ghouls ‘n ghosts

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Ghouls ‘N Ghosts

1:00PM Flynn De Marco | Three years after their hit with Ghosts ‘N Goblins, Capcom continued the adventures Arthur and his heart boxer shorts with Ghouls ‘N Ghosts. The gameplay was essentially the same as Ghosts ‘N Goblins with a few additional moves such as the ability to shoot weapons straight into the air and being able to shoot while jumping. This game also introduced Arthur’s special gold armor. After the arcade, the game was ported to a wide variety of systems including Sega Master System, Sega Mega-Drive, Sega Saturn, PS1, Sharp X68000, Supergrafx and the Virtual Console on the Wii. Much like it’s predecessor, Ghouls ‘N Ghosts is considered to one of the most punishingly difficult games of the time. More »

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: The Classics Edition

11:00AM Flynn De Marco | After last week’s Arcade Flyer Art Saturday, I promised you something a little different this week. I went through TAFA and dug up the flyers for some of the more seminal and popular games that took video gaming from arcades and into our homes. Sure, a lot the art for these is not what you might consider terribly interesting but sometimes it’s good to go back to your roots. You can peruse the gallery at your leisure and after the jump, check out some short explanations of each flyer. More »

Fire Breathing Super Contra Ghosts

3:40AM Mike Fahey | As of this writing I’ve not seen hide nor hair of Nintendo’s weekly Virtual Console update press release, so I got up off my ass, walked into the living room and then got back on my ass to see for myself what had been updated, and it isn’t a bad selection this week. Kicking it off we have Breath of Fire II for the Super Nintendo (800 points), one of my favourite games from the SNES era of RPGs. I’d daresay a true classic. Next we have Ghouls ‘n Ghosts for the Genesis (800 points), the sequel to Ghosts ‘n Goblins an prequel to Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. Finally we have Super C for the NES (500 points). The sequel to Contra, Super C sees Mad Dog and Scorpion fighting against their former comrades in arms, now possessed by aliens and transformed into horrifying creatures by…you know what? You run, you shoot stuff. It’s Contra, before it got kinda crappy. Love on it. There you have it – three excellent titles and not one crappy TurboGrafx 16 title. The PR guys must have been so shocked they forgot to send the release! More »