ZX SPECTRUM GHOSTBUSTERS

[oldpainless316]

" He slimmed me" The catchphrase of the millenium

[mechamind90]

I don't know if I'd rather play the NES version or this version.

[SPINNYFUCK]

@mechamind90 Probably better on the NES.

[TheMon1002]

That a great game this was. It was full of little nuances and complexities years ahead of its time. Brilliant! ...shame about the dodgy rythmical and melodic wobbles in the front end, but we can't have everything eh. This game was a real charmer.

[iwanttheoldroblox]

@all who says this game is shit U can all fuck off this was the best game ever at it's time and you are all tits who say this game is crap

RESPECT THE CLASSICS FUCKERS

[DespicableOne]

@iwanttheoldroblox Err, no. We had this as kids too, but even at that age we knew this was rubbish. It's a classic only in its badness, but we did get entertainment out of it!

[Ch3Weh]

My god! I was 7 years old when I last heard this... I'm 30 now

[jonjo220]

Terrible game and I think it cost about ten quid. In the mid 80s that was a fortune!

[abbamanic]

your mobiles are more powerful computers, what the fck do you expect from 1984, 3D interactive non-aliasing with patrick stewart voice over? dickheads

[Hoggy82]

Probably the game I played the most on my speccy as a nipper. Loved the opening titles.

[meowmmmmm]

Thats not ZX Spectrum Music. The Speccy version of Ghost busters does not have speech!

[LOveERDos]

@meowmmmmm yes have! trust me!!!!!!!!

[meowmmmmm]

@LOveERDos I'm taking it thats on a 128K then using the new Sound Chip. I have Ghost busters on an origional 48K and it does not have speech.

[LOveERDos]

@meowmmmmm yes!! i  have it in my speecy !!! without speech synt and the voice there is, the speker of spectrum do miracle sometime belivime

[luskentyreuk]

@meowmmmmm It is the Spectrum version. I believe Ghostbusters was the first (major) game to feature "speech".

[etgewgehtrhw]

Wow. The spectrum was a pretty shitty computer! And this was a 128k machine?

[harrunostasj]

Gouchtbouchters!

[GrandDizzy]

Glad to see I'm not the only person who thought this game was utter shit.

Festering turd of a game is too high a praise.

I feel dirty just commenting on it on YouTube.

[SpiderKerr5]

AVGN has a funny review of this game

[SPINNYFUCK]

@SpiderKerr5 will check it out mate.

[GrandDizzy]

@SpiderKerr5 Thanks for the recommendation! Funniest thing I've seen in ages!

[sengoku80]

if you have a crappy game, and its bad as shit who you gonna calll.. Bin Busters!!!!

[matyus111]

there is a cheat which gives u unlimited money, i used to use it all the time.

im not sure how to do it now though. i know the code is 44560001

i think u put it in as a poke in B.A.S.I.C first

then run the game

ie poke 44560001 then run ""

[DingKong]

What an utterly shit game that was. The music could have at least been in tune and in time! Thanks for reminding me of this festering turd of a game! ;-)

[SPINNYFUCK]

A pile of piss. Never liked the game. Played it quite a bit but what a waste of time. Marks out of 10...bollocks!

[matyus111]

i used to love this game when i was a kid

10 out of 10. but only with the money cheat lol

[elessariano]

yo lo tenia era super sencillo pero entretenido.

[PatRibsey]

Genius! Love how shit it is!

[SPINNYFUCK]

This game does not deserve to be called shit. It's worse than that. I would call it sh!

[ToastmachineIdiot]

what an awesome intro! with the semi-retarded dude going GOOOSHBUSHTASHH BWAHAHHAHAHA!

and the 8th note triplets taking the place of the 16th notes!

[SPINNYFUCK]

They could have made a better effort with the tune. It was probably some kid that could recreate music but had no clue about timings.

[ToastmachineIdiot]

exactly.

[drewgoloid]

Hahahahahahah love your description, it's a load of shite isn't it!

[TheBroz]

Easily my most played game on the Spectrum at the time. Was/am a massive GB fan and spent many an hour playing this on my ZX with a mug of hot milk. Many thanks for the upload.

(would have been cool if you'd included the load as well :-P)

[kmp3000]

whoopee for progress.

[hamar1975]

なんだ　このずっこけるようなオープニングの音楽は！

[nrdesign1991]

GHOUSHT-BUSHTAAARRRSS!!! RAAAHAHAHAHAhaahaahaha!!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Got to love that intro! Classic!

[nrdesign1991]

i love it! It sounds so... good-bad

[YewTewberer]

HEESHH SCHLYMSHH MEEESHHHH

[nrdesign1991]

"He slimed me?" O.o

[drewgoloid]

Genius!!!!

[tyzwain]

Hilarious theme - Russell Brand spoke of this on his now defunct show.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Just checked it out. You're thinking of the ghost in Pac-Man, lol!

[KiIIerTofu]

I just re-listened to the episode where they played this, and I couldn't stop laughing. It just sounds so ridiculous. Also, it gets stuck in my head for hours at at time.

[scook2003]

The C64 was a better games machine, I had the Spectrum and it was far more flexible and it taught me to program. C64 BASIC was complete trash.

For me the Spectrum was the better all round machine.

I feel like im back at school now! The amount of arguments we had about which was better;-)

[luigi2999]

the logo is facing the wrong way, and the ghost's head is smaller than usual.

[soheifox]

.. in case you care, you were having difficulty catching ghosts for two reasons. 1: place your ghostbusters and trap as high up on the screen as possible. 2) When you get the ghost on a stream, move towards the trap and fire off while herding. You can't cross the proton streams, but cutting the trap's arc with a stream doesn't hurt anything.

Once you learn to catch ghosts, you'll do a lot better. Buy a vacuum also. it lets you suck down the guys meet on the road. More time to get money.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Thanks for all those tips mate. I'll be a Ghostbuster in no time. Cheers!

[Toemaster]

i got bought a spectrum when i was 4 in 85'

[Toemaster]

woah this was my childhood re-lived within this clip....props for the upload spinnyfuck

[SPINNYFUCK]

Cheers mate! Played this loads of times back then and tried to make progress but that marshmallow dude soon put a stop to it.

[11111phil11111]

Awesome. Just awesome. Thanks for uploading this. I used to love it. 5 stars

[StevenJamesJ]

The worst thing about this awful game is getting back to fucking GHQ. You just have to keep moving around near the GHQ building and pressing 'z' or whatever, only to find out after another thrilling car journey that you 'chose' to go to the vacant building opposite. Oh, ActiVision didn't bother to tell us that 'b' drops bait lol, it's not mentioned anywhere!

[OneEyePI]

God this is so funny hearing the speccy trying and failing to keep up with the theme tune. Great days!

[SPINNYFUCK]

I don't know what it was with Activision. Got some of the biggest movie tie-ins and managed to make a dog's dinner of them. This and Predator are prime examples.

[kalateur]

"who u gonna call? GhostBusters!! thx for the video. I gonna call GB, the something very strange at my bassement!! :D

[AdamJ617]

Wait until the Nerd himself, James Rolfe, reviews this version of Ghostbusters.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Can't wait!

[SPeacock]

I suggested it to him - he still hasn't reported back. Maybe the ZX Spectrum isn't that well-known in the US.

[SPINNYFUCK]

The speccy was not known in the USA due to import restrictions and banning competition because of the C64 market.  Some US guys are into the speccy but maybe they are ex-pats.

[ultimategamer1457]

The voice clip at the title screen of this version is HORRIBLE!!! IT MAKES THE NES VERSION'S VOICE CLIP SOUND AWESOME!!! AND THAT VOICE CLIP WAS HORRIBLE ALSO!!!

[Mattkamineko]

To catch the ghosts, you maneuver your two fellows so that the ghost is trapped and jiggling above the trap, then activate the trap so that the trophy shaped thing hits it.

As for the door thing, on the Spectrum version, the game ends after you bypass the marshmallow man. On different platforms, there's a scene where you walk through the building avoiding things. Check the NES version videos on youtube! :)

[SPINNYFUCK]

Cheers mate! Thanks for passing on the tips.

[AppetiteForRoses]

I used to play this when i was tiny, ive still got the keyboard n shit but that tape deck thingy u used to put the games into has gone :(

[SPINNYFUCK]

I'm sure you can find an old tape deck in a second hand shop for a quid. Then you can relive the good old days.

[letsdo1]

lol i remember my mate having the dizzy box set and being so jealous. And then he didnt believe me when I had dizzy 3.5 that came with CRASH magazine.

By the way - Did the game just end when you got through past the marshmellow man. My mate reckoned that you went up the stairs after this and were on the rooftop...

[SPINNYFUCK]

Don't know how it ends cos I never completed it. I think your mate was smoking too many marshmallows!

[brucewalken]

My grandad god bless him had loads of old crash magazines and i loved them to bits. I got bought the oliver frey art book (he did most of the painted crash covers) for xmas last year. Best pressi ever! Not having much cash i had to take my xmas money down the markets and pick up some &3.00 speccy games. Salamander was one of the first games i bought there 'sighs while thinking off the past'. Good stuff

[brucewalken]

True. All my mates had spectrums and we all used to go to each other houses and swap games and show our gaming skills. I remember when my mate got the special dizzy box set with 5 dizzy games on it, we all went mental! Good times.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Yeah! The Dizzy box collections where great. Something to keep you going over Christmas and into the New Year. Then wait until the January Crash magazine came out to see the next batch of new games coming to the shops.

[keeprighton2007]

not a bad game but if you had any mates with C64's they would ridicule the phlidy "ghostbusters" synth voice compared the quite clear version on the commodore 64...

[SPINNYFUCK]

You cant sit on the fence between speccy and C64(spit) Judas! Speccy is the most popular home computer. Who needs mates when you've got a speccy.

[soheifox]

Heh. The Commodore's sales slaughtered the Speccy's. I'd say that means the Commy was more popular.

Go and play the C version of this game. Save for one of the voices (Ghostbusters!) everything looks and sounds better on the commodore, plays faster and smoother.

The 2600 version of Ghostbusters is smoother then the speccy's offering.

[SPINNYFUCK]

That's only because the C64 was made for the the American market. On a percentage of population against sales the speccy version has a higher average. Sorry dude!

[brucewalken]

The problem i had was that i could never figure out if i was trapping the ghosts correctly or not as im not sure if your meant to get them exactly in your beam or if you kinda just herd them near the trap like cattle. To be honest i still have no bloody idea but i aint gunna let it get me down!!

[SPINNYFUCK]

You have to catch the ghosts in the trap and you hear 'Ghostbusters'. Then return to HQ to get rid of them.

[brucewalken]

Im a big ghostbusters fan and remember playing this. The graphics are pretty bad thou i do like yhe fact ecto 1 takes up all the screen. I remember it been hard to trap the ghosts when i played and slimer seemed to give you a bit of hassle to!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Played this for hours back in the days but could never really get anywhere with it. Trapping the ghosts is quite tough. Usually ended up getting squashed by a big marshmallow man...lol!

[EvildeadCellar]

This game lookls seriously crap. The Ghostbuster car looks like a Volkswagon Beetle. No cider either.

[SPINNYFUCK]

There was loads of cider. Maybe that's why I was struggling to trap the ghosts!

[EvildeadCellar]

I always say Spirits and Spinny are a bad combination...

[SPINNYFUCK]

I think Jack Daniels and Mr Sinoff would agree on that one.