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Ok the big finish,

The main point of this series of blogs, is that for years Ghostbusters has plagued our society with thoughts of the great beyond, I’ll bet you have wanted to immediately think, “who ya gonna call” after hearing creepy sounds in the attic. But, since they are an imaginary supernatural removal group, there’s only one way we all could get the thrill of catching ghosts ourselves, video games.

When the first wave of Ghostbusters games came out, they all had the same idea, going around and doing the same boring routine until you had to enter the building that had Zuul. It gave me a bad headache.

See for yourself:

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Then a couple years on came the release of Ghostbusters 2, and the games concept escalated into something that kept you wanting more

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But it was the same thing over and over + the ending sucked… BOO!

But another company made a better Ghostbusters 2 which consisted of a free-roaming map with a positive, fun attitude.

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It’s really fun.

Then there was an arcade game and a gameboy game based on the cartoon. Both of which weren’t that good. The arcade game consisted of a overlaying shoot-em up like Contra, it had the right idea, but it just didn’t feel right.

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The game boy game was a puzzle game…

Who thehell wants to play a game entitled “Ghostbusters” when all you’re doing is solving puzzles, and not catching ghosts?

Sega went their own way and made a pretty damn fun 2-d shooter where you catch ghosts, and make $$$

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The point of these blogs talking of Ghostbusters is that there has been some happenings. Bill Murray agreed to do a Ghostbusters re-union as long as it was CGI, and since it’s not the big rage, the original cast decided upon creating a video game.

Ghostbusters has always been awesome by the likes of me, and I would absolutely hate to see another game go down the drain since there’s been only 2 good games in the history of this franchise. So with that in mind, I give you the trailer for the game to be released in the fall.

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Thanks for reading!

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Note: To anybody reading these, sorry it took so long; I’ve been busy with my new job.

Aah yes, the commercials full of the stuff you need to blast imaginary ghosts. I had about 80% of the toys shown, but the rents gave them all to Goodwill when I moved, (thanks mom). I suppose it is for the best, they were fun toys, I probably would have still been playing with them… and that would be creepy.

The cereal was a typical marshmallow cereal from what I remember.

Ecto Cooler was probably the best Hi-C I’ve ever had, it was limey and orangey. About 6 years ago, I was at a block party, and some of our neighbors brought a  Costco sized package of the stuff, and the taste brought back many a memory Slimer was even on the box. I recently discovered that the recipe still lives, but the name “Shoutin Orange Tangergreen” is what it’s labeled as.

With all of this merchandise making such a huge impact, I can honestly see why Bill Murray had to decline a Ghostbusters 3. One of Murray’s most remembered roles was Peter Venkman, and he said that it just wasn’t his forte, with hype of all this crap that came along.  But not all of the hype was bad…

This (believe it or not) holds a record for the longest running cartoon spin-off of a movie, it ran for 7 years! The stories were original, it kept in tune with the 2 movies, and it was just good!

It had two spin-offs of it’s own, one where Slimer had his moment in the sun, and where it’s 97 and the team has long since retired and a new squad formed that was targeted at generation X, entitled EXTREME Ghostbusters… it wasn’t that good.

In the midst of introducing these thoughts of Ghostbusters to yall, I had recently found out that they might be working on a third one soon, but it won’t be old guys chasin after ghosts, instead the torch will passed to Steve Carrell, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Romany Malco, aka the 4 guys from the 40-year-old Virgin. It ought to be good, because that on-screen team just flat out rocks! But don’t quote me on that, it’s just a rumor.

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Next blog will be a good-un, talking about the video games.

With the incredible success of the first one, a sequel had to be made. The hype got even bigger due to mass merchandising (more on that later), and brought about a fan base as big as Star Wars!

In 2, Manhattan is getting ready for the last decade before the new millenium, and a river of slime is overflowing beneath New York. A painting of pure evil is put up in a museum, and it’s believed to be the root of all the bad happenings. There’s definitely a lot more comedy involved. I remember seeing this in theaters and dying from laughter.

Eddie Murphy was originally supposed to be Winston Zeddemore, but we all know how annoying that would have been. Ernie Hudson is more down-to-earth and has a perfect fit as Winston.

After the films and the cartoons (more on that next blog), the DVD’s were released, and were on high demand, that re-ignited the fanbase who’ve been longing for a 3rd to be released but, due to the stubborness of Bill Murray and high budgets, it’s on hold… possibly forever.

It didn’t stop the fans from making their own visions of what could’ve happened after the second film.

A good majority of fans have done films online, such as Ghostbusters: The Animated Series (In one of the episodes, they encounter the Necronomicon from Evil Dead… TIGHT!), and Freddy VS Ghostbusters, which features Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street (obviously it’s a shot at Freddy VS Jason).

More is to be expected.

Next will be about the merchandise.

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DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS!

If you’ve seen this symbol before, you know of all the buzz behind it. I was watching the overrated “Be Kind Rewind” the other day and they did a poorman’s remake of this movie, and it got me thinking about why this film is #1 in my all-time favorite movies.

The film’s title is Ghostbusters, and I have been a fan long since I can remember. How? I’ll never know.

These next few blogs are in memoriam of pretty much everything Ghostbusters in honor of the highly awaited video game coming in the fall.

The phenomena started on SNL with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd traveling through time and space under the name Ghost Smashers, and that didn’t work out too well because of John Belushi’s passing.

The name Ghostbusters was already in use by a live action series, and it’s nothing like the guys with the proton packs. This one followed two guys and their gorilla, going around and stopping werewolves and other mythical beasts. It wasn’t bad actually, the intro was kinda catchy too.

How the name got licensed is still a mystery to me. Because the name went on with that company. But I’m not going to get into that.

The year was 1984, the month was June, and a comedy with an all star cast came out. Supposedly, this was to be one of the highest profitted comedies to rake in during opening week.

The film is about 3 college drop-outs who go into business eliminating paranormal. Combine the comedic talents of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd poking fun at what would be scary to a majority of us, and it’ll do. Ernie Hudson didn’t get enough credit though, Winston happened to be my fave ‘buster. I quote a good majority of the lines to this day as well.

Next blog will be about the aftermath of this movie: the sequel(s), cartoons, merchandise, and lastly, the games.

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Remember: Don’t cross the streams!