Ghouls 'n Ghosts Amiga 1989 Software Creations David J. Broadhurst

Ghouls 'n Ghosts Amiga 1989

Software Creations ported Capcom's Ghouls 'n Ghosts coinop of 1988 to the Amiga in 1989. Ghouls 'n Ghosts is a scrolling platform game.

While Ghouls 'n Ghosts of 1988 is the follow-up to Ghosts 'n Goblins of 1985, Ghouls 'n Ghosts was ported to the Amiga in 1989 whereas Ghosts 'n Goblins was ported to the Amiga in 1990.

The Amiga version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts was programmed by David J. Broadhurst (Bubble Bobble 1988); its graphics were drawn by Andrew R. Threlfall; its audio was composed by Tim Follin.

The objective, controls and gameplay are the same as in Ghosts 'n Goblins, but the Amiga version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts is much easier than the Amiga version of Ghosts 'n Goblins.

Ghouls 'n Ghosts consists of five levels of platforming action, culminating in the boss battle against Lucifer. There are six bosses in the Amiga version.

Ghouls 'n Ghosts displays in 16-color 320x256; the active drawspace is 287x191.

Ghouls 'n Ghosts features both horizontal and vertical screen-scrolling as well as auto-scrolling segments. However, the Amiga version does not scroll smoothy. In fact, audio aside, the Amiga version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts does not even begin to harness the potential of Amiga hardware. In addition, much of the coinop content and assets are omitted by the port.

Still, the Amiga version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts constitutes a passable and playable port of a powerful arcade machine. And while the Amiga was capable of evoking an arcade-perfect port in 1989, we should bear in mind the many problems that present themselves when attempting to convert coinops to home computers, some of which are enumerated in Shoot 'em up History.

Ghouls 'n Ghosts was distributed on 2x 3.5" 880kB DD diskette.

I give this conversion 5/10.

cf. Chronological list of similar computer games:

• Sword of Sodan Amiga 1988 Discovery Software International
• Shadow of the Beast Amiga Reflections 1989
• Ghosts 'n Goblins Amiga 1990 Elite Systems
• Golden Axe Amiga 1990 Dementia
• Unreal Amiga Ordilogic Systems 1990
• Gods IBM PC MS-DOS Platformer Bitmap Brothers 1991
• Another World Amiga Éric Chahi 1991
• Flashback Amiga Delphine Software 1992
• Immortal IBM PC MS-DOS Sandcastle 1991
• Moonstone Amiga Rob Anderson 1991
• Deliverance Amiga Devinart 1992
• BC Kid Amiga 1992 Factor 5 Nils Meier
• Lionheart Amiga Thalion Software 1993
• Turrican Games Amiga Manfred Trenz 1990-93

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