Ghosts N Goblins on Amstrad CPC 464

[SentinelTera]

Fuck. This. Game. Seriously, looking back, I wish I'd torn the tape from dear old Arnold and smashed it with a fucking axe.

(yeah, I only ever got as far as the swooping knight-fuck-bastards halfway through level 1 and I'm still bitter about it 26 years later)

[somedamnfangirl]

DAT MUSIC

It's like Lollipops from Action 52!

[jacobnoergaard]

Lol @ flick screen. Thank God for my C64

[GamingGotrolop]

dude i have an amstrad and my screen flickers alot iv played with the settings and i cant change it also the top of the screen shows at the bottom any advice!!!1

[CidSilverWing]

I hope you guys realize this port was disastrous compared to its original platform?

[DUGMAC1973]

@CidSilverWing good grief, there really is just no pleasing some......

[Khaos969]

I played this at a older boys house years ago when I was a kid...I found out years later that boy hung himself, whenever I see ghost and goblins it reminds me ... 0_o

[ninelivecat]

I remember thinking the graphics on this version were pretty good

[andhow75]

I get goosebumps seeing this, how I loved this game as a kid growing up in the 80's.. wish I still had my old CPC464..  also loved the games, Karnov, bruce lee.. very difficult to get through, as all games were back then

[TheGadler]

DAMN.. i love the Music!

[SimsMoyal]

Thank you very much for the memories!!!

[karadok666]

Hard game but i had so much fun with it :D

It was my first game on my first computer 22 years ago (CPC 6128) and the music ROCKS :DDD

[bobnuttall24]

omg,this takes me back....thanx for posting it lol

[TheMCMXXL]

I hated this game. i came approx. up the ladder and 10 meters more before something killed me again and again. For me it was one of the hardest games ever made.

[cadisanimeduit]

This game used to scare me, thats why my sister always played it, I was more of a chuckie egg girl!

[retromamez]

I remember being so dissapointed with this when it came out because in the arcade version you lost your armour before you got killed, I remember the Spectrum version had the lost armour before dying but the graffix were not as good as the Amstrad!...... no conversion compaired to the coin op though......... I play that quite a bit these days!

[axise100]

Por favor!! que fulero que es este juego, la versión de C64 es muchisima mejor. Que cuadrado y que simplóna esta versión de Amstrad.

[ontariobarclay]

Ha ha, remember IK+ (International Karate Plus) with its legendary intoxicating music? Wow!!!

[Firebrand101]

Yikes you can only take one hit in this version?

[genesisduke72]

Yep. Insanely difficult to play. Most games were back then. Kids these days have it easy :)

[proteoid]

Indeed. Games were rock hard back then. I could never decide whether it was due to bad programming, or whether it was done on purpose (i.e. latter levels didn't actually exist, but you'd never know because it was too hard to reach them - hence the developers save some money on a game thats only 25% made ? ) Hmmmmm ?!

[HelloOtter]

theres a very funny story out there on the net detailing exactly how this sick monstrosity of a game ever got made. basically it goes like this - a 15/16 year old kid was paid $50 to do all the graphics (the kid actually had to go to an arcade and made sketches while watching other people play)

[HelloOtter]

.. but being unable to see people playing the later levels he organized to go into Elite headquarters where there was a GNG coin-op machine set to freeplay... but after playing all night noone could get anywhere in the game. needing to still get the game made they just completed what they could..... absolutely hilarious

[macdeath69]

The music was very stressing...but quite good.

But i only managed to pass to lvl2 one or two time in years of gaming...lol...

Far tooo difficult.

[AyrtonS111]

One of the greatest Amstrad games...

One of the hardest, too...

[81runFROMwhat]

god this game is awesome! I play it on winape all the time at work. I was really pleased when it came out on the 464 because I used to play it at the arcade.

Its totally different from the 464 port of Ghouls and Ghosts which is terrible

[aug3nz3ug3]

Yes, it was quite difficult and the music is amazing. I mean, you are talking about a game that has no sound effects -- the soundtrack completely captures the player and puts him in that creepy atmosphere.

[TheCrazyBorg]

I hated the game back then, because of it was too difficult for me...

But I love the music. Really creepy.

[genesisduke72]

One of the best games on the Amstrad CPC.

[BINLASH123]

@genesisduke72 sure was ..

[DyLucke]

@genesisduke72 Probably worst CPC conversion EVER. Light years behind the C64 version. If you want to enjoy a great CPC conversion go for Gryzor instead... On the other hand the C64 version of Gryzor is... Well... Let's say it just "is".