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Released in 1984 published and developed by Activision.
| ZX SPECTRUM VERSION Released in 1984 published and developed by Activision.
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To complete the GB Videogames family , RGB has been adapted to the Spectrum. In 1989, quite late in fact. All other versions appeared before the GB2 movie.
 | As probably anyone imaged this is the conversion of the DataEast Arcade game. I will not stay on it too much since , like other Spectrum games, this version isn't at the level of the others. The principle is the well known of a buster(s) seen from above , blasting all kind of monsters and capture the ghosts that pop up once dead. Entertaining as a good Arcade Coin Up game. Here again, however the product quality calm everything out. No, I'm not a Spectrum supporter and , begging pardon to the Spectrum fan, I think that the Sinclair Spectrum ZX (full name) was not as good as the rest of the computer system in the early '80. |
While the GFX could be saved this time and not so horrible like GB2 along with round if using a 128k machine, the gameplay suffer. The ZX seems to be slow while running the game , resulting in a bad control of the GB, "slow reflexes" from the machine, ruining all the pleasure. It's true that I reviewed the game on a emulator and not on a real ZXS however my machine (A P233/96megs RAM) is way higher than the recommended system and GB2 runned OK so it's RGB itself which slow down the whole thing.
As a conclusion this version could have been better if not suffering for the limitation in speed of the Spectrum machine.
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The AtariST Docs can be applied to the ZX Spectrum version with some adjustment :
Directions : move the GB
Fire hit once : shoot a projectile
Fire hold down : proton stream
To catch a ghost simply shoot at him with a proton stream , it will come to you
Screen
Top first line: player number and score
Top second line: "Ghosts" Number of Ghosts caught
NOTE: 50 ghost got throughout the levels give you a life
Top third line : number of lives
Yellow bar: Your Proton Pack energy , when completely green you can not shoot anymore.
Bottom left: time left for completion.
NOTE: when the countdown reaches 0 you loose a life then the timer will start again
Bottom right: Stage number
Documentation to be completed.
| In the box tradition here is the RGB Spectrum. How I know this is from a Spectrum based product? I got it from a Sinclair archive! Unfortunately it does not seems to be the original box but a Budget collection one. "The Hit Squad Games" Series. |  |
Get the Spectrum ZX Real Ghostbusters game plus its emulator to run it on your computer. Win9x emulator. Requires Direct-X 3.0 , should work on WinNT 4.0 + Service Pack 3 .
Instructions and infos on how to launch and use the emulator are here.
For other platform (MacOS, Unix, Dos...) emulator check Zophar Domain.
Note: the game file itself (the .zxs,tap,z80,txz file) is common to all the platforms.