Inept Reviews: Ghost Busters (ZX Spectrum)

Another game based on a movie - something which was popular back in the eighties, and something which is becoming popular again.

This is obviously Ghost Busters, a game I really looked forward to playing when I was a small lad and saw the game on the shelves at Boots. Imagine my horror when come birthday time I didn't get Ghost Busters - but Ghost Hunters by Codemasters. Curse those bargain basement shysters cashing in on the Ghost Busters name. Anyway I got the game eventually and enjoyed it at the time. But 23 years after it's release, is it actually any good?

Here's my three and a half minute review stretched over a laborious 8 minutes or so. You could actually spend the same amount of time watching a bit of the classic movie itself and getting a few more laughs at the same time. So think on.

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• zx
• spectrum
• sinclair
• speccy

[meowmmmmm]

The author of this game is one foul mouthed prick. My 6 yr old son now wants to know what a 'Twat' is!

It's so sad when an uneducated idiot has to sell views on youtube with unnecessary profanity. It's even sadder when he does not know the limitations of the specky!

[collieuk]

@meowmmmmm Judging by your hypocritical comments, If your 6 year old wants to know what a twat is, he only has to look at his father. Bless him. As to knowing the limitations of the Speccy, I know only too well, having grown up with the machine. This game never pushed the boundaries of the Spectrum. The speech was great, the stick characters were not. The resulting game is a disappointment all round. Good day to you.

[kasabian8888]

Remember these games were not cheap. One of the first games I bought was in 1984, pitstop II. It was £10 ! THAT was ALOT of money, maybe equivalent to £40 now?

[collieuk]

@kasabian8888 Yea people moan about £40 games now, but a tenner was a tidy sum back then. I have some ZX81 games from around '82-83 that are priced £5.95 or so.... that's a lot for a game taking up 1K of memory that probably took a few hours to write.

[dubchild1974]

rubbish graphics? what do you expect dammit! It's the spectrum ffs!

[collieuk]

Seeing as I grew up with the Spectrum and ZX81 and have played hundreds of games for those systems, I think I am safely in a position to compare the graphics of one Speccy game to another. I'm not saying the graphics are rubbish compared to say the NES, but the minimalistic colour usage and crappy stick figures is poor. For 1984 the graphics were passable but the Speccy was capable of much more. So stick that up your Proton Pack and smoke it!

[mashup30]

HE SLIMED ME!

[klassklassklass]

We had a good little Spectrum scam going back then. We used to nick the bargain basket games (with cassettes in the boxes duh?) from John Menzies, then take them back to Littlewoods which had a small games section staffed by the dumbest women since the 'Dumb Woman Competition 1968'. No receipt required, we'd take the shitty 99p nicked games back to customer services, say it was an unwanted present and receive a 10 quid (or 9.95) refund to spend on a 'real' game - nice!!!

[killaklownkrisn]

Keep up the speccy reviews collie and comments

[cfuters]

@meowmmmmm

why is your 6 year old son watching videos on youtube?

[darkhoras]

buagagagaga, lol

[rtrgrl78]

@HardWarUK Ha, really? well done mate.

[rtrgrl78]

A bad game of the time, aside from the music and speech. The only thing worse than the Commodore 64 version (I own it, so kind of know) is the Spectrum version. Ghostbusters 2 was only slightly better really.

[capricious71]

Always hated this game. You don't even get the musical bouncing ball that most of the other versions have. :(

[hellonpluto]

@collieuk i m 6 what is a twat? LOL!

[Dualhammers]

@collieuk You're like the Angry Videogame Nerd... only actually angry, and a dick, and not good at reviews, and probably mad because you're less famous.

[fjphotography]

@meowmmmmm He knows what a 'fuckin' Triffid' is (3:50 in video), but not what a twat is? What are you teaching him?