Kotaku: ghouls n' ghosts

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Ghouls 'N Ghosts

fdemarco — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:00:00 MST

Three years after their hit with Ghosts 'N Goblins, Capcom continued the adventures of 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.

Wow, what terrific art on this one. It really evokes a time period and I could easily see this graphic on the cover of a Choose You Own Adventure book. The central figure (Arthur) looks one of the myriad D&D stickers I had on my binders in school that got me regularly roughed up by the cool kids. Given it's comic book feel I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they used this for advertising the game in kid's magazines during its era. The logo is pretty great too. I always love the combo of flames and blood. Classic.

[flyer courtesy TAFA]

Fire Breathing Super Contra Ghosts

Mike Fahey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:40:31 MDT

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 favorite 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!

GamePro TV Episode Unearthed, Embarrasses Entire Internet

egauger — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:40:59 MDT

Gentlemen, this is your punishment for cramming my Kotaku box with approximately 600 comment requests in the past half-day, outstripping even the pleadings from exotic royalty, the promises of prodigious semenal output, and the offers for very reasonably-priced t-shirt manufacture.

I want you to stare deeply into the distended anus of the early nineties, come face to sphincter with the darling child-yous who probably looked up to these men, and I want it to hurt.

This is, as far as I or Nicholas Fricke over at Siliconera know, the only episode of GamePro TV currently available online. And it sounds like he spent a long time looking.

Watch how about halfway through, the surfer boy loses most of his accent. I guess he got tired. I know how he feels. Thanks for the tip, FurikiiEliza gauger

Read the entire harrowing tale here. [Siliconera]

The Return of Heroic Boxers: Ghouls n' Ghosts Trailer

egauger — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:40:48 MDT

GameBrink is hosting a very sweet little live-action Japanese trailer for the new PSP Ghouls n' Ghosts game, and I tried to pull it here but my Flash ninja skills are just not leet enough. You will have to click, for which I apologize profusely.

Says GameBrink:

It seems there's hasn't been much work for the past 15 years since his 1991 debut and he's had to keep busy in a number of different ways like doing karaoke with a hooker.

Ah, Hookereoke. Bashcraft has regaled me with countless anecdotes about this time-honored Japanese passtime. It has a rich history, and the much-honored and highly ritualized Mic Ceremony (performed by gonjuro geisha) is a popular tourist activity. eliza gauger

G n' G trailer [GameBrink]