It seems silly now, but nothing filled me with more anxiety than this game when I was kid. The stress when everything sped up, the ghosts were zipping to the Zuul building out of control, red flashing everywhere. But nothing compared to the sheer terror of the ghosts rushing to form the marshmallow man before I could blindly scramble for the 'B' key.
Reading through the comments it is good to see so much love still for this game and the C64 itself in 2020. Iv still got my C64 set up next to my PS4. And I still play this game alot. Iv got a whole page of codes in a notepad to continue with previously made credits. Thank for uploading this vid
"Many people remember the title screen of Ghostbusters more than the game itself. Artist Hilary Mills drew a perfect Ghostbusters logo, and the late Russell Lieblich made an instrumental arrangement of the Ghostbusters theme song. Unable to leave it at that, I engineered speech for the C64 in order to enable the game to yell 'Ghostbusters! Add the song lyrics and a follow-the- bouncing-ball animation, and the title screen became one of the most memorable parts of the game." -- David Crane, designer and programmer
I remember how thrilled was when I've first heard the synthesized "Ghostbuster" voice of this :) Could never complete the game but that's no surprise because I could barely understand English back then.
István Nagy I remember being around 8years old and repeatedly making it shout 'Ghostbusters!' thinking it was amazingly advanced and awesome. Loved it lol. BEST BIT in videogame history!
my childhood memories just flashed back :-) we really enjoyed playing Commodore 64 games. Hard to believe for today's high definition playstation kids, right? I think our imagination offset bad graphics.
Until this very day, there has yet to be a superior Ghostbusters game or anything like it. It was perfect, the management part of it, the job part of it, the storyline part of it, and the trap gameplay was AMAZING!
I remember getting so good at this game I was able to buy the exotic sports car--it got to the buildings in no time! To make it that far you don't have time to fool around with the streams--just release the trap as soon as the ghost gets near it.
OMG, I was screaming at my tv screen as he waited for the buildings to turn red. If you find a purple one, drive to it and catch your yellow ghosts. By the time you arrive, Slimer will be there or not and there is no driving time,
The new film was just a crummy, unfunny, poorly written/paced and juvenile piece of junk remake that has a shitty script that lacks the brains/witty humor of the original screenplay of the classic film and lacks the edginess/darkness of the first 2 and i'm glad it flopped, some things outta be left alone.
@Angry Deli $5000 dollars in 1984 would be $12,164.39 in 2019. That's nothing for saving the world. If i saved the world, i would want a trillion dollars.
When you complete the game, it generates a bank account code so you can play again with your new bank balance :) The codes were based on your previous game.
I remember playing the hell out of this as a kid. It was an inherited copy (possibly pirated) and had zero instructions with it. I always wound up broke with a ruined city, but had fun anyway.
I loved this game! My saddest memory is when I finally beat it. I went to tell my dad and sister, who also played it. Neither believed me and they told me to stop lying. I was devastated.
This was my favourite C64 game. My parents bought it for me as an Easter present when i was about 10 yrs old, and I got in trouble because I woke them up playing it, at about 5am the next morning 😅
Oh, Egon Spengler. Yes, I always used that name when I played this game back then. I actually spent two hours today playing this game. Never managed to sneak more than one guy padt the marshmallow man, but I worked up $83100 for my next game.
One thing I always liked about this game that I didn’t know when I was a child and my sister, brother and I used to play it on our C64 is what a great demonstration it is of the limited amount of notes you could hear from that computer and how innovative the programming of the soundtrack was. The first couple of times remember watching them play the game interpretation of the theme music sounded kind of silly.
I can't remember if the high-performance car was pink or not, but this is the only car you can't buy on your first playthrough because it's too expensive. If you beat the game, you can afford to buy it the next time you play.
When I discovered David Crane made the Ghostbusters game I was, "Wait, what? That piece of crap?" I'm glad to see the original version is MUCH better than the Japanese ported NES game.
@@KempTheReignman you have to purchase the 'ghost bait' at the begining of the game. You can only lay bait 3 times so save it for when the marshmallow man forms.
I played this game as a little kid every chance I got. Even input the 600 characters long code you get to take your vehicle into other games so I could eventually upgrade everything and beat the game.
Dang...so that was the object of the game...I didnt realize you had to stop those ghosts ....We used to just play this without even knowing how to play.
You need to buy ghost bait at the start of the game and hit 'B' on the keyboard when you see him start to form. You only get 4 doses of bait, so your timing has to be good!
I had a copy of this game years ago & it had a Space Invaders style game that you played while the game was loading, what is funny is that if you fail to catch a ghost it will come down & slime you & you would hear a voice saying "He slimed me".
Allen Jeremy Ahh yes, the famous Invade-a-load game ;) I think it used the music from "One Man and his Droid" by Rob Hubbard as backing music. In fact, Invade-a-load was often better than the actual game you were loading up!
I use to love this as a kid. It got proper tense when everything was flashing red on screen with the ghosts flying in from all directions. God I used to get pissed when I hit B too early ...thinking about it I remember just wanting to get off the map screen as soon as poss lol . I'd even go to a building when it wasn't flashing 😄
How are you able to get marshmallow man down to you?? He's at the top of the screen, you're at the bottom, and yet when he appears, he somehow gets pulled to you and doesn't smash the building. I can't figure this out. I'm new to C64 games, so unsure of what the tricks are.
Echo all that been said about this game , awesome back in the day . I played it till was sick of it lol. Soooooo good ! Loved the stay puft man being caught .such great memories . Don't make em like that anymore . .
Finally...30 plus years later I finally know how this game ends
Same here.
Same same.
Same
Same! My game would always crash. Always had to take the floppy disk out and restart.
30+
Dude it's been almost 40 years
I was a kid, and we were all in awe of the graphics quality. Good, sweet times.
And the music!!
@@skavenqblight my grandpa allways complained about the beep-beep computer music. bus his music was even worse
I remember playing this as a kid. You knew when you got your first Marshmallow Man, shit got real
Getting under its legs was the hardest part
It seems silly now, but nothing filled me with more anxiety than this game when I was kid. The stress when everything sped up, the ghosts were zipping to the Zuul building out of control, red flashing everywhere. But nothing compared to the sheer terror of the ghosts rushing to form the marshmallow man before I could blindly scramble for the 'B' key.
You nailed it, I felt the exact same way.
I remember it well, when the whole screen was flashing tiles, exhilarating and exhausting.
This used to be my favorite game on C64. Man do I feel old.
Dr Ivo Robotnik I've just downloaded it on my tablet , C64 emulator , plays pretty good , but I must dig out my trusty old C64 and play it properly!
Iam 47 and just got my girlfriend a diamond ring for Christmas all I want in return is a commodore 64 with disk drive or iam leaving her
Remember it getting loading on cassette! 😂
Same bud same
@@benignasiak3015 😊😊
The voice at the start is better than the NES voice.
Not exactly that hard though
The laugh definitely adds more character
Absolutely: the C64 sid and the fantastic team of the Electronic Speech Systems of Berkeley (CA) makes the difference!!!
The music is also way better
@@SimoneVoltolini The side effect of the SID as it wasn't designed to do voices.
played this to death on the C64
It wasn't really "death," of course - just getting slimed. ;-)
This game is legendary. I loved this back in the day. I got goosebumps when the city started flashing red lol
Goathbuthters!
The C64 version of this was the best.
A lot better than the NES Version.
Reading through the comments it is good to see so much love still for this game and the C64 itself in 2020. Iv still got my C64 set up next to my PS4. And I still play this game alot. Iv got a whole page of codes in a notepad to continue with previously made credits. Thank for uploading this vid
"Many people remember the title
screen of Ghostbusters more than
the game itself. Artist Hilary Mills
drew a perfect Ghostbusters logo,
and the late Russell Lieblich made
an instrumental arrangement of the
Ghostbusters theme song. Unable to
leave it at that, I engineered speech
for the C64 in order to enable the
game to yell 'Ghostbusters! Add
the song lyrics and a follow-the-
bouncing-ball animation, and the
title screen became one of the most
memorable parts of the game."
-- David Crane, designer and programmer
I don't think I ever got past the Staypuff Marshmellow Man at the end when I played this as a kid. Now when I watch it, it seems simple.
David Crane is truly a visionary and a master of programming and design. He was untouchable back then
It's amazing how playable this seems compared to the NES version.
RIP Ted i still miss you we had such happy times with the Commodore 64 in the early 80s you were ahead of your time for an old man
Words cannot describe how cool this game was in 1980s!
Never beat this game. Used to play it when I was 7 or 8. Happy memories
same - I never made it to the Stay Puft level
This has aged surprisingly well compared to a lot of the era.
David Crane was so ahead of his time
I remember how thrilled was when I've first heard the synthesized "Ghostbuster" voice of this :) Could never complete the game but that's no surprise because I could barely understand English back then.
István Nagy I remember being around 8years old and repeatedly making it shout 'Ghostbusters!' thinking it was amazingly advanced and awesome. Loved it lol. BEST BIT in videogame history!
I was never able to make it past the Marshmallow Man either.
God this game was ahead of its time. So much fun but that dam state puff getting between legs got me every time.
Could played this for hours...It never gets boring! One of the best movie adaption at this time !!!
One of The ultimate C-64 games.
my childhood memories just flashed back :-) we really enjoyed playing Commodore 64 games. Hard to believe for today's high definition playstation kids, right? I think our imagination offset bad graphics.
Until this very day, there has yet to be a superior Ghostbusters game or anything like it. It was perfect, the management part of it, the job part of it, the storyline part of it, and the trap gameplay was AMAZING!
the "Ghostbusters!" voice sounds infinitely better here than it did on Nintendo, the little laugh at the end was a nice touch too
(Drinks a glass of water)... "GRRSTBRRSTRRS!
Good that you didn't have to deal with getting gas or beating the drunk drivers, OR that long tedius climb up the stairs in the Zuul building.
I loved this game!! I played it all the time.
This game was incredible for the time.
Quite possibly the most flawless run ever.
Listening to "Ghostbusters" every Halloween always brings me back to playing this game as a kid.
The greatest movie tie in game to this day. Fact.
You know the clicking b part always eluded me to this day. Now I am going to complete the game for the first time.
I remember getting so good at this game I was able to buy the exotic sports car--it got to the buildings in no time! To make it that far you don't have time to fool around with the streams--just release the trap as soon as the ghost gets near it.
OMG, I was screaming at my tv screen as he waited for the buildings to turn red. If you find a purple one, drive to it and catch your yellow ghosts. By the time you arrive, Slimer will be there or not and there is no driving time,
Forgot how fun this game was. Ten years old, up till 3am to beat the game. Castle wolfenstein, summer olympics, beach head. Too fun.
This will still be better than the new film and new game. LoL
agreed. 😆
The new film was just a crummy, unfunny, poorly written/paced and juvenile piece of junk remake that has a shitty script that lacks the brains/witty humor of the original screenplay of the classic film and lacks the edginess/darkness of the first 2 and i'm glad it flopped, some things outta be left alone.
Oh, you mean the Feminist Busters?
Right
Wolverine Prime haha agreed!
This is my early childhood on a floppy disk.
I was addicted to this game in the eighties.
I hadn't seen or played this game in over 31 years....wow...its felt funny to c this again
$5000 for saving the world? Wow.
@Angry Deli $5000 dollars in 1984 would be $12,164.39 in 2019. That's nothing for saving the world. If i saved the world, i would want a trillion dollars.
When you complete the game, it generates a bank account code so you can play again with your new bank balance :) The codes were based on your previous game.
44410420
My all-time favourite game, this. I played it on the Spectrum though.
[bad now, good for the time ghostbusters theme chiptune rendition intensifies]
I played this game all the time as a kid! Man, some great memories! 👍
That yell when you close the portal sounds like an old man dying.
Yep - still cool though 😉
I never reached the end of the game. Mr. Stay Puff always clobbered the city.
i had this game on c64 in the 80's could never solve it.
i cant explain why i loved this game as a kid ;)
I remember playing the hell out of this as a kid. It was an inherited copy (possibly pirated) and had zero instructions with it. I always wound up broke with a ruined city, but had fun anyway.
I loved this game! My saddest memory is when I finally beat it. I went to tell my dad and sister, who also played it. Neither believed me and they told me to stop lying. I was devastated.
This was my favourite C64 game.
My parents bought it for me as an Easter present when i was about 10 yrs old, and I got in trouble because I woke them up playing it, at about 5am the next morning 😅
Oh, Egon Spengler. Yes, I always used that name when I played this game back then. I actually spent two hours today playing this game. Never managed to sneak more than one guy padt the marshmallow man, but I worked up $83100 for my next game.
I didn't even know you could win!!! I finally beat impossible mission. Looks like I'll have to give this a try as an adult now!
That music is incredible
I used to play this for hours at my cousin's house back in the day.
I remember having this on a Tandy 1000 at least 30 years ago. Good times.
One thing I always liked about this game that I didn’t know when I was a child and my sister, brother and I used to play it on our C64 is what a great demonstration it is of the limited amount of notes you could hear from that computer and how innovative the programming of the soundtrack was. The first couple of times remember watching them play the game interpretation of the theme music sounded kind of silly.
Thanks for putting this up! I used to play the shit out of this when I was in high school!
My older sister had this game and it really scared me. I was like 4 lol. It was the 8 bit music and the voice, man! XD
I can't remember if the high-performance car was pink or not, but this is the only car you can't buy on your first playthrough because it's too expensive. If you beat the game, you can afford to buy it the next time you play.
They planned ahead to make you play the game another time.
When I discovered David Crane made the Ghostbusters game I was, "Wait, what? That piece of crap?" I'm glad to see the original version is MUCH better than the Japanese ported NES game.
Great songs
I'm with the others. I had this when I was a kid and never figured it out 100%
As a 7yr old I remember the feeling of raw anticipation when hovering my finger over the 'B' button ready for the big guy!
Hey, the b button doesn't work the second time of I play so the marshmallow man destroys a house. Why is that?
@@KempTheReignman you have to purchase the 'ghost bait' at the begining of the game. You can only lay bait 3 times so save it for when the marshmallow man forms.
@@fusoya6544 Thanks, I did buy it but must have pushed the b button too many time the first time marshmallow man turned up.
Damn. 5K for saving the city! Tight! ;-)
I remember being at a computer fair back in the 80s and seeing this and thinking that the music was out of this world.
I could never get past the marshmallow man at the end.
Loved this game back in the day. On par with Boulder Dash.
Press play on tape
I played this game as a little kid every chance I got. Even input the 600 characters long code you get to take your vehicle into other games so I could eventually upgrade everything and beat the game.
Dang...so that was the object of the game...I didnt realize you had to stop those ghosts ....We used to just play this without even knowing how to play.
How do you defend against the Marshmallow Man?
You need to buy ghost bait at the start of the game and hit 'B' on the keyboard when you see him start to form.
You only get 4 doses of bait, so your timing has to be good!
Lol I've wondered for over 30yrs how I was meant to play this game as a kid.
Games didn't seem this pants when I was a kid! lol
I loved to play this videogame
I had a copy of this game years ago & it had a Space Invaders style game that you played while the game was loading, what is funny is that if you fail to catch a ghost it will come down & slime you & you would hear a voice saying "He slimed me".
Allen Jeremy Ahh yes, the famous Invade-a-load game ;) I think it used the music from "One Man and his Droid" by Rob Hubbard as backing music. In fact, Invade-a-load was often better than the actual game you were loading up!
I can still remember myself singing along with the bouncing dot.One of the cool games during the early 1980's C-64 era.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Especially pretty much the vast majority of the Mastertronic games that it was on
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Yup, and if you stopped the tape of the crap game as it was loading, you could play invadeaload forever!
You do not need to wait until a building is flashing to start to drive there. That's the whole purpose of buying this detector.
Holy cow, I played this thing all the time on an old Apple computer.
boy im glad i never made it to the end.. that would have been so disappointing..
Thanks for the account number!!! Awesome.
I was 12 or 13 maybe 15 16 ,now i am 50 years old still i never forget this game
So this version doesn't have a stairwell sequence huh?
The music sounded decent too, though we also got that infamous "Ghostbusters!" shout.
This is awesome I'm thinking about trying to buy a copy for my c64
I use to love this as a kid. It got proper tense when everything was flashing red on screen with the ghosts flying in from all directions. God I used to get pissed when I hit B too early ...thinking about it I remember just wanting to get off the map screen as soon as poss lol . I'd even go to a building when it wasn't flashing 😄
CONGLATURATION !!! YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT GAME. AND PROOVED THE JUSTICE OF OUR CULTURE. NOW GO AND REST OUR HEROES.
Kids these days will never learn the joys of finally learning how to catch a slimer 😢
Played the shit out of this one when I was wee :)
holy crap I vaguely remember this.
Holy crap, you the real David Hopkins? I'm a huge fan :) Of you and this game which I also played the shit out of.
The film came out in 1984 not 82.
Damn how many people used to play this game back in the day as a kid just at the very end to get stomped to death by the marshmallow Man.
I have played that game endless when I was a child.
Loved this game...
is it really possible to choose the pink car in this game?
How are you able to get marshmallow man down to you?? He's at the top of the screen, you're at the bottom, and yet when he appears, he somehow gets pulled to you and doesn't smash the building. I can't figure this out. I'm new to C64 games, so unsure of what the tricks are.
A classic!, And always will be!
Oh, good old days... 😊
Well done Mr. Venkman👍🏻
Echo all that been said about this game , awesome back in the day . I played it till was sick of it lol. Soooooo good ! Loved the stay puft man being caught .such great memories . Don't make em like that anymore . .
Oh, the memories.
I loved updating the car lol
Hehe this game was great ^.^ old times
Does it happend to you like me... that you watch this games and it takes you like a time machine to those chilidhood memories?