Casper The Friendly Ghost series
Casper
Casper is a game developed by Absolute Entertainment and published by Natsume for the Super NES. The player controls Casper who is followed by Kat Harvey, and he has to protect her from any danger. Being a…
Casper is a video game developed by Absolute Entertainment, released 14 March 1997 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Casper is
Casper was developed by Absolute Entertainment and released in 1997. It was published by Natsume Inc.. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Casper is a game developed by Absolute Entertainment and published by Natsume for the Super NES. The player controls Casper who is followed by Kat Harvey, and he has to protect her from any danger. Being a ghost, Casper can pass through walls and other obstacles, unlike in most Casper games, but he can't go away from Kat too much or else Carrigan's ghost will abduct her. The game follows loosely the plot of the movie. This game uses a revised Absolute A Boy and His Blob engine. Picking up special objects allows Casper to morph into these objects to clear rooms of enemies, and to protect Kat from certain hazards. Mirrors placed throughout the game allows Casper and Kat travel to other parts…
Where it sits in the Casper The Friendly Ghost series
Casper is the sixth of 14 entries we hold in the Casper The Friendly Ghost series. The next entry was Casper: The Interactive Adventure in 1997.
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What it launched against
Casper launched on 14 March 1997, within three weeks of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Doom 64 and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
Released around the same time: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Doom 64, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
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