C64 Longplay - Ghostbusters

[@pgl0897]

Played the shit out of this in the 80’s. Still looks and sounds great thirty years later.

[@Mirandorl]

10:15 - I can STILL feel the dread and anticipation of that damn MARSHMALLOW ALERT 30 years after I played it. The 'B' key [drop ghost bait to attract Mr Stay Puft away] on my C64 got panic-mashed so hard, so often, that it sat 2mm lower than all its plasticy brothers and sisters.

[@2010dame]

Wireline lol love it!!

[@Cml725]

Yes I remember that feeling of anxiety!

[@OdaVenom]

Be grateful it doesn't had enough memory to include a stairs level!

[@rodrigogarcia3988]

I really enjoy watching this! So many childhood memories.

[@Krystallen]

I was only a child in the 80ies but because of C64 and games, I spoke almost fluent english at the age of 10. I am swedish =) These games are pure quality with music that's still are awesome.

[@jadekris]

On the intro screen of you pressed the space bar it would say 'Ghostbusters'. I went throught the entire Ghostbusters song in the intro and played the voice sample at the right spot in the song.

[@Underdrummer]

Achievement Unlocked!

[@DerTypausBielefeld]

That music is just awesome! A nice little original game for the time, played like a great amusement.

[@PieFights]

One of many games that really showed off the power of the c64 sid chip

[@treksterjsc]

I remember when I first heard the music get to space bar in a voice said "Ghostbusters".. I was amazed!

[@neilarcher2551]

The first tape game I loaded on my brand new C64 back in the eighties. Nice to see it again.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Some tips for others; The hearse is the best choice for a car. The PK Energy Detector, Marshmallow Sensor and Containment System are too expensive and don't help much. Buy the Vacuum, Bait and lots of traps. The Image Intensifier helps but isn't required. Press 'B' to drop Bait when the Marshmallow Man starts to form. Always Vacuum ghosts, it helps keep the city's energy level down. Drive in the center so you can quickly reach ghosts on both sides. Press Space to check your status.

[@PieFights]

another great Actvision game created by the legendary David Pit Fall Crane

[@LAIRDO-]

I had this back in the day. Good game!!

[@DisonantDyscord]

At 4:30am, on Monday the 14th of January, 2019, I only now just discovered how to stop the Marshmallow Man (getting the marshmallow sensor and pressing B just as an attack is happening). Over 30 years after playing the game on C64 as a kid have I realised this. I played the game on Sega Master System and completed it. But never on C64. Speaking of which, from memory, I'm pretty sure the Master System version had an extra stage once you got into the building past the Marshmallow Man. It was basically you zapping ghosts as you made your way to the top of the building.

[@SquidMissle]

Gotta love the little foot shuffle and "Ghostbusters!" after a ghost is capped. I appreciate the notes added in, when I played this as a kid I had no idea what was going on or what anything other than the traps and the vacuum did.

[@markmossop78]

Being a Ghostbusters fan, this was one of my favourite C64 games back in the day. Happy to say that I did finish it. I never used the Marshmallow sensor tho, just hovered over the keyboard ready to press "b" when the alert appeared on screen. Having played the same game on a few different consoles now I agree that this is the best version of the game.

[@spinal_nerd]

Spent my whole youth in the eighties thinking this was just a broken, unfinishable game. Only now, at age of 44, I learn that I had to press the f****ing B!!!! Sometimes the Internet is useful

[@MikeDerUnwissende2]

I never managed to crack the Marshmallow level years ago. It's interesting to see now how it can be solved. Back in the '90s, most players didn't have access to the Internet for hints or solutions.

[@matteo.ceriotti]

Never used that technique to capture the ghosts... I used to point the guns at each other, wait for the ghost to come in the middle, and then get them closer and closer until the ghost had nowhere to go, then open the trap!

[@jedijones]

Yeah, I think that was what was intended.

[@SongoftheLute]

So good to see this great little game one more time!

[@Quimper111]

Traps isn't the only way to earn money. Double ghost vacuumed give 200$ or so. It's, however, not a reliable or efficient way to earn money but more of a tiny "bonus".

[@Rabmcm32]

Never had this one or played it, remember the ads for it and it was one on my wish list. Thanks for uploading - I see it was a while back you did but thanks all the same!

[@Supportahol]

I remember playing this on the C64 back in 1986. I would love to own it again. Its nice to watch it here tho. Thanks for uploading. I feel all christmasy now!!

[@davestar4718]

Used to get to play space invaders whilst this loaded, I think it was a budget company called ricochet that was selling it at the time. Also had knight mare by them

[@matey182]

I think I will watch this again instead of the new movie this year and still have a better time!

[@pietjebel9130]

+matey182 word!

[@sainttrunks1982]

yeah,, good idea

[@BenedictHarris]

The movie was funny! Sucks 2 b u

[@BenedictHarris]

PerfectMisconception nah. That's just you being a dick.

[@kduhtdkzrt]

Wish I had read this comment yesterday.

[@Eliminaattori]

That last laugh made me laugh! What a great game, played this through numerous times. It seemed much more easier to pass marshmallow man from the left! I always tried between the legs. Car number 4 was really fast, it was possible to make lots of money with it. Ghosts gave 300 to 800 bucks compared to how fast you got them after alert. I remember one funny detail - if ghosts on the road came at the same time, they held each other hand while flying over your car!

[@KashouWannabe]

Watching this brings back many many many fond memories. I lost count of how many times I played this through, taking note of the account number at the end, stacking up the millions lol. A little quibble, you missed out the portable containment unit during the equipment selection, but otherwise a very fullfilling playthrough, thanks!

[@usandthem72]

omg. we played this game endlessly. thanks for the post

[@vanderslagmulders]

1:06 surprised to see the words pink and slime in one sentence although the the game came out way before ghostbusters 2. Well maybe it’s just coincidence.

[@sk4lman]

So you could actually beat this game? :) When I played it as a kid I had no idea what I was doing and could hardly speak english. When the marshmallow man started crushing buildings I would go bankrupt and just start the game all over again :)

[@mrloop1530]

Same 😄

[@steeltownbrown52]

Yeah, at first (age 6-8) I'd usually get slimmed and would never prevent Stay Puft from demolishing a building (even remember a time where I ended up crying). When I got a little older (10-11), I'd have my finger ready for that B key, and would ace this game regularly.

[@ShingenNolaan]

Same with me, mate. I had no damn clue how to play it, except for what I knew from the movie xD

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

This looks like an improvement from the NES version!

[@scottythegreat1]

The irony is that this is the original game.

[@SohnvonKlaus]

the most played game in my childhood

[@antonverberne8528]

For the fans, these days there is C64 mini you can buy which connects directly on your modern tv. It's a small game box with 64 games already on it. Most of these games are not the 'classics' like this game but you can add most of the classic games through hack downloads on the Internet. So you can play all you C64 classics on your modern TV. Works like a charm

[@bwianeh]

I beat this game before it hit the shelves in Canada lol I would still play it now :)

[@Cml725]

Funny, everyone credits RGB with naming him Slimer but I think it was this game that did that, based on Stantz’s line in the movie. God, do I miss those days!

[@BlazingOwnager]

I played this game for literally hours upon hours upon hours, and never did figure out what the hell I was supposed to do, lol

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

This was my game back in the day. AVGN bashes this game, but countless hours were spent on this semi challenging game.

[@mytightskirt]

Hooray, they included the famous 'Marshmallow Sensor' from the movie. Without this ingenious device, they'd never know where the 100ft high death-mascot was.

[@steeltownbrown52]

Is that the rectangular box Spengs' was holding on to?

[@Renville80]

I had this game for the 64, but I was never able to play it because I had a bad VIC-II chip, where the horizontal scrolling function had one bad bit, and you have one guess to which horizontal position the screen is set to during the entire game 😑

[@jax6271]

My first ever game along with beachhead

[@Speedylobos]

Wie schon jemand sagte, nach 25 Jahren weiß ich nun endlich auch, wie man das Spiel richtig zu Ende bringen kann XD Hab damals irgendwann aufgegeben, nachdem mir das Spiel und die Musik zum Hals raushing... jaja, die guten alten Zeiten ;-)

[@magicmulder]

I reached the final stage only once but had no idea what to do. Also didn’t know you could go in from the left. Tried twice from the front, go trampled, got frustrated, never player it seriously again.

[@tomek1867]

Who are you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

[@ryokomocha]

I never realized that damn vacuum could actually suck up those ghosts on the street! I never bought it because I thought a vacuum cleaner sitting on my hood looked ridiculous.

[@frazzleboy]

Same here pal lol

[@steeltownbrown52]

Plus, you wouldn't earn money catching the ghosts while on the road. Only good thing was that it was the easiest part of the game.

[@dirkdiggler69]

My understanding was you sucked up the ghosts on the road and this kept the city PK energy down thus letting you trap more ghosts and make more cash.

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

GHOSTBUSTERS!!!

[@sk4lman]

Btw, I had the floppy drive for the C-128, and I was the 525th viewer of this video! That's too awesome!

[@thegrayknight71]

I played this game hundreds of times but only 1 time did i see the big dude in front of the stairs. :(

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

He slimed me!

[@adammah1908]

early childhood ;_;

[@dfernand101]

Damn and the actor who played Egon is dead in real life .. RIP... great game back in the day..

[@frazzleboy]

Harold Ramis is his name .RIP

[@mysterycrumble]

i never even managed to get past the marshmallow man's leg when i was a kid

[@sanwayzar]

One of my favorite games when I was a kid

[@johnklumpp7901]

Did anyone take notice the the C64 SID chip was good enough to produce human speech? AKA- the shouted: "Ghostbusters!" NB- Never got through the legs, either!

[@Aurochhunter]

+John Klumpp I remember it from years back when I was 6. My best friend invited me over to see his cousin's computer, and ghostbusters was one of the games he showed us, and if you got hit by slimmer you could hear a voice say "He slimed me!"

[@kooijbas]

+John Klumpp This was done by using the 'noise channel' and quickly alternating it on of. This in effect created a 1-bit digital audio sample. I think this was a trick that was only used later on in the life of the C64. Amazing sound chip.

[@booldawg]

I first heard the SID speech effect in a game called 'Tales of the Arabian Nights' That game had a lot of examples of this throughout. It was quite early on as well - about 1983/84?

[@scottythegreat1]

The problem was, that having speech in the game took up so much memory that almost every game had nothing else happening when speech was being played because it made everything else so choppy (I think Beach Head II is the only exception). The other problem was that Electronic Speech Systems Inc. raised its prices up so high after Impossible Mission became such a huge success that not too many games had speech after this.

[@awilliams1701]

actually it works by a flaw in the chips design not the noise channel. Shifting the volume registers cause a controllable pop. By doing it fast enough you can control the intensity. This actually creates a 4th channel. There are actually some game music songs that use this for 4 voices.........the catch being that it can't do anything else so only for the intros because the CPU has to focus exclusively on this.

[@Halligen1972]

All time favourite !!!

[@frazzleboy]

Great vid of a classic game.............. awesome

[@battlespace13]

I still remember the first cheat code I ever learned was on this game: Name: Owen. Account number: List. You were given enough money to get all the cool stuff and play for over an hour before having to confront Zuul and Gozer!

[@captaincorleone7088]

The best version out of the original 8 bit micro releases in the US. Probably the best out of whole lot. On the Mastertronic UK cassette budget re-release, they included a space invaders clone that you played whilst the main game loaded into the C64's RAM.

[@jedijones]

Oh, that's why someone else said he played Space Invaders while this loaded. I had no idea what he was talking about. Sounded like he had an arcade machine in his room. 😂

[@captaincorleone7088]

@@jedijones 😂

[@Christian81_2]

Endlich hab ich nach 30 Jahren das Spiel kapiert. Konnte ja als Kind kein Englisch. Sobald mein Brotkasten wieder läuft, wird gezockt

[@Halligen1972]

One of the best movie-games for the C-64!

[@JohnDoe-yr4wc]

Little did we know at the time that Activision would become the true monster

[@Some_One_One]

8:02 what's happening here with Marshmallow man?

[@samtaholo]

The player used the ghost bait (by pressing B on the keyboard) to attract the marshmallow man and prevent it from causing damage to the city.

[@rolandbenz1456]

Oh ja, das ist richtig gut.

[@WinrichNaujoks]

There isn't much to do in this game, but I loved it anyway, because it had the cool music, speech - and it's Ghostbusters! Ahhh that's from the good old days, when we thought the Americans are the good guys and everything American is really cool.

[@alkohallick2901]

Yes. Now we have our schools brainwashing kids like you to hate their own country.

[@komodosp]

Love your avatar! Thought there was a hair on my phone and I was trying to wipe it off!

[@jedijones]

We are the good guys.

[@MystikWizard]

I love how there was no concept of scale in this game with the Marshmallow Man and the size of the buildings at the end. He looked like he may be 30 ft. tall in this game (at the end) as opposed to a couple hundred feet tall.

[@pd209458]

I see you have nice technique for catching slimmers. I used to set the team face to face but then I couldn't get them to close to avoid crossing beams.

[@darffsodius]

Getting all the way to the end then getting squashed by stay puft...possibly 1 of the most annoying deaths on a video game to this day

[@bloodmapedit]

That's weird..... I used the player's name and account number (@11:40) but it says it's invalid.

[@adamb89]

Here I thought I was the only one who used the "walk backwards and drag the ghost into the trap" trick. I played this game so much, and kept reusing the same account, and as of the last time I played it I had upwards of a million bucks. I downsized 11 years ago in preparation for a move and selling the old C64 is the one thing I truly regret.

[@kcsledge95]

Had to be on your toes to fire the ghost bait whenever Stay Puff came around.

[@superpan218]

10:51 That laugh.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

“He slimed me!” Why didn’t I think that would be a part of this particular long play? At least, Reinhardt, you obeyed the rule “Don’t cross the streams”.

[@Roswell01Area51]

This game is relevant to what is going on during the COVID-19 pandemic. So when the team captures and cures somebody the hospital cheers "Coronabusters!"

[@DrewHamilton]

Marshmallow Sensor always seemed kind of pointless as you could just drop the bait when he showed up.

[@Dodgerfn5]

Yeah that's why I rarely bought that.

[@steeltownbrown52]

Vacuum too, since no money was earned catching ghosts that way.

[@Dodgerfn5]

One of the best games ever for this system!!!

[@hyzenthlay-5136]

I thought I was so cool, hittin the space bar like "GHOSTBUSTERS"!

[@djmc277711]

I discoverer a cheat by accident, if i remember correctly you positioned both your men at the left hand of the screen very close together and point your beams in the same direction left-left or right-right, and timed it correctly the ghost would magically disappear and reappear directly above the trap.

[@msibajones4577]

07:58 when the 👻 hits the man he said he slimmed me

[@borisos9832]

Msiba Jones he definitely said slimed i.e. "he put slime on me" and not "he made me slimmer" ;)

[@Medwards69]

I think I recall we heard that if you managed to mess up catching a ghost, the slimer would fly down and knock one of the men down..." he slimed me"

[@shawbros]

The video shows that.

[@73God]

Ja wie geil ist das denn? Das Spiel hatte ich auch. Hat viel spaß gemacht damals.

[@jedijones]

I could never get under Stay Puft's legs at the end. I never thought of going in through the side instead of between his legs. 😭 You really should've gone back to the store and upgraded your car so that it would go faster.

[@MrChaosmarine]

He slimed me, lmao awesome, brings back some memories

[@asgerms]

How the beep did you enter your name so fast at 0:34?

[@asimobry]

whoooaaa one of my first computer games in 1985 ish

[@thegrayknight71]

Do you have an account? Yes. 458. :) I still remembers that account number.

[@Blyndtyger76]

I would just sing along with the intro for ever

[@nikolac290v7]

Woooow ci giocavo al SEGA Mega Drive .... 1993....ma questo è 1988 ?

[@Halligen1972]

Great movie adaption! Graphics: 8.5/10 Gameplay: 9/10 Music/FX/Speech: 8.5/10 Playbility: 9/10

[@sainttrunks1982]

Sounds like your rating the Xbox 360 Ghostbuster game.

[@LucoLuchi]

Best version of the David Crane game!!!

[@CapitalgCapitals]

Amazing..!!!

[@suomiukko100]

We have the commodore but i haven't used it (EVER)

[@javierjavier9841]

WHERE IS THE LINK ?

[@LarsHusballeNormann]

I just have one question: How do you get the damn cool car?? I spent hours and hours on this game as a kid always hoping to get the cool looking car. was it even possible??

[@carpetmonk]

We used a cheat found on BBS's.. account name Owen, account number "List"

[@pitchou1971]

KZbin # 00607141

[@dorpth]

I loved this game as a kid but dear god did it stress me out like nothing. I had to take a 3 day break between sessions.

[@1978rharris]

Also, who knew that you didn’t have to drive around to the front of every building to go to it on the map. If you were by one that was beneath you on the map all you had to do was pull down on the joystick and press to start driving and you’d be there instantly.

[@johnlewisbrooks]

I lol everytime I see the 'marshmallow man'.. Looks like an angry chef doing jumping Jack's lolol

[@Medwards69]

This game was my ultimate favorite, I actually had an account book to keep a score of my bank balance...my favourite car was the station wagon..holds more equipment..

[@Miesiu]

Silimar GFX to Atari XL/XE but the music is out - like Spectrum.

[@L.B0387]

Che spettacolo c8 ho giocato settimana scorsa.. C64 History

[@schwindsichtiga]

How do you stop the marshmallow man exactly?

[@StefanoBorini]

schwindsichtiga you press b when the yellow ghosts start to aggregate. That deploys the bait and stops the attack.

[@WexMajor82]

+Stefano Borini Good thing it's written nowhere...

[@123TauruZ321]

Who you gonna caaaall?? GHZZZZBTHZZHTHZHZZ!!

[@ivaerak]

I remember using the sportscar makes the first 1/2 of the game extremely boring cause you wait for MINUTES for a slimer to appear at the building, and since there's nothing else to do but drive through the city streets, and maybe catch a ghost or two on the road, the sportscar was to fast and driving it would end the ride sequences too quickly

[@MRHIRSTY999]

This stole my childhood