Ghosts 'n Goblins - Videogame by Capcom

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Ghosts 'n Goblins

Name: Ghosts 'n Goblins
Developer: Capcom

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Capcom Classic
Game Specific: Ghosts 'n Goblins Pinout
Settings: Ghosts 'n Goblins Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [FireJump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Ghosts 'n Goblins Description

You play Sir Arthur, a knight who must run and jump through six horziontally- or vertically scrolling levels to rescue his sweetheart, Princess Guinevere. Throw lances, axes etc. to kill zombies, bats, demons and other assorted foes. You must defeat the end-of-level boss before you can move on to the next stage.

Ghosts 'n Goblins was produced by Capcom in 1985.

Capcom released 228 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Ghosts 'n Goblins was produced include Commando, 1942 (PlayChoice), Exed Exes, Gun Smoke, Makaimura, 1942, HiGeMaru - Pirate Ship, Son Son, Vulgus, and Pirate Ship HigeMaru.

Ghosts 'n Goblins - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.74 (18 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.66

     Overall 'Like': 3.94
     Fun (Social): 2.61
     Fun (Solo): 3.94
     Collector Desire: 3.72

Technical Impressions Score: 3.81

     Gameplay: 3.94
     Graphics: 4.18
     Originality: 3.82
     Sound/Music: 3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

In the cave on level three, go to the upper level and move your character to the right of the rock, just to the left of the second ladder. Move left and right, shooting rapidly. A Zombie will keep appearing and you can score 100,000 points before time runs out, but you will also get two extra lives in the process.

Game Introduction

The game has you controlling a knight who throws his currently picked up-weapon axe, lance, cross, dagger, or firebrand to kill enemies zombies, bats, demons and ghosts. Two hits from an enemy attack will kill him. The first destroys his armour and then he runs around in underpants. There are six levels with a halfway restart point on each. A map shows your progress throughout the levels at start of each life.

Game Play

A map represents the kingdom with various themed levels:

Graveyard and Forest
Town
Caves
Bridge
Castle lower level
Castle upper level
Final Boss

At the end of each stage an end-of-level monster must be destroyed Orges, Dragons, etc.. Bonuses and new weapons are picked up by killing a monster that is carrying a pot. Only one weapon is availble at a time. Armour can be replaced by jumping up at certain hidden spots on some levels. This action causes a pot to appear. On level one, the spot is just after the halfway flying demon, just before the gravestone see http://www.wwnet.com/grimrod/roms/gngdrops.html for more information. Shooting a gravestone fifteen times sumons a demon who casts a spell that turns you into a frog for a limited time.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF IMakaimuraIPLicenced to Taito for US manufacture and distribution. It was also licensed to Romstar for US distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ghosts 'n Goblins Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 240 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 84 of these machines are owned by our active Ghosts 'n Goblins collectors. And of these, 15 are original dedicated machines, 14 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 55 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Ghosts 'n Goblins circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 13 active VAPS members currently looking for Ghosts 'n Goblins. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Ghosts 'n Goblins board sets.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 65 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 48 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Trivia

The original Japanese name, Makaimura, literally translates to Demon World Village.PMany people including staff members at Capcom USA and Nintendo of America believe this is Arthur from the Athurian legend, but he is really just a knight who is trying to rescue his beloved princess.

Legacy

Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985)
Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1988)

Manuals

misc. Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 13 Pages, 2.6 MB File.
Ghosts N Goblins Instruction Manual 16 Pages, 1.4 MB File.
Ghosts N Goblins Schematics 19 Pages, 995 kB File.

Video Clips

Ghosts 'n Goblins longplay by Ivan Paduano

Ghosts 'n' Goblins arcade 1 life complete Pt. 1

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Ghosts 'n Goblins Flyer #415
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Ghosts 'n Goblins Flyer #2214

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