# Real Ghostbusters Arcade Game (Data East) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ghostbusters Video Games\ **Created:** [August 18, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153 "2016-08-18T19:02:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bangoose](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Bangoose](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Bangoose)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/1 "2016-08-18T19:02:10Z")
Anyone else a fan of this game? Used to play it all the time when i was little at the arcades. There are some little annoying things about this game though, like [Slimer](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/slimer) dancing back and fourth infront of you when trying to get a power up and the endless loop of the GB theme. [![](https://discdn.gbfans.com/original/3X/6/b/6b52f1bf6d8afe2baf84828ffda01f316de8d3aa.jpeg "The Real Ghostbusters - Full Arcade Playthrough - Data East 1987") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx_2r_w-RXE) ---
**Author:** ![below\_radar\_00](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@below\_radar\_00](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/below_radar_00)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/2 "2016-08-19T15:24:21Z")
LOVE this game. It’s my favorite pre 2009 GB game. I actually like the Gameboy [Ghostbusters II](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/games/ghostbusters-ii-activision) game as well. But yea, I love this game so much that I own the actual arcade cabinet and then I built a replica of the original as well with a PC in it so I can play all the classics. One day I’m going to do a post with my GB room. ---
**Author:** ![pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/pferreira1983)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/3 "2016-08-31T16:36:50Z")
Have the Amiga version. Boy it’s hard. ---
**Author:** ![Ivo\_Shandor](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@Ivo\_Shandor](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Ivo_Shandor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/4 "2016-09-05T12:08:51Z")
Love the game, played it non-stop, wish I owned it. One challenge people in my city used to do is try to solve the game with proton streams only. Unimaginably hard. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Chameleon](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@Kid\_Chameleon](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Kid_Chameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/5 "2016-09-06T11:32:23Z")
My biggest complaint with this game is that it doesn’t have very much to do with ghostbusting. It’s a very uninspired Commando clone and I just feel a lot more could have been done with the RGB franchise - business management, weapon upgrades, maybe even a few RPG mechanics. ---
**Author:** ![pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/pferreira1983)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/6 "2016-09-11T11:20:27Z")
> [@Kid Chameleon](#): > > My biggest complaint with this game is that it doesn’t have very much to do with ghostbusting. It’s a very uninspired Commando clone and I just feel a lot more could have been done with the RGB franchise - business management, weapon upgrades, maybe even a few RPG mechanics. They made that game already, most famous on the Nes and C64. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Chameleon](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@Kid\_Chameleon](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Kid_Chameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/7 "2016-09-11T12:05:32Z")
> [@pferreira1983](#): > > > [@Kid Chameleon](#): > > > > My biggest complaint with this game is that it doesn’t have very much to do with ghostbusting. It’s a very uninspired Commando clone and I just feel a lot more could have been done with the RGB franchise - business management, weapon upgrades, maybe even a few RPG mechanics. > > They made that game already, most famous on the Nes and C64. I was thinking of something more ambitious than that. Something that featured all four ghostbusters with different attributes and a sandbox environment where you could take jobs, make money, build up the business and gradually unlock the big boss villains like [Samhain](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/samhain) and [the Sandman](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/the-sandman). I think such a game would have been possible in the late 80s but it would have to have been on PC and there would have been a huge trade off in graphics and sound. ---
**Author:** ![pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/pferreira1983)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/real-ghostbusters-arcade-game-data-east/11153/8 "2016-09-11T14:43:05Z")
> [@Kid Chameleon](#): > > > [@pferreira1983](#): > > > > They made that game already, most famous on the Nes and C64. > > I was thinking of something more ambitious than that. Something that featured all four ghostbusters with different attributes and a sandbox environment where you could take jobs, make money, build up the business and gradually unlock the big boss villains like Samhain and the Sandman. I think such a game would have been possible in the late 80s but it would have to have been on PC and there would have been a huge trade off in graphics and sound. Not sure about PC. Amiga could have done it, the probably would have ported such a game to C64 and ZX Spectrum.