Extreme Ghostbusters may have only run for just over three months, but this was the era when cartoons would run Monday-Friday with new episodes almost every day, so the show had 40 episodes. That's plenty of material to build a fan base.
I LOVE Ghostbusters and I enjoyed Extreme Ghostbusters. You had Alfonso Ribeiro, Tara Strong, and Billy West to name a few. I'm going to rewatch it again, it's been quite a while. Can't wait to watch Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
In the UK it was on TV for years. Probably the same in other parts of Europe too. My girlfriend is from Slovakia and she says it was very popular there And for some reason I just forgot Triple Jump is a UK show wtf. I remember it being repeated for years here
Before even seeing the rankings my mind is like "A bunch of awful games, a kind of fun for what it is arcade game, and the 2009 game is actually pretty great"
Good: A decent arcade game The NEW Ghostbusters 2 NES Ghostbusters Sega Genesis The 2009 video game I think a decent GBA game based on The Extreme Ghostbusters AND Everything else is terrible
@@orinanime Correct, Extreme Ghostbusters did have a Gameboy Advance video game and it is quite decent. It came out after the show had ended its run-on TV and was released in Europe and the USA. I like that you can play as both Eduardo and Kylie and the Ecto 1 is drivable.
David Crane's Ghostbusters from 1984 remains my favorite to this day. I find it sad how the reputation of a bad NES port has colored opinion on the game. The game was well received in its time, and for good reason. It did a tremendous job ob implementing various elements of the source material into a game, something unheard of at the time. You don't just shoot ghosts, you use your proton beams and traps just as in the movie. You can buy equipment to suit your play style, also largely based on the movie in its effects. You are running a business answering calls from clients to catch ghosts, much like they do in the movie. And also money is an issue, as it is when they set up their business in the movie. You drive around in Ecto-1 to go move around the basic open world. And when keymaster and gatekeeper meet Zuul appears. This game is a classic and did a fantastic job in its day. It tries to offer more from the movie than any of the later games did. Of course you cannot judge a 1984 game by modern standards, but seeing the discrepancy between this video and how the game was actually regarded back then makes its description here sound really ignorant.
the 84 game on the 8 bits was brilliant, it help sell many home computers at the time and is still really fun the play today, although repetitive but then so is the 'video game' it certainly not as bad as these guys are making out.
Agreed- that game on the c64 was legendary. The Sega Master System got a pretty good port of it at least, but unfortunately it seems that myself and like 5 other people played that version. I agree though that NES port was, sadly, rubbish. The stairwell segment is damn near unplayable
Always wanted to see a open world Ghostbusters game where you and friends (offline and online) work together by capturing ghosts and other missions, you can also drive the ecto-1 across NYC and you can also create your own home base/firehouse that's totally costumizable.
Hear me out: GB the video game for DS was basically open world with assignments. Also had rpg elements. For this fanboy it filled a void and supplemented the console version of the game.
Wow! Another Peter venkman/Garfield connection. For those who don't know, both Bill Murray and Lorenzo music played venkman and Garfield in live action and animated forms respectively(well, Murray's Garfield was CGI but you know what I mean). It's like these two completely unrelated characters are inextricably linked by the chaos of the universe.
The 1984 Commodore 64 Ghostbusters game was very well-liked by everyone I knew who played it and is still considered a classic. It's only "bad" if you think all Commodore 64 games are "bad" and that's to entirely ignore game history and context.
@@sigzil1985 this. By far one of may fav games as a kid. Ignoring the shoddy ports (nes staircase!!) the c64 version had cool music. Digitised voice. Consistant and very winnable gameplay. Rpg-lite elements with the cash system and custom load outs to vary the gameplay slightly. Compared to games at the time it was great. Sure its naff by today's standards but then 99% of games from back then are.
Jesus man do not and defend that utter garbage heap of a game, it was bad. It looked bad even back then, played worse and the music was worse than nails going down a blackboard.
16:35 Judging by the fact, the show is remembered fondly, has a 6.9 on IMDB and has one of the characters become a major character in IDW's Ghostbusters comics, those kids are likely NOT embarrassed they liked Extreme Ghostbusters.
I reckon the reason why there were so many Extreme Ghostbusters games is that the show was extremely (heh) popular in reruns & syndication in parts of Europe. Hence why the games were mainly published in Europe.
So did I! (One on the GameCube, one on the 3DS, one on the arcade, and one on the Switch) Bah! I'm just teasing, but in all seriousness, I thought there were only like 4 officially licensed Ghostbusters games as well.
I liked the C64's Ghostbusters game when I was a kid very much. It was a cool game for a kid and for the time and you could save your progress and get it on the next cycle, so it had some replayability too.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game is my favorite of course and I just started playing GB2 for the Gameboy and that one sure surprised me on how fun it is. I own the NES versions but mainly for collection and not for playing
Ghostbusters: The Video Game for console and PC is the best game of the series. It feels like a propper "Ghostbusters 3" sequal and is the last time we'll ever see Harold Ramis reprise his role as Egon Spengler. Recently they released Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. A great asymmetric multi-player game with some really obscure refferences from the entirety of the franchise. Some of the customizeable options you can add to your Ghostbuster (customizeable characters will always be a plus) actually take from the 80's action figure line, the Real Ghostbusters, the Extreame Ghostbusters, and 2016 Ghostbusters. The last bit of DLC they added was free. Plot wise, it takes place between Afterlife and the upcomming Frozen Empire film. It even has Ernie Hudson and Dan Akroyd reprising their characters. It's fun game that gave my brother and I our childhood wish fulfillment. Oh and it's also cross platform whitch is always a plus in my book.
I actually quite like the stylized version of Ghostbusters 2009. The player models looking somewhat more cartoony evokes The Real Ghostbusters in a fun way, the way they abridged the story segments actually means the gameplay parts shine through more, and it features male and female playable characters, which is of course a little more inclusive. And it still has the full original movie cast, so the flavour of the game is still pretty on point.
sadly all but the one for Genesis - Garfield: Caught in the Act - are crap, and note this is coming from a guy that LOVES Garfield, i even like the live-action movies.
I loved the DS one as a kid. I liked that between and post story you get to manage the Ghostbusters business and take random contracts across New York and bust ghosts. I loved driving around and seeing how many ghosts I could bust with the Ecto-1's turret. I also liked that you can research new weapons and equipment and pack extra gear in the trunk of Ecto-1 in case you need it.
Seeing the 1990 mega drive game brought back fond memories, it was the first game I got for my Mega drive(apart from Altered beast, but I didn't touch that game for months because of the Ghostbusters game). i loved it, i spent so much time playing it and would love a port of it to play again, the difficulty spike coment was totally fair, but they added to the enjoyment for me.
I really should check out Extreme Ghostbusters sometime. I didn't watch it back in the day as it aired on Nickelodeon in my country (I almost only watched Cartoon Network at the time) but I did have one of the Burger King toys and Mike Matei gave the Extreme Ghostbusters GBA game a somewhat positive review!
Sigh... and again a quite unfair judgement about the C64 version of Ghostbusters. No, the game isn't great according to todays standards and has some serious flaws. But in 1984, this was outright one of the best movie-adaptions. It had quite a unique concept for it's time and was even considered a action-strategy-hybrid, because you had to choose your equipment and had to learn how to earn money in the most effective way. The graphics were simple, but crisp and you did recognize a lot of elements from the movie. Just look at screens from other games around that time (f.e. A View to a Kill) and you understand what I mean. The music was great for it's time: A simple, but very catchy arrangement of the original song. And last but not least: It had a great atmosphere. Even if the game mechanics were simple and repetitive, you FELT like the manager of a ghostbusters team. And that's why it got a lot of high praise in 1984, equally from gamers and "critics". So, of course you can say: It aged badly and has to be ranked that low. But just naming it an awful game without even mentioning the merrits, it got at it's time, is just lazy.
What TF was up with Winston not getting his proper credit or being completely left out some games?? Reminds me of star wars' Finn left out of China's movie poster! Kinda shady Asia lol
The Extreme Ghostbusters games kept popping up because Extreme was the most recent cartoon that had been out and they banked on kids remembering that show more than the first cartoon or the movies.
I agree. Worst Ghostbusters game ever, and even though Sanctum of Slime is just directly below it, the 2016 game just does literally EVERYTHING WRONG. Oh well, even though this is the 40th Anniversary of the first Ghostbusters movie we can always celebrate the greatness of the 2009 game and its remastered versions. And ignore both the 2011 Ghostbusters game where the idiot on the cover is holding his pack UPSIDE DOWN, like an amateur, and the 2016 Ghostbusters game, which literally does EVERYTHING WRONG. It even tries to ruin the iconic Ghostbusters theme song. It tries to steal $50 from you, charging you $4 for what it calls "Classic Ghostbusters Suits", but actually aren't; and has 4 nameless preset, boring, and forgettable stereotypes, and is also a canonical sequel to the 2016 movie, aka, the worst thing to happen to Ghostbusters ever, until said game came out, then, that movie was only the second worst Ghostbusters related thing ever made. But the 2009 remaster is so amazing that you can just go back and enjoy that game anytime, without worrying about the other shitty games, thankfully.
When the DS version came out, I played it for months on end. My family and I would go camping 3 times a year and on the drive there Id play that game. Ahhhh good times
DS version, to me, is the game you play when you just wanna be a Ghostbuster. I don't even bother with the main missions (I have the realistic version on PC for that), I just take the randomized jobs and bust some heads... in a spiritual sense, of course.
Ghostbuster 2 on the Gameboy was amazing! I replayed that game so many times. Loved the animation style, and how, even though they were tiny pixels, each character looked authentically like the film actors lol. Very fun game indeed.
If there's one thing I didn't like about Ghostbusters '09 it's that it didn't have co-op. Seriously, if any game was supposed to have co-op, it was Ghostbusters. Both me and a friend who played the game a lot kept talking about the lack of it, especially since we used to play Ghostbusters at the playground when we were kids. This game was the chance to really play Ghostbusters with your friends, but unfortunately they dropped the ball on that one. Still a very fun game.
The full story about why the official cartoon was called “The Real Ghostbusters” is actually kind of amusing. After the producers of the original 1984 movie settled on “Ghostbusters” as the title, they had to license the name from Universal since they owned the rights to the ‘70s show “The Ghost Busters.” After they decided to make an animated spinoff of the movie, the job was given to animation studio DIC Entertainment. Filmation, producers of “The Ghost Busters” and best known as the studio that made He-Man, were upset they’d been passed over for such a lucrative gig, and since they retained some rights to “The Ghost Busters” they rushed an animated adaption of that into production under the name “Ghostbusters” out of pure spite (and a chance to capitalize on the movie’s success). As a result, the DIC-produced series rebranded their show “The Real Ghostbusters” so people would know it was the official adaptation of the movie. Filmation’s Ghostbusters wound up beating The Real Ghostbusters to air by five days, but was never picked up for a second season because it failed to draw an audience.
Question: if we were to count the expansion pack and bonus level for LEGO Dimensions and treat it as it's own product, where would it place? The 2016 pack is also optional.
Honestly my favorite is the 2009 seen on xbox 360, ps3 and pc. (Also remastered in 2019? 2020?) Also, afterlife isnt a reboot and the 2016 movie isnt a reboot. Afterlife is the 3rd in the series and the 2016 film is in it's own universe.
Honestly I just wanted to see what y'all had to say about the Wii/PS2/PSP version of the 2009 game, as that was the version I grew up with. It is SUPPOSED to be treated as the same game from the main one, but overall it's more of just a rushed version optimized for those systems, and given a stylized look to not only look good with those systems, but also to appeal to the owners of them. Busting ghosts is a lot more simpler, having the entire process being to just lock onto a ghost, make sure your proton-pack doesn't overheat, then play a bit of Simon Says while slamming the ghost all over the place, and then set it into the trap cone. Don't even need to guide it INTO the trap itself, it just needs to go right into the cone and you're all set. The PKE goggles aren't even unlocked until after beating The Chef, and it's only really useful in making sure to not touch any ghost-set traps and having SOME ghosts be seen. But yeah, progression's the same, the story's the same, everything is pretty much identical if you were to explain them both to me.
They also had a role playing game, which I found out by buying the majority of the content from dollar stores. It wasn't bad, definitely true to the franchise and full of some really funny writing.
I had all versions of Ghostbusters 2009, and i loved playing every one of them. Havent played the ds version in a while though and i cant find the wii version at the moment. I mainly just play the 2019 remaster these days.
Am happy to see New Ghostbusters II on the NES on this list, I used to love playing that game, and it was far more enjoyable than Activision's game. HAL Laboratory gave us some great titles on the NES, Kirby's Adventure, the Adventures of Lolo series, and New Ghostbusters II!
I really don't understand the Ghostbusters (2016) hate. I saw it and it wasn't great, but I don't know if I would call it bad. The worst I can say about it is that it was unnecessary, but harmless. At the very least it showed how fun of a comedic actor Chris Hemsworth can be. I grew up on Ghostbusters and love it, but people can take that love a little too far. Glad to see Ghostbusters II on the PC get some love. My brother an I played that so much growing up!
Well, a lot of people hated the overtly feminist version (I did as an egalitarian) cause of the way they portrayed the original male characters as dopey.
19:49 "A celebratory slice of boo cake." The accompanying video; four men spraying a painting on screen with an odd, possibly-viscous spray. I see what you did there, Triple Jump.
I used to enjoy the first C64 Ghostbusters game. It was one of few (possibly only) C64 game I completed. (And therefore most likely the first game I ever finished).
I haven't played GB II on the GB since '93. Now here's me, close to three decades later and the video footage alone brought the score back into my brain. Congratulations, TripleJump, for successfully implanting an earworm without a single note. Achievement unlocked, I guess.
I had Ghostbusters (1984) on Commodore 64. Can’t temper much of it because I was about 5 at the time. I think I gave up in frustration at not being able to get past early levels.
Ghostbusters 2016 video game for Xbox one console is my favorite busting 😎🎉 Ghostbusters game. & It had off line local multiplayer coop 2 and 4 players to join off line local campaign mode is 10 out 10 👍🌹😎
The only good things that came out of the 2016 ghostbusters is the redesigned gadgets, which i kinda dig and wish to see return. Also zootfly was making a ghostbusters game set in the modern day, they had some really cool ideas.
I love Mega Drive Ghostbusters. Compile knocked it out of the park. I also owned Ghostbusters 1 on 2600. That was pretty confounding I couldn't understand what I was meant to be doing because the symbols were completely unintelligible.
would have ranked the 1984 version (with all the systems) higher. I played it as a kid on my C64 and later also found the master system version to be the best. Still give it a go a few times a year (with save points on an emulator because the stairs and gozer are horror!)
I am just starting the video and I am curious if you will mention the Apple II Ghostbusters game. I know it exists because I used to play it. Edit: At 10:17 you are covering the game that I played on my Apple clone
I think the Extreme Ghostbusters game on PSone was actually re-released in 2004, the original game I believe was 2001 like the Game Boy game. For some reason, Argos went big on Ghostbusters stuff around that time as I can remember the toys and games being featured in the catalogues, much like Thunderbirds in that sense. But yeah, a bunch of PSOne random games were re-released in 2003/2004 for some reason with newer PEGI age ratings over the older ELSPA ones.
How incredibly incompetent can you get? Does the dumbass on the cover NOT realize what'll happen if he holds the Proton Pack UPSIDE DOWN!?! It's ALMOST as stupid as crossing the streams, but nowhere near as cool as ACTUALLY crossing the streams. How did they NOT notice or care enough to recognize that the idiot on the cover was holding the pack wrong? He'd be fired IMMEDIATELY for that! No serious Ghostbuster would EVER, (and I do mean EVER), let them live that mistake down.
The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive one was my favorite for a long time. The only thing that would have made it better is adding Winston and maybe 2 player capability.
I have such fond memories for my SEGA Master System version.. graphics of course were meh.. but I loved the theater of the mind anyways with that version .. buying parts for my ecto mobile .. nothing will beat the PS4 2009 remaster played on a PS5.. I’m addicted to it right now since I saw Afterlife.. graphics are beautiful .. the music .. having a real script .. all the orig actors .. what I would have given to had that as a game in the 80s lol.. but I’ll take it now
There's a Ghostbusters arcade game at my local cinema that's not here. It looks great but the controls are so bad that I'm not sure if it's the game or if something was busted.
Ok, did I miss some type of memo where people agreed that Extreme Ghostbusters was somehow bad? Seriously, you'd think the show somehow bullied our dude here. Is it just a bad attempt at a bit?
Extreme Ghostbusters may have only run for just over three months, but this was the era when cartoons would run Monday-Friday with new episodes almost every day, so the show had 40 episodes. That's plenty of material to build a fan base.
I LOVE Ghostbusters and I enjoyed Extreme Ghostbusters. You had Alfonso Ribeiro, Tara Strong, and Billy West to name a few. I'm going to rewatch it again, it's been quite a while. Can't wait to watch Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
It also still has comics released at least up until 2019
Extreme Ghostbusters also built it's own style and atmosphere, I think the hate comes from the era it was in honestly
In the UK it was on TV for years. Probably the same in other parts of Europe too. My girlfriend is from Slovakia and she says it was very popular there
And for some reason I just forgot Triple Jump is a UK show wtf. I remember it being repeated for years here
@@mikefink7548 That was for the OG Ghostbusters.
Before even seeing the rankings my mind is like "A bunch of awful games, a kind of fun for what it is arcade game, and the 2009 game is actually pretty great"
Forgot about Ghostbusters (1989) for the Genesis/megadrive
@@bemasaberwyn55 The creators of Musha & Puyo Puyo made it.
Good:
A decent arcade game
The NEW Ghostbusters 2 NES
Ghostbusters Sega Genesis
The 2009 video game
I think a decent GBA game based on The Extreme Ghostbusters
AND
Everything else is terrible
@@orinanime Correct, Extreme Ghostbusters did have a Gameboy Advance video game and it is quite decent. It came out after the show had ended its run-on TV and was released in Europe and the USA. I like that you can play as both Eduardo and Kylie and the Ecto 1 is drivable.
@@orinanime ghostbusters 2009 wasn't just decent, but awesome
"...to turn 'what fresh hell is this?' into a multiple choice question"
Art.
i was cracking up at this line. that was bloody brilliant as they'd say in the UK lol
David Crane's Ghostbusters from 1984 remains my favorite to this day.
I find it sad how the reputation of a bad NES port has colored opinion on the game.
The game was well received in its time, and for good reason. It did a tremendous job ob implementing various elements of the source material into a game, something unheard of at the time.
You don't just shoot ghosts, you use your proton beams and traps just as in the movie.
You can buy equipment to suit your play style, also largely based on the movie in its effects.
You are running a business answering calls from clients to catch ghosts, much like they do in the movie. And also money is an issue, as it is when they set up their business in the movie.
You drive around in Ecto-1 to go move around the basic open world.
And when keymaster and gatekeeper meet Zuul appears.
This game is a classic and did a fantastic job in its day. It tries to offer more from the movie than any of the later games did.
Of course you cannot judge a 1984 game by modern standards, but seeing the discrepancy between this video and how the game was actually regarded back then makes its description here sound really ignorant.
the 84 game on the 8 bits was brilliant, it help sell many home computers at the time and is still really fun the play today, although repetitive but then so is the 'video game' it certainly not as bad as these guys are making out.
Agreed- that game on the c64 was legendary. The Sega Master System got a pretty good port of it at least, but unfortunately it seems that myself and like 5 other people played that version. I agree though that NES port was, sadly, rubbish. The stairwell segment is damn near unplayable
Yep! ... He sliiiiiimed me! ... it was awesome at the time :D
Even the Atari 2600 version was a damn decent game considering what it had to work with re:hardware
Totally agree. On the Speccy it was (is) a great game and I loved it as a kid.
Always wanted to see a open world Ghostbusters game where you and friends (offline and online) work together by capturing ghosts and other missions, you can also drive the ecto-1 across NYC and you can also create your own home base/firehouse that's totally costumizable.
Not just NYC, but maybe even out to other cities and states like in the cartoon.
There's a game called Ghost Control Inc, heavily inspired by Ghostbusters. It doesn't have everything, but it might be enough to take a look at.
Still, they were great
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
Hear me out: GB the video game for DS was basically open world with assignments. Also had rpg elements. For this fanboy it filled a void and supplemented the console version of the game.
Wow! Another Peter venkman/Garfield connection. For those who don't know, both Bill Murray and Lorenzo music played venkman and Garfield in live action and animated forms respectively(well, Murray's Garfield was CGI but you know what I mean). It's like these two completely unrelated characters are inextricably linked by the chaos of the universe.
WE KNOW
The 1984 Commodore 64 Ghostbusters game was very well-liked by everyone I knew who played it and is still considered a classic. It's only "bad" if you think all Commodore 64 games are "bad" and that's to entirely ignore game history and context.
I played that game as a kid and absolutely loved it. It was ahead of its time in many ways.
@@sigzil1985 this. By far one of may fav games as a kid. Ignoring the shoddy ports (nes staircase!!) the c64 version had cool music. Digitised voice. Consistant and very winnable gameplay. Rpg-lite elements with the cash system and custom load outs to vary the gameplay slightly.
Compared to games at the time it was great. Sure its naff by today's standards but then 99% of games from back then are.
I can still hear that sid music for ghostbusters theme song in the background and the synth voice yell "Ghostbusters" whenever I caught a ghost.
Jesus man do not and defend that utter garbage heap of a game, it was bad. It looked bad even back then, played worse and the music was worse than nails going down a blackboard.
It also had a little ball bouncing on the lyrics of the song, and allowed you to press spacebar to scream "Ghostbusters!" Every time it told you to.
16:35 Judging by the fact, the show is remembered fondly, has a 6.9 on IMDB and has one of the characters become a major character in IDW's Ghostbusters comics, those kids are likely NOT embarrassed they liked Extreme Ghostbusters.
They just repeat that because they want to be an edgier version of Outside Xtra.
I reckon the reason why there were so many Extreme Ghostbusters games is that the show was extremely (heh) popular in reruns & syndication in parts of Europe. Hence why the games were mainly published in Europe.
The best Ghost Busters game is luigi's mansion
What about tumblepop?
Kind of funny that in the early 2000s Nintendo showed it WAS possible to make a good Ghostbusters game. And no one actually took cues from it
I totally agree
Dead ass true 😂
graaahhh you silly buffoon its erm erm uhh 2014 monster dash by halfbrick studios graaaahhhhh!!!! gb update but they took it down.
And here I thought there was only like 4
So did I! (One on the GameCube, one on the 3DS, one on the arcade, and one on the Switch) Bah! I'm just teasing, but in all seriousness, I thought there were only like 4 officially licensed Ghostbusters games as well.
Nope. AVGN took 3 20 minute videos to get through a sampling
If this list is anything to go by you're better off not knowing most of these exist
Don't you wish you could go back to before you knew better?
I honestly thought they were separating the Activision ones into 6 different rankings due to the wide range of quality.
What a delightful surprise!
The Japanese Ghostbusters 2 games on NES & Game Boy were actually developed by Hal Laboratory.
I liked the C64's Ghostbusters game when I was a kid very much. It was a cool game for a kid and for the time and you could save your progress and get it on the next cycle, so it had some replayability too.
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Ghostbusters was also released for the Apple II, the Atari 8-bit home computers and the ZX Spectrum.
And MSX is incorrectly spelled in the list.
@@diecarro79 True, I just didn't want to write that because spelling mistakes can easily happen.
Yeah, had the spectrum version at the time and child me loved it.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game is my favorite of course and I just started playing GB2 for the Gameboy and that one sure surprised me on how fun it is. I own the NES versions but mainly for collection and not for playing
oh come on the commodore 64 game for it's time was AWESOME, i loved it.
Maybe do a ranking of Lego games or Spongebob games
Yes yes yes LEGO
Gay
@@mackinblack homophobe
@@humanperson6372 be nice, he's clearly just coming out to the world
@@hosephanerothe1440 they have already done lego games
Ghostbusters: The Video Game for console and PC is the best game of the series. It feels like a propper "Ghostbusters 3" sequal and is the last time we'll ever see Harold Ramis reprise his role as Egon Spengler.
Recently they released Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. A great asymmetric multi-player game with some really obscure refferences from the entirety of the franchise. Some of the customizeable options you can add to your Ghostbuster (customizeable characters will always be a plus) actually take from the 80's action figure line, the Real Ghostbusters, the Extreame Ghostbusters, and 2016 Ghostbusters. The last bit of DLC they added was free. Plot wise, it takes place between Afterlife and the upcomming Frozen Empire film. It even has Ernie Hudson and Dan Akroyd reprising their characters. It's fun game that gave my brother and I our childhood wish fulfillment. Oh and it's also cross platform whitch is always a plus in my book.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
This game was released after this video.... I am curious where the game would go in the list.
I actually quite like the stylized version of Ghostbusters 2009. The player models looking somewhat more cartoony evokes The Real Ghostbusters in a fun way, the way they abridged the story segments actually means the gameplay parts shine through more, and it features male and female playable characters, which is of course a little more inclusive. And it still has the full original movie cast, so the flavour of the game is still pretty on point.
14:49
Would love a ranked list of Garfield games now
sadly all but the one for Genesis - Garfield: Caught in the Act - are crap, and note this is coming from a guy that LOVES Garfield, i even like the live-action movies.
I always enjoyed "Big Fat Hairy Deal" on the C64 back in the day, but to be honest it wasn't a great game - I was just an undiscriminating kid!
I loved the DS one as a kid. I liked that between and post story you get to manage the Ghostbusters business and take random contracts across New York and bust ghosts. I loved driving around and seeing how many ghosts I could bust with the Ecto-1's turret. I also liked that you can research new weapons and equipment and pack extra gear in the trunk of Ecto-1 in case you need it.
When I played the DS version, I liked getting all my allies killed. Their "Dead" faces were kind of scary too.
@@soulbounddoll1826 If you're attacking them before they become ghosts...is it a pre-bust?
The list I didn't know I needed. Triple Jump doing hero's work again!
(Hope the Megadrive game charts high! Underrated gem.)
EDIT: BOOM!
Since you posted your comment two hours ago, I will say that the Megadrive game got one place lower than it deserved, given its competition.
dude you dod realize extreme ghostbusters comics are actually still running today in 2021 correct? The show was a spinoff of the comics!
Seeing the 1990 mega drive game brought back fond memories, it was the first game I got for my Mega drive(apart from Altered beast, but I didn't touch that game for months because of the Ghostbusters game). i loved it, i spent so much time playing it and would love a port of it to play again, the difficulty spike coment was totally fair, but they added to the enjoyment for me.
YES! Great memories with this one ❤️❤️❤️
But... why so much hate for Extreme Ghostbusters? I actually REALLY liked the show, okay the games were rubbish but the show was great!
I really should check out Extreme Ghostbusters sometime. I didn't watch it back in the day as it aired on Nickelodeon in my country (I almost only watched Cartoon Network at the time) but I did have one of the Burger King toys and Mike Matei gave the Extreme Ghostbusters GBA game a somewhat positive review!
Exactly. Just because it only lasted 3 months, doesn't mean it sucked.
Sigh... and again a quite unfair judgement about the C64 version of Ghostbusters. No, the game isn't great according to todays standards and has some serious flaws. But in 1984, this was outright one of the best movie-adaptions. It had quite a unique concept for it's time and was even considered a action-strategy-hybrid, because you had to choose your equipment and had to learn how to earn money in the most effective way. The graphics were simple, but crisp and you did recognize a lot of elements from the movie. Just look at screens from other games around that time (f.e. A View to a Kill) and you understand what I mean. The music was great for it's time: A simple, but very catchy arrangement of the original song. And last but not least: It had a great atmosphere. Even if the game mechanics were simple and repetitive, you FELT like the manager of a ghostbusters team. And that's why it got a lot of high praise in 1984, equally from gamers and "critics".
So, of course you can say: It aged badly and has to be ranked that low. But just naming it an awful game without even mentioning the merrits, it got at it's time, is just lazy.
What TF was up with Winston not getting his proper credit or being completely left out some games?? Reminds me of star wars' Finn left out of China's movie poster! Kinda shady Asia lol
The Extreme Ghostbusters games kept popping up because Extreme was the most recent cartoon that had been out and they banked on kids remembering that show more than the first cartoon or the movies.
Ghostbusters (2016) deserves to be called the worst game of 2016. No Man's Sky is close, but this game barely wins.
I agree. Worst Ghostbusters game ever, and even though Sanctum of Slime is just directly below it, the 2016 game just does literally EVERYTHING WRONG. Oh well, even though this is the 40th Anniversary of the first Ghostbusters movie we can always celebrate the greatness of the 2009 game and its remastered versions. And ignore both the 2011 Ghostbusters game where the idiot on the cover is holding his pack UPSIDE DOWN, like an amateur, and the 2016 Ghostbusters game, which literally does EVERYTHING WRONG. It even tries to ruin the iconic Ghostbusters theme song. It tries to steal $50 from you, charging you $4 for what it calls "Classic Ghostbusters Suits", but actually aren't; and has 4 nameless preset, boring, and forgettable stereotypes, and is also a canonical sequel to the 2016 movie, aka, the worst thing to happen to Ghostbusters ever, until said game came out, then, that movie was only the second worst Ghostbusters related thing ever made.
But the 2009 remaster is so amazing that you can just go back and enjoy that game anytime, without worrying about the other shitty games, thankfully.
The Commodore 64 version of Ghostbusters was a fond childhood memory
When the DS version came out, I played it for months on end. My family and I would go camping 3 times a year and on the drive there Id play that game. Ahhhh good times
DS version, to me, is the game you play when you just wanna be a Ghostbuster. I don't even bother with the main missions (I have the realistic version on PC for that), I just take the randomized jobs and bust some heads... in a spiritual sense, of course.
Ghostbuster 2 on the Gameboy was amazing! I replayed that game so many times. Loved the animation style, and how, even though they were tiny pixels, each character looked authentically like the film actors lol. Very fun game indeed.
If there's one thing I didn't like about Ghostbusters '09 it's that it didn't have co-op. Seriously, if any game was supposed to have co-op, it was Ghostbusters. Both me and a friend who played the game a lot kept talking about the lack of it, especially since we used to play Ghostbusters at the playground when we were kids. This game was the chance to really play Ghostbusters with your friends, but unfortunately they dropped the ball on that one. Still a very fun game.
7:25 is my fave Miller joke yet!
35:26 BM genuinely sounds like he couldn't be bothered in every role he's done,it's just his overall delivery lol
The Mega Drive version is such an underrated gem. As far as I'm concerned, this game is canon.
VIDEO CONCEPT: Rank all the consoles/handheld Sims games from worst to best
so happy to see "New Ghostbusters II" so high on the list. One of my favs from back in the day.
1984 Ghostbusters WAS my childhood. I needed a Commodore 64 because I needed that game. All of the other 150 disks paled in comparison to this.
23:30 they had a licensing deal with Papa Joe's, you know, that disgusting slop that gives you GAAAAAAAS?
The full story about why the official cartoon was called “The Real Ghostbusters” is actually kind of amusing. After the producers of the original 1984 movie settled on “Ghostbusters” as the title, they had to license the name from Universal since they owned the rights to the ‘70s show “The Ghost Busters.” After they decided to make an animated spinoff of the movie, the job was given to animation studio DIC Entertainment. Filmation, producers of “The Ghost Busters” and best known as the studio that made He-Man, were upset they’d been passed over for such a lucrative gig, and since they retained some rights to “The Ghost Busters” they rushed an animated adaption of that into production under the name “Ghostbusters” out of pure spite (and a chance to capitalize on the movie’s success). As a result, the DIC-produced series rebranded their show “The Real Ghostbusters” so people would know it was the official adaptation of the movie. Filmation’s Ghostbusters wound up beating The Real Ghostbusters to air by five days, but was never picked up for a second season because it failed to draw an audience.
I do sometimes randomly yell out "BUSTIN' MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!", too.
Wow I've only played 1 Ghostbusters game. Really didn't know there was this many!
Mine was on the wii
What about the Amiga Version of The Real Ghostbusters?
I-I didn't hate Ghostbusters 2016...at least not the McKinnon and Hemsworth parts.
Question: if we were to count the expansion pack and bonus level for LEGO Dimensions and treat it as it's own product, where would it place? The 2016 pack is also optional.
Ghostbusters on the Genesis was made by Compile: The creators of Aleste & Puyo Puyo.
You guys are killing it lately! But… it’s too bad there isn’t a Ghostbusters sports title. Ah well…
Oh yeah, Ghost time!
@@staylor0902 I've never seen a ghost before, but I do believe in ghosts. So I'm going to give this everything I've got!"
Honestly my favorite is the 2009 seen on xbox 360, ps3 and pc. (Also remastered in 2019? 2020?)
Also, afterlife isnt a reboot and the 2016 movie isnt a reboot. Afterlife is the 3rd in the series and the 2016 film is in it's own universe.
if 2016 is a new continuity it is a reboot then
@@bluescluessuperagent reboot is usually a modern remake. A new story isnt necessarily a reboot. It wasnt a remake of ghostbusters, its a new story.
Honestly I just wanted to see what y'all had to say about the Wii/PS2/PSP version of the 2009 game, as that was the version I grew up with. It is SUPPOSED to be treated as the same game from the main one, but overall it's more of just a rushed version optimized for those systems, and given a stylized look to not only look good with those systems, but also to appeal to the owners of them. Busting ghosts is a lot more simpler, having the entire process being to just lock onto a ghost, make sure your proton-pack doesn't overheat, then play a bit of Simon Says while slamming the ghost all over the place, and then set it into the trap cone. Don't even need to guide it INTO the trap itself, it just needs to go right into the cone and you're all set. The PKE goggles aren't even unlocked until after beating The Chef, and it's only really useful in making sure to not touch any ghost-set traps and having SOME ghosts be seen.
But yeah, progression's the same, the story's the same, everything is pretty much identical if you were to explain them both to me.
"What fresh hell is this, into a multiple choice question" LMAO!!!
2:00 I don’t remember that scene from any of the ghostbusters movies 🤔
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They also had a role playing game, which I found out by buying the majority of the content from dollar stores. It wasn't bad, definitely true to the franchise and full of some really funny writing.
Sitting on a nail broke me 😂
I had all versions of Ghostbusters 2009, and i loved playing every one of them. Havent played the ds version in a while though and i cant find the wii version at the moment. I mainly just play the 2019 remaster these days.
Can't believe Luigi's Mansion didn't even make the list.
Am happy to see New Ghostbusters II on the NES on this list, I used to love playing that game, and it was far more enjoyable than Activision's game. HAL Laboratory gave us some great titles on the NES, Kirby's Adventure, the Adventures of Lolo series, and New Ghostbusters II!
I like how extreme wasn't that popular but has the most games..
New Ghostbusters 2 for nes was a really fun game for the day and the soundtrack still bangs
The 1984 game was also available on the ZX Spectrum, and it was great both on the Spectrum and the C64.
I really don't understand the Ghostbusters (2016) hate. I saw it and it wasn't great, but I don't know if I would call it bad. The worst I can say about it is that it was unnecessary, but harmless. At the very least it showed how fun of a comedic actor Chris Hemsworth can be. I grew up on Ghostbusters and love it, but people can take that love a little too far. Glad to see Ghostbusters II on the PC get some love. My brother an I played that so much growing up!
Well, a lot of people hated the overtly feminist version (I did as an egalitarian) cause of the way they portrayed the original male characters as dopey.
I own the Ghostbusters theme on 45 record vinyl for some reason. It has a B side but not sure anyone needs another song from the series
I have the Ghostbusters 2 Bobby Brown song on vinyl we should join powers
How dare you slander the 1984 game! That was one of my first introductions to gaming on the ZX Spectrum, I absolutely loved it.
I have fond memories of playing Ghostbusters on the Sega Master System.
The one with the driving segment and the weird flashing map.
3:13 it probably doesn't make up for the game but that walking animation is kind of pleasant though
I’m playing the remastered 2009 game off and on on livestream. It’s actually pretty good.
Wow. Ghostbusters II on Gameboy was pretty challenging. When you defeated the final boss, it starts over on harder difficulty. Nostalgia!
I got that game earlier this year and I love it. The price for it keeps going up. I guess it's kind of rare.
19:49 "A celebratory slice of boo cake." The accompanying video; four men spraying a painting on screen with an odd, possibly-viscous spray.
I see what you did there, Triple Jump.
I used to enjoy the first C64 Ghostbusters game. It was one of few (possibly only) C64 game I completed. (And therefore most likely the first game I ever finished).
I haven't played GB II on the GB since '93. Now here's me, close to three decades later and the video footage alone brought the score back into my brain. Congratulations, TripleJump, for successfully implanting an earworm without a single note. Achievement unlocked, I guess.
Ghostbusters 2 on the Ghostbust
Sometimes I am like they have done everything they can for a worst to best list, but their pleasantly surprise me every time
I had Ghostbusters (1984) on Commodore 64. Can’t temper much of it because I was about 5 at the time. I think I gave up in frustration at not being able to get past early levels.
15:32 the Krazy Kastle Kerfuffle?
Ghostbusters 2016 video game for Xbox one console is my favorite busting 😎🎉 Ghostbusters game.
& It had off line local multiplayer coop 2 and 4 players to join off line local campaign mode is 10 out 10 👍🌹😎
Mega Drive Ghostbusters was my first videogame. Got hit with a whollop of nostalgia there.
Now be honest... how long did it take you to realise that it was the orange dude that lived in the hat that you had to shoot?
The only good things that came out of the 2016 ghostbusters is the redesigned gadgets, which i kinda dig and wish to see return.
Also zootfly was making a ghostbusters game set in the modern day, they had some really cool ideas.
Ghostbusters afterlife is a sequel not a reboot
I love Mega Drive Ghostbusters. Compile knocked it out of the park.
I also owned Ghostbusters 1 on 2600. That was pretty confounding I couldn't understand what I was meant to be doing because the symbols were completely unintelligible.
would have ranked the 1984 version (with all the systems) higher. I played it as a kid on my C64 and later also found the master system version to be the best. Still give it a go a few times a year (with save points on an emulator because the stairs and gozer are horror!)
Another amazing list! We really appreciate the time and effort you all out into these!
Spirits Unleashed has to be number 2.
You mean number 1, right?
@@marcintopolewski3979 no the 2009 game has yet to be dethroned. You can't beat the whole og cast coming back.
@@jahimjauh-hey5653 Or the better, longer story.
Funny how "Bustin' makes me feel good" can mean a WHOLE different thing as opposed to years ago.
I am just starting the video and I am curious if you will mention the Apple II Ghostbusters game. I know it exists because I used to play it.
Edit: At 10:17 you are covering the game that I played on my Apple clone
I think the Extreme Ghostbusters game on PSone was actually re-released in 2004, the original game I believe was 2001 like the Game Boy game. For some reason, Argos went big on Ghostbusters stuff around that time as I can remember the toys and games being featured in the catalogues, much like Thunderbirds in that sense. But yeah, a bunch of PSOne random games were re-released in 2003/2004 for some reason with newer PEGI age ratings over the older ELSPA ones.
3:46 you hush up right now. That show has an awesome aesthetic. Looks great!
I didn't even know there was so many Ghostbusters games
Every looney tunes game please for the love of God!
now i really wanna go back and play the 2009 ghostbusters on DS
The cover of Sanctum of Slime has the proton pack upside down
How incredibly incompetent can you get? Does the dumbass on the cover NOT realize what'll happen if he holds the Proton Pack UPSIDE DOWN!?! It's ALMOST as stupid as crossing the streams, but nowhere near as cool as ACTUALLY crossing the streams. How did they NOT notice or care enough to recognize that the idiot on the cover was holding the pack wrong? He'd be fired IMMEDIATELY for that! No serious Ghostbuster would EVER, (and I do mean EVER), let them live that mistake down.
The '84 Ghostbusters was one of the first games I ever owned on the C64. It wasn't that great but hey, digitized speech!
I wonder where Spirits Unleashed fits into this list? Gotta be top 5.
whats the violin track that plays throughout your video mate? :)
I remember PP Hammer. I had no idea about Kemco ripping him off. Outrageous!
C64 Ghostbusters is one of my all time favourite games. You've done it dirty here.
Loved the #1 Game! Will you make a video about Spirits Unleashed? I've been hooked on it!
The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive one was my favorite for a long time. The only thing that would have made it better is adding Winston and maybe 2 player capability.
I have such fond memories for my SEGA Master System version.. graphics of course were meh.. but I loved the theater of the mind anyways with that version .. buying parts for my ecto mobile .. nothing will beat the PS4 2009 remaster played on a PS5.. I’m addicted to it right now since I saw Afterlife.. graphics are beautiful .. the music .. having a real script .. all the orig actors .. what I would have given to had that as a game in the 80s lol.. but I’ll take it now
Funny how often the Statue of Liberty appears in these games when I don't even recall those scenes from the movie
There's a Ghostbusters arcade game at my local cinema that's not here. It looks great but the controls are so bad that I'm not sure if it's the game or if something was busted.
Ok, did I miss some type of memo where people agreed that Extreme Ghostbusters was somehow bad?
Seriously, you'd think the show somehow bullied our dude here.
Is it just a bad attempt at a bit?