Casper (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Casper

Based on the Casper film, the game pits you in the role of the friendly ghost trying to make a friend and a second chance at life instead of scaring everyone away. The plot centers around the "spoiled…

40 15 September 1996

What Casper is

Casper is an adventure game developed by Funcom and released in 1996. It was published by Interplay. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Based on the Casper film, the game pits you in the role of the friendly ghost trying to make a friend and a second chance at life instead of scaring everyone away. The plot centers around the "spoiled, grasping inheritor of Whipstaff Manor" - Carrigan Crittenden. She's after the treasure she thinks is hidden in the walls. Casper will need the help of Dr James Harvey - therapist to the dead - if he has any hope of succeeding in his adventures. Casper will also have to deal with his uncles - Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso, who just love to scare "Fleshies" and thwart Casper's efforts. The gameplay is 3d - and is mostly puzzle solving, with Casper able to take a variety of forms and manipulating…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, educational and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Casper The Friendly Ghost series

Casper is the third of 14 entries we hold in the Casper The Friendly Ghost series. The next entry was Casper in 1996.

See all 14 Casper The Friendly Ghost games in release order →

How it was received

Casper holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Casper launched on 15 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL and Die Hard Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Wipeout XL, Die Hard Trilogy.

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