Dang, their budget for casts must have been really high. It's just like I heard on Family Guy, about that show "Charles in Charge"... they said their sweater budget was like 200 grand.
@@mathiasephraim1772 hey you know what i want to hack, not someones instagram account but i want to hack a my scalper’s bank account, because that bitch ruined 1/7th of my life and robbed me alot of money, if i could take revenge on her, that would be kick ass, hahaaa.
Yeah my parents weren't too happy that day shit flew out my ass and I rocketed through the roof. "I just cleaned this floor! -- I JUST RESHINGLED THAT ROOF!"
Still just love that ending. Such poor spelling and execution that even the Nerd can only laugh at the insanity of it all. Much more effective than any cuss-storm would have been in my opinion.
One thing I notice about his early reviews is that he's largely reviewing games he actually grew up with. He's a lot more relaxed and basically saying "look at how shitty this is, this was a significant portion of my childhood." Nowadays he has to focus on games he knows nothing about, or barely played growing up. It doesn't mean his later episodes suck, but their tone is definitely "James Rolfe playing as the Nerd" and much less "James Rolfe exaggerating his disappointment with a game he played as a kid." His Ghostbusters episodes are a particularly good example of the latter.
The latest episode (Paperboy) is a good example of the earlier style in my opinion. He's saying "I played this game as a kid but it was really frustrating and pissed me off!" Sometimes you can feel James talking himself, not just the Nerd.
For me it's the delivery. He's much more passive-aggressive and cynical in these early reviews, which made his anger seem genuine. Now the Nerd is more like a cartoon character.
Sadly I'd rather play this than 90% of mobile games. At least this doesn't ask for your credit card every 5 seconds. And the tedious grind for money in this game has become the norm for mobile games now.
I would like to give some clarity to this shitty game to help you guys understand why it's so shitty: So why do you have to drive to the building? Apparently how much you move around the map determines how much you have to drive to the building. So the more time you waste moving in the map means more miles on the driving sequence. But sadly, to figure out which buildings have ghosts in them, you have to be right by them, so you have no choice but to move around like a dumbass in a maze. James is right, if the PKE Meter goes high enough (9,999), it's an instant game over. So you have to stop the ghosts going toward the center building by touching them. Of course, this means you'll have to do more driving when you reach the building you want. Believe it or not, it's not random as to when you can get in the Zuul building; you have to *pay* to get in. $15,000 to be exact. But of course, you need those extra items too, so you'll have to save a lot more for the anti-ghost suit for two more hits and the sound generator to slow the ghosts down in the building stage. Oh and why is it 22 floors? Because that's the floor they reach in the movie while climbing the stairs. Yes, really. Of all the things to follow in the movie, why did it had to be that? Hope that cleared things up.
@@liamjm9278 probably the 3 onscreen examples showing 4 letters reaching to the boundaries of the building tiles. Seems to me anyone capable of just basic baseline observation would reach that conclusion quickly
I remember i typed angy gamer, it showed alot of gamers screaming and smashing things and then this and this is the reason i still keep coming back to TH-cam thanks james and the entire cinnemassacre crew and everyone who worked on every episode of avgn
I remember when Avgn started I was always looking forward to when he’d eventually get around to this game. I spent countless hours on it and never got to the end until years later when I got game genie.
a long time ago I played this. Got to the main screen building map w/ logo. "What do i do? What do I do? 2 mins later I play a different game. Lots of time saved
Just Imagine guys playing this game without speaking english on a tv that does not do colors. I spent almost a year just figure out, when and how to enter buildings cause whitout color that was hard to realize the buildings are flashing. Finally after 2 years i accidently got into the zuul building but i finally beat the game without any cheat. Thanks for the video Nerd, it recalled many old and nice memories :)
James, Mike, and everyone who has worked on James' videos... thanks. No I didn't know about cinemassacre before watching the videos on youtube, but I have spent hours watching the product. LMAO, and learning something about a movie or game.
After all these years just own up to it James!... That Belle action figure did belong to you! ;) Always great to see the old stuff uploaded in higher quality its just gives me another excuse to rewatch the classics :)
I can honestly say I was a huge Ghostbusters fan as a kid. I saw a friend playing this game and stayed away from it...lol. Thanks for sharing this bro.
I wonder if the ghost vacuum from the "100 Lives of Black Jack Savage" was inspired from this game. It had a similar power supply as the proton packs (but couldn't be carried), I remember at the time thinking it was just a cheesier, thrown-together version of the Ghost Buster's proton packs. I was just a kid, but I kind of liked that show, and Logan "FX" Murphy's crazy gadgets.
I actually just played through this game the other day. It's actually not THAT terrible and it's really short. I found out if you just stick to the right hand side of the road and just drive as fast as you can, you almost never hit a road block.
@@GrooveScorpion 1: Listen to the man's voice. That has to be Kyle. 2: I highly doubt James Rolfe actually called a store just to ask about a ghost vacuum.
I always found the ending screens from a lot of these old NES games amusing as, obviously, the Japanese programmers had precisely ZERO grasp of English. "Conglomerations! You have prooved vital maturation in this day of beautiful conquest! You are to see rewarded greatly for your turbulent..." Blah, blah, blah. You get the idea.
13:53 when you need to harness the power of Billy Mitchell
"that's right we gonna cheat"
My kind of strat forsenCD Clap
Thanks man
oki
Thanks man i was looking for that
I just noticed that when the credits scroll up at the end it says "Casts"
Man, a lot of arms and legs must have been broken making this game.
Explains why it was so shitty. It's hard to program with a fractured ulna.
DexFlames
It was probably programmed by banging their heads on the keyboard
DexFlames not really taking a shit without using your hands is possible
On my bootleg version with a few changes, it was just.. JJ
Dang, their budget for casts must have been really high. It's just like I heard on Family Guy, about that show "Charles in Charge"... they said their sweater budget was like 200 grand.
The episode that introduced me to AVGN, loved the show ever since.
*Conglaturation*
who framed roger rabbit for me. I remember searching it on yt because I remember renting that game as a kid. That's how I discovered AVGN.
BaconJets For me ( I think) was the Nightmare on Elm street N.E.S. review.
IDK what episode introduced me to him, but I've loved every episode! (Maybe it was G & G.)
Same
“Cuz busting makes you feel good”
I did not understand this one as a kid
Is that lililth
"GSSSTBUSTHERRR."
*Conglaturation*
Fuck was that?
"BLEEEE ZEVENTEEN BAALLLMER!"
I found it funny how this game says “ a great game” ahahahaha , it’s everything except that, lol.
@@mathiasephraim1772 hey you know what i want to hack, not someones instagram account but i want to hack a my scalper’s bank account, because that bitch ruined 1/7th of my life and robbed me alot of money, if i could take revenge on her, that would be kick ass, hahaaa.
Has anyone else noticed that there is no actual "S" sound at the end when the start button is pushed on the title screen? "Ghostbuster!"
Apparently the white noise of the "s" sound took too many bits to encode! 😄
That's because the other Ghostbusters ran away from that shitty game.
Yeah my parents weren't too happy that day shit flew out my ass and I rocketed through the roof. "I just cleaned this floor! -- I JUST RESHINGLED THAT ROOF!"
Still just love that ending.
Such poor spelling and execution that even the Nerd can only laugh at the insanity of it all.
Much more effective than any cuss-storm would have been in my opinion.
He started to break down at the inanity of it all in fact.
13:53 That's right we're gonna cheat
One thing I notice about his early reviews is that he's largely reviewing games he actually grew up with. He's a lot more relaxed and basically saying "look at how shitty this is, this was a significant portion of my childhood." Nowadays he has to focus on games he knows nothing about, or barely played growing up. It doesn't mean his later episodes suck, but their tone is definitely "James Rolfe playing as the Nerd" and much less "James Rolfe exaggerating his disappointment with a game he played as a kid." His Ghostbusters episodes are a particularly good example of the latter.
He still is pretty calm in his new episodes in my opinion.
The latest episode (Paperboy) is a good example of the earlier style in my opinion. He's saying "I played this game as a kid but it was really frustrating and pissed me off!" Sometimes you can feel James talking himself, not just the Nerd.
For me it's the delivery. He's much more passive-aggressive and cynical in these early reviews, which made his anger seem genuine. Now the Nerd is more like a cartoon character.
I wonder how that dynamic is now, 8 years later.
You have completed a *great game*!
*Conglaturation*
*And Prooved the justice of our culture!*
What? Wh wh what? (Laughs)
*starts to hold face*
A winner is you!
This could be a modern mobile game.
Sadly I'd rather play this than 90% of mobile games. At least this doesn't ask for your credit card every 5 seconds. And the tedious grind for money in this game has become the norm for mobile games now.
This makes 99% of Google Playstore games look like GOTY GAMES
i hate that some modern mobile games make a shit ton of money when they were based on atari arcade classics and get no credit
Except the shop uses microtransactions
If it was, it'd be a number seller
How harness the power of Dream the speedrunner:
13:53
"That's Right we're gonna Cheat"
i can't imagine the reactions of all the kids who got this game on Christmas or for a birthday
One of my favorite AVGN episodes of all time. Watched this over and over again back in '07.
I would like to give some clarity to this shitty game to help you guys understand why it's so shitty:
So why do you have to drive to the building? Apparently how much you move around the map determines how much you have to drive to the building. So the more time you waste moving in the map means more miles on the driving sequence. But sadly, to figure out which buildings have ghosts in them, you have to be right by them, so you have no choice but to move around like a dumbass in a maze.
James is right, if the PKE Meter goes high enough (9,999), it's an instant game over. So you have to stop the ghosts going toward the center building by touching them. Of course, this means you'll have to do more driving when you reach the building you want.
Believe it or not, it's not random as to when you can get in the Zuul building; you have to *pay* to get in. $15,000 to be exact. But of course, you need those extra items too, so you'll have to save a lot more for the anti-ghost suit for two more hits and the sound generator to slow the ghosts down in the building stage. Oh and why is it 22 floors? Because that's the floor they reach in the movie while climbing the stairs. Yes, really. Of all the things to follow in the movie, why did it had to be that?
Hope that cleared things up.
What were they thinking!?
Did anyone notice at 1:35 that Dr. Jeykell and Mr. Hyde was on the top loader?
What are the other 2 games?
@@ctg8563 smash bro’s is in the n64
Ghowshbushterrrs!
*Conglaturation*
i'm happy he has Smash in the N64
one of the best games ever for the 64
The reason for "ZUUL" is really a basic, programming stuff problem - they could only use 4 letters per building on that main screen :P Cheers!
They could've used "GOZR" then.
Yeah its obvious I think James knows that too but blows it off for content
@@joshdopp8780 Why would he know it?
@@liamjm9278 probably the 3 onscreen examples showing 4 letters reaching to the boundaries of the building tiles. Seems to me anyone capable of just basic baseline observation would reach that conclusion quickly
@@sucralose_tumor Why do you assume the average person would even know that baseline exists, let alone how it works?
I'm No Ghostbuster Fan but this has to be one of my favorite AVGN Episodes.
I remember i typed angy gamer, it showed alot of gamers screaming and smashing things and then this and this is the reason i still keep coming back to TH-cam thanks james and the entire cinnemassacre crew and everyone who worked on every episode of avgn
22 floors of mashing a... yeah no thanks
Let me know when we get to 20... I'm gonna throw up
I had that game... I always turned the volume off on the tv lol!
I remember when Avgn started I was always looking forward to when he’d eventually get around to this game. I spent countless hours on it and never got to the end until years later when I got game genie.
1:30 "You pop this piece of crap in, expecting Ghostbusters, and what do you get?"
Still better than the reboot trailer
Yup
Wait for the actual film to be released, see it, and THEN bitch about it. What are you? Stupid? ...Yes, you are.
Merson The Person Seriously, don't judge the movie just by the trailer.
faolan1686 Whatever
SpeedyEric1 It wasn't very good.
I didn't know Kyle sold vacuums
@جارمين كيل the dude who does the opening theme song. Guitar guy.
13:53 me discovering the super sonic glitch in superstars when I didn't beat the boss I egg fortress
I love the prank phone call xD
"what the fuck were they fuckin thinking!?!" One of my favourite avgn quotes
14:36 Is that a fucking Mewtwo who cutted its tail off??!!!?
This video is so funny, I can come back and re-watch it 6 months later and it still makes me LOL
a long time ago I played this. Got to the main screen building map w/ logo. "What do i do? What do I do? 2 mins later I play a different game. Lots of time saved
Just Imagine guys playing this game without speaking english on a tv that does not do colors. I spent almost a year just figure out, when and how to enter buildings cause whitout color that was hard to realize the buildings are flashing. Finally after 2 years i accidently got into the zuul building but i finally beat the game without any cheat. Thanks for the video Nerd, it recalled many old and nice memories :)
"Conglaturation"
stalfos slayer You finished a great game.
Josh Thomas Now go fuck yourself
No thank you. No I know you're referencing the joke.
***** not physically possible sir..
lel
1:49 Ermagerd, Gerstbersters.
watching this while scratching myself because I'm covered in bug bites
good to know
A Bottle Of Scrumpy lol
Iliek they're long gone into the ether of my dead skin.
"Conglaturation!" LMAO
Dream proforming a minecraft speedrun circa 2020 13:52
0:41 It's Belle!
One of my many favorite episodes. I really felt like I was taken back to the past
Gozer has 5 letters. That's why. Sorry, having a periodic Nerd binge and thought I'd bring it up. Yup.
1:30 "You pop this piece of crap in.." 😂
Can't you upload in Lower Quality once, just for the fun of it?
pursuing222 Hard to explain.
There is another channel called cinemamassecare it has the low quality videos as these are the re-uploaded videos
Keith Ang People misunderstand me. I do not need to see the videos in lower quality, I just thought it would be an awesome joke.
James, Mike, and everyone who has worked on James' videos... thanks. No I didn't know about cinemassacre before watching the videos on youtube, but I have spent hours watching the product. LMAO, and learning something about a movie or game.
After all these years just own up to it James!... That Belle action figure did belong to you! ;) Always great to see the old stuff uploaded in higher quality its just gives me another excuse to rewatch the classics :)
7:24 - That's *definitely* not Kyle Justin on the other end.
I don’t think Justin was a thing what this was filmed but it sounds exactly like mike
@@hunter1586 Kyle’s been part of the show since episode seven (M.C. Kids). And that doesn’t sound anything like Mike.
1:31 What I came here for
13:46 When your grades are low
Just noticed at 1:35, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is in the toploader.
When he pulled out his phone during that vaccuum bit it hit me like a truck lmao. Time flies like crazy
that avgn ghostbusters logo in the beginning is golden even today
This game is horrifying!!!! Conglatulations on reviewing a great game.
I can honestly say I was a huge Ghostbusters fan as a kid. I saw a friend playing this game and stayed away from it...lol. Thanks for sharing this bro.
7:53. That expression just kills me.
I wonder if the ghost vacuum from the "100 Lives of Black Jack Savage" was inspired from this game. It had a similar power supply as the proton packs (but couldn't be carried), I remember at the time thinking it was just a cheesier, thrown-together version of the Ghost Buster's proton packs. I was just a kid, but I kind of liked that show, and Logan "FX" Murphy's crazy gadgets.
Games like this back in the day just wasn’t meant to be beaten!
Does anyone know what variation of the ghostbusters song this is?
Iam searching too
GOLFBUSTERS!
13:53 that’s right we’re gonna cheat
Lol his face when he was makin dat phone call
Scrooge mcduck
I actually just played through this game the other day. It's actually not THAT terrible and it's really short. I found out if you just stick to the right hand side of the road and just drive as fast as you can, you almost never hit a road block.
What kind of food would ghosts eat? I scream (ice cream) and Boo-berry pie, of course! ;)
Does anyone know where he got the Ghostbusters theme from in the beginning? Specifically 0:01
The saddest thing about the Ghostbusters game is nobody working on the game saw the movie!
3:06 is nobody gonna mention Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde NES in that Toploader?!
13:53 dream doing his speedrun
What happens if you just let the ghosts eat the bait instead of running?
What happened if the giant marshmallow monster climed up the building?
I love re-watching these old episodes, whatever the quality.
this was always one of my fav episodes
1:54 GHOSHTBUSHTERS
15:48 - oh, she apparently became Missingno. Well, Egon did say Gozer was whatever it wants to be.
Took me 10+ years, but I just noticed that he has *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* in his NES top loader at 3:06
5 year old Me saying ghostbusters
1:54
10:14 Time to break out the Speedboard I suppose...
Now go rest our heroes
Two of our favorite things ! Shit and Rockets ! !
Sounds like another LJN masterpiece.
fucking love the title card lmfao
22 floors is a reference to the movie...or did you catch that
+Darkestangel 183 When the gameplay sucks ass, even 10 floors could be considered too much.
+Red Phoenix true, true
I've been quoting 1:28 and especially 1:51 since I was 11 years old when this ORIGINALLY came out in early 2007.
i wonder if that guy on the phone about the vacuum saw this video and was like holy shit i talked to the nerd.
I'm pretty sure he just called Kyle Justin (the guitar guy).
@@Bauglir100 its kyle? How does anybody know this? :o
@@GrooveScorpion
1: Listen to the man's voice. That has to be Kyle.
2: I highly doubt James Rolfe actually called a store just to ask about a ghost vacuum.
@@Bauglir100 I tried so hard to imagine kyle haha.
RIP Egon Spengler
A marathon of avgn after a rough day . I have one word "Assssssss"
I always found the ending screens from a lot of these old NES games amusing as, obviously, the Japanese programmers had precisely ZERO grasp of English. "Conglomerations! You have prooved vital maturation in this day of beautiful conquest! You are to see rewarded greatly for your turbulent..." Blah, blah, blah. You get the idea.
i can't tell whether he really prank called a store for a ghost vacuum, or he called Kyle Justin and acted it out lol
Scientist E. Gadd (from luigis mansion) invents them
Avgn: *complains about having to get gas in a game*
Me and my brain: boy, wait till he plays final fantasy 15
Golden Age of AVGN.
Avgn content will always be great, love this stuff
James is the most underrated comedian of his time, period
Great Video James, This was always one of my favorites!!!!
The Episode that started it all for me. Nostalgia...already ? :D
I played the C64 version. It seems that the C64 Ghostbusters were much easier to play than this.
I really want to know if he actually made that phone call.
Given that the voice on the other side sounds like Kyle, I doubt it. Either that or they just dubbed Kyle in because they didn't record it.
He looked so embarrassed when he said the vacuum was for catching ghosts .☺
Hey James I always liked how you do reviews on the ninja turtles. Can you do a review on the new ninja turtles movie trailer 2014 please..
HOLY SHIT
That toy of traffic officer that turns in skeleton i used to have that toy
man what time to be alive