Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is an action game that features an overhead-view and a side-view. From Ghostbusters HQ, the player must monitor a map of midtown Manhattan for "ghost alarms", as well as for casual, roaming…
Ghostbusters is an arcade developed by Activision, released 26 October 1984 on Sega Master System/Mark III, Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC and Apple II.
What Ghostbusters is
Ghostbusters is an arcade game developed by Activision and released in 1984. It is available on Sega Master System/Mark III, Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the 1984 film of the same name, the Ghostbusters are the ones to call to "bust" any ghost hauntings. They do this through the use of nuclear-accelerated "proton packs" and "ghost traps", whereby the ghosts can be captured and transferred to a secure storage facility at their Headquarters. However New York City has suddenly become a very haunted place, and the number of ghosts has suddenly and dramatically increased. The Ghostbusters must reduce the paranormal psychokinetic energy, the "PK level" in the city, which represents ghost power, before the Temple of Zuul awakens and resurrects an evil goddess called Gozer.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ghostbusters series
Ghostbusters is the first of 33 entries we hold in the Ghostbusters series. The next entry was Ghostbusters in 1986. Its critic score of 80 is 31 points above the series average of 49. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Ghostbusters holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 15 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ghostbusters yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
Ghostbusters — frequently asked questions
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