Having just seen one of the most slick and stylish comedies of the 1980's, it's hardly an adrenaline rush to start procedings by opening a franchise account and buying equipment with which to catch ghosts.
At this point the game aspires to capture all the excitement of a visit to the bank. It succeeds.
There's no hint of the dry wit and humour that shot through the film, even a beeper approximation of the music falls flat.
This is the point when (even back in the 80's) the gamer mourns the loss of another potentially great movie licence and moves on to other things.
But for some reason once I'd got over the initial dissapointment, I carried on driving my cheap badly drawn car around, collecting ghosts, catching slimers and stopping marshmallow men.
After a few plays I even had enough money to buy some serious hardware and a badly drawn car almost too big to fit on the badly animated road.
So this game has something - I've still no idea what.
The graphics are uninspiring, the sound is awful and the gameplay is at best serviceable. Yet it somehow kept me playing.
It's not often a game I consciously don't like keeps me playing for more than a few minutes. I actually loaded this up and kept playing for weeks.
Spooky.
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