The Real Ghostbusters Game
Year: 1986
Ages: 6-12
Players: 2-4 (For the purpose of this review, there was 2 players)
Set Up Time: Took us 8 minutes.
Playing Time: From start to finish the game took 20 minutes
Object: Collect four ghost cards and make your way to the top of the stairs while avoiding "traps" and close the coffin to trap the ghost.
Review:
+ You get to play as your favorite Ghostbuster
+ The 3D board game features four different rooms you need to collect ghosts in and a set of stairs that lead to the roof. Some of the rooms either contain a "trap" where something will fall on you and send you back to the start of the room or a "secret passage" that will let you advance to another room.
- The spinner contains four spots and two of those four are "Lose a ghost" spaces. This makes the game extremely frustrating and very hard to advance to other rooms which require a minimum amount of ghosts to enter. Pretty much every one of my turns I would get a ghost and then my next turn I would lose a ghost. "Lose a ghost" should be on the spinner but only as one space not two, otherwise the majority of your game will be spent cursing the spinner.
- 3D cardboard games were a great thing when they were new but this game board is now 29 years old and it shows. A lot of the "trap" pieces no longer function like they used to and parts of it are needed to be held together by tape. As cool as the 3D board is, they needed to have made more pieces in plastic instead of cardboard, which over time, may not have become as flimsy.
Overall:
As a first time player of this board game, I was excited to play, until we started. The game seemed to be a constant battle of capturing a ghost just to lose a ghost. Also because the 3D pieces don't work as well 29 years later a lot of the "traps" no longer functioned, losing a piece of the games magic 3D quality. It's also lucky that I had someone who remembered how to set up the 3D game board because if I had to do it myself, I may have just given up.
C+
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