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Did anybody else here have a Genesis back in the day and happen to have the old Ghostbusters game? It was actually a really good game. Unfortunately it had no password or save feature, so if you wanted to beat it you had to do it all in one sitting. It was a l o n g game as well. If I recall it took the better part of almost 3 hours to beat.

It was an arcade style platformer/shooter and you could play as the 3 main Ghostbusters (Winston never gets any love). Your weapons were upgradeable after you earned money from jobs. It was a difficult game, but not impossible.

Anyways.... just curious if anybody else here owned it back in the day. (I wish I still had my Genesis)

Yeah, I must say it is my favorite Genesis game... I still have it and astoundingly my Genesis still works so I play it every couple years to take a drive down memory lane.

Awwww man what a game i wish they would bring it out on Xbox 360 Arcade it rocked hard man i did the game as Stantz it was a very hard game to beat.my fave part was faceing the possessed ghostbusters under control by some sort of Puppet Master.........i want to play that game again miss it lots plus loved the the little pose they would do when you beat a ghost lol.

You can actually get the game as a rom and play on an emulator, but I am unsure if you can find an emulator that works on vista or 7.

I might have to do some research.

You can buy the game on ebay and play it on a Genesis... Like normal people

Yes! Owning the real deal is always better.

I happen to agree with you on that.

I actually do own it, its the one game I kept. Unfortuately I do not have the console anymore. Problem is if I bought a second hand one it would only get used a couple of times and then sit in a cupboard collecting dust.

It's one of the more popular games on the used market as well. You can expect to pay at least $20 for it.

Its still worth the purchase.
I'm sure you paid alot of money for school books which you never opened after you were done with them... right?

If I had a Genesis right now, the games I would have would be Ghostbusters, Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic 1, and Golden Axe.

Good point, think I will get myself another console. Cheers

Why stop at the Genesis? Get enough to make a game room. Its what I did

That's pretty much what my bedroom is. I have just about everything but a Genesis. It's kinda sad actually, I sold my Genesis and Sega CD when I was 19 so I could pay off a speeding ticket.

mmmmm a games room. That would be nice, don't think the my other half would stand for it though.

If its neat and well organized, I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem.

If you go to YouTube and look up swlovinist, you'll see my buddy John who has probably one of the most extensive video game collections you will ever see. If any of you are AVGN fans and think he has a shit ton of games, check out my buddy.

I have a Mega-Drive (Euro name for Genesis) and about 40 games (inc. GB) that stays in my cupboard most of the time. Whenever I want to play MD, I normally use an emulator (Kega Fusion) for the sake of convenience. It's an awesome emulator that will also run SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega CD and 32X games as well. Plus you can use Pro Action Replay and Game Genie codes as well.

Also, you can use save-states to save your progress (one of the problems with GB that the OP mentioned). This is a particularly useful facility for Kid Chameleon (103 levels and no save option).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kega_Fusion

And I disagree. An emulator gives you savestates, filtered graphics and interpolated sound, and lets you use the most recent, ergonomic joypads. The result is better than the original.

And that's the point.... the original is better. You have to play the game the way it was meant to be played. No saves, no filtered graphics, and you played on what it was meant to be played on.

Original superior, emulator inferior.

It depends on what you're looking for. If you want an authentic gaming experience, go for the original hardware; if you want immediate access to thousands of games, cheat codes and save facilities at the expense of audio/video quality, go for the emulator.

From a personal point of view, there are only two retro systems where I feel I have to have the original hardware; the Commodore Vic-20 and the Sega Game Gear. For all the others, I'm quite content to use an emulator.

"The way it's meant to be played" depends on what you are playing it on. On the original hardware, a game is "meant to be played" within the limits of it, but on an emulator with additional features, the game is meant to be played by taking advantage of those features. If I want high fidelity, I use the original console; if I want high quality, I use an emulator.

It's kind of bad faith to say that, don't you think? Saying that the quality of video and audio of an emulator are lower than those of the original hardware, while the opposite is true. Higher resolutions mean higher graphics quality; interpolated audio means higher audio quality.

I was excited to beat it several years ago. When I was younger I got to the castle and died at one of the bosses(beat both Dopplegangers.) Ya know how when you're young and you get really frustrated when you lose. I never wanted to play it again. It was ALOT easier when I was older now.

Just seeing there is some strategy, especially in the boss fights. Important Safety Tip. DON'T PLAY AS EGON!

No matter how much you like him like I do, he is useless in the game IMO. He is really fast but is a weakling..haha I beat it with Venkman. The ending is a bit of a letdown. I used about 5 continues but did it. Most of them were the last boss. I found most of the frustration now was dying and having to go back through the level to get back to the boss. It's a fun little original game and I still like to pop it in once in awhile and bust some heads...in a spiritual sense of course.

My own eyes and ears tell a very different story. Try playing Sonic the Hedgehog on an emulator and you'll see what I mean.

The point I'm trying to make is that it's far more challenging to play and beat the game in its original form. Emulators make games too easy. I don't want a god damned save state, if I'm going to beat the game, I'm going to beat the damn thing in one sitting, whether it takes me 3 hours or not. Emulators are exactly what they are, a facsimile of the original. What happens when you copy something over and over again? It degrades into an inferior version. Call me a purist if you will, but I'll take the original any day over any emulation, hands down.

The only reason I even own a PS1 is so I can play Symphony of the Night in it's truest form. I don't want a copy/clone. I want the version people worked on for years.

I have all my old systems, except Sega, that's another story altogether, so I can play my games in their original form. Hell, I still have my original copy of Zelda with my original save file on it, and the bastard is 25 years old.

Sonic on a TV screen:
Oh my god, everything is so blurry, I'm getting a headache!

Sonic on an emulator:
Wow, everything is so clear and detailed! It's amazing!

You mean you don't want anyone to use save states because if they do, they're not doing what you like.

Really? What was your favorite console, a VCR?
Now seriously, high quality is not the same as high fidelity. When a copy is better than the original, that is of course not a faithful copy, but its quality is higher. And I care more about high quality than I do about high fidelity.

The only reason why I never had a PS1is because in 1999 I could already buy original PS1 games and enjoy them in an improved form on my PC. I have about 60 original PS1 games in my library, and I only played them with PSEmuPro and ePSXe, with improvements that weren't even in the farthest dreams of the people who worked on them for years!