Thursday
Dec042008
My Life, as seen through the Ghostbusters franchise
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:01PM
Maybe it's something about being 30 years old this year, but I'm starting to occasionally catch onto and appreciate the changes in technology over my lifetime. Mostly, though, I take it for granted.
Just occasionally, however, the scale of our collective technological progress takes me out back and knocks seven bells out of me with a 2x4.
To see what I mean, take the following game, which I was obsessed with in 1985. I poured hours of my young life into this game, but never really did get the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper together:
Take that game, fast forward twenty three years, and behold - and I really mean behold - Atari's new Ghostbusters game for our current crop of gaming platforms.
The graphics in that game are better than the special effects in the original movie.
Just occasionally, however, the scale of our collective technological progress takes me out back and knocks seven bells out of me with a 2x4.
To see what I mean, take the following game, which I was obsessed with in 1985. I poured hours of my young life into this game, but never really did get the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper together:
Take that game, fast forward twenty three years, and behold - and I really mean behold - Atari's new Ghostbusters game for our current crop of gaming platforms.
The graphics in that game are better than the special effects in the original movie.
Reader Comments (5)
Man, so true. I played the hell out of that game for the Commodore 64, and never got anywhere.
Aw man, yes. Atari 800 for me. Unbelievably, I think I actually completed it, which I hardly ever do.
The game I need to revisit and complete is Granny’s Garden from the old BBC computers you’d get in schools and libraries. It scared the heck out of me as a 5 year old.
Amazingly, you can get it for Windows:
http://www.4mation.co.uk/retro/retrogranny.html
I gotta take that witch out.
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I, too, had Ghostbusters on the Spectrum. And on the trip to the games shop in Golders Green during which I bought it, I had to choose between it and Knight Lore.
FAIL.