Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ghosts 'n Goblins

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who…

62 1 November 1986

What Ghosts 'n Goblins is

Ghosts 'n Goblins is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 1986. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii and Nintendo Entertainment System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World. Along the way the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor that can help in this task. The game is often considered very difficult by arcade standards and is commonly regarded as one of the most difficult games ever released. The player can only be hit twice before losing a life (the first hit takes away Arthur's armor, and the player must continue on in his underwear until completing the level or finding…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series

Ghosts 'n Goblins is the third of 38 entries we hold in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. The next entry was Ghosts 'n Goblins in 1986. Its critic score of 62 is 12 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Ghosts 'n Goblins at 90.

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How it was received

Ghosts 'n Goblins holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1986 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

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