[AMSTRAD CPC] Ghostbusters - Review & Longplay (edited)

[guymaddo]

another great upload!!!!.....



[martinthomas1980]

I remember playing this, but on a green screen monitor! LOL

[CholoCPC]

The movie was just fun & had a lot of heart .. i think this was brought into the game as well. As you mentioned its quite easy .. something that actually was quite rare back then. I recall the Darling twins (Dizzy programmers) mention that the reason their games might have been so popular was that they made their games a little easier than other games at the time. So even tho its a early game & its kinda "rough", Ghostbusters still really did everything right & is probably why its so popular.

[alex76gr]

Great video mate!

Even after all these years i wasn't much aware of how this game is properly played.

Your video is a useful guide.

[bluetonic78]

This did infuriate me as a kid yet would constantly draw me back - probably purely down to the Ghostbusters franchise being popular at the time. Nice to see it again all these years later - can't beat those memories! :)

[khisanth75]

You could cheat on this really easily. Go to zuul and try and enter and it would drain down the clock/PK energy. if you dropped the ghost bait you would get the marshmallow man and the cash. do this a few times then you quickly make more money and can enter zuul very very quickly

[TheBladeJunker]

I think Peter Venkman had a line about franchising the Ghostbusting business so it doesn't come completely out of the blue the game concept. Despite David Crane's contribution it does feel unrefined like more testing could have ironed out its problems. And persistent too since it was released on so many platforms basically unaltered from a design perspective. I'd write it off completely but I think there is a good game buried inside. ^_^

[tazong]

thinking about it i remember the ghostbusters streams on the portal doorway and a it slowly closing - cant remember if you actually took part or if it was just the end game scene - defintly wasnt on another system that i am sure of.

the only think i am now unsure of is my sanity?

[Xyphoe]

@tazong DUDE!!! You may well be onto something!!! I've found a different disk dump and it looks and plays quite a bit differently!!! Recoding vid now....

[Xyphoe]

@tazong YES!!! THERE IS AN ALTERNATE VERSION WITH QUITE A FEW DIFFERENCES..... INCLUDING THE ENDING!!!! Video is processing now, and should be uploaded in an hour.... :D

[tazong]

well i switched from a amstrad 6128 to an atari st i know had ghostbusters I+II on the amstrad but dont recall having either of those games on the atari.

dont think the oringinal ghostbusters was on the atari. the part where you just let the ghosts fly about - i am pretty sure you HAD to collect those - cant remember why but on your longplay my first reaction was he wont complete this if he lets them just fly about?

remember completing game but with the portal closing - think i going mad now

[tazong]

very very strange watched the video through to the end and i am/was certain that at the end of the game you went to the top of the building and sealed the doorway portal with the ghostbusters and then that was the end of the game.

cant remember but maybe i had the disc version and it maybe had some extra content - lol this video has blurred my childhood memorys.

anyhow great video as always - if you ever get chance please do a long play of HEARTLAND - fantastic game

[Xyphoe]

@tazong Interesting! Are you sure? Did you own any other machines with this on? I found on the CPC-Power site another disk dump of the game that had different colours and logo on the title screen / karaoke session ... so maybe!!

[PURES3X]

Crap game IMO!

[Xyphoe]

@PURES3X Yea maybe I was being generous, perhaps. Although for 1984 this was pretty good, I could just be letting nostalgia cloud judgement! ^_^

[Misel982001]

Great great great game!!!!!I loved this!I kept catching ghosts till I was eventually killed! Who you gonna call for a great longplay?????XYPHOE!!!!

[Xyphoe]

@Misel982001 Hahahaa! Nice one, thanks! ;)

[CrazySandtrooper]

I used to play this all the time despite not having a clue what I was meant to be doing! =)

[Xyphoe]

@CrazySandtrooper :D