Ghosts 'n Goblins is a competent PC port of one of the best side-scrollers ever made. You play Arthur, noble knight (apparently before he was crowned King of Camelot) on a trek through haunted lands to rescue his fair maiden Guinevere, who was kidnapped by the demon of Hades.
The game is one of CAPCOM's most famous sidescrollers on the arcade, so this PC version is also very straightforward in gameplay: wander from left to right, lobbing spears at wave after wave of zombies, ghosts, goblins, demons and other supernatural beings. You wear a suit of armor that protects you from a single hit, so you will die after two consecutive hits if you can't manage to find a new armor.
Ghosts 'n Goblins has always been known as one of the hardest games around, and this PC port is no exception. You'll be attacked from every side, and you can't throw weapons upward. The challenge gets even worse at the end of the game, when you have to return to the very beginning to start over, at a harder level. Yup, you have to beat the game twice to actually complete it. Talk about a challenge.
Overall, Ghosts 'n Goblins is a faithful PC port of classic game that fans of the arcade should take a look. Obviously it's not an ideal version, due to limitation of EGA palette and cranky PC speaker sounds, but the fluid animations and frustrating but fun gameplay are left intact. Recommended!
Review By HOTUD
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Completed the C64 version, BUT with EMULATOR and savestates...
I mean I tried to beat it since 1991 on real C64... There, the farthest I got was 2nd level ad around the mid, without cheating.
Never tried to beat any of the other versions yet.
Thirty-five years ago, I wasted an entire roll of quarters playing the arcade version of this game. I don't think I made it past the first stage either.
The only game I ever beat in the 80's... took many hours.
Played both this and Ghouls n Ghosts, and all I can remember is how hard these 2 games were. Thank God I asked for an Action Replay cart for one birthday.
DOS game
"Buy Game" option
*links to NES Mini*
An excellent game which I played for many hours on the C64.
mt obrigado , por disponibilizar esses grandes jogos, que matam a saudade.
If you use Vjoy and UJR you can play the game without a joystick :)
u can skip board using arrow key (wish it does work without joystick) did before u can set somehow on dosbox
I cant get it to run wit dosbox, it always does a reboot and kills it.
Does not work without a joystick, worth playing but no point in downloading without the joystick.
JOYSTICK!?!?!?!?!
Great game, but very tough. One of the first games I played on ZX Spectrum+ ...
Killerrrrrr!!!!!
I LOVED THIS GAME... SO SAD THE NEED OF JOYSTICK
yes
Not sure that this will work w/o joystick.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.