The 1991 LJN Beetlejuice NES Video Game

The 1991 LJN Beetlejuice NES Video Game
Released May 1991 by developer RARE and published by LJN the makers of Sea of Thieves fame was behind the NES video game adaptation of the film. It’s definitely not Rare’s best work, but that was par for the course when it came to licensed video games of the 8-bit era.
And Rare was busy; the studio pumped out at least nine games in 1991, including Battletoads, the year the Beetlejuice video game was released.
Unlike the other Beetlejuice video games, which were based more on the Beetlejuice animated series, Rare’s NES platformer-adventure drew primarily from the film’s visuals. The game puts the player in the role of Betelgeuse as he explores locations like the Maitlands’ house, the sandworm-infested deserts of Saturn and the Afterlife.
Beetlejuice for NES borrows many of the movie’s visuals, including a Betelgeuse who looks kind of like the character played by Michael Keaton. The explorer with the shrunken head from Beetlejuice the movie serves as the game’s shopkeeper, and you’ll fight sandworms and a dead football player that look like their film counterparts.
The soundtrack of the game has developed a cult following with players making playlists of the music in the order it appears in the game.
Beetlejuice doesn’t play very well but most movie video games did not. Below is some of the game play.
Enjoy and Be A Kid Again....
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Sources polygon.com Wikipedia