This one is for phoenix-games-official who asked, “It’s been a long time since you posted Ghostbusters and you really only posted the title screen - since the new movie’s out, how about a retrospective on one of the first movie tie-ins?“
No problem! I even captured more screens than usual just for you!
Ghostbusters was a well-made and consequently very successful game for Activision, partly due to the popularity of the movie and partly because of the quality of the graphics, music, and speech in the game. In fact, it featured some of the most sophisticated game speech for its time. Interestingly, the objective of the game is not to save the city, but to end up with more than the $10,000 that you started with if you are using a new account. I didn’t realize this as a kid, and always wondered what the hell I was doing wrong that the Marshmallow Man always showed up no matter how many ghosts I captured and because of this I gave up thinking it was endlessly monotonous. When I finally figured it out years later is when I beat the game. There is a boss battle against the demons of Zuul that you can play if, by the time the city’s PK energy reaches max, you have earned more than you started with.
You start out with the aforementioned small amount of $10,000, and you have choices as to the vehicle and accessories you can purchase with this. Not all options are available right away, as the most expensive car and items are well out of your reach, but can be purchased later on if you earn enough. You have to be frugal with picking what you think will work best at first. However, there are cheats and pokes available to grant you large amounts of money from the get go.
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