Standard Edition
StandardIn the box
- NES cartridge
- Box with cover art
- Instruction booklet
NES
About the Nintendo Entertainment System
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura in Japan, is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.
PlatformAdventure
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 3.5 hours
- Plays offline
- Yes
Overview
Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura in Japan, is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.
It was a major commercial success across arcades and home systems. It was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1986 in Japan and the US, as well as the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, with the Nintendo Entertainment System version selling over 1.6 million units worldwide. It initially received generally positive reviews from critics; it is often cited as one of the most difficult games of all time, and has retrospectively been considered one of the greatest video games ever made.
Official trailer
Gameplay Video. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Ghosts 'n Goblins (NES) playthrough ~Longplay~, FCPlaythroughs. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Platform, Adventure
- Developer
- Capcom
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Series
- Ghosts 'n Goblins
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Local multiplayer
- No
- Online multiplayer
- No
- Co op
- No
- Age ratings
- CLASS IND
- L
- ESRB
- E
- CERO
- A
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo Entertainment System | North America | 1986-11-01 |
Editions
Makaimura (Famicom)
In the box
- Famicom cartridge
- Box with cover art
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
DLC
No DLC. NES games had no downloadable content.
Playable today
Playable offline todayYes
No online features on the cartridge; every mode works today on any NES, and the game is on Nintendo Switch Online.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on NES cartridge |
| Ever released in the store | Yes, 10 December 2007 On the Wii Virtual Console. Later on the 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console, and in the NES library of Nintendo Switch Online from its launch in September 2018. |
| In the store to buy today | No The Wii, Wii U and 3DS shops have closed. Playable with a Nintendo Switch Online membership. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Yes Wii, Wii U and 3DS Virtual Console purchases can still be downloaded again. The Nintendo Switch Online version needs an active membership. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Has online features | No Not on the cartridge. The Nintendo Switch Online version plays its two-player mode online with friends. |
| Online servers running today | Does not exist |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Yes For one or two players. |
| Playable offline today: online multiplayer | Does not exist No online play. |
| Playable offline today: DLC | Does not exist No DLC. |
Online
Plays offlineYes
Reception
- Critics
Outlet Score Scale AllGame 3 5 The Games Machine 84 100
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer (NES) Micronics Publisher Capcom Director (arcade) Tokuro Fujiwara Programmer (arcade) Toshio Arima Artists (arcade) Tokuro Fujiwara, Masayoshi Kurokawa Composer Ayako Mori
Notes for collectors
- A port of Capcom's 1985 arcade game, programmed by Micronics.
- The first Famicom game on a 128 KB cartridge.
- The NES version sold 1.64 million copies worldwide.
- Famous for its difficulty: after the last level you play the whole game again on a harder setting to see the ending, with no way to save.
- One of the 30 games on the NES Classic Edition in 2016.
Credits
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Developer
- Capcom
- Director
- Tokuro Fujiwara
- Released
- 1986-11-01
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 3.5 hours
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