[joeghostbuster]

got my Real Ghostbusters board game in the mail the other day, and started scanning some of the parts...





I cleaned up the scans of the scenery, as some of the paper was ripped or folded etc - the GB pieces in the photo have different artwork on them, and they're wearing the movie suits, not the cartoon suits - the artist must've done the original pieces based on looking at the art they showed him was going on the box?

I'm hoping to put together a really nice large high-res version of the artwork on the box, but I'm not having much luck so far, the box is too big to scan all at once, and my digital camera is "warping" the pics, so it's hard to splice them together...

i'll likely scan any other pieces I can (the spinner card will be difficult because I dont want to pull the plastic spinner out of the middle, for fear of ripping the cardboard) and post them here for you guys...

[Ectofiend666]

*I can't thank you enough for posting these!! I had scanned the very same thing in last year, but as you know my scanner's crap as of now ...

*Any way you can scan the back again? This time abit bigger? ...

*Cheers.

[AJ Quick]

THAT IS AWESOME!

[Spooky]

Its actually s surprising decent board game. Not just some crap idea and they slapped a RGB logo on.
I remember when I found it at the local flea market...had to have it!

[joeghostbuster]

yeah Im looking forward to setting it up and playing w/ my nephew, but I think once I get it all set up w/ the stairway & walls etc I'll leave it like that, seems like kind of a pain to put together everytime...

ectofiend, what "back" are you referring to?

[Ectofiend666]

joeghostbuster wrote:

ectofiend, what "back" are you referring to?

*The back of the box itself ...

*Cheers.

[joeghostbuster]

joeghostbuster wrote:

ectofiend, what "back" are you referring to?

*The back of the box itself ...

*Cheers.

oh - i was curious cause you said "can you scan the back again - this time bigger"

since Ive never scanned the back of the box... but what size did you need?

[Ectofiend666]

*Just big enough to see decent resolution versions of the guys [the pieces the kids are playing with on the back of the box]...These [only better]:



*Cheers.

[joeghostbuster]

it's going to be difficult, but i'll try - i cant imagine they'll be much better quality than the ones you have...

[joeghostbuster]

scanned some more stuff last night, tried to clean up the "original" game pieces, I hope these work for you Ectofiend...

(original scans)

(cleaned up, straightened out etc)

(actual game pieces)
(secret passage door, wall 2 side 1 cleaned up)

I'll scan & clean up side 2 of the second wall this weekend, as well as the spinner...

[Ectofiend666]

joeghostbuster wrote:

scanned some more stuff last night, tried to clean up the "original" game pieces, I hope these work for you Ectofiend...

*DUDE!! I could f'ing kiss you right now!!...Erm ...Or something like that ...

*All joking aside - That is BEYOND COOL!! How did you clean them up that well, aside for maybe having the original game pieces themselves? HMMMMMMMMmmmm? ...

*KUDOS [or should I say this candy bar instead --> ] TO YOU KIND SIR!!

*Cheers.

[joeghostbuster]

I just scanned the photo on the back of the box at 300 dpi, and played around in photoshop to clean them up, no biggie - I'm glad you like them, but I'll skip the kiss if that's ok, heh...

[joeghostbuster]

scanned the spinner and recreated it with and w/out spider arrow - also scanned other wall pieces (didnt have time to clean them up though)...

[Electricsheep82]

Could you please see if it has the name of the artist who did the front box art anywhere on the game?

[joeghostbuster]

that famous piece of artwork (also used on the metal tv tray, etc) was done by Gabi (formerly Gary) Payn. Unfortunately I dont own the game anymore to look to see if his/her name is on the box anywhere.

[Kingpin]

Cheers for digging that info up Joe for Electricsheep, I tried to find it with some vague guessing on Google but wasn't very successful.

[Lee FW]

Just went on a google for this game as hadn't seen it before. Might be worth noting the mould for the castle centrepiece was used a few years ago for a reskinned generic haunted house version (only recognise it because I have it...although wish I knew where it was)

It's actually also from a much older game called "Ghost Castle" by MB games (don't think the recent one was by MB but pretty sure that was also called Ghost Castle) Exactly the same game minus Ghostbusters branding.

[pferreira1983]

I remember owning a magnetized RGB board game. At first I thought it was this but no it is not. Wish I kept the packaging.