Ghosts 'n' Goblins
199K plays 1985 #Platform
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.
It was a major commercial success across arcades and home systems. It was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1986 in Japan and the US, as well as the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, with the Nintendo Entertainment System version selling over 1.6 million units worldwide. It initially received generally positive reviews from critics; it is often cited as one of the most difficult games of all time, and has retrospectively been considered one of the greatest video games ever made.
From Wikipedia's article Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
3.0 Good job
Players 71 · 689 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 71 · 689 votes. The same 71/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordsgroundbreakingchallengingexcellentfun
What the critics said
Writing in 2007, Marcel van Duyn of Nintendo Life gave the game 7 out of 10 stars, declaring that it provided "appeal and enjoyment" to fans of the series, while criticising its platforming and finding that it was "less fun than its contemporaries".
— Nintendo Life, 2007 (Marcel van Duyn)
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- AllGame 2.5/5; 3/5 (other versions)
- Crash 1986 95% (other versions)
- Computer and Video Games 1985 Positive; 33/40; 32/40 (CPC); 32/40 (other versions)
- Sinclair User 5/5 (other versions)
- Your Sinclair 9/10 (other versions)
- ACE 4/5; 4/5 (CPC); 4/5 (other versions)
- IGN 2008 6/10 (other versions)
- Nintendo Life 2007 7/10 (other versions)
- The Games Machine (UK) 1989 95%; 84%; 85% (other versions)
- Zzap!64 97% (other versions)
- TouchArcade 2017 3/5 (other versions)
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
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