If you never saw The Real Ghostbusters arcade game in action, you’re in luck. While a rarity in actual arcades these days, someone took the time to record the entire game and post it on YouTube. The gameplay take nearly 40 minutes total, so the video is in four parts – also, it’s not a recording off and Arcade box, but of MAME, the arcade emulator (which might explain why the graphics don’t look as awesome as I remember – either that or old age.) Thanks Matt!
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Real Ghostbusters arcade, playthrough vid on YouTube
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I’m gonna try to download this game now!
I played through this a few months ago, I should have counted how many “quarters” I went through
Nope…I owned the cabient version, and it looked just the same.
Not tmost thrilling game in the world, to say the least…
Fine. Old age it is. sigh.
Just for some background info: The Real Ghostbusters arcade game is an American “localization” of the Japanese Ikari-Warriors style shooter “Meikyuu Hunter G”. The characters were redrawn, and the Slimer and ghost trap power-ups were added for the conversion. In the original game, your Proton Beam is your more powerful alternate weapon, which fires large laser balls as opposed to the squiggly Proton Stream, which was also added later after Data East acquired the RGB license for the U.S. version. Both games run fine on MAME.
One note about the MAME version of RGB arcade: the cabinet version had the Ikari Warriors-style 2 360-degree joystick configuration, meaning you could walk in one direction while firing in the other. If you have a one d-pad controller, you have to walk in the direction you want to shoot. This makes the game more difficult, so have that “Insert Coin” button handy.
Do you have any clue what a working cabinet is worth?
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