Overview

Number of Players
1 (Single Player)
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Release Date

Mega Drive

  • JP 3rd Aug 1989
  • US Sep 1989
  • EU 30th Nov 1990

Wii (Wii Shop)

  • US 27th Aug 2007, 800 points
  • EU 7th Sep 2007, 800 points
  • JP 31st Jul 2007, 600 points

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack (Subscription)

  • 28th Jun 2023
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  • Review Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)

    Arthur must go forth to save his beloved Princess and destroy the root of all evil!

    When you look at this game today, it's hard to believe that it was one of the very first Megadrive releases. Sega did an amazing job of reprogramming the Capcom arcade original for their 16-bit console - the port isn't quite arcade perfect but you have to look...

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About The Game

In Ghosts 'n Goblins, Arthur the brave knight saved Princess PrinPrin from the Dark Prince, Lucifer, and drove his evil forces back into the Underworld. Now, something sinister is again stirring...monsters had returned to attacking the kingdom, and the luckless Princess has been kidnapped - for a dark ritual to raise a greater evil than Lucifer!

Now, Arthur must go forth to save his beloved Princess and destroy the root of all evil! And it won't matter whether he fights in his shining armor or in his underwear alone, the bravest Knight in the land isn't going to be stopped by some monsters! Although the game starts with graveyard and marsh territory familiar from the first game, later levels are set in a tower, a mass of skeletons, and a castle.

He will progress from left to right, and have to hack down the aforementioned monsters with his sword. The journey includes ledges, ladders, lava pits and slippery slopes. Different weapons can be collected, by finding suits of armour inside chests. Each of the five stages has its own setting and a final boss.