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…
Ghosts 'n Goblins is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 7 July 1985 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade and Atari ST/STE.
What Ghosts 'n Goblins is
Ghosts 'n Goblins is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 1985. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura in Japan, is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series
Ghosts 'n Goblins is the first of 38 entries we hold in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. The next entry was Makaimura in 1986. Its critic score of 90 is 16 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Ghosts 'n Goblins holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Ghosts 'n Goblins launched on 7 July 1985, within three weeks of Nodes of Yesod and Rush'n Attack. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Nodes of Yesod, Rush'n Attack.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ghosts 'n Goblins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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