AUTHOR: Activision RELEASE: 1989 TYP: Action SPIELER: 1 LEVEL: 4 SPRACHE: Englisch Partnumber: 5065 EAN: 4974365632656 WERT: 12 Euro

Geister, Geister und nochmals Geister. Die Geister haben beschlossen, alle Kräfte zu mobilisieren. Und sie haben Ihre Stadt ausgesucht, um ihre Show abzuziehen. Na, was meinen Sie, wen wird man wohl um Hilfe bitten?

Starting your own Ghostbusters business is tough. It takes a lot of money. A lot of equipment. And lots of hard work. But someone's gotta do it. Besides, look at the rewards. You get to drive some of the world's hottest cars. And play with the latest high-tech equipment. Like Super Ion Beams, Laser Confinement Systems and Image Intensifiers. You get to get closer than anyone's ever been to the ominous Marshmallow Man. And best of all, if you're lucky, you'll meet face to face with the ghost leader of the universe, Gorza. So if you're tired of your regular old job, why not sign on as a Ghostbuster? and find out what a real job is!

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Start with Over 1 Million Dollars
On the continue screen input your name as „A.A.“ and then put in the following numbers: 1173468723.

The gameplay in this game is still quite unique to this day. At the start of the game you are given a bank loan with which to buy your equipment, thanks to Poor Ray taking out that second mortgage on his parents house. You get to choose between 4 cars, one of which is the Hearse. There are various special types of proton packs, traps etc, and a few special extra items such as Marshmallow-man bait which is the only way to stop Marshmallow-man from destroying city blocks(and the mayor charging you for it). After you purchase your initial equipment you are presented with a overhead map of the city, this is where most of the game will take place, it can seem quite daunting at first but once you get used to it its pretty cool, the basic idea is that you control the Ghost busters symbol, at any time buildings in the city will flash, which signifies high P.K. energy readings, if you go to those buildings and press the button on the map you will appear inside your car driving to the building. On the car scenes there are obstacles to dodge such as other cars, road blocks, but there are also ghosts along the way which you can capture providing you purchased the „Ghost Vacuum“ from the shop. Once you arrive at your destination you will appear outside the building and you will have to capture the ghosts, this part is especially cool, your 2 characters will hold the trap, you first have to put down the trap and then move the other man to start firing his proton stream at the ghosts, you have to get the ghosts directly above the trap and then open the trap to capture them. If you miss one ghost with the trap you will be attacked and won't be paid. The game continues much like this until on the map screen the cities P.K. energy readings reach red levels. At this point you will start being attacked by the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow-man. And eventually Zool will appear in the centre of the map, you need to have at least $10,000 in your account by the time Zool appears or you will not be able to go any further in the game. I learned this the hard way. The end part of the game is defiantly the most exciting part of the game, you appear in front of spook-central and first have to get into the building past Mr Marshmallow, this part is pretty straight forward matter of getting three of your men past him. Once you do this you will be inside spook central, and have to fight your way to the penthouse apartments past hordes of ghosts in order to reach Goza. The final battle with Goza is pretty fun top-down shooting scene, the variety this game offers is very impressive for an 8-bitter but its just too short. Once you defeat Goza you will get a code at the end of the game, which will enable you to start the game with whatever money you had. This in my opinion only makes the game easier, but it does allow you to try all the premium equipment in the shop. All in all the game play is amazingly diverse for the Master System title, there's a bit of everything included, its just a shame that most of the game is played out on the overhead map scene, it would have been much better to have more side-scrolling shooter parts. […] Ghostbusters is a truly great game, I know many people that will totally disagree with me on this review, but I have spent many hours playing this in the time I have owned it. If you don't believe me you can pick up a copy from eBay for under a fiver, try it for yourself! - www.smstributes.co.uk