Apple II - Ghostbusters

[MsHUGSaLOT]

Atari 8-bit plays music much better.

[brandonefron2064]

Activision dropped Ghostbusters from the released Wii Line-Up of games. Columbia Pictures Industries was in turn sold to Sony Corporation which became Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1990.

[megamanrocks99]

GHOSHBUHSTAHS

AHAHAHHA

[Kazuo1G]

I don't care what anyone says about this. I like the intro. ;)

[VinnyVanYiffy]

grrrshbrrshrrrrrs

[koaftder]

This wasn't impressive or magical when it came out for apple II, it was average, run of the mill kind of stuff. Not sure why people are worshiping this. This isn't anywhere close to a good example of what can be done with the simplistic audio support on that machine. Doing the PCM code in assembly for this is trivial.

[g8crapachino]

@koaftder. Making arrogant comments about how trivial a 20 year old video game is doesn't make you all that impressive.

You obviously have no experience with a real Apple II so you never got to appreciate the work it took to make a 1Mhz 8-bit computer with only 128k of RAM, no actual sound hardware (beyond a speaker beep) and very rudimentary video capabilities actually do sampled sound effects WHILE animating the graphics.

[TrueCourse]

Hehe... INVERSE.... brings back memories :) Thanks for sharing this.

[suspekt29]

Conglaturation !!!

You have completed a great game.

And Prooved the justice of our culture.

Now go and rest our heroes!

[jdolaktv]

@suspekt29 AVGN's counter which is why I'm quoting it. Has nothing to do with you.

"Congratulations!

You had the patience to sit through this awful game

You've proved your nerdiness

NOW GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!"

[toastietube]

That laughing ghost at the beginning creeped me out whenever I played this as a kid.

[cuzolio]

Fantastic software piece in a fantastic hardware piece ! I'm so thankfully for that computer scene!

[rockerzac99]

GUST BASTERS! GLAGAGAGAGAGAGAGH!

[supercorneybroadcast]

Grow Brushters Blabwaharbarhar

[nicolunacba]

Go bastards?

[xargos]

Poor sound quality is one of the reasons the Apple II series just didn't seem as suited to gaming as the other 8-bit computers of the time.

[porcorosso81]

@xargos

With other 8 bit computers of the time, you probably mean the Commodore PET 2001, which is also from 1977...

[TallAceTheJuggalo]

The fuck was that? GHWUUUSTBWUSTERWS

[MrHotrod68]

GWASHBWUSHTERSH! ERLAGLAGLAGLAGLAGLA!

[SSCode09]

GURSTBUSTUHS! WAKAWAKAKWAKA

[RMJ1984]

My ears are FUCKING BLEEDING WHAT IS THIS SHIT.

watch?v=DFqpDiDXdBc&feature=re­lated

[Stingray4]

Yeah. The c64 version was way better. IT had the bouncy ball with it. not highlighted the text.

[mightybeanz1999]

c64 version is much better



[kitek1999]

GHOZTBASTARDS! HAHALULZXDROFLMAO

[AbelNightroad77]

the mentioning of the word hard drive makes this machine melt

[thedarkdragon735]

THOSE BUSTARDS wjahahahahahahahhajhasAAA

[mkunlimited756]

the commodore 54 version sounds better than this pile of shit

[estlib]

@mkunlimited756 i thought it was commodore 64?

[mkunlimited756]

@estlib serch this up on utube Commodore 64 -08 GHOSTBUSTERS. that is the commodore 64 one

[coneyislanddiscomark]

Total shit. 

[jkeelsnc]

Well the fact that they squeezed digital audio voice out of the extremely primitive apple sound hardware is impressive. However, the music is just as disappointing as I expected from an Apple II. The graphics are OK for the early 80's. I only wished that Apple had spent as much time putting the kind of graphics and sound hardware into an apple that Commodore did with the C64. After using the 64 I was always disappointed with the Apple II.

[BrownyTCat]

GYAOWSBAUSREAS UAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAGHHHH

[mistapaul]

shite

[yostoyou]

GowstbushtasHAHAHAHAHAHA are ashweshome.

[macintosh3823]

that looks pathetic to todays games..

[RixPixable]

The Commodore 64 theme song is better than the Apple 2 one =P.

[cragpictures189]

GAHGSTBUSTARS LLALALLALALALALALA

[meowmmmmm]

Ouch. Has the tempo for a suicide song

[Zambaku]

GRRRBRRRUSSHHTRRAASSHH GRAAHAHRHARAH!

[Manicup]

Even funnier than the NES "Ghostbuster" :p

[googlefreak7]

WTF BLEBUSHTASH????

[denl0]

Atari 800 version sounds much better :P

[SPGoblivion]

oh my lol

[Compgenius999]

better on the c64.

[DJFMasters3]

LOVE THE PRIMITIVE APPLE STUFF!!! reminds me of growing up wtih APPLE II+, APPLE II GS etc.:) FUN STUFF!

[PhazonShroom]

the voice sounds worse than the NES one o_º

[greytale]

@PhazonShroom nghohstabBuhsturzzzz!!!! lol

[cubehead978]

AVGN: WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?

[rtmnmk]

Apple was and still SUCKS!!!

C64 forever!!!!!!

[snake2006]

@DanielChristy19

That is because of the C64's SID chip a dedicated sound chip for the computer.

Apple II didn't have that until the Apple IIGS (graphics and sound).

So this is pretty good for a stock Apple II.

[GavinRoskamp]

80's music put into like 8-bit sound. Yeah. Not working exactly :D

[DemiLoc]

@GavinRoskamp I dunno. The 8-Bit Atari one wasn't too bad, IMO.

[tedsterify]

Very 80's

[harrunostasj]

Ghouchtbouchters!

[mohamed89h]

thanks

[plowhz]

that is what you call a basic game

[Gary190tube]

lol, that voice sounds like a dalek with a cleft palate

[nelizmastr]

activision!?

[PIlotrcm]

I wonder what went on in the garage studio when they had to decide who as gona say "Ghostbusters".....

[marquis0r]

gay laugh!

[madschannel]

sounds like jaws theme song in the first part

[JewelChick01]

This was the shit back in the day. Okay, it was sort of gay then too, but nonetheless impressive. I mean, it was a VIDEO GAME on a COMPUTER. And it wasn't solid GREEN!!!!!!

[jason24568]

Apple IIGS has a colored screen except for older models of Apple II and having a GUI interface.

[Kristin98cole03]

Do Day I Played This Piece Of Crap This Version Sucks Thats All I Had To Say

[sabremasterzero]

This to NES is a piece of shit.

[jzorns]

Agree w/ ogicab... Some of the smartass twerps saying how lame this is should try coding it in assembly. It was MAGICAL back in 1984.

[BurningPotatoFilms]

GAHST BASHTAS! RAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[jason24568]

That sound just like shit but it lacks of voice clarity

[ogicabp4u]

code written in 1984 on a 1977 machine. Other versions came out several years later eg NES, Amstrad CPC, C64 etc. Unfair to compare this version to those ones. This is is some very impressive code for the time and the machine!

People today just don't realise just 'how impressive' this really is!

[jason24568]

1977 machine? No! 1977 is a Apple I but for Apple II released in 1979.

[Hugo2608]

@jason24568 The Apple I was released in 1976, the Apple II was released in 1977.

[jason24568]

@Hugo2608 Apple II have a new family line such as Apple IIe, IIc, IIGS (Macintosh-like OS)

[CUR50R]

@ teamforteress : You're so damn right, man !!!!

[arranmc182]

LOL the music is so slow i had the on the Sega Mastersystem when younger

[teamforteress]

thats so shitty c64 is so much better or nes

[denl0]

atari 800 sounds way better =P

[DrCheeto]

Yes, and the Commodore 64 sounds even better.

[Roboguy9000]

C64 version is the best

[suspekt29]

Damn right!

[ClickClackClickClack]

The C64 was definitely the better gamers system.

[undocumentedspot]

why, how about MSX? they are pretty similar.  also ZX spectrum although inferior in Graphics, were very wide spread and revolutionary.

hopefully this won't turn into "xbox 360 vs ps3" after decades. lol

[ClickClackClickClack]

@undocumentedspot MSX is Japanese. I don't think there were too many people that had an MSX outside of Japan.

DAMN this was ported to a lot of systems.

Fun Fact > David Crane the designer/developer of this game, also made Pitfall and a Boy and His blob.

[undocumentedspot]

@ClickClack. MSX was made by Microsoft Japan hence the "MS". but was used in many countries it is true not really popular in US I believe , but outside US. MSX was very popular , and there are several models of MSX local and global. Spanish, Brazilian, Russian, Arabic..etc.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@undocumentedspot Its really too bad. A lot of Japanese software developers published and developed their games for the MSX, the NEC PC-8801, PC-9801, Sharp X1, Sharp X68000, and the Famitsu FM-77 and FM-TOWNS computers used FM sound and were never released in the U.S. The Commodore 64 on the other hand, all of the games made for it were all made by American and European game developers. I am not really a fan of the C64 because of this reason, no offense.

[jason24568]

@ClickClackClickClack Made by Sony and Microsoft Japan

[steviebboy69]

@ClickClackClickClack yes true hey dude, the sound especially, the sid chip sound was way better than this. then the amiga blew the c64 away. but even today i recon the c64 rocks.

[AidanHockey34]

HI-TECH! :D!

[ZSaberToothTigerZ]

MY EARS

[capricious71]

I see the bouncing ball was just a bit too much of a stretch. :)

The music seems like the sound chip's going to burn up.

[USAGRL12783]

my sister and i love this song! We are singing it in Sound Reach.

[verapamil07]

Just look how the video games changed for the last 25 yrs. Stil, amazing song. Goosh Bushtrz!

[Terrorysta50]

i didn't konow Apple was makin consoles

[Chirbu]

It's a home computer, called Apple II. This was well before Macintosh.

[Korolev61]

Oh man, the voice is worse than the NES version!

[zazelby]

This version did come out four years before the NES version, on a computer that had been essentially unchanged since 1977... so, yeah, the voice is a little worse. :D

[Aqwert76]

grrrstbstrs! whwhwhwhwhwhw!

[supermaletperson]

GHSTBSTRS!! Whhhhhhhh!

[eeyk1993]

Lol Karaoke

[pelle112211]

GUHSTBYRSTHARZ! WJAJHAJAHJAHAHJHJ

[bloodyinkpen]

@pelle112211

Even before I heard it on the video your spelled pronounciation brought the memory right back to me.

[Keeltsies1000]

@pelle112211 WHAT... THE... FUCK!!!

[mickeymouse14]

@pelle112211 what the fuck was that? 

[supermaletperson]

Gewstbista! Wahahahaha!

[optimusprime209]

GHOSTBUSTER!!!

Me and the avgn :the f**k was that

[brainstorm44]

Gweeeeeuuust BustaaaaaahSs!

[SamuraiClinton]

This version is worse than the NES version!

Its one thing that the NES version falls short of the Master System version, butt this version, c'mon.

Even the AVGN said so!

[jtrevor99]

Hey, in the 1980s this was cutting edge stuff. Not bad for a machine that could only show 4 colors and produce 1 sound at a time.

[RABBIDGamfan]

Have you actually played it or seen it in action?

[flatout2009]

GHOSTBUSTER!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

[fcmilsweeper9]

Hey. I have one of these and my dad needs to check the harddrive to see if we have financial info on it before we sell/ give it away. We cannot seem to figure out how to acces it, when we turn it on it says error: $ 0027. Anyone know how to get it to work?

[ganymedeIV4]

Hey thats not bad for only being able to play one sound at a time.

[ofdiscordia]

surely this was not the Apple IIGS version. I remember it boasting 16 million colors and so many voices of sound, etc. I'm guessing this is Apple II and nothing else, IIGS was supposed to be like a contender to Amiga, and this sure isn't on this game.

[stonedgeek]

I would say they did a good job making this music without a dedicated sound system using 1bit audio.

[RABBIDGamfan]

That's because there never was an Apple IIGS version of this game, to my knowledge. :P

[jtrevor99]

Yeah, this is the Apple IIC version...I used to have it.

[poshko41]

"Gowsh-bushtash-wa-ha-ha-ha-ha­-ha-ha!"

[HunterM28025]

that voice is freakin mah out man

[oarih94]

the voice sounds like peter griffing

[Xegethra]

it kinda does yeah. hahah

[BrownyTCat]

@oarih94 How in god's name does that sound like Peter Griffin?!

[oarih94]

@BrownyTCat Nipples.

[daveheel]

the apple version really sucked when compared to the commodore version

[kovalcik17]

god i love how all u guys are like, "graphics suck" put it this way, ms.pacman was crysis back in those days. lol! i remeber sellin these things when i was 24 years old with my 3 brothers.....god....

[darklord20042002]

geez this is worse than the zx spectrum lmao cool tho

[CaptainOlimarFan1]

............wow worse than the NES one

[sabathan777]

YES I AM YOUR GOD

[Teraforce88]

If this music is indeed coming out of just a single beeper, then I must say this is a pretty damn impressive version, considering the limitations.

And even if it isn't, it's still better than the NES version

[kaufmabr]

the c64 version beats this one hands down

[link41867]

2:31 i hear it likes the girls!!!

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

And there is all the terrible color fringing? I'm guessing an emulator was used.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I suspect this is the IIGS. There's no way an unenhanced IIe could pull this crap off.

[Akira625]

Not necessarily. Back in the 80's, I recall reading about a particular hack that allowed the Apple //e to function as a crude sampler via its cassette interface.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Didn't you have to add a card or some kind of interface through through the back to even add a casssette?

[Akira625]

All of the Apple //'s (except the //c & //gs) had built-in cassette ports.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I could have sworn i remembered having to go inside of an Apple IIe just to connect something up just to have it use a cassette drive.

[madwolf06]

fuck off apple2 ! do you know ghostbusters for commodore64 ? this is a very nice but amiga500 super ! :)

[seroyer2]

is this 8bit or less wow this is the most basic tones I've heard in a long time.

[Akira625]

1-bit digitized samples FTW! :)

[IAMONDAILYMOTIONNOW]

GHOSTBUSTER ALALALALALALAL

[drezone]

For something that's coming directly out of the speaker with no sound chip, this ain't bad at all.

[orangie84]

dam-!!! the apple 2... :))

I rememnber this machine..

so long ago... but yet it seemed like yesterday..

this again stirs up the age old question..

there was the apple 2 the apple 2c and the apple 2e.. What the frigg was the difference??!!

anyone know?

And is the old apple 2 related to the mac computer of today? and is it related to the Ipod?

and will ghostbusters ever pass it over to ghosthunters? (jay grant) who you gonna call,... Ghosthunters!! come on it's ready to freggin hatch already!!

[keghaywood]

There was little differnce with the Apple 2 and 2e just a little more memory. The Apple 2c was compact and could run most software from the other 2. They are no way related to the Macs since they had a windows type OS but emulators existed for a Mac to play 2e stuff.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I think the //c also had better video. I think, but am not sure, (in fact i could be wrong) that is had an 80 column text mode.

The graphics were still terrible though.

[indyj1698]

when it yelled GHOSTBUSTERS it scared the holy hell out of me XD

[WhiteSoxrock35]

the floppy disk is in my parents basement along with our Lazer 128 PC (Apple II) whether or not it still works I have no fing clue

[PhobosDM256]

CZHOZTBOZTERS!!! WAHWAHWAHWAHWAHWAH!!!

lol

[yorick8080]

looool

[popmomcorn]

commodore 64 is better than the apple that could play this game. this is bad. i know 8-bit was low-tech, but the commodore made it feel high-tech!

[bennat05]

I know exactly what you mean. I think it sounds great on the C64.

[Halospagheti]

GHZTBZTARZ

[abudabit]

That game was tough as hell, I never even bought a better car.

[m1omg]

and ram

[datacipher]

Considering the Apple 2 had no real sound chip and was only designed to be able to produce simple mono beeps by vibrating the built in cheap speaker, it's pretty amazing.

[m1omg]

well, no

there were even programms that played 6-bit 11 khz sound through that amazing versatile speaker, just the cpu power was too low to do more

[DrLove0378]

Too bad the Apple IIgs wasn't out yet... it had a great Ensoniq sound chip they could've taken advantage of.

[datacipher]

True, I didn't have any experience with the 2gs....had moved to PC platform by then, but the specs looked nice.

[Stopmotionist]

That chip was designed by the same guy who made the SID. How appropriate.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

For those without a clue (Apple users) the SID chip was the legendary audio chip in the C64, C128 and a few other Commodore machines. The SID is chip is availabe to IBM clone ("PC") users by way of an add-on card.

It's super efficient for creating certain types of sound but most people would opt for D/A converts if they ahd to pick only one type.

[Stopmotionist]

There was a SID upgrade for PCs? I thought that Commodore didn't let anybody else use that chip.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Yes, you can get PCI cards with not one, but two SID chips. There may have been one with 4 SIDs- i dinnae recall. By now they may have PCI Express, AGP or USB versions for all we know.

If Commodore were to prevent resell of any chip, they should have restricted the 6502, which they owned (CBM owned MOS Technologies). But nooo, they sold anything to all comers. Ninnies.

[SaddamHussein75]

Back in the late 80s, the IIGS had the most advanced sound of any home computer hands down.

[ericaesop]

c64's sid was better

[chfriend]

The IIGS had a similar sound system to the Amiga and SNES, instead of using synthesis it used digital samples, meaning if you wanted it to you could make it emulate the SID perfectly.

[uckersas]

& it's multicolor

[Stopmotionist]

I thought that this was a Mockingboard. This music is coming out of that little clicker?

[datacipher]

LOL mockingboard...that takes me back, I had one and about TWO whole programs that took advantage of it ;-)

No, this actually was not the mockingboard, it was just the apple 2 speaker clicking away! With clever programming it could do digitized sound (the speech here) and limited 2 voice music.

[Stopmotionist]

That's really incredibly amazing.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

I suspect a Mockingboard was in use too.

[figment1988]

at least the digitized sample's got better sound quality than the NES version.

[billamu]

You should have heard it on the Amstrad.

[figment1988]

it's worse than the NES?

[billamu]

I listened to a sample from the NES. Yes. Even worse. On the Amstrad it sounds like "KrKPTuptrCh" (sic)

[Stopmotionist]

It's worse than the Spectrum!

Seriously, the YM chip was pretty much the worst 8-bit sound chip out there. Even the POKEY chip that Atari made in the '70s sounded better.

[NotATube]

Which Spectrum? The original ones came with an ultra-crude one-channel beeper that stopped processing when it was used (IIRC), later ones came with the AY-3-8910 (ta Wikipedia) which I assume is the one you thought was crap... but compared to the original Spectrash sound it's great.

Atari 8-bits were state-of-the-art (and priced accordingly) when they came out, which is why they were still able to compete with later 8-bits when their contemporaries had long gone by the wayside.

[Stopmotionist]

Yes, the one with the AY.

I've always loved the Atari computers, but the C64 blew them away. Shame that Atari never really upgraded them significantly.

[ashillek]

when i first heard the theme music on my apple during the game intro, my life was complete.