Retro Weekends Episode 50: Ghostbusters

 
Retro Weekends plays and reviews Ghostbusters for the C64. All gameplay footage taken from real hardware.
 
 
 
   
 
 

What we thought

Chris

"I really enjoyed this game, I love the whole idea behind it. The item shop is a fantastic inclusion and there's a lot of micro-management going on which stops the game from becoming repetitive. Its just a shame that you can't go into the shops at your leisure and keep improving your set-up, but this is quite an early game so I'm not going to hold it against it "

5/5
rich

"This is an interesting game. Remembering that this is a very old title (the Atari 2600 was still the biggest console just a short time before this) its a fairly ambitious game for the time. There's a lot of different elements to the game play, with you having to buy items, keep an eye on the ghosts trying to get to Zuul, and catch ghosts and take them back to your base all whilst keeping track of your money and such. There's also some replayability as you can amass money and try a different car on subsequent playthroughs. Sound is fantastic for 1984, including in-game music and even some voice samples! On the bad side, it gets a bit monotonous after a while, maybe around the half way point, and I'm not fond of the marshmallow man as an end boss"

4/5
 
 
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