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Ghosts 'N Goblins
Ghosts 'N Goblins (NES) game cover art
Genre:
Action (Platformer)

Developer:
Capcom
Publisher
Region
Released
Capcom
NA
11/??/1986
Capcom
EU
03/23/1989
Capcom
JP
06/13/1986
AKA: Makaimura (JP)
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Staff review by Sho (July 16, 2004)

Ghosts ‘n Goblins takes the concept of respectable difficulty well past the point of merely "hard" and leaves it somewhere in the realm of "utterly ridiculous."
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Reader review by denouement (July 10, 2004)

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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Reader review by phediuk (August 04, 2006)

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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Reader review by retro (November 01, 2003)

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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