Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game)

Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura (Japanese: 魔界村, lit. "Demon World Village") in Japan, is a platform video game developed by Capcom and released for arcades in 1985. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.

Ghosts 'n Goblins
Promotional arcade flyer
Developer(s)Capcom
Publisher(s)
  • WW: Capcom
  • NA: Taito America (arcade)
Director(s)Tokuro Fujiwara
Programmer(s)Toshio Arima
Artist(s)Masayoshi Kurokawa
Composer(s)Ayako Mori
SeriesGhosts 'n Goblins
Platform(s)Arcade, Famicom/NES, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, IBM PC, NEC PC-8801, Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy Color, Android, iOS
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: July 7, 1985
  • NA: September 4, 1985
  • EU: October 1985
Famicom/NES
  • JP: June 13, 1986
  • NA: November 1986
  • EU: March 23, 1989
ZX Spectrum
  • EU: June 1986
C16, C64, Amstrad CPC
IBM PC
  • NA: 1987
NEC PC-8801
Amiga, Atari ST
  • UK: 1990
Game Boy Color
  • NA: January 20, 2000
  • EU: August 24, 2000
iOS, Android
March 15, 2017
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

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, the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, and NES version sold over 1.6 million cartridges worldwide. It initially received generally positive reviews from critics. It is often cited as one of the most difficult games of all time, and retrospectively it has been considered one of the greatest video games ever made.

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