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Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985)

Capcom

Amiga · Amstrad CPC · Arcade · Atari ST/STE · Commodore C64/128/MAX · DOS · ZX Spectrum

3.00 from 399 ratings

1032 members have it in their collection · 25 playing now · 209 backlogged · 91 wish listed

How long? Main story 6h · 100% 3h (from 4 logged playthroughs)

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World. Along the way the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor … Read more
Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World. Along the way the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor that can help in this task. The game is often considered very difficult by arcade standards and is commonly regarded as one of the most difficult games ever released. The game is considered by Gametrailers.com to be the world's second most difficult game ever made. The player can only be hit twice before losing a life (the first hit takes away Arthur's armor, and the player must continue on in his underwear until completing the level, or finding replacement armor). If the player loses a life, he is returned to the start of the level, or the halfway point if he has managed to get that far. Furthermore, each life can only last a certain length of time (generally around three minutes), the clock being reset at the start of a level. If the clock does run out, the player instantly loses that life. After defeating the final boss, but only with the cross weapon (if the player does not have the cross weapon, they will be prompted that it is needed to defeat the boss and restart at the beginning of level 5 and must repeat round 5 and 6 again regardless if the weapon is obtained immediately or not) for the first time the player is informed that the battle was "a trap devised by Satan". The player must then replay the entire game on a higher difficulty level to reach the genuine final battle. Read less
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Developers
Capcom
Publishers
Capcom, Elite Systems
Genres
Adventure, Arcade, Platform, Shooter
Themes
Action, Fantasy
Franchises
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Series
Ghosts 'n Goblins

Release dates

  • Jul 07, 1985 (Japan) Arcade
  • 1986 (Europe) Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
  • 1987 (North_America) DOS
  • Apr 16, 1990 (Europe) Atari ST/STE
  • 1990 (North_America) Amiga

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Rating distribution

5 stars
33
4 stars
73
3 stars
178
2 stars
87
1 star
26
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Daninokuni

Status Daninokuni Jun 22, 2023

I reached the last level in my first attempt (around 2 hours) but couldn't manage to beat it. With this game we have something that we have in almost every game at that age: the game is cool and fun in the first 90% of the game, but in the last 10% it looks like it simply doesn't want you …

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I reached the last level in my first attempt (around 2 hours) but couldn't manage to beat it. With this game we have something that we have in almost every game at that age: the game is cool and fun in the first 90% of the game, but in the last 10% it looks like it simply doesn't want you to complete it. And it has a lot of awful ladders. Castlevania had a lot of stairs and this one has ladders. Fortunately, stairs disappeared from videogames long ago.

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kingbk83

Status kingbk83 Jul 28, 2021

Holy hell, this game is a pain. I finally beat it, but there is a part where you need a special shield weapon to get to the last boss. However, you are NEVER told this anywhere in the game (more of that cryptic crap video games were infamous for in the mid 80s), so if you get to the last …

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Holy hell, this game is a pain. I finally beat it, but there is a part where you need a special shield weapon to get to the last boss. However, you are NEVER told this anywhere in the game (more of that cryptic crap video games were infamous for in the mid 80s), so if you get to the last stage without this weapon, they start you back at another level as your punishment! Not only that, once you get the weapon (which is significantly less powerful than other weapons in the game), you have to be careful to NEVER pick up weapons dropped by enemies. It's such a pain. Oh yeah, you have to beat the whole game twice to get the ending. I'm glad I finished this, but I'll happily never revisit it again.

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Alphadoriest

Status Alphadoriest Mar 22, 2021

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Making you play the game twice through to beat it? Incredibly funny.

Prepping to try Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection and I don't think I've ever played a game wherein the odds are so stacked against you and the enemies' are handed so many advantages!

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XIIIVampire

Status XIIIVampire Jul 30, 2017

this is so freaking impossible, this makes demon's souls feel like fingerpainting, almost finished... how could this be possibly possible without savestates?

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