On the title screen of the C64 version while you're singing along to the theme tune, you can hit the spacebar to get it to say the "Ghostbusters!" line.
"I wonder if it's written in BASIC... It is! OK, I have a little more respect for it now." 🤣The underwhelmed look on your faces for the Coco version was priceless! If I were the author of that particular game, I'm not sure if I would have had the guts to make it public, but I have to admit, it did provide some great comic relief on your channel.
Congrats on saying 'Zed-X Spectrum' properly. I was working on an MSX magazine when Ghostbuters (original film and game) came out. I attended a special press screening that included ghosts walking up & down the cinema aisles. Still have a soft spot for this franchise.
Man, that 2600 Ghostbusters music takes me straight back to being 10-years old. That was the last Atari game I remember getting before i graduated to the Sega Master System. This game is such a favorite for me, not just because i've always been a huge GB fan, but because the gameplay is so unigue and fun. So much more depth than most 2600 games had. I will add that the Sega Master System version is the absolute best one to play. :)
Great (and hilarious) video! As you may have already guessed , the Coco never had a Ghostbusters port (officially), so that was a BASIC programmers attempt at making “something like it”. (We did have a multi-voice rendition of the song that was pretty good - minus percussion - but that was it).
Stumbled across your channel today , Retro & Geeky is so my thing so very happy to find some likeminded crazy girls, me thinks bottle of wine and a take away tonight so i can binge watch your vidss
I admit you get some extras on the C64 version over the ZX Spectrum, not huge amounts more but more however it was nearly twice the price for the C64 and this is where those differences show. My dad bought me this on the ZX Spectrum and even though I was rotten at playing it, I would load it up just to hear it say GHOSTBUSTERS! Because it was the first game on the ZX Spectrum that talked like that. He Slimed Me! Lol. Good times!
Having more money to spend is a trap. You buy more expensive stuff and then you have to make that much more money by the end of the game to win it. I guess the idea is that by buying the more expensive stuff, you're able to make more money, but it never seems to work out that way. The PK energy detector makes buildings on the map turn pink if they're going to be haunted in the near future. The image intensifier just makes Slimers a little easier to see. The marshmallow sensor warns of an impending attack by the Marshmallow man, which can cost you big bucks if he stomps a building. That's what the ghost bait is for. As soon as he starts to form, you press "B" and he'll come to the bait rather than destroying a building. Every ghost that reaches Zuul, including the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper, increases the city's PK level. You prevent that by moving over them on the map, which freezes them, then sucking them up with the vacuum. You have three men, if two of them get slimed, or you cross the streams, you'll have to go back to headquarters. You can also run out of backpack power, necessitating a trip back to HQ. Press the spacebar in the game to see your status. If you've made more money than you started with when the city's PK level reaches 10,000(?), you'll go to Zuul and have to sneak two of your guys past the Marshmalow man. If you didn't, you'll get scolded for failing. Finally, there's a bug in the C64 version: If you position both your guys facing the same way and perfectly on top of each other, so it looks like there's just one guy there, when you fire the streams, the ghost will freeze in place.
Great video. I first saw Ghostbusters when I was I was like 7 and feel in love with the move. Just to let you know it the original movie the car was a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Sentinel which were used as ambulances at the time not as a hearse. Keep up the wonderful work :)
Had this on the Atari 800 growing up. But for me, the best version is the Speccy 48k version as it doesn't have that theme tune playing constantly - which really gets bloody annoying after a couple of plays. So I normally played that whilst listening to something appropriate like Slayer or Guns n Roses! 😉
Are you a god? No, I'm a 6510, but I'm flanked by some big guns. The C64 version of this game is easily the best. The Z80A clocked at 3.5MHz in the Speccy, easily knocks the block off a 1MHz 6510 / 6502, but the C64 had a VIC-II for sprites and scrolling, plus a SID synth for the best in 8-bit tunes.
And I thought the Micronix (under contract to Activision) port of "Ghostbusters" to NES was lacking. Holy *expletive*, between potential IP problems and actual gameplay, this was a CoCo-MUGGING compared to the games submitted to outfits like "RUN" or "COMPUTE!" for readers to type in.
Like Gen X, the CoCo was usually ignored, and didn't get very many official game ports. There were a few good ones in the early CoCo 3 days, and in the CoCo 1/2 era there were a lot of very good clones. This is not one of them. There was an official Frogger for the CoCo, but some of the clones are better. The CoCo had several excellent Joust clones -- Lancer and Buzzard Bait. I haven't been able to find any proper Joust game for the Commodore 64. I would pit the CoCo's Polaris against official Atari 2600 Missile Command for gameplay any day. That's where the CoCo's analog joysticks really shine. 'Sailor Man' is a fantastic CoCo clone of 'Popeye' that would be a good demo of what your CoCo 2 can do. 'Demon Attack' would be a great candidate for a comparison video between different 8-bit systems, and I think the CoCo version of that game would stack up well against the others.
You guys look like Amy Poehler and Jenna Fischer. I used to play Ghostbusters on my Commodore 64 back in the 80's with my sister. You girls are very unique and cool. Don't forget us when your famous!!!
Great idea for a comparison! Loved seeing the different versions as I only had the CBM 64 one back then - the best one of course! There's a really interesting video by Retro Recipes where they show how the game could actually remember how much money you had in the bank, it's very cunning. Great cosplay too - was that a 64 board on the back of the Proton Pack?
im old enough to remember saving up my Saturday job money for the spectrum version on cassette , it cost £5.99 !!! daylight robebry well done for making me feel bluming old !!!
Cute cosplay. The C64 was the best it was just a slicker version on the the game. The coco 2 was the worst I think. Although that might been just a poor version of the game though. Lol
I don't think there are any others than you that can say "I already had all of these" on every video :) Felt like a ghostbuster myself though, with my ZX Spectrum backpack last Saturday. Wonder if anyone put it on TH-cam...
@@fractalMD Sorry looked like you were stuck on the inventory screen, did you not record any footage of playing that version? Maybe you could do a follow up version playing all the console ones, including the 2600! The 2600 was the 1st version I played so is my fave version!
@@fractalMDWonder if it is your console then, From the manual: Once you have purchased all of the equipment you want, move the left difficulty switch. (If it was previously set to 'A' then move it to 'B'. If it was previously set to 'B' then move it to 'A') You will now see the map screen.
Letting you know the game "end" on 2600 with frozen screen the two ghost busters crossing streams is not the real end of the game, it's a bug in the game that prevents the next stage where you fight the marshmallow man on top of the skyscraper. This was confirmed by the games creator There are some home brew fixes which correct this bug
The Atari 8 bit computer version was ok, but C64 was king. The ZX version was an embarrassment back in the day, it could have been a lot better, if the designers had played to the strengths of the machine, rather then attempting to port the 64 version.
Activision did design the game on the C64 while the movie was in production and they no clue what was in the movie up until a few months before release. Only then they could adapt the game to the movie and work on ports for other computers could start. The teams that had to do the ports for other computers had to rush in order to get their port released before the movie hype was over. Rushing normally doesn't improve quality.
That wasn't really fair. The C-64 had hardware for sound and graphics that was inherently superior. Also, if memory serves the GB release for the C-64 was the authorized version. The C-64 version wouldn't have likely run in BASIC since all the hardware pokes would have made it unnecessary. It was released in binary form (cart maybe?). The graphics/sound of the CoCo 2 would not have reached into its full capabilities even if the program was written in ML/binary. There were inherent limitations on the sound and graphics for the CoCo 2. In the CoCo 3 there were several improvements. I'd still convert it to assembler and convert it to binary though. So, was it your camera or your SD card that caused you to lose footage (in another video)?
A properly done CoCo 1/2 version of the game could have had better graphics and sound than the Spectrum version, with no color clash and a 6-bit DAC, and gameplay as good as the Commie. A Coco 3 version of the game could have had superior graphics even to the C=64, but the Commodore would still probably win the music award with the SID chip.
@@joelavcoco Not without substantial coding. First, the video chip of the C-64 (VIC-II) had hardware sprites built-in. In order to do that with any efficiency on a CoCo 3, you need the CoCo 3 with the GIME chip and even then you'll need to bank switch at 8K boundaries. When displaying the "sprite" you'll need to call a routine to XOR the sprite to the screen memory (or XOR it to remove it). The CoCo 3 does have a larger pallet but the differences are negligible. Yes, the C-64 also had a hardware sound chip capable of generating MIDI compatible sound across three main channels and one additional noise channel. Given that Commodore bought/owned the chip fabrication plant that made the design for ALL the 6502 based chips - a simplified version of the 6800 - it is quite amazing what it can do. So many computer companies used it BBC, Atari, Apple, (logically) Commodore, and more. The weakness of the CoCo was not the processor, it was the thinking at TRS that building a cheaper computer meant that people would buy it. Lot's did. I would love to get my hands on the RAM expansion for the CoCo 3. My other CoCos are maxed out. Love my old computers. I've kept them good all these years.
This wasn't an official port, but an amateur BASIC program. The CoCo 1/2 graphics could have been much better than this attempt -- between the Spectrum and the C=64.
Oh wow, these videos are so fun to watch. Your joy is infectious and inspiring!
Love this video, you two are having so much fun.
You know it!
On the title screen of the C64 version while you're singing along to the theme tune, you can hit the spacebar to get it to say the "Ghostbusters!" line.
"I wonder if it's written in BASIC... It is! OK, I have a little more respect for it now." 🤣The underwhelmed look on your faces for the Coco version was priceless! If I were the author of that particular game, I'm not sure if I would have had the guts to make it public, but I have to admit, it did provide some great comic relief on your channel.
Love the c-64 circuit board as part of your Ghostbusters prop. I recognized that before you even explained that! Totally cool!
Eagle eye!
Congrats on saying 'Zed-X Spectrum' properly. I was working on an MSX magazine when Ghostbuters (original film and game) came out. I attended a special press screening that included ghosts walking up & down the cinema aisles. Still have a soft spot for this franchise.
Oh that sounds really cool.
Man, that 2600 Ghostbusters music takes me straight back to being 10-years old. That was the last Atari game I remember getting before i graduated to the Sega Master System. This game is such a favorite for me, not just because i've always been a huge GB fan, but because the gameplay is so unigue and fun. So much more depth than most 2600 games had. I will add that the Sega Master System version is the absolute best one to play. :)
I mean, it's nostalgia to the max.
You had us at pringles, but the back pack sealed the deal
Great (and hilarious) video! As you may have already guessed , the Coco never had a Ghostbusters port (officially), so that was a BASIC programmers attempt at making “something like it”. (We did have a multi-voice rendition of the song that was pretty good - minus percussion - but that was it).
Stumbled across your channel today , Retro & Geeky is so my thing so very happy to find some likeminded crazy girls, me thinks bottle of wine and a take away tonight so i can binge watch your vidss
That is awesome!
Cool channel. Great that your high school friends. subbed.
I just can't turn away. I have to get this for the C64! It's on the list!
DO IT!
Omg flashbacks to the 80s with my brother playing the c64 version
The computer spoke to me. As an eight year old, my mind was blown.
Very amusing, love the fact that your bottom is a C64 motherboard.
Right??!?!?
I admit you get some extras on the C64 version over the ZX Spectrum, not huge amounts more but more however it was nearly twice the price for the C64 and this is where those differences show. My dad bought me this on the ZX Spectrum and even though I was rotten at playing it, I would load it up just to hear it say GHOSTBUSTERS! Because it was the first game on the ZX Spectrum that talked like that. He Slimed Me! Lol. Good times!
It is a total thrill to hear it talk to you!!
I didn't even know there was a Ghostbusters game for the coco!
Sup Cocoman!
Having more money to spend is a trap. You buy more expensive stuff and then you have to make that much more money by the end of the game to win it. I guess the idea is that by buying the more expensive stuff, you're able to make more money, but it never seems to work out that way.
The PK energy detector makes buildings on the map turn pink if they're going to be haunted in the near future. The image intensifier just makes Slimers a little easier to see. The marshmallow sensor warns of an impending attack by the Marshmallow man, which can cost you big bucks if he stomps a building. That's what the ghost bait is for. As soon as he starts to form, you press "B" and he'll come to the bait rather than destroying a building.
Every ghost that reaches Zuul, including the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper, increases the city's PK level. You prevent that by moving over them on the map, which freezes them, then sucking them up with the vacuum.
You have three men, if two of them get slimed, or you cross the streams, you'll have to go back to headquarters. You can also run out of backpack power, necessitating a trip back to HQ. Press the spacebar in the game to see your status.
If you've made more money than you started with when the city's PK level reaches 10,000(?), you'll go to Zuul and have to sneak two of your guys past the Marshmalow man. If you didn't, you'll get scolded for failing.
Finally, there's a bug in the C64 version: If you position both your guys facing the same way and perfectly on top of each other, so it looks like there's just one guy there, when you fire the streams, the ghost will freeze in place.
I need to like print this out for next time for reference.
Great video. I first saw Ghostbusters when I was I was like 7 and feel in love with the move. Just to let you know it the original movie the car was a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Sentinel which were used as ambulances at the time not as a hearse. Keep up the wonderful work :)
Good to know! But the option in the game was hearse so you definitely are one up on the game designers.
Awesome! I loved the c64 one back in the day. It's still the best version that I have played.
Also, great work on the costumes!
I recognize a chipless C64 when I see one :)
I clicked like as soon as I saw the can of Pringles
You win the internet!
the first 4 seconds were already worth that like lol :)
I love all the old versions of the theme music.
Cheat! Cheat! Cheat! LOL! On the C64 version during the bouncing ball sing along, if you press the space bar, it will yell "Ghostbusters!".
Had this on the Atari 800 growing up. But for me, the best version is the Speccy 48k version as it doesn't have that theme tune playing constantly - which really gets bloody annoying after a couple of plays. So I normally played that whilst listening to something appropriate like Slayer or Guns n Roses! 😉
Are you a god? No, I'm a 6510, but I'm flanked by some big guns. The C64 version of this game is easily the best. The Z80A clocked at 3.5MHz in the Speccy, easily knocks the block off a 1MHz 6510 / 6502, but the C64 had a VIC-II for sprites and scrolling, plus a SID synth for the best in 8-bit tunes.
And I thought the Micronix (under contract to Activision) port of "Ghostbusters" to NES was lacking. Holy *expletive*, between potential IP problems and actual gameplay, this was a CoCo-MUGGING compared to the games submitted to outfits like "RUN" or "COMPUTE!" for readers to type in.
Like Gen X, the CoCo was usually ignored, and didn't get very many official game ports. There were a few good ones in the early CoCo 3 days, and in the CoCo 1/2 era there were a lot of very good clones. This is not one of them.
There was an official Frogger for the CoCo, but some of the clones are better. The CoCo had several excellent Joust clones -- Lancer and Buzzard Bait. I haven't been able to find any proper Joust game for the Commodore 64. I would pit the CoCo's Polaris against official Atari 2600 Missile Command for gameplay any day. That's where the CoCo's analog joysticks really shine. 'Sailor Man' is a fantastic CoCo clone of 'Popeye' that would be a good demo of what your CoCo 2 can do.
'Demon Attack' would be a great candidate for a comparison video between different 8-bit systems, and I think the CoCo version of that game would stack up well against the others.
This was priceless. You guys rock!
My vote is for the COCO2 TIC
3:15 - "...I'm going to take these gloves off" hehe
You guys look like Amy Poehler and Jenna Fischer. I used to play Ghostbusters on my Commodore 64 back in the 80's with my sister. You girls are very unique and cool. Don't forget us when your famous!!!
You are too kind!
Great idea for a comparison! Loved seeing the different versions as I only had the CBM 64 one back then - the best one of course! There's a really interesting video by Retro Recipes where they show how the game could actually remember how much money you had in the bank, it's very cunning. Great cosplay too - was that a 64 board on the back of the Proton Pack?
I didn't buy Pringles today when I was at the shops & now I really regret it....
Go back!!!
OMG that Coco 2 version looks total arse gravy 😂. C64 is best.
I beat Ghostbusters for the first time on the C64 during VCF West last week with no cheats. I'm afraid to say, it is skill.
SKILLZ!!!
Ghostbusters Taylor and Amy lol 😂 Going to play this on my new omni Spectrum laptop. Decided to buy one. ;)
Another Great video. I laughed so much! My vote is for the C64
Perfection.
Love you and miss you! ❤️
@@fractalMD love you and miss you too!
im old enough to remember saving up my Saturday job money for the spectrum version on cassette , it cost £5.99 !!! daylight robebry
well done for making me feel bluming old !!!
This video was better than Ghostbusters 2016
Easily.
my question is what in the secret illuminati planning is happening on your white board in the back ? ;)
:)
Cute cosplay. The C64 was the best it was just a slicker version on the the game. The coco 2 was the worst I think. Although that might been just a poor version of the game though. Lol
😍
I don't think there are any others than you that can say "I already had all of these" on every video :)
Felt like a ghostbuster myself though, with my ZX Spectrum backpack last Saturday. Wonder if anyone put it on TH-cam...
Put up some photos!
@@fractalMD I just did on my website, can't post the URL here. But if you visit ByteDelight, you'll see.
@@ByteDelight EPIC!
@@ByteDelight Dude, that backpack is AMAZING
3:32..
Bubbles' sister from TV series Trailer Park Boys??
;-]
Watching this was vastly more interesting than watching the 2016 Ghostbusters. You two should tell Sony how to make movies.
You need to move the difficulty switches about at the back of the Atari 2600 to get the game to start
Oh we did.
@@fractalMD Sorry looked like you were stuck on the inventory screen, did you not record any footage of playing that version? Maybe you could do a follow up version playing all the console ones, including the 2600! The 2600 was the 1st version I played so is my fave version!
@@philsmith3261Unfortunately doing that didn't work! So we had to skip it. :(
@@fractalMDWonder if it is your console then, From the manual: Once you have purchased all of the equipment you want, move the
left difficulty switch. (If it was previously set to 'A' then move it to 'B'.
If it was previously set to 'B' then move it to 'A') You will now see the map screen.
@@philsmith3261 Yeah. It's gotta be. We broke out the game manual and everything.
While it pains me to say it the C64 was the best
Lol!
Letting you know the game "end" on 2600 with frozen screen the two ghost busters crossing streams is not the real end of the game, it's a bug in the game that prevents the next stage where you fight the marshmallow man on top of the skyscraper. This was confirmed by the games creator
There are some home brew fixes which correct this bug
Time to bust some ghosts!
The Atari 8 bit computer version was ok, but C64 was king. The ZX version was an embarrassment back in the day, it could have been a lot better, if the designers had played to the strengths of the machine, rather then attempting to port the 64 version.
Activision did design the game on the C64 while the movie was in production and they no clue what was in the movie up until a few months before release. Only then they could adapt the game to the movie and work on ports for other computers could start. The teams that had to do the ports for other computers had to rush in order to get their port released before the movie hype was over. Rushing normally doesn't improve quality.
LoL Love it
That CoCo2 version did not seem official, at all.
Think you are very right about that!
That wasn't really fair. The C-64 had hardware for sound and graphics that was inherently superior. Also, if memory serves the GB release for the C-64 was the authorized version. The C-64 version wouldn't have likely run in BASIC since all the hardware pokes would have made it unnecessary. It was released in binary form (cart maybe?).
The graphics/sound of the CoCo 2 would not have reached into its full capabilities even if the program was written in ML/binary. There were inherent limitations on the sound and graphics for the CoCo 2. In the CoCo 3 there were several improvements. I'd still convert it to assembler and convert it to binary though.
So, was it your camera or your SD card that caused you to lose footage (in another video)?
A properly done CoCo 1/2 version of the game could have had better graphics and sound than the Spectrum version, with no color clash and a 6-bit DAC, and gameplay as good as the Commie. A Coco 3 version of the game could have had superior graphics even to the C=64, but the Commodore would still probably win the music award with the SID chip.
@@joelavcoco Not without substantial coding. First, the video chip of the C-64 (VIC-II) had hardware sprites built-in. In order to do that with any efficiency on a CoCo 3, you need the CoCo 3 with the GIME chip and even then you'll need to bank switch at 8K boundaries. When displaying the "sprite" you'll need to call a routine to XOR the sprite to the screen memory (or XOR it to remove it). The CoCo 3 does have a larger pallet but the differences are negligible. Yes, the C-64 also had a hardware sound chip capable of generating MIDI compatible sound across three main channels and one additional noise channel. Given that Commodore bought/owned the chip fabrication plant that made the design for ALL the 6502 based chips - a simplified version of the 6800 - it is quite amazing what it can do. So many computer companies used it BBC, Atari, Apple, (logically) Commodore, and more. The weakness of the CoCo was not the processor, it was the thinking at TRS that building a cheaper computer meant that people would buy it. Lot's did. I would love to get my hands on the RAM expansion for the CoCo 3. My other CoCos are maxed out. Love my old computers. I've kept them good all these years.
Coco graphics are very limited, sadly.
This wasn't an official port, but an amateur BASIC program. The CoCo 1/2 graphics could have been much better than this attempt -- between the Spectrum and the C=64.
@@joelavcoco , I use the same video chip on my homebrew computer. It's very limited. Seems like they used the semi-graphics mode.