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etro Celebrating 30 years in 2015 is the spooky Ghosts and Goblins series, otherwise known as Makaimura in Japan. Released by Capcom in September 1985 the first title in the series, “Ghosts and Goblins” was a hard as nails platformer, where the knight Arthur must rescue the princess from the evil Satan and his army of monsters. If a retrogaming challenge is what you seek then look no further, as the original “Ghosts and Goblins” is diabolically difficult. The game features six levels and a variety of weapons that Arthur can use along the way. As it is, he’ll need every last one of them as it’s hard enough getting through the first level let along the whole game! Luckily our hero is equipped with armour, though it is rather flimsy and will fly off his body in one hit. This leaves Arthur in his underwear until he gets hit again and dies. He can pick up extra armour if he’s lucky enough to find the magicians who supply it and defeat them. The graphics are impressive for its time and the controls aren’t too loose. This is important for such a difficult game as deaths, while they may be plentiful, don’t feel cheap. The spooky music plays on a loop, but it’s not objectionable and suits the feel of the game. The enemies are plentiful and some of them will leave you tearing your hair out in frustration. The most famous and frustrating enemy, Red Arremer, will swoop on you, leaving you very little time to move out of the way. More on Red Arremer a bit later. When you get through those 6 soul crushing levels the game forces you to repeat them all over again, only harder. This is, of course, if you bought along the right weapon to defeat Satan with. Without that weapon you get booted back to the beginning of level 5 to allow you a While the sequel was ported to as many systems as possible, a stand- GHOSTS & GOBLINS! chance to find it before confronting out version was on the successor him again, then you get to replay the to the PC Engine, the Supergrafx. game again at a higher difficulty. Never released outside of Japan, the Supergrafx was an enhanced PC The game was ported to most systems that were around at the time. ible. Few games were released for Engine that was backwards compat- The NES port is regarded to be a the system, but an enhanced version of Ghouls and Ghosts was one decent version of the game, plus it provided the player with a password of them. Though it’s priced at over system which made things slightly $100AU on Ebay, I am happy to say easier. The home computer conversions were a bit hit and miss, for collection a few months ago. I still I was able to add this to my personal example, the Amstrad CPC version struggle to get past the first level, but didn’t feature all of the levels and a the controls are solid and graphically it’s a beautiful port of the arcade single hit would kill Arthur. classic. 1988 would see the release of “Ghouls and Ghosts”, the advanced yet just as difficult sequel. Arthur still has a variety of weapons to use and he still loses his armour upon initial contact with an enemy, but with the new game comes new features. The ability to shoot up and down, as well as different types of armour add a new dimension to the gameplay. With these new elements you might think that the game wouldn’t be as difficult as its predecessor, but if you thought that you would be very wrong. With harder enemies, more of them and magicians turning you into ducks or an old man the difficulty has been cranked up a couple of notches. Like the original game, once you complete the game you have to beat it all over again at a higher difficulty level, plus you need the special weapon to defeat the final boss. Though it was noted for its similarities to the previous title, “Ghouls and Ghosts” received critical acclaim throughout the video gaming press. Though the series is defined by those 2 main titles, the spin off series “Gargoyle’s Quest” is also held in high regard. These titles follow the adventures of Red Arremer and take place in the demon realm. The first game was released on the Gameboy, with its sequel being released on the NES. The final game in the series, “Demon’s Crest” was released
on the Super Nintendo and while it’s only considered to be an above average game, it’s a graphical tour de force. Red Arremer later appeared in “SNK vs Capcom: SvC Chaos” for Neo Geo, XBOX and PS2. The legend of Arthur lives on in rereleases and remixes of the original games released on other systems such as the Bandai Wonderswan, PS2, iOS and more. If you want a spooky game to play this halloween you could do a lot worse than delve into the Ghosts and Goblins series. WRITTEN BY paul monopoli
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