Heading out to see Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this weekend? Searching for one thing to get you within the temper, or to maintain the ‘bustin’ going whenever you get dwelling? Effectively, here is our record of each Ghostbusters recreation on Nintendo platforms to assist thaw you out…
There have been loads of Ghostbusters video games throughout all platforms within the years since Egon, Ray, Winston, and Peter first busted onto screens in 1984, they usually run the gamut from traditional licensed cash-in to rigorously constructed homage.
The primary Ghostbusters recreation Nintendo followers bought their arms on was a NES port of the David Crane-designed 1984 dwelling laptop recreation, however within the many years since there was a wide selection of spooky emissions on Nintendo platforms, a number of of which rank among the many easiest Ghostbusters video games wherever.
Beneath you will discover a full record of each Ghostbusters recreation that has come to Nintendo techniques — together with essentially the most lately launched (on Change) Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed — as ranked by you, Nintendo Life readers. We’re able to imagine you.
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Earlier than we start, it is value noting that whereas Nintendo platforms have arguably cleaned up the city in terms of the finest Ghostbusters video games, we even have a variety of affection for the 1990 Genesis / Mega Drive Ghostbusters which, sadly, would not seem under because it has by no means been launched on a Nintendo platform. Be happy to tell us within the feedback if there are different video games within the collection that you have loved elsewhere.
So, let’s strap on a Proton Pack, warmth ’em up, and make our means by the mass hysteria to check out the perfect (and worst) Ghostbusters video games ever to grace Nintendo techniques…
Attempt to think about all life as you already know it stopping instantaneously and each molecule in your physique exploding on the pace of sunshine. That will be extra gratifying than taking part in Ghostbusters on NES.
This was a deeply unattractive and unsatisfying NES port of David Crane’s Ghostbusters: The Pc Sport. With a heavy emphasis on useful resource administration (together with gear, gas, and funds), it sees you driving round New York Metropolis cleansing up spook-infested buildings for money, shopping for upgrades and, finally, taking up Gozer after an ultra-tedious stair-climbing part which, hilariously, adapts the soar reduce within the film after they’re crawling to the highest of Dana Barrett’s constructing. You understand, the bit the place the Ghostbusters are demoralised by the exhausting, endless staircase.
This recreation could not make you throw up, nevertheless it tries.
Solely ever launched in Europe, this GBC recreation was primarily based on the 1997 follow-up collection to The Actual Ghostbusters. 2001’s Excessive Ghostbusters is a side-on platformer which has you switching between ‘busters and zapping ghosts as you full missions assigned to you by Egon and Janine.
It is bought some respectable character animation, however repetition and turgid controls make this one for GB — be that Ghostbusters or Sport Boy — completionists solely.
In comparison with the primary movie’s NES iteration, Activision’s Ghostbusters II is not complete dump, however it’s the very definition of a disappointing licensed recreation.
Launched many months after the movie it was primarily based on, Imagineering’s tie-in is a reasonably fundamental side-scrolling platformer/shooter with visible echoes of David Crane’s authentic dwelling laptop Ghostbusters. You blast ghosts shooter-style in varied settings; on foot, in fact, but additionally whereas driving Ecto-1 (which might ‘soar’ over hurdles and holes) and piloting Girl Liberty herself simply as within the movie, though a NES Benefit stick is not a requirement this time.
Removed from the worst 8-bit licensed recreation on the planet, it is simply extremely repetitive and exceptionally uninteresting. Undoubtedly the second-best Ghostbusters II recreation on NES.
In contrast to its GBC predecessor, Excessive Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-1 did get a US launch, the place it misplaced the subtitle. It added Ecto-1 driving sections and the GBA’s further energy meant this run-and-gun platformer regarded rather a lot higher, too. The animation of Eduardo and Kylie (Garrett and Roland have been kidnapped on this one) was fairly good, nevertheless it’s nonetheless an inessential entry within the Ghostbusters’ online game canon.
A free, cartoon-y adaptation of the sport that appeared on dwelling console platforms, Ghostbusters: The Video Sport on DS has extra of an action-RPG flavour and is the one model the place you truly play as one of many 4 authentic Ghostbusters and never the rookie recruit. Performed from a top-down perspective, you command the opposite three ‘busters you are not instantly controlling and wander round NYC upgrading the crew and usually doing what makes ‘busters really feel good. No, not getting on famously with a lovely spectre floating over your lodgings. Get your thoughts out of the gutter, Stantz.
Driving sections have you ever negotiating the foggy streets of Manhattan and supply some selection, however the DS recreation begins to grate after some time. It is satisfactory paranormal fare, however definitely not a patch on its dwelling console brethren.
A Ghostbusters recreation in identify solely, this entry in Kemco’s convoluted Loopy Fort collection starred Mickey Mouse in Japan and Garfield in Europe, however US gamers bought to manage Peter Venkman as he negotiated its puzzle-platforming with yet one more 8-bit rendition of the Ghostbusters theme blasting from the hand-held’s tinny speaker.
So, mockingly, this Actual Ghostbusters recreation is not a actual Ghostbusters recreation in any respect. In truth, it is a rip-off of P.P. Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon for the Amiga and Commodore 64. You possibly can take a look at our characteristic on the Loopy Fort collection for extra particulars, in case you’re :
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