whoa it's flashing! Feels like I'm in the arcade!
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When there's something strange, in your NES drive, who you gonna call? THE TRASH COMPACTER!Ghostbusters! The videogame is based on cult movie about a couple of guys starting there own Ghost-busting company. However, the game designers decided "to hell with that" and didn't focus the game mainly on busting ghost, but rather walking up stairs and getting gas. In fact, The whole game is pretty much getting gas. Without gas you can't buy equipment to suck up ghost. Without gas you can't earn money to buy equipment. Without gas you can't buy more gas. Apon pressing the start button, you get a sorry "ghostbusters" soundbyte. Why did they add that? Did they think it was going to be the main selling point of the game? "Hey mom did you hear that, it said Ghostbusters!! It actually said the words!! See, I told you it was worth the 60 dollars!" It only makes the game worst then it already is. Plus, it probably took up half the memory. |
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The first thing you'll notice that the city is full of pollution. For almost every building, there's a factory spewing out gas right next to it. Geez, someone think of the children. Secondly, you'll notice the catchy ghostbusters theme. Your going to end up despising it after playing this game, cause The theme plays continuously through out the entire game. Your also probably pondering those words on some the buildings, which are: The Gas Station(GS) The GB headquarters(GB), The final stage, which is the Zuul building, and the Ghost supermarket (shop). You pretty much
move the GB logo up and down the streets until a building flashes. That means someone's calling for the Ghostbusters. Whoo. |
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After selecting a building, you have to drive to it. Even though we clearly remember the GB logo being right in front of the building. While driving, you have to avoid cars that Zig-Zag across the road. If a collision occurs, they'll automatically take money out of your bank account. What type of city is this? No insurance? No Lawyers? No assessment of the damage? I'm just driving along minding my own business and this lunatic decided's to bump around the road like some ping-pong ball. Why can't I take money out of his account? During these little road trips, you'll frequently run out of gas. Don't worry though, the city was kind enough to leave 100lb tanks of gas in the middle of the street for you. So instead of going to the gas station, you can slam into the canister and hope some of the gas splashes into your tank. |
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You start off by moving the Ghostbusters around while they hold the trap that looks a lot like a trampoline. It looks more they want the ghost to jump on it. It would of been more exciting then this.... After dropping the trap, the ghostbusters whip out there blasters and start BUSTIN SOME GHOST!!....which is walking back and forth waiting for the ghost to touch the beams. I didn't think bustin' ghost could be just as fun as scrubbing toilets at Burger King. You can also make the trap spit something out to catch the ghost, but you need to have the ghost caught in your beams. |
 Just look at the detailed graphics. The defenitions in the buildings are incredible, this must have taken one...maybe two minutes work. This is a new low even for the ol' Nintendo. |
For some reason, the Ghostbusters don't have equipment to bust ghost. So they have to shop at the ghost supermarket. There, they can stock up on items like "Ghostfood" and "Ghost Vacuums". Of course, this is not for free, they have to earn the money by catching ghost.
You would think the city would of at least gave them a shopping spree or a gift certificate. Really, there only trying to save the world from destruction. Cheap bastards...
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Go get em' fellas!
These guys sure look intimidating.
If for some reason you decided that moving the Ghostbuster's logo up and down the street is more engaging then actually entering the Zuul building, the Marshmallow man will come out. He will crush a couple of buildings, then make the screen flash violently with colors. They want to make sure you know the game is over by giving you a seizure.
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As you can see, the designers spared no expense to make the ending. Instead of making a lousy, plain, icky ending with a picture or a sound, we get a colorful, bright, creative black screen with words on it.
I still don't understand how guiding three men in tight green spandex up 20 flights of stairs to attack a woman in a thong proved justice to our culture. Yes, we will give our heros a good rest(as if they were real), buy burying this game in the anal's of my closet. But here's the nugget that stuck out the most....
