Comments on: Real Ghostbusters arcade, playthrough vid on YouTube

By: Ghostbusters.net Blog » Blog Archive » Real Ghostbusters Arcade Game Review

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:11:06 +0000

[...] this month, Proton Charging posted a play-through video of an emulated version of the game, check it [...]

By: Ecto-san

Ecto-san — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:23:11 +0000

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.

By: castewar

castewar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:05:28 +0000

Fine. Old age it is. sigh.

By: Justis

Justis — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:32:16 +0000

Nope…I owned the cabient version, and it looked just the same.

Not tmost thrilling game in the world, to say the least…

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:41:22 +0000

I played through this a few months ago, I should have counted how many “quarters” I went through

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:25:11 +0000

I’m gonna try to download this game now!