Ghostbusters I by Activision for Amiga?

[mdv2000]

Only one thing... isn't piracy of games the distribution of them without paying for them?  How does that "FUND" terrorism? LOL!  Or maybe the the Live-Porn-Chat/Won-Free-Wii/Find-Your-Long-Lost-Grand-Pa links on most pirate sites actually get clicked?

[save2600]

I'm pretty sure my tax dollars have funded terrorism and child killing at some point. /ponder/

All a matter of perspective, isn't it?

[amigakid]

That download of the PC version remake is actually pretty good.  I also Downloaded the GODS one, wow just like the trusty Miggy version (used to have but my disks went bad so yes i did have the originals)

[Drummerboy]

Ghostbusters for Amiga, was never realeased, unless it has been ported to Amiga by any user, but for now its unknow.

Hmmm, i tryed the Amimaster Gear and by some unknow reason the Amiga Crash, and having all the Request Libs for run

I dont know what happen

[Lando]

I'm looking at you, Airborne Ranger!

I'm looking at you, Powerdrift!

[scuzzb494]

The thing is that I use to play the Ghostbusters game by Activision on the C64 and I used to love it, and I exepcted to find it on the Amiga, with enhanced graphics and sound.
The problem is that I cant find it, did it ever existed?
Please dont confuse yourself with Ghostbusters II or The Real Ghostbusters games, I am only looking for the original first version of Ghostbusters for the Amiga, if there was one.

Why would a 1984 game be released on the Amiga... Think about it. I know the platform is old but not that old... And in those days they didn`t release earlier versions later.. Well not very often. By the time the Amiga hit the streets we were up to Ghostbuster II....

And these were the platforms of the day...

Amstrad CPC, Apple II/+, Atari 800/2600/XL/XE, C64, NES, Sega Master System, ZX Spectrum (16/48K)

I have all those computers and probably the versions of Ghostbusters... except possibly the game version for the Apple. You can see all the computers on my website.

' Where do these stairs go.... They go up '..... ' Got a date with a ghost ' Classic.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[rkauer]

Ghostbusters for Amiga, was never realeased, unless it has been ported to Amiga by any user, but for now its unknow

 Like this one? :rolleyes:

[doble07]

Ghostbusters for Amiga, was never realeased, unless it has been ported to Amiga by any user, but for now its unknow.

Hmmm, i tryed the Amimaster Gear and by some unknow reason the Amiga Crash, and having all the Request Libs for run

I dont know what happen

Hi!

AmiMasterGear keyFile protection fails with Scalos, try this updated/fixed and unofficial-released version:

http://kung-foo.dhs.org/zener/amiga/stuff/35rumsx/amimastergear0_9.lha

Good Luck!

Juan

[save2600]

Why would a 1984 game be released on the Amiga... Think about it.

We have and here's why: oft times the translations of certain games were not perfect. That and there were some great concepts that were stunted due to them being on a lesser than platform. Literally growing up with computers, the evolution of them has been a goofy thing. We were promised better graphics and gaming, but a lot of the time - those concepts did not come to fruition. We just ended up with different games and different graphics. When the technology finally came about that could actually produce kick ass translations of our favorite games, we were mostly screwed. They simply never happened. That's enough to piss off the Pope I tell 'ya!   lol

And it's why people like me have basements full of real arcade games  

[scuzzb494]

We have and here's why: oft times the translations of certain games were not perfect. That and there were some great concepts that were stunted due to them being on a lesser than platform. Literally growing up with computers, the evolution of them has been a goofy thing. We were promised better graphics and gaming, but a lot of the time - those concepts did not come to fruition. We just ended up with different games and different graphics. When the technology finally came about that could actually produce kick ass translations of our favorite games, we were mostly screwed. They simply never happened. That's enough to piss off the Pope I tell 'ya!   lol

And it's why people like me have basements full of real arcade games  

Not sure I understood that.. but what I was saying is that the original 1984 Activision game could not have been released for the Amiga cus the Amiga itself had not been released. The game generally was on datasette/cassette not on floppy. If the game was revamped it was not the original release.... Remember I'm pure retro here.

Bit like releasing Atari classic arcade games on CD for the PS1... Just not the same thing. And having played Manic Miner on the Spectrum it just wasn`t the same on the A500 cus the hardware was completely different.... Keys I mean. I never could play the game on anything other than a Spectrum... Like I wouldn`t play River Raid on anything other than an Atari. Hardware is everything... Thats also why I would never use an emulator and I have a house full of computer games from my very first ZX81 games..... including all the original hardware still working. For me there is no point downloading a classic game to play on a newer platform... Bit like food without taste. Specially when you have been challenged with a Spectrum keyboard.

Saying that I am currently playing Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 and loving it. I even have an XBOX Elite but I still enjoy my older computers and consoles.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com

[save2600]

Not sure I understood that.. but what I was saying is that the original 1984 Activision game could not have been released for the Amiga cus the Amiga itself had not been released. The game generally was on datasette/cassette not on floppy.

I never saw Ghostbusters on cassette for any system. Here in the States, is was either on floppy or cartridge.

What I am getting at is the fact that arcade games were always first. Years later, they were translated to consoles or computers. You never saw or would see a game in the arcade released concurrently as a home system, so your argument about being retro... I don't fully follow. Just because Ghostbusters (never an arcade game) was released on a certain system in '84 or whenever does not mean it shouldn't have been ported to more modern systems years later. That's silly. We'd have no classic gaming to play on any system if that was the case.

Pinball Construction Set was slated for release on the Amiga - even saw ads for it. Yet it was never released. That was pure and utter BS. People like me really wanted to experience a superior version of that title on our Amiga's. Think of what they could have done with a nicer version of that particular game. And no, the "pinball construction set" type game we saw several years later on the Amiga, in no way, compares to what the 8-bits had.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Mac classic ports got enhanced graphics, must be because they used a dedicated team (if and when they ported something).

[Drummerboy]

Thanks!.. Juan,

Lo voy a Probar!

Saludos!

[Drummerboy]

@Rkauer

Ok, thats Real Ghostbusters, not Ghostbusters, like the PIC.

Regards

[Cammy]

The original Ghostbusters game was released for the Sega Master System in 1987, so there's no reason why they couldn't have ported it to the Amiga around that stage too. The Ghostbusters franchise was still popular enough to have sold the game on the Amiga if it had been released.

[Cammy]

Ghostbusters was also released for the Atari 2600 in 1992 (although it had been completed long before then). I'm not sure if there are any good Atari 2600 emulators for the Amiga, I've never really looked.