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Ghosts 'N Goblins

Ghosts 'N Goblins (XSX) game cover art
Platform: NES
Tags: Action, Platformer
Developer: Capcom
More Platforms: Arcade, Game Boy Color, WonderSwan
AKA: Makaimura (JP)
Publisher
Region
Released
NA
11/??/1986
EU
03/23/1989
JP
06/13/1986

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Staff Reviews

Ghosts 'N Goblins review

Reviewed August 08, 2012

Rob Hamilton says: "I also probably shouldn't forget how you need one particular weapon to simply damage the final boss. Or that if you do manage to kill it, you find out that you were the victim of a cruel hoax and have to do the six main levels over again (at a higher difficulty level, of course) and then fight that guy again in order to actually beat the game. Adding the fake difficulty of a mandatory second trip through an already brutal game is not my idea of fun."
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Reader Reviews

Ghosts 'N Goblins review

Reviewed July 10, 2004

denouement says: "It’s said that whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. But Ghosts ‘n Goblins undresses that reassuring bromide conclusively: this NES cart can hardly kill you, but is nonetheless thoroughly debilitating. "
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Ghosts 'N Goblins review feedback bubble

Reviewed October 11, 2019

JoeTheDestroyer says: "Lance Macabre"
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Ghosts 'N Goblins review

Reviewed August 04, 2006

phediuk says: "Ghosts 'n Goblins exemplifies the worst kind of challenge in a game: a game that is ridiculously hard solely to piss off whoever plays it. Ghosts 'n Goblins has no real agenda other than to make you mad. And it will succeed in that mission long before you ever complete the game. This is the kind of game where the developers purposely jacked up the difficulty to disguise the fact that their game plays like a fart. It looks bad, it sounds bad, it plays horribly, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a..."
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Ghosts 'N Goblins review

Reviewed November 01, 2003

retro says: "When me and my parents would take a yearly trip to the beach, we always ate at a certain restaurant every morning. Every time we went to eat at the local Omelette and Waffle House, I always begged my parents for a few quarters so I could play Ghosts 'n Goblins, which was the only arcade game that was inside. I never could get past the second level (most of the time, I didn't even pass the first), but it was still fun and for some reason, very addicting. "
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