Atari 2600 Longplay [072] Ghostbusters

[@unkles]

Pretty impressive movie theme music for the Atari.

[@JediPhoenix1976]

I have to say, I did enjoy playing this one as a kid.

[@bobdonda]

same here! it was better than the NES version

[@dekaranja]

Still better than the NES game

[@swampdonkey4919]

I can tell, lol. It's funny too because I owned this on the nes and my friend with the atari 2600 always wanted to play it, which annoyed me. Too bad we didn't know he could've owned the better game if he wanted it.

[@fernandocastro1660]

In Brazil it was the default game coming with the NES Console.

[@RetroMaticGamer]

God, that Stay Puft sequence in the end... the worst feeling in the world was to play your ass off for the whole game just to get stomped flat by the big guy at the end. Getting under him was a lot harder than it looks, and if you screwed up, all that work you put in was pissed away in just a few seconds flat. "Kthxbye, NEXT?"

[@SquilliamFancyson]

What store sells ghost vacuums?! -said by AVGN

[@Benjamillion]

(Proceeds to call store that carries vacuums)

[@SquilliamFancyson]

Pizza Hut 😳😳😳

[@stephenmanuel9860]

Much like Simon's Quest, I think much of our loathing for this game stems from popular ridicule of the NES version. To be honest this looks perfectly fine for a 2600 game. :)

[@zazelby]

The C64 version is still my favorite. This is a downgraded port, but keeps most of the gameplay elements. The NES version... I don't know what happened there.

[@stephenmanuel9860]

@@zazelby Never played the C64 much growing up - my first two consoles were 2600 and NES, and I never had access to a PC or equivalent until high school. :) Will look this up!

[@NeurospicyBitch88]

But in the NES Port you proove the justice of their culture Now go and rest our heroes

[@cartmantv6465]

Nes Version▪︎Scumgame. Atari 2600▪︎Pretty Decent. Commodore 64▪︎Really Good for Atari. Master System▪︎Great.

[@imaplanklol7702]

With that comment I have to say you saw AVGN video

[@HeyFrank]

bustin' makes me feel good!

[@eyelove_owlcity]

How do you get out of the store?

[@pferreira1983]

As AVGN said "well it's Ghostbusters but on Atari."

[@q.h.s5051]

Better than the NES Version

[@pferreira1983]

@@q.h.s5051 Any version is really. 👍

[@Luis_Caraballo]

Buenísimo, me dio curiosidad de buscar el juego por ver el cartucho en un compra venta, excelente la música y se ve entrenido el juego!

[@wellingtoncarlosalbano9563]

Pelo visto não tem fim,eu tive um desse nos anos 90, e sempre tive curiosidade de saber se existia fim

[@JohnCrawford1979]

It's actually a kind of better game on the 2600 when you consider the Marshmallow Man is at near proportional height. Wish that they had fighting Zool at the end.

[@guns2rosesofficial]

I think the Sega Master System was the only one that included the Zuul fight.

[@swampdonkey4919]

So, I'm guessing the game ends after you run past the marshmallow man twice? Kinda anti-climactic, huh?

[@JohnCrawford1979]

@swampdonkey491 - When I played it as a kid, I didn't know there were different versions, other than the NES. Didn't have a computer until 1996, and by then I was more interested in making music than playing games. But when I was playing Ghostbusters on the 2600 as a kid, I was focused on the fact I was able to play as a Ghostbuster busting ghosts. In a sense, it's similar to Elder Scrolls, where the fun for many people isn't in beating the game, but on playing the role.

[@swampdonkey4919]

@@JohnCrawford1979 I owned the NES version as a kid. My friend always wanted to cone over and play it, and I was always like why?! It sucks. But it makes more sense now that you put it that way.

[@kevintamas7164]

Wow, there are universes between this version and the version on C64.

[@catsRsmelly1]

This actually looks more fun than the NES version that I had.

[@RetroMaticGamer]

It was. I had bth, and the NES version sucked horribly. This one was a lot of fun, though.

[@mattbar6]

I can't believe this is where video games were at when this movie came out lol this is crazy Pat

[@YukoValis]

:plays the video at 2x speed: This was a mistake!

[@imaplanklol7702]

Actually the song sounds good at 2X!

[@Kawamura2]

@@imaplanklol7702 sounds better at 1.25 speed lol

[@XXXXXXXXXO]

The game looks really cool.

[@danykun1360]

Lo jugué de muy chico, alguien me puede decir para qué sirven los 4 objetos que se eligen al principio y cómo se usan? Y para qué sirve atrapar al fantasma cuando se va en el auto?

[@Perudor]

Musik ist ganz ok. Auch vom Gameplay super sowie die Grafik sieht für A26 ganz gut aus. Bin erstaunt, dass der Atari 2600 das so hinbekommen hat. Klar, dass die ET in die Wüste geschüttet haben ;-D

[@Studeb]

WTF was that ending?

[@melaniel.4269]

Simply the extreme limitations of the Atari 2600 prevented them from doing the ending like it was in the C64 version, where you have to dodge the Marhsmallow Man to get into Spook Central and then it shows the Ghostbusters at the Top of the building crossing the Streams to defeat Gozer. The ending is the best proof, that David Crane simply ran out of time (he only had 6 weeks to create the full game, even back then developing a game took around 3-4 months) The overally vastly improved Master System version fixes that with the staircase walk (and unlike the shitty NES version you can shoot the ghosts) followed by a battle with Gozer and its terror dogs.

[@GMOTP5738]

GERSTBERSTERS!!!!!!!

[@internalwarrior2410]

Letting you know the the "end" with 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

[@VahanNisanian]

Then leave... then LEAVE! - AVGN.

[@TZER0]

Best part of the video lol

[@Perich29]

where did you learn to fly?

[@awatson3367]

The C64 original is one of my all time favourites. This is a pretty cool approximation of it for the older, more primitive, 2600. Nowhere near as good as the lead version though.

[@amosungar5248]

How did you control which ghostbuster was going left/right? Was this a two-player mode?

[@gary72carol61]

I remember playing that in the day. That resolution was so small you had to have a microscope to view the game.

[@brianhebert6152]

I'm guessing the more simplistic gameplay compared to its C64 and NES cousins was because someone at Activision assumed the 2600 would be passed down to younger family members.

[@turtleislandlac1490]

When I was little I wanted this game so bad but my Uncle wouldn't buy it because I believe it was $60 at the time. Even for Atari this looks bad.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

Still better than Ghostbusters 2016...but that is not saying much.

[@VahanNisanian]

Yeah. Though I doubt even Ghostbusters 2020 will be enough to save the franchise.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

@@VahanNisanian Even if they resurrected Harold Ramis,the damage is done.

[@Julitoodan]

Instead of flashing pink, the area at the bottom right flashed yellow, and there one of the players ran past. What was it?

[@TheHauntedMouth]

If I remember correctly, after you use up however many traps you have, you need to make a trip to the yellow building to resupply. I think the guy running past represents the Ghostbusters returning to the firehouse to empty the traps before heading out again.

[@Julitoodan]

@@TheHauntedMouth yes, now I remember, it is correct, but what I never could, was to reach the final. the snowman always ended up coming. and it destroyed me all

[@KYklassik]

My goodness... to play 5 seconds is no different than playing the whole game.

[@beyondobscure]

This, kids, is why there's a mute button on your remote.

[@Hillthugsta]

Ah, my very first video game.

[@Vladutz.19]

Is this the first grindy game ever made?

[@beyondobscure]

Well in theory a lot of arcade games are like that (esp. Asteroids) but in terms of progression I actually believe so.

[@PCCphoenix]

I never could figure out how to play this game...

[@Kutsune2024]

Can anyone answer my question? I played Ghostbusters on the Atari 2600 for the first time (within the Atari emulator on ps2) Then the little shop appears... I bought everything and couldn't get to the "real start" of ghost hunting from what I saw on Angry Video Nerd... it says it's because of the difficulty buttons, that's it... I'm playing an Atari game on the PS2, I have no idea where the difficulty is because I pressed all the buttons and the All that happens is restarting and that's it! In other words... I'm stuck in this item shop!

[@q.h.s5051]

Imagine owning a Batman or Spider-Man game that made you listen to the main theme the entire game. I feel bad for the ears of innocent NES and Atari players

[@oscarjimenezsr.716]

The AVGN reviewed this game back in 2009

[@kajuangra7277]

muito bom o jogo, adorei!!!

[@Uzumakipavel]

Imagine, game show games on Atari 2600

[@charlessentenat1250]

This would have been better on the 5200 or 7800 and this honestly looks pretty good for 2600.

[@Julitoodan]

I never got there in the game

[@pounds1234]

Live at the arcade anyone !

[@loop329]

Вошёл в транс к сороковой минуте.

[@oussadan83]

Most difficult game ever 😂

[@colindaniels945]

Agree

[@krisshaw9464]

Playrd this on commador games have. Come a long way still prefer the classics

[@Gxhbro]

For the Atari 2600, it's perfect, for the NES, i don't think so

[@AlphaBiggotz]

Lets pee upwards at ghosts and save the world!

[@jazonjalapeno1406]

Tiens, on va bien voir de quoi parlait le JdG :D :D

[@lapesmattie6329]

PolyMega

[@mellamojeff458]

So its an Atari port of ghost busters on the nes? Avgn must be angry to know that a shitty game got ported on the atari

[@kajioukun]

It's a port of a c64 game to atari, avgn reviewed this and said that it was ok because atari wasn't powerful as nes so it was ok

[@JohnSkellington]

You pop this piece of crap in, expecting Ghostbusters, and what do ya get?

[@hazy33]

A brilliant conversion of an awful game!

[@melaniel.4269]

The game is not awful at all. The original version was quite good for its time and given the fact that David Crane had only a few weeks to produce it. The Master System version is the best of them all, with great improvements and it was one of the 2 good Ghostbusters Games (next to New Ghostbusters for the NES) until the 2009 game. But i guess you never actually played them and just watched the Angry Videogame Idiot

[@stephenmanuel9860]

Brilliant, yes. Awful, depends on who you ask.

[@hazy33]

@@melaniel.4269 Oh Melanie, you'll have to learn that others will have different opinions to yourself and be ok with that. I bought the the c64 version at the time of release, great music, even some speech. But it was rubbish.

[@melaniel.4269]

@@hazy33 Obvious liar is obvious, lol

[@hazy33]

@@melaniel.4269 That's a weird thing to say. How did you come to that conclusion?

[@jesusdenazareth782]

Primero perros 😎

[@noahdoesstuff4709]

*Takes out cartridge* *TAKES A DOO DOO ON IT* “PLAIN DISGUSTING”

[@yuseifudo2609]

Worst game ever

[@gary72carol61]

ET got trophy.👍

[@melaniel.4269]

Lol, you obviously never played any truly bad video games

[@yuseifudo2609]

@@melaniel.4269 Like Anthem?

[@stephenmanuel9860]

@@yuseifudo2609 oof

[@pferreira1983]

Worst comment ever.

[@OrobaSpyro]

Behold, the least stimulating game on the planet

[@MacGTheFrog]

This is even worse than the NES version.

[@solarflare9078]

*Way better