Ghostbusters (1984)

Activision published Ghostbusters in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum 48K/128K. The game was developed by David Aubrey-Jones with game design and concept by David Crane, while Michael C. Gross created the inlay and poster art. The title is based on the Columbia Pictures film.

This arcade adventure game supports one player. Technical features include AY sound, beeper speech, and compatibility with Kempston joysticks, Interface 2, and cursor controls. An enhanced version for 128K machines was released later.

The game retailed for £9.99. It was also ported to various other platforms, including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, NES, Sega Master System, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, and BBC Micro.

Ghostbusters holds an average magazine score of 68.75%. The game received the "PCN Star Game" award from Personal Computer News and the "ZX Computing Glob Minor" award from ZX Computing.

The game became very popular in the USSR and Russia. It saw numerous TR-DOS releases from various groups such as YAM and AW Studio, alongside cracked cassette versions by Sinsoft. Magazines like Micro frequently published POKE codes for the game.