dude !

[orobian]

Congrats mate, nice job!

[tomski1998]

I had exactly the same problem, it was so frustrating trying to get past him!!! Glad to have seen what the ending looks like. Well Done!

[LegionnaireofLocks]

I never got to play it, but from what I understand, Stay Puft is a bitch to get past.

[lbjb247]

Well done. I could never do it.

[DxR666]

wow...omg i never completed this game. :D

[bronzefist]

haha. i have the opposite problem. i use to be able to beat it when i was 6 years old. now i have no such luck.

[wasserturm77]

great

regards from germany

[nufciv]

good job aj

[tripledoublecheck]

So happy you posted this vid! ... otherwise I'd never have been able to see the end... I never could get pass the Marshmellow Man either... great memories!

[barracuda1187]

At the end part there, I think we used to sneak by the side of the Marshmallow man's legs. Easier to time, if I remember correctly.

[barracuda1187]

Now that I read the earlier comments.. I see I did remember correctly. Duh. Great game!

[topkev]

you're lucky you got there with 3 ghostbusters, hope you remembered your passcode for a bigger budget next time u play

[daciarulz]

When i saw this video i tried it...and i couldn't do it. It was working preety well, i had about 11000 cash..and then the marshmallow man came, and soon i lost them all. How do i meet the marshmallow man? Where?

[todd7416]

You have to buy bait. I can't remember the button you hit to activate the bait but as soon as you see StayPuft the Marshmallow man form on the screen, hit that button and you won't have to fork out the money to pay for damages. I think that's bogus anyway, charging the Ghostbusters for damages! I mean, is the fire department charges for damages any time someone's house burns down. I don't think so!

[gyedc]

I have long since disposed of my C64 computer (it became faulty as I opened it up out of curiosity when my Dad was away as I was too fascinated to see a real 'microchip' in the flesh). I sold the actual Ghostbusters cassette game on eBay only recently for £2.00(the highest bid anyone would go to - shame on you bidders!). Cont.

[gyedc]

I cried every time this would happen and used to smash my suction-cup based joystick down as hard as I could on those chunky C64 function keys - the marks remained for years, not good really (but still a very victorious symbol for me at the time). Cont.

[gyedc]

So it remains one the key crowning achievements of my childhood years (it meant more to me than the day I viciously melted my sister's plastic Barbie doll & My Little Pony together in the same glass bowl in our brand new Microwave oven). All the other future attempts at completion where a complete disaster: all my Ghostbuster-men got flattened within seconds by 'Marshy' fuck-face. Cont,

[gyedc]

Lets see now, my father bought me this game - it was 1985 and I was 9yrs old and totally loved it to bits! (as much as 'JumpMan'!), I completed the game only once; despite getting to that bastard albino 'Marshmallow-Man' end point approx. 2-3 times. I think I did it the very first time (out of pure luck) and nearly suffered a heart attack in the process (I do take these kind of things very seriously) - what anyone else says, this part of the game was TOUGH at that age as you say. Cont,

[gyedc]

Well done indeed my friend! you are now part of that rare and exclusive childhood 'Ghostbusters C64 Club' that can claim this true victory for oneself & put all demons to rest finally. I still know many today that never cracked it....so YOU are a true winner indeed to be so honest and allow yourself to return to your inner child at this stage in life - and put him to rest. Cont,

[VxNightshadexV]

Once you find all the lil tricks, the game is REAL easy, but thats just the key. Til then its the hardest game on the whole commodore save Hitchhiker's

[captainjarrett]

nice one mate. good to have closure.

[GuruLarry]

Woah, I completed it on the Sega Master System and there were another 2 levels after you got past the marshmallow man.

[KevODundas]

Dude it's totally easier to stand on the right hand side and slip in to the right rather than go through his legs. take it from a man who's done this many...many times in his youth!

[RG7621]

:-D Great Video. I have my C64 in the loft, along with Ghostbusters! I never completed it either. Always lost all my money at the beginning of the game. Hahaha. Would love to see more C64 game footage. How about 'Fist II' ?

[001lessie]

congratulations

[RSS1998]

This was the forgotten part of the C64 game of Ghostbusters: the final encounter with the Marshmallow Man. It was very difficult, but I did it in the end!

[amundb]

I finished this when I was young.

Also remember you can divert the Marshmallow Man when he tries to stomp buildings, by pressing B. For this to work, you must have bought the Ghost Bait. It will work three times. Don't waste the bait until the Marshmallow Man starts to materialize.

[zeeborgyboy]

HE SLIMED ME LOL

[getrocked]

What? I was 11 yo and I finished it the first week. :)

[amiga2000]

Video Commodore 64 running on the Nintendo DS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=9MN3fYIzQSc

[midtownhm]

i was never able to make it this far, as far as i can remember you had to drive around the city or something...but CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ROCK DUDE!

[Intosia]

Did ya also taped your first wank?

[prophenator]

dood it's easier to put yourself on the left hand side of the marshmallow man and when he jumps to the right you run in and enter the door.

[Donnell706]

Video games have come a LONG way since then. (Thank G-d!)

[charlywalker]

Great Job man! I never got even near the ending.

[kantarellkvinnan]

Great film :P

[Raunchola]

Well done! I NEVER managed to get THIS far!

[SkaDan]

are you a God ?

hehe

[teiman]

WOW!.. you are my new GOD, now!.

[horsesmouth]

It's more tricky than it looks. My first attempt is proof of that. It's a matter of split seconds and pixels...

[gyedc]

You said it! not easy at all...

[willhowlett]

what, thats the boss? jumping through stay puffs legs?

its no god of war is it?