GHOSTBUSTERS History : 1980s movies, REAL GHOSTBUSTERS tv SHOW and TOYS. ( Retrospective & Review )

Hey Ghostbusters fans. In this Ghostbusters Retrospective and Review we'll be discussing the multi-ibillion dollar Ghostbuster franchise from the first Ghostbuster film to the Ghostbusters Afterlife movie and beyond.
A lot of time went into this so I hope you enjoy it. And if you like it enough to subscribe or click like then THANKS!
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[@Culturgeist]

Hey Ghostbuster fans! . . . I hope you like this Ghostbusters Retrospective. What do you think of these movies? Have you ever seen the show or played with the toys or games? Let us know and Thanks for WATCHING, clicking LIKE, SHARING and SUBSCRIBING! 👻

[@Reshyrah]

Loved the retrospective! Ghostbusters is essentially my childhood as I loved the cartoon series. I watched GB 2 first because my parents feared that the original would be too scary for me. Once I was a teenager I rented the first movie and absolutely loved the depth of the story it had. Part 2 remains my favorite but I don't deny the superiority of the original. I also count the video game as the 3rd film because it was the last time Harold Ramis would portray Egon Spengler. While I enjoyed it very much I'm soured on the fact that they deprived the player of driving Ecto 1. To the point where it seemed to be this cruel in-joke by the game designers. Every kid I knew growing up wanted to drive that car, lol

[@gaminglazarus4343]

hi good video . ghostbusters- the video game is (ghostbusters 3) .ghostbusters 2 is good movie and i defense

[@Culturgeist]

@@gaminglazarus4343 Hey thanks. Appreciate your opinion.

[@bradpeterson7957]

Ghostbusters 2 is still my favorite! Absolutely love it!!

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I am eternally grateful to The Real Ghostbusters, not only for feeding the fires of my curiosity about folkloric and paranormal subjects, but also for introducing me to the name of H.P. Lovecraft, which I remembered years later, when I came upon a collection of his works in a second-hand store. It is another interest that I have fondly nurtured to this day.

[@painreliever83]

Ghostbusters 2 was the first movie I saw at the cinema, I was 6 years old and I remember my dad and uncle taking me and my cousin to see it... it absolutely TERRIFIED me at the time. The whole thing about the creepy man in the painting kidnapping and trying to possess the child, the Titanic arriving in New York with the giant hole in the side, the ghost train in the old underground station... scary stuff for a 6 year old!

[@susanfit47]

The Real Ghostbusters stopped airing in local syndication in early fall 1991, and started airing on the USA Network a year later in 1992. I don't think the show ran in local syndication AND on USA at the same time, though I *do* believe that some of the ABC eps from 1986-88 from seasons 1, 3, and 4, eventually aired in local syndication, before USA got a hold of the show. It's likely that the 1991-1992 season was the last for local network and LBS-distributed syndication, and 1992-1993 was the first on USA. Someone had recorded episodes from any local stations WNYW (including Washington, D.C.-based WTTG Fox 5 and many more others), so it was definitely in syndication for the 1989-1990 season. It's 1990-1991 and 1991-1992 we need to confirm. I remember seeing reruns of Press Your Luck, The 25,000/100,000 Pyramid, Murder, She Wrote, Sale of the Century, Quantum Leap, Major Dad, The Facts of Life, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and Wings, TekWar, Duckman, Silk Stalkings, the Weird Science series on USA, which premiered in 1994 - at which point RGB was *definitely* on USA for a while.

[@bdr113080]

Great video man. I’m glad I found your channel I’m a subscriber now. I was born in 1980 so things like Star Wars, Superman and Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and of course, the Ghostbusters were the things I was a huge fan of as a kid and honestly still a fan of many of those things now. The original movie, Ghostbusters two and Ghostbusters afterlife are all three films that I love but until Covid hit I had not re-watched any of the cartoons I had watched as a kid in the 80s probably since the 80s. Honestly after re-watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first I like the first season but after that that show just really does not hold up well at all. Out of all the 80s cartoons that I watched during Covid the real Ghostbusters by Miles is the one that steel holds up. Everything else kind of was cool as a kid but the real Ghostbusters cartoon I believe still holds up fine today.

[@Culturgeist]

Hey Thanks! . . . I was also into all of that stuff since childhood. And funny, I also rewatched some of those old shows around that same time a few years back and hadn't seen them in ages. Thanks for sharing.

[@bdr113080]

Yeah, when Covid hit I made it a point to go back and rewatch all that stuff. I had a lot of cartoons I loved in the 80s but I swear the real Ghostbusters holds up better than any of them.

[@gold333]

Amazing video!

[@Culturgeist]

Thank you. I cringe if I try to watch it but am glad you enjoyed it.

[@ValenceFlux]

The game where you play as an apprentice was pretty good. Lots of proton pack additions needing testing hehe. Perfectly safe of course. I want to give mention to the wandering spectral beard that would attach itself to a random person and make them rant. The lore to that game had some funny stuff.

[@UberWraith]

Like a lot of the fans, I loved the first movie, not so much the second one. It was fine but it was not such a great hit like Ghostbusters 1. However, years later I found some of the craziest ideas and visuals of Ghostbusters 2 in a totally unrelated videogame produced and published by Squaresoft (years before it changed name as Square Enix), Parasite Eve (1998), a survival horror/RPG based on a japanese horror novel (it was basically a 'sequel' of sort of the novel itself) who took place in New York at Christmas Eve, with body horror much like The Thing and a lot of real interesting concepts about biology. The Ooze river became something even MORE sinister in that game, and they even made a thing akin to the 'Miss Liberty walking through town', but made by the bad guys (so to speak) - and it was REALLY creepy. Seriously, I loved that game and I'm baffled that nobody talks of the similarities with GB2 ^_^" Fun fact about The Real Ghostbusters: here in Italy we always dub every movie, Television show and cartoon; for the Ghostbusters cartoon we had the same voice actors that dubbed the two movies with the only exception of Louis (we even had a change of voice for Egon, since the VA that dubbed the second movie was different from the one who dubbed the first - and the Cartoon Egon had the same change of VA during the seasons as well !) - long story short, we basically had the 'real' characters even in the kids show ^_^

[@Culturgeist]

That's pretty cool. Lots of interesting info. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Reshyrah]

Just a note on the animated series. Virtually every DVD set of the Real Ghostbusters has suffered from missing episodes. Much more common are the volume releases that only include select shows from each season. Also the Slimer cartoon has never had its own individual DVD set. Even more rare are the Extreme Ghostbusters DVDs which, due to a lack of fan demand has never seen a complete series release.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I always liked the toys, because given the unique nature of each 'ghost' in the show, you could use just about any other monstrous or wierd-looking toy in your box, as special ghosts (spectral guests?).

[@Culturgeist]

That's true. Awesome to hear someone else loved the toys too.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@Culturgeist Oh, yeah. Ecto-1 was my favorite.

[@gold333]

The original GB2 script with Jason was SO much better. So dark

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

The space TMNT outfit is canon to the comics...Take a look at the TMNT & Other Strangeness Role-Playing Game supplement "TMNT Guide To The Universe" for full details, if Palladium Books is still publishing it.

[@Culturgeist]

Oh, cool. Didn't know that. Just figured all of the toys were based on the animated show, but I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the info.

[@bmhedgehog2]

fun fact: Filmation whom made the 70's show went to Sony/Columbia to make arrangements to make the animated series but was turned down in favor of DiC Animation.

[@Culturgeist]

Cool. In the words of Johnny Carson . . . "I did not know that" . . . Do you know any other interesting stuff about ghostbusters ?

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@Culturgeist I remember an anecdote that Dan Akroyd told, about filming: During one of the scenes when they had the city street blocked off, one of the gathering onlookers called him over, and it turned out to be one of his personal heroes, science fiction author Issac Asimov. Asimov asked if he was responsible for all the goings on, and the street being blocked. When Akroyed admitted he was, Asimov shouted that he was a sonofab1itch, and stormed off. (I hope I'm not misremembering the author -- I'm worried it may have been Arthur C. Clarke)

[@Culturgeist]

Either way, that's an interesting story. Love it. Thanks for sharing.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@Culturgeist I wonder if this incident may have been an influencing factor in their very rushed New York filming schedule, in GB2.

[@JollyRogerVF84]

Don't forget, that there was Extreme Ghostbusters after Ghostbusters 2 and The real Ghostbusters. ;)

[@Culturgeist]

That's in part 2 of this 2 part video.

[@DWaringVocals]

You didn’t have to do Bobby Brown like that

[@Culturgeist]

Haha. . . Oh yes I did. 👻