Ghostbusters is a platform, released 29 June 1990 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Ghostbusters is
Ghostbusters was released in 1990. It was published by Tec Toy. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Ghostbusters are down on their luck due to lack of ghost activity, when suddenly several calls begin to pour in from around the city, including the eventual reappearance of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (although dialogue indicates it is not the same one from the movie). After each case, a piece of a stone tablet is collected. The three Ghostbusters piece together the mysterious tablet, inadvertently opening a portal to "the evil world" and releasing a horde of ghosts. In the end, though, the Ghostbusters manage to defeat Janna, the God of Darkness, and retrieve a mystical gem from the evil world. They combine the gem with the tablet to close the portal, and save the city.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ghostbusters series
Ghostbusters is the ninth of 33 entries we hold in the Ghostbusters series. The next entry was Ghostbusters II in 1990. Its critic score of 10 is 39 points below the series average of 49. The highest-rated entry is Ghostbusters at 80.
How it was received
Ghostbusters holds a critic score of 10 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1990 averaged 65, so it scored 55 points below the year average.
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