Conglaturation !!! You have reviewed a horrible game. And prooved the justice of NES Works. Now go and rest our content creator !
@ChristopherSobieniak
2 жыл бұрын
Ri Ri!
@childofcascadia
2 жыл бұрын
You won the internet for today.
@Grogeous_Maximus
2 жыл бұрын
I was just about to downvote, thinking "Wow, what a horribly shitty post." Then I realized it was a magnicifent shitpost. Then I died.
@osurpless
2 жыл бұрын
And unlike the AVGN’s review? “Well, that’s just simply correct. 20 extra points for that statement!” - paraphrase
@guybrush1701
2 жыл бұрын
"conglaturation"? Please tell me that's a Strong Bad reference. ...or else, Strong Bad is referencing Ghostbusters. 🤷🏻♂️
@jorymil
2 жыл бұрын
I think the humor has aged well enough: stuff like "You've never worked in the private sector--they demand results!" or the infamous Twinkie analogy are timeless.
@cristianhakansson7443
2 ай бұрын
My favorite is ”This reminds me of that time you tried to drill a hole through your head” ”That would actually have worked if you hadn’t stopped me”
@NesrocksGamingVideos
2 жыл бұрын
When making the Ghostbusters Remastered hack I discovered that much like in the case of Super Pitfall, Tiger Heli and Ghosts'n Goblins, this game reduces the framerate either as a means of slowing down the action or as a way to give the code a confortable amount of time to run before rendering. Incredibly, a simple code edit doubles the frame rate with no issues. What I take from this is that the programmers were in total disdain of the job they had.
@ChristopherSobieniak
2 жыл бұрын
How I feel.
@Dwedit
2 жыл бұрын
That's a great rom hack by the way. The only thing it needs is a bit more explanation text so that someone unfamiliar with the game can figure out how to play. If you hadn't played the original game, you'd have a lot of trouble with the opening phase where you need to get the free ghost vacuum, and suck up a bunch of ghosts to afford the beam and traps.
@NesrocksGamingVideos
2 жыл бұрын
@@Dwedit That's really fair, and in hindsight a problem with most of my hacks. I'm so used to the games that I forget most people didn't bother playing them. In the case of Ghostbusters though, if I recall correctly there wasn't a lot of free space left after I was done modifying it. Perhaps I should expand the ROMs more freely on my next projects. I guess there's not much of a point in keeping the tech intact.
@jessragan6714
2 жыл бұрын
That puts them in good company. They hated making it, I hated playing it.
@absolutezeronow7928
2 жыл бұрын
Always nice to hear Phil Collins in the eyecatch. At least Segaiden will have a chance at showing us a nicer form of Ghostbusters. And I remember the game in the stinger. Definitely started the whole punishingly hard Disney games thing.
@vincentlee8787
2 жыл бұрын
This definitely falls into one of my three varieties of favorite Jeremy Parish videos: 1) Great insights into stone-cold classics (Megaman, Castlevania, Metroid, etc.) 2) Great insights into less well-known but influential and fascinating moments gaming history (All of the SG-1000-ology) 3) Jeremy suffering ("*sigh* Micronics") through steaming hot dogshit I'm so sorry it was #3 this week.
@jessragan6714
2 жыл бұрын
And next week too, apparently.
@Larry
2 жыл бұрын
It is strange the NES version was released a year after the Master System port, which is regarded as the best version of the game. But Sega did essentially cut out a lot of the nonsense to make it work as a console game. Like removing running out of gas and having to go to the HQ to empty traps constantly. Funny that David Crane took the critisisim about the first game to heart and somehow managed to make an even worse game for Ghostbusters II.
@mcbfilms22
2 жыл бұрын
Master System version the only version worth playing.
@peterlemonjello480
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the master system version was surprisingly good. Never played it until I was an adult, but much better than the Atari 800 version I grew up with!
@Larry
2 жыл бұрын
@@peterlemonjello480 I never played that one, the Amstrad port I grew up with before I bought the SMS one. Have you seen the Atari 2600 version as well?
@neurath2638
2 жыл бұрын
I liked Ghostbusters 2 when I was young, but I think there are 2 different games with the same name for NES, if I remember It well. Maybe in Europe we got the Better one
@mcbfilms22
2 жыл бұрын
@@neurath2638 Activision that pretty bad, but then a few years later HAL Laboratories released “New Ghostbusters 2” for the NES for the PAL and Japanese markets. If you’re in Europe then it looks like you got both games. New GB2 is far superior.
@chaseman94
2 жыл бұрын
To this day I still regret convincing my cousin back in the Summer of 1989 when we went to the local video store to rent Ghostbusters instead of Jackal for NES.
@mcbfilms22
2 жыл бұрын
And least you didn’t convince him to BUY the game, and it was only a rental.
@chaseman94
2 жыл бұрын
@@mcbfilms22 true a year later in 1990 I convinced another cousin of mine when he was at Wal-Mart buying a NES game to pick Ghostbusters 2 over Ninja Gaiden 2 granted Ghostbusters 2 wasn't as terrible as the first game and we did manage to complete it Ninja Gaiden 2 obviously was the better game. Too bad we couldn't get New Ghostbusters 2 in the states like Europe and Japan did.
@WhoIsSirChasm
2 жыл бұрын
I hope there's a Ghostbusters game out there with an invisible bed. A freaky ghost bed.
@LakituAl
2 жыл бұрын
I hope they make a Ghostbusters game where you can order ghost pizza and get food poisoning because McDonalds put a ghost in burger.
@AndrewPlaysPiano
4 ай бұрын
A freaky man-baby
@satoukazuma7952
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the Commodore 64 had roughly **300 times** more available RAM than the 2600. That's one doozy of a generational leap, and probably explains why there's half a dozen different modes and styles crammed into one game here. Activision's programmers were just going to town, virtually unfettered from the severe memory restrictions they had labored under before. Regional differences: The NES version has some bug-fixes that arguably make the game less interesting. In the Famicom version the "Buy" and "Sell" values for the Ghost Alarm were accidentally switched around, so you can make tons of money very quickly simply by buying and selling alarms. Turns out that removing the grind makes the game much less tedious! But more hilariously, due to a programming error the credits do not appear properly, displaying only the incomprehensible, enigmatic phrase "りり” Minor quibble in the minutiae though: Thexder was actually created by Game Arts, of later Lunar and Grandia fame. Squaresoft had no more involvement with it than simply publishing the Famicom port. And the katakana reading is テグザー so it would be pronounced more like "Teg-zar". This is a portmanteau Frankensteined together from the titles of 3 games that were a big influence on its development: Theseus, EXOAII Warroid, and Grobda. Something to at least keep in mind for the NES Gaiden coverage ;)
@AQuestionofCharacter
2 жыл бұрын
In any version of the game, that stair sequence is maddening. Impressive and detailed video as always.
@Supadupanerd
2 жыл бұрын
the state stage on Sega master system let you control in all directions and shoot the ghosts to eliminate them, I couldn't imagine playing the nes version ugh... that being said, the part to get in the building is much harder, stay puft moves much faster and you have to clear 2 of a possible 3 chances
@BenCol
2 жыл бұрын
It’s interesting they even decided to make a level around the stairs at all considering the scene in the film lasts about 10 seconds.
@mcbfilms22
2 жыл бұрын
The stair sequence is my favorite part of the Master System version.
@Belgand
7 ай бұрын
@@BenCol And even in the film it's notable for being a dull, painful slog. Good job successfully capturing that experience, video games!
@DisasterSquad
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody I've ever seen review this mentions the fact that you're not 'supposed 'to be playing as the 4 movie Ghostbusters. You are starting up your own Ghostbusting franchise, thats why you buy equipment. The C64 version is very clear on this when you start it.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
This is not made explicit in the NES game.
@jessragan6714
2 жыл бұрын
That sounds like the more recent Ghostbusters game, which has the four original characters but adds you, the player, as a new recruit.
@ShadowX40
2 жыл бұрын
Which makes sense considering how much a business/ghostbuster sim this is more than a standard action/platform game.
@EnbyeonTTV
2 жыл бұрын
I was always kind of confused about the reputation of this game, because I grew up with the Master System version which I felt was a pretty decent title. I only learned later that the reputation of the NES version pretty much eclipsed all other versions of the game.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this hit right as the NES really became a dominant force in the U.S., and that box was hard to resist. So many kids I knew owned this, and we all agreed it sucked a fat one. I only learned how much more streamlined and enjoyable the C64 version was a couple of years ago.
@jasonblalock4429
2 жыл бұрын
I had it on PC Jr (there are dozens of us!) and yeah, same thing. Genuinely fun game. Then I tried it on NES and was appalled at how bad it was. That whole stair-climbing section was such a terrible idea.
@CaptainRufus
2 жыл бұрын
Oddly the SMS has a lot of fantastic computer to console ports in its library. Not sure how or why but it does.
@Doommaster1994
2 жыл бұрын
@@CaptainRufus I think part of it is because it used Z80, the same processor many European developers were using at the time, mainly for the ZX Spectrum, so it was easier for them to create games for the system. The same can be said of the Genesis, which also used the 68000, in which a lot of European developers made games on the Amiga, which used the same processor.
@RogerPyoko
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish And not just the NES, the Real Ghostbusters cartoon was quickly heading into its 4th season, so Ghostbusters on the NES was just an easy sell to the unassuming children of the time!
@Daryoon
2 жыл бұрын
Between the inexplicable highway chases and stairway slog mechanics, it's my personal headcanon that this game was a major influence on FF7.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I had the same thought going up the stairway!
@19Szabolcs91
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, now imagine FF7's stairway killing your thumb and having instant death mechanics that put you back right to the beginning of FF7 :P
@EvanCWaters
2 жыл бұрын
One point I dispute, that the film was viewed as a "minor comedy throwaway": Ghostbusters had a budget of around $30 million, which was very much blockbuster-level at the time, comparable to what Paramount spent on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, or what Columbia had spent on Krull the year before (which was meant to be big, but, well.) It represented a fairly big risk for the studio, though it was based partly on the success of the Reitman/Murray/Ramis film Stripes, which WAS a minor comedy picture that way outperformed expectations. That said they did seem to take a loose view of how the picture was licensed (especially since computer gaming probably seemed like a niche thing at the time.)
@jeffcox6539
2 жыл бұрын
I never thought the movies were that good, but the cartoon series and the toys were amazing to an 80s kid.
@darkcoeficient
2 жыл бұрын
This type of comment in his reviews is what, to me, makes me not take him seriously. You can tell his biases get in the way.
@JazGalaxy
2 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Cox surely you can appreciate the sheer level of creativity involved. Especially in this day and age where there is no creativity on display at all.
@MrKenichi22
2 жыл бұрын
Judging from the context, I’d day what he is implying was the movie was expected to be a mild hit but apparently was a cultural milestone hit, similar to Star Wars in 1977, which was treated worse than Ghostbusters, and became the big movie of 1977, much to everyone’s surprise. To me I am amazed that Ghostbusters was this cultural milestone of 1984, as it was cool and visually stunning (as when I finally did watch the whole movie, I believe around 2000) I thought the movie was cool and visually stunning, but oddly, I didn’t find Ghostbusters funny, I thought it was more scary than funny, that when I talked to 80’s kids loving the jokes I had to re-watch and realize the casual dialogue that on first watch I excused as banter of employees against scary ghosts was just employees making light of the horrors they faced, not funny jokes. But don’t take this as “me hating this,” because I do like Ghostbusters, as a horror movie with excellent special effects. The Ghosts were really frightening and well designed and it was visually impressive horror movie, with some light moments to allow the audience to cool off and relax before the next major scene. In all a good movie, didn’t realize it was equal in meaning to Star Wars because, a lot of people value this movie… But I guess knowing what I know now, it’s value is justified.
@darkcoeficient
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrKenichi22 well it was filmed as a horror film at times so if it scared you it did part of its job!
@terborx
2 жыл бұрын
I see we've reached the "games I convinced myself I liked when I was a kid" portion of NES Works
@XanthinZarda
2 жыл бұрын
Technically, I already hit that point with Sqoon, but in a very neat way to square it: I'm pretty sure there are people who doubt that Sqoon exists.
@IndieGamerChick
2 жыл бұрын
I just did an interview with David Crane over A Boy and His Blob for the Game Boy, and he's seriously the biggest sweetheart and really generous with today's generation of game makers. It's really insane being on a first-name basis with such a gaming legend. Video games have meant so much to my life, and like, one of the THE pioneers of gaming is a pretty cool dude and a friend now. Wow. I feel all of his misfires have some asterisk next to them (Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly, for example, had a NIGHTMARE deadline). This one here.. It was just so ambitious, and I think it just lost the forest for the trees. I appreciate that he remembered the BUSINESS aspect of Ghostbusters and incorporated it in. I don't think it's THAT bad, but yea, it just stops being fun and starts being busy work. The Sega Master System version that removes the spinning-plate aspects of the game (the fuel, the ghost trap cleaning) are much better. I hate that Crane's body of work is weighed down by Ghostbusters, because this is a guy who was so ahead of his time. For me, the game that solidifies Crane's status is actually Activision Decathlon. He made a sports game.. for the Atari 2600.. in the early 80s.. one button gameplay.. AND IT'S STILL FUN TO PLAY TODAY! (shakes head) Wow.
@benmalsky9834
2 жыл бұрын
Crane, like I assume many other developers of the era, probably understood when a game they worked on wasn’t good on what platform.
@benmalsky9834
2 жыл бұрын
What did he think of the level of infamy the NES version found online?
@XanthinZarda
2 жыл бұрын
Oh boy, Mickey Mouscapade and it's inexplicable edits for the West is next on the docket. I'll put it this way: It's featured on Kusogrande (The bad video games tournament) with due reason. But I won't spoil the details, as that'd dash the wind right out of the sails of a host who could narrate the airs of paint drying, and I'd still listen. That's a very roundabout compliment, by the way.
@Poever
2 жыл бұрын
You might say you completed a great game and prooved the justice of our culture. Now, go and rest our hero!
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I actually didn't complete it, because that Zuul building sucks a bag of suckiness
@flailthroughs
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish I've never won that section without a turbo controller.
@siphillis
2 жыл бұрын
Conglaturation! You've completed a great video essay. And prooved the justice of our culture. Now go and rest our heroes!
@LorenHelgeson
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic episode, Jeremy. I was always fascinated by this game as a kid when I saw it discussed in gaming magazines, but never saw footage of it until AVGN covered it some 15 years ago. Still haven't played it. Next episode is a game I remember all too well, for better (not!) and for worse. Also, can I just call attention to the title card about 10 seconds in. It looks very clean, and with the minimal use of solid, pronounced colors, it looks top notch. Keep at it. This is certainly a passion project of yours I have only seen get better with time.
@TheSmart-CasualGamer
2 жыл бұрын
It's worth saying that originally there were only going to be three 'Busters in the film. Eddie Murphy and John Belushi were considered to play them, along with Aykroyd. However, this was at the time it was set in the future with tons of teams of Ghostbusters, so this didn't last that long before we got the four-man team we ended up with, even if Winston was shafted simply because they couldn't get Eddie Murphy (I prefer Ernie Hudson anyway!)
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
The franchise has constantly done wrong by Winston/Hudson. I recorded a segment complaining about that (and what a sleezebag Venkman is) but it was a little too much of a digression... I'll save it for the book.
@jasonblalock4429
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish I just want to know why Venkman took thorazine to a date. That's a 5-alarm WTF right there.
@ryanschrafel9576
2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonblalock4429 I was under the impression that he found the thorazine in Dana’s medicine cabinet.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I mean, we meet Venkman, a professor, creeping on a coed in defiance of all academic ethics, so nothing is out of the question for him. I get that parts of Ghostbusters were holdovers from the Meatballs/Porky's era of jock-comedy films, but there's a very good reason they don't make 'em like they used to.
@jasonblalock4429
2 жыл бұрын
@@ryanschrafel9576 Thorazine is mostly used as an anti-psychotic. Schizophrenics take it. That's not something a regular person would have lying around unless there was some serious backstory there. Meanwhile, Venkman has a PhD in Psychology, so he'd almost certainly have access to psychiatric meds. It's more likely the thorazine was his than hers.
@magus2342
2 жыл бұрын
I'm loving all the ghastly puns in this one! No bones about it, this is a demilich of a review!
@Doommaster1994
2 жыл бұрын
In the game's defense, there's a reason why Winston doesn't appear in the game. As a matter of fact, NONE of the Ghostbusters from the movie are in the game. The manual explains that in this game, you are running your own Ghostbusters Franchise (as shown in the Commodore 64 version's intro). Also, the Japanese original is even worse, if you can believe that. There's an exploit which allows you to sell a item for more than you bought it for, and the ending was programmed incorrectly so you get a glitched screen at the end.
@Kirkklan
2 жыл бұрын
Still love the fact that the devs botched the ending on the Japanese version so it said "Sensen" instead of the final text. And it was like... a one line code fix or something to fix it.
@Bro3256
2 жыл бұрын
just gonna mention that the Japanese Famicom version of Ghostbusters has an infinite money glitch that was patched in the NES release where by repeatedly selling the Ghost Alarm you slowly accumulate more money due to the sale value being higher than how much it actually is I hope somebody got fired for that blunder
@Dwedit
2 жыл бұрын
Japanese Version is also missing the ending, due to trying to read it from the wrong CHR ROM bank. It's the same as the US version, except it's a "Grate" game. But instead, you get a minute long black screen, then eventually the text りり (riri) scrolls onto the screen..
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
That's some fine-ass programming
@tomlillis7830
Жыл бұрын
Hey, I'm sure you don't remember me, but in the late 90s we were both involved in the world of "vaguely for profit, I guess?" game fan websites. I'm glad to find, 20+ years later, that you're still killing it. You were better than most of us then, and what you're putting out now is just great.
@JeremyParish
Жыл бұрын
That’s very kind of you. Remind me what your screen name was? I have a weirdly good memory for online aliases.
@ZombiesAreJerks
2 жыл бұрын
um...ACTUALLY, it is a modded ambulance, and not a modded hearse! ::pushes glasses up::
@drakabeko5145
2 жыл бұрын
awesome videos! they bring me back to my childhood. Although never liked any of the Ghostbuster games on the NES! but loved the 2 movies
@jbanks979
2 жыл бұрын
It’s around this point theres a strong divergence between developers who know how to crank every bit of power out of the NES and those that don’t. Just five seconds of Mickey Mousecapades (another deeply flawed game) is infinitely superior in both graphics and sound to this week’s mess.
@troysmith159
7 ай бұрын
I’m sure that in reality, being a ghostbuster would be at least 50% driving around and buying supplies
@RalphBarbagallo
2 жыл бұрын
This game blew me away on the C64 in 1984. I had never seen anything quite like it. The strategy, action, and business simulation mix was incredible. By the time this showed up on consoles it was pretty long in the tooth.
@baardbi
2 жыл бұрын
The Ghostbusters game was a "generic game" David Crane was working on before Activision got the Ghostbusters license. David liked the idea to use the Ghostbusters IP on his game, since his game needed a theme. Source: "The Computer Chronicles (1985) - Computer Games"
@trelard
Жыл бұрын
I got the C64 version for Christmas 1984. Loved it back then and playing it again to completion recently, it still holds up as a fun game.
@mcbfilms22
2 жыл бұрын
This version of the game is pure poison. I had it on the Master System and it was a joy to play, and remans one of my top 5 games for the system. I didn’t play the NES port until the late ‘90s, and was shocked in just how horrible it was, especially with that stairwell section; which is ironic because the stairwell section on Master System turns into a shooter, and is my favorite part of the game. The only versions to play now is the original C64 for the historical importance, and the Master System version, which streamlines the gameplay, and makes it more competent.
@sentient_thumbnail
2 жыл бұрын
ahh, my earliest gaming disappointment. the GB franchise was everything i wanted as a little kid. many of the jokes wouldn’t land until much later, but i loved all the spooky ghosts and awesome gear and “the flowers are still standing!” somehow, as a sometimes-struggling midwest working class family, my parents were able to procure the ecto a1 and wearable proton pack toys; i was ecstatic. once during the height of my obsession, my mom and i were at a thrift store where i saw a naked GB NES cart for $2 - mom understood immediately. i was a human pinball until we got home. without a manual, i was dead in the water, and my 7yo brain couldn’t quite suss out what was needed to progress; most of my games were used (my first game bought brand new was NBA Jam TE, i’m just now recollecting), and part of my gaming enjoyment was diving in and figuring it out - beating Metroid was the brightest feather in my cap for a while and felt like a real achievement. but with GB, i’d occasionally pop it in to relish that chunky buzzy Ray Parker Jr. and drive the ecto around. i hated it but couldn’t bring myself to part with it until i took a “loss” and traded it plus Ultra’s TMNT for Contra with a friend.
@TroyBlackford
2 жыл бұрын
This is meaningful for me. My friend had the commodore version: Not magically amazing. It was pretty darn messy. If NES is worse, fuhgettit. I like your take on the movie. It's a formative movie for me and my son loved it as a little guy but we are sure to tell him about the problematic stuff.
@michaelturner2806
2 жыл бұрын
I still have a soft spot for this game. It was one of three games I had for my NES for over a year, with the others being the bundled Super Mario Bros as well as the original Mega Man. For all this game's flaws, it at least had a progressing gameplay loop, where I knew I could play the early portion for a while and when I got the message to enter the Zuul building, I could just turn the game off. There were no infinite continues to tempt me into trying to throw myself against a manual dexterity brick wall that would take practice to overcome like the others. And once I got a Game Genie and made myself immune to the ghosts on the stairs, I was able to face the final boss and proove the justice of my culture once, and then I would never feel bad again about ending the game "early". One thing this did and I suppose other ports did better was lean into the 'franchise' part of a business sim. If it weren't for the Zuul building tying it into the events of the movie, you could easily imagine you're playing the role of a group of friends who pooled their money in order to buy their equipment, name, and exclusive operating area from the successful New York main office. I could imagine those guys running around weren't representing 3/4 of the movie characters, but instead me and my friends, and we were cruising around my hometown. This approach is something the tabletop RPG released a few years later by West End Games embraced, even going so far as making the original office kinda shady and huckster-like in a way that would make Venkman proud, more interested in selling overpriced franchise starter kits and merch than actual quality equipment and support. Unless the GM wanted to, of course. As you said, there were other objectively better ports than this one, but this is the one I had, so this is the one I have nostalgia for.
@ryanschrafel9576
Жыл бұрын
@1:31 - Thankfully a fan recently rectified this in the Sega Genesis Ghostbusters game, which also didn't include Winston, with a hack called Ghostbusters: Special Edition.
@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml
2 жыл бұрын
As much as Wednesday is "Trash Day" on my block... it's also "Jeremy Video" day as well... getting the work in.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, Trash Wednesday, a religious holiday for some
@jessragan6714
2 жыл бұрын
A convenient coincidence, because now you'll be able to put this game in that overflowing trash can.
@sanyr80
2 жыл бұрын
I saved up weeks and weeks of allowance money to buy this in 1990. Then, I saved up weeks and weeks of allowance money for a NES Max controller so I could use turbo buttons for the final ascent. I was not a smart kid. Thankfully, through years of practice and hard work, I’m still not all that smart, but at least I’m no longer a kid.
@benmalsky9834
2 жыл бұрын
Ghostbusters remains one of my most favorite movies of all time, and thank goodness it got a really good video game in 2009.
@johnofthewired
2 жыл бұрын
this was one of two games i was gifted when i was a kid for xmas when i got my NES, hated it then, hate it now
@kevinmeville2631
2 жыл бұрын
Having watched my older cousin play Ghostbusters on C64 I feel like there’s so much untapped potential for a full on Ghostbusters Tycoon sim out there that is hampered by the bad impression the NES version left. Too bad. And for the record, I never took the player characters to be the characters from the movie. You’re 3 unknowns that have started a franchise. I will acknowledge that doesn’t excuse the lack of representation as with so many 80s games.
@GameplayandTalk
2 жыл бұрын
I am mainly familiar with the SMS version of the game, which is quite fun. That stairwell section in the NES version looks miserable!
@kvndreamteam
Жыл бұрын
As for the NES version of Ghostbusters, I remember some kind of awesome glitch that gave me the maximum amount of money: it was a long time ago; so, I forgot what item I bought at the GB shop for a regular price and then sold it for an insane amount of money later on...
@ajpiskel
2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I wonder if my taste in early games was warped by the fact that the first two cartridges we had on NES were Deadly Towers and Micky Mousecapades lmao.
@antshield
2 жыл бұрын
This game confused the crap out of me as a kid. Never even got to the ghost catching part... Why I booted this up more then once is a mystery to my child mind.
@DaneeBound
2 жыл бұрын
2:38 talks about MTV, but the clip is from ZDF, a German public broadcaster.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Only because I had to minimize my use of the MTV video to keep copyright claims from popping up. Originally I just had a big chunk of the official video there, but even without audible sound The Algorithm was reprimanding me.
@gltovar
2 жыл бұрын
One small detail omitted is during the Gozer fight, there are two screens to interact with. The top screen was shown, but traverse down and the second screen shows the edge of the building with the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man climbing up the building. Shooting off the edge of the building knocks Stay Puffed back down a bit, and if he reaches the top it is game over. You have to balance shooting Stay Puffed and Gozer during the last battle.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I've never been able to survive the godawful stairway, so I did not actually realize this.
@gltovar
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish might be worth game genie-ing some of these difficult old titles if you can (for the footage)... Wild to imagine in the days of pre internet how much more crap we were able to endure especially as a kid with no meaningful income. My choices were to play this game that I hadn't completed, play something that I had finished so many times prior, or *shudder* go outside. I definitely had made it up the stairs a few times, on the countless times I played this title, but more often than not game genie certainly contributed to that success.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, I am not afraid to employ GG codes as needed-I used an infinite lives cheat on Druaga, for example, because it's almost impossible to get further than level 5 or 6 otherwise. It just didn't occur to me to prolong my suffering with this particular title.
@gltovar
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish I'm sure the comments on all you videos you make might have little bits of nuggets of info, might be worth keep tabs on them all and periodically make a "from the comments" video to showcase little tidbits. :)
@2yoyoyo1Unplugged
2 жыл бұрын
FINALLY! Time to figure out WHAT THEY WERE THINKIIIIIING
@guybrush1701
2 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this with my friend back in like 1990 on his Commodore 64. Never beat it of course. Lol.
@DSMTheEditor
2 жыл бұрын
You suffered through this for our entertainment, this is why we watch
@SeekerLancer
2 жыл бұрын
This game was my first time as a child that I realized video games could be bad. I vividly remember my parents let me rent a game to play while my grandmother babysat me for the night and being miserable because the game was so confusing and terrible.
@MattyHervey
2 жыл бұрын
We had the Commodore 64 version. It was a popular game, but a lot more bare bones than this port. IIRRC: A) there was no gas or gas station. B) No other cars on the road. C) No money for vacuuming ghosts, and as far as I could tell it was pointless. D) Every haunted building had a single ghost (Slimer.) E) Beams were at a 45 degree angle and not adjustable. F) If you made enough money when the time ran out (the city's ghost energy reaching its peak) you were rewarded with a cut scene of the Ghostbusters crossing the streams and closing the portal. There was no staircase sequence or Gozer battle. G) I'm not sure if this is in the NES version, but if you won, you could play again with all your profits added to you're starting budget. When I saw screenshots of the staircase sequence and Gozer battle, I was jealous and hoped to play the NES version, I also wondered what other computer versions had the "complete" version of the game. I never did end up playing it, and it wasn't until I saw the AVGN video about it that I realized the bullet I had dodged. I do think the original felt a bit thin, and adding most of these elements was the right Idea, it was just implemented poorly.
@fnjesusfreak
2 жыл бұрын
Heh, I remember the Apple ][ version - wasted a chunk of disk space on a fancy (for the system) karaoke, complete with that "Ghostbusters!" voice sample. XD
@doddsino
2 жыл бұрын
A ghost vacuum. Does there exist any store that sells a ghost vacuum? Let's find out. "Hi, do you sell vacuums?" "Uh, yes." "Um, yeah, I'm lookin' for a special kinda vacuum. It's like, shaped like a funnel, sorta." "Hmm, what kind of vacuum?" "It's like, shaped like a funnel, like you put it on the roof of your car." "You want a vacuum to clean your car?" "No, you put it on the top of your car... like while you're drivin'...?" "To, t-,t-, you want a vacuum to clean?" "No, y'know, these vacuums are for catchin' ghosts."
@PaulSoth
2 жыл бұрын
It's remarkable in its own way how Activision attempted to port this to as many platforms as possible. Also remarkable is how they attempted to render the theme on each platform, for good or ill. I had a cracked version of the Apple // port... that was some scratchy, tinny-ass music coming out of my //c speaker.
@ArcaneAzmadi
Жыл бұрын
You know, the idea of driving around the streets in Ecto-1 catching ghosts while on the move is is even more hilarious in hindsight now. Also that ending screen is an iconic example of shitty "A Winner Is You!" NES endings. Disappointing and translated with Google Translate in a time before Google Translate existed, nothing ever communicated exactly how many corners got cut in the 80s game market as much as a game's ending.
@MattoMakesLetsPlays
2 жыл бұрын
NESRawks, aka BitInkStudios, has some sort of raw power to hack a terrible NES game and turn it into something good.
@safetinspector2
2 жыл бұрын
11:40 “shots fired by Sigourny Weaver and Rick Moranis” Lol
@Dorelaxen
2 жыл бұрын
I know it's clunky as all hell, but I still have a lot of nostalgia for this one. Many a snow day as a kid spent playing it. I like it, bad translation and all.
@Jay_G94
2 жыл бұрын
The Marshmallow Man laughs like a human in the game, that was always funny to me
@michaelfields7088
10 ай бұрын
True story: When I was a kid, I liked every game in front of me. If the game had bad controls, that was me. Surely, Nintendo would never release a game with bad controls, thought my young mind. Ghostbusters on NES finally broke me. Somehow I ended up owning this game and I concluded that the cartridge made a better coaster than a game.
@vuuvovuuv
2 жыл бұрын
.....I grew up in the 80s and was surrounded by Ghostbusters movies/shows/music/toys/merch/juice/etc and I just accepted all of this as normal and fine until right this second where I'm realizing that the song is NOT just like, a regular dance song. He's singing about busting ghosts and it made it to number 1 and it's a completely bizarre track, and not like Whitney Houston was doing this kind of thing. Why did it take me this long to realize how goofy this is???
@shane1489
2 жыл бұрын
I loved Ghostbusters so much I told myself this game was good. The sequel game too.😔
@jessragan6714
2 жыл бұрын
HAL Labs' Ghostbusters game for the Famicom was actually pretty good! Too bad we never got a chance to play it in the United States!
@shane1489
2 жыл бұрын
@@jessragan6714 now I’m wondery i can find a rom
@KajetSeifert
2 жыл бұрын
I seem to recall hearing Ernie Hudson didn't want to be in any of the games, similarly to Tina Louise not wanting Ginger to be in the Gilligan's Island NES game
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that just the more recent gen games (Wii etc.)? Considering how they've frequently erased his presence from the franchise, I could understand why he might feel wary about it.
@velvetdogg7375
2 жыл бұрын
I'm proud to say, that I completed this game. It was a Nutbuster! It was a summer of them.
@ari-dynamicarchive
2 жыл бұрын
Hoo boy, and then next comes the Ghostbusters 2 NES game I imagine lol
@TheKonamiMan
2 жыл бұрын
As a kid I loved to play this game because I loved the movie and actually loved the basic idea of the game even if it was handled badly. I've always wanted to see someone take this idea for a Ghostbusters game, look at what each version of it did right, and do a modern version.
@anthonybradley1555
2 жыл бұрын
just seeing those clips of slimer in ghostbusters make me a little sad.. really good optical special effects done the old way rather than the sterile cgi of modern movies, anyway i was more familiar with the master system version of ghostbusters but playing as a kid i didnt really understand the gameplay back then but playing now, it really does suck.
@IgorsDen
2 жыл бұрын
If you're interested enough I recommend watching Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, a fairly recent two hour documentary that goes in depth on the making of the first movie, with a particular focus on how the effects were done. It's the second best Ghostbusters movie :)
@fineandsmurfy
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video! I used to play Ghostbusters all the time as a kid on the computer and agree the added content on the NES is almost all terrible.
@Clay3613
2 жыл бұрын
It's astounding they made a port of C64 title look like an Intellivision game.
@elmarakovideo
2 жыл бұрын
An honest review of a bad Busters game! I bought the Gameboy Real Ghostbusters game on clearance in 1999 at Toys R Us. I later found out it was originally a Garfield puzzle game in Europe! This franchise was cursed with awful games until 2009.
@therealthirst8099
2 жыл бұрын
It was quite sad when even the Atari 2600 version of this game managed to be more playable than this edition.
@juststatedtheobvious9633
2 жыл бұрын
Except for us 2600 owners. But that version was so simplified that it felt like a toy more than a game.
@thewindthatblows
Жыл бұрын
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Aren't most retro games glorified toys?
@juststatedtheobvious9633
Жыл бұрын
@@thewindthatblows In the sense you could argue any game is a toy? Sure. Especially console games. But my action figures never challenged me, only my imagination. And that was similar to playing Ghostbusters on 2600.
@thewindthatblows
Жыл бұрын
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 🤣
@DarkLordNick999
2 жыл бұрын
Playing this as a kid, I could never figure it out. I kept losing when my car ran out of gas and I ran out of money. My younger brother made it a point to smash into other cars. It wasn’t until a few years later that I finally learned how to play this game.
@BenWard29
2 жыл бұрын
This game and Top Gun were 2 of the 3 games my grandmother bought for me when I received my NES on Xmas of '88. Luckily the other game was The Legend of Zelda. But God bless her she tried. If those 2 awful games (that I played repeatedly and could not ever finish) were my only exposure to video games, I might have decided to stay away.
@IgorsDen
2 жыл бұрын
When you said "Tank" did you mean "Stripes"? If not I bow to your James Garner knowledge.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I always get those mixed up.
@nicocucsi
2 жыл бұрын
almost an atari 2600 game. New ghostbusters II is the real deal though!
@thecunninlynguist
2 жыл бұрын
Ghostbusters!
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Or, as the NES voice sample says, "NGHU-GGHUU-GHHUZ"
@XanthinZarda
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish Hey fellas! We're in the wrong game!
@jasonblalock4429
2 жыл бұрын
@@XanthinZarda Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
@allluckyseven
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish This game was trying to summon an entity from another dimension!
@BB-te8tc
2 жыл бұрын
@@XanthinZarda hey this looks like a kids ga...
@LeftyPem
2 жыл бұрын
GB on 2600 was literally my first eBay purchase, back in 1999. And yeah, it sucks. Ghosts look like Mooninites from Aqua Teen.
@guaposneeze
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like every NES game reviewer eventually loses their mind and turns into the "Angry Video Game Nerd" trying to find the words to explain how unpleasant some of the nostalgic games actually are to play as an adult.
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I hope that will not happen here. I'm more interested in digging into the underlying history.
@ryanschrafel9576
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish And your videos are all the better for it.
@michaelturner2806
2 жыл бұрын
5:45: ..."before the city's telekinetic energy hits critical"... Correction: "Psycho-Kinetic Energy". Hence the "PK" at the bottom of the screen.
@johnsimon8457
2 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure if the Apple II version I played was the original version. No stair section at the end, it’s StayPuft jumping to the entrance And as it is with little kids,I watched the cartoon and played the game years before I watched the movie. 11:40 never actually seen this screen! Screen of repeating tiles looks like the most 1984 era mapper 0-ass kusoge.
@Mr_Redsfan
2 жыл бұрын
I LOVED the C64 game. I was also five years old at the time
@childofcascadia
2 жыл бұрын
Oof. Anyone my age remembers being horribly burned one Friday night at the local video rental shop by that steaming pile of bits. And pity the fools who spent their hard earned chore money they saved up for months sight unseen due to their love of the movie (like my cousin). Still, that was the best, fairest review Ive seen of the game. Most reviews ive seen of it are full of hyperbole. Yours captures the essence of shit without screaming "this is shit".
@mrdrybonestv
2 жыл бұрын
I will just stick to the 2009 game. Hopefully the upcoming VR game is good!
@Davethe3rd
2 жыл бұрын
"You pop this piece of crap in, expecting Ghostbusters, and what do you get?"
@neurath2638
2 жыл бұрын
When I was young I tried so hard to like this game... So hard...
@JesterEric
2 жыл бұрын
It was possible on the Atari 2600 and it's pretty impressive technically. Lacks the setup screens but otherwise intact
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I showed the 2600 version here. But the design of the game would have been very different if it had originally been designed for that platform instead of converted and scaled down to fit it.
@unoclayGaming
2 жыл бұрын
I played the heck out of this game on Apple II. And still have the 5.25 floppy to prove it. I dont think it had the "climb the building" section though---sort of looks fun to me!
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
I swear to god it is not fun in any way
@unoclayGaming
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish i guess i'm viewing it through the eyes of 10 year old me who would probably have endured it just to be able to bust more ghosts!! as it was, i played the "business sim" aspect of it far beyond any sensible level of "fun"--ah to be a kid and not know any better.
@flyingerasehead
2 жыл бұрын
I had the Apple II version myself. I remember if you get past Marshmallow Man the game skips to a cutscene of your characters blasting Zuul and then the happy ending screen.
@unoclay
2 жыл бұрын
@@flyingerasehead I remember just sitting and playing it for a very long time trying to see how much money i could make. Man, being a kid, so strange.
@mattandsarahrose
2 жыл бұрын
Mr. Parish is on a roll. A couple weeks ago it was Jackal and now this week another game my cousin and I played a lot. We never got very far. It was a horrible game. Next week's game is another we played a lot as kids. I have fonder memories of that one. Maybe Jeremy will rip off my rose colored glasses.
@JSRFFD2
2 жыл бұрын
The C-64 original is a very good game, but it was clear that it was rushed. What is fascinating is that everything added to the NES version makes the game markedly worse (e.g., the final sequence). Perhaps it was lucky that the C-64 version was rushed, as it is unclear how many of those ideas were dropped from the original due to lack of time, but ultimately wouldn't have been all that much fun.
@aznluvr7
2 жыл бұрын
I had the 7800 version, as a 6 year old, I couldn't figure it out at all.
@ravikanodia
2 жыл бұрын
I had the 2600 version as a 4 year old; I believe I got to the Stay-Puft marshmallow man several times but always got trampled to death. Though, maybe my older brother was the one who actually understood what we were doing
@HeyItsLollie
2 жыл бұрын
Weird audio on this one? Your mic is in stereo - for the first half of the video, you're heavily on the right channel.
@SwordsmanOrion
2 жыл бұрын
This was the first NES game I ever had, before I had a concept of what a good game and a bad game was. I played and beat this game multiple times because of this. But I always had to use my NES Advantage to get turbo buttons to climb the stairs. That stupid staircase is the worst part of the entire game by far.
@Choralone422
2 жыл бұрын
I remember playing the Ghostbusters game on the C64 shortly after it was released and thinking it was neat but a little obtuse for my tastes at the time. I'm really glad I never bothered with the NES version! I've always heard it was pretty bad but I've never experienced a review like this which goes in depth as to what makes it a bad game. Over the years most have been satisfied to say something to the effect of "Ghostbusters on the NES BAD! Grrrrrr!!!" and not much else. That even goes back to the days of game reviews being done primarily in print form as well!
@DefendYoungstown
Жыл бұрын
Ghostbusters *was* made for 2600, though. I owned it. It was as bad as you can imagine. The NES version was a masterpiece by comparison. Especially for what was missing. There was no fuel to collect. Hooray, right? No... it makes one less thing to do on the driving from building to building. *if* you had the vaccum on the car, you could get extra score during the drive from every ghost you drove over while maneuvering thru town. You had starting capital for a one time shop run, but no sustsined shop. There was also no climax at the "ZUUL" building. Stay-Puft shows up multiple times... if I remember right, he takes "a life" each appearance (of which you naturally have 3) which happens when x amount of city ghosts reach the "ZUUL" building. Even when you stop as many as you can, the game just gets faster and faster until you can't keep up. It was just a glorified score climb battle of attrition. It was like a way less fun version of Sorcerer's Apprentice and didn't have the benefit of containing Mickey Mouse.
@JeremyParish
Жыл бұрын
This video includes footage of the 2600 version, but that was a back-port. The point here is that working on the more powerful C64 hardware allowed Crane to think in grander design terms and resulted in a different kind of game than you would have seen if it had been designed with the 2600 as the target hardware (hence the mediocrity of the 2600 version).
@akrites
2 жыл бұрын
I knew Jeremy couldn’t resist a dig at what is what is essentially an anti-government movie-despite the fact that he likes it. ;-) great vid though!
@JeremyParish
2 жыл бұрын
It’s not an anti-government movie. It’s a Reagan-era sneer against the environmental regulations of the ‘70s. But Dickless was in the right: Carrying around nuclear devices and storing megatons of unknown energy in the heart of Manhattan should have been worth a lifetime in prison.
@akrites
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish I agree re: environmentalism, but I don’t think that’s mutually exclusive with my take. The government is portrayed as imperious and out of touch. The gbs take initiative and save the world despite gov overreach. I see it very much I the same vein as John milius libertarian 80s movies. Conan the barbarian, red dawn, etc. of course you’re right about nuclear reactors, but it’s also fantasy.
@evilskunk1
2 жыл бұрын
Ghostbusters for the NES was a terrible conversion but I'm sure with the right developer and some extra power from a mapper chip, it would have been a lot better.
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