For gamers of a certain age, few things trigger a rush of pure nostalgia quite like the opening of the classic Ghostbusters theme song. Released during the golden era of 8-bit computing across legendary machines like the Amstrad, Commodore 64, and the ZX Spectrum, the original movie tie-in game remains an absolute touchstone of retro history. Now, one homebrew developer is preparing to grab your attention, with the upcoming game called 'Ghostbusters Revisited'. An in-dev C64 title whereby you have to traverse many different rooms as a Ghostbuster while firing proton streams to pull them into a trap through a first person viewpoint.
After leaving a rough Commodore 64 Ghostbusters demo unfinished back in 2021, Dave Izon finally decided to pick the project back up this year, leading to the creation of Ghostbusters Revisited. While the game has advanced significantly since those early days, it remains a work in progress with new rooms, ghosts, and general polish still left on his to-do list. Furthermore this is completely separate from another developer's sleek project, Ghostbusters Remastered, which has a more polished presentation. This video focuses strictly on the creators own labour of love stating" Thank you so much for following along, and I hope you enjoy seeing how much this passion project has grown over the years!"
And that's all there is to say about the game! But thanks to Andy Godoy for the heads up :)
It looks great!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looks interesting although not too sure about the "Infiltrator" style of walking around the hotel and searching items in rooms etc. Hopefully as well the car sequence lets you hoover up the ghosts as you drive to a location and the screen can be increased in size as it doesn't give much reaction time if there's going to be oncoming vehicles.
ReplyDeleteWould also like more defined ghosts, the green ones seem a bit hard to see against the backgrounds.
Otherwise a successor to the original C64 game is a welcome sight to behold and I definitely look forward to trying it when it's released, keep up the good work :)
This is something different? (and looks much better): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg1xscDtwic
ReplyDeleteI see the one you linked to, did like the look of the ghosts but not a fan of the chasing them around shooting them on the screen to lower their health to then try and capture them. Another one though I will keep a watch on and try on release :)
DeleteThat must be what this dev was talking about, Ghostbusters remastered 😁
DeleteThis could be a more interesting game than the original, but it was also technically better, with a smooth scrolling road, and good graphics + music. This game looks like it has poor scrolling, and gfx made of usual character set.
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