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{{quote|Sir Michael Gambon in the [[Attract Mode]] for [[Ghost Hunter]].}}

 

Video modes include 16:9 ratio. Also supports Progressive Scan when booted with the '''X''' and '''Triangle''' key held down. Progressive Scan requires component cables and a TV capable of supporting it without damage. This did not prove to be a major marketing point.

 

* It's one of the few games that Greek language can be chosen.

 

** Beneath the Prison

* [[After Boss Recovery]] - {{spoiler|There's a secluded upper area in the Research Lab with plenty of health, and real and spirit ammo. It doesn't matter much because Lazarus dies shortly after and has almost no use for any of it.}}

** Lazarus finds pages from Professor Richmond's notebook as the game goes along. Usually just in time to explain a new power Astral gains. {{spoiler|This stops when Lazarus finally joins up with the Professor.}}

** Colonel Fortesque leaves a verbal Apocalyptic Log on ancient wax cylinder phonographs scattered about the ship.

* [[Captain Ersatz]] - The game itself for the Ghostbusters franchise.

* [[The Chosen One]] - Kate Heller/Astral. Explicitly named so in a cutscene. {{spoiler|What she's chosen for or why is never explained. Her final fate is uncertain.}}

** Lazarus does most of his interdimensional and intradimensional travelling through cool gates that are actually ancient doorframes. One is even used as a visual anachronism in the {{spoiler|Research Laboratory}}.

** {{spoiler|1=Lazarus turns a painting in the Weird DeMontford mansion into a portal to the Evil DeMontford mansion.}} Whereupon it becomes a [[Cool Gate]]. On the other side the portal is a plain doorway standing in the open, through which the interior of the mansion can be seen.

* [[Cute Ghost Girl]] - Astral. [[Video Game Caring Potential]] is kind of limited by lack of talking. Caring is frustrated since {{spoiler|Astral's fate is left in limbo at the end of the game.}}

** Chairs, of course.

** Trophies in the high school display cases. (Go ahead. You know you want to.)

* [[Emergency Weapon]] - Lazarus' starting pistol never runs out of magazines.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] - Character Sir William Hawksmoor is an Expy for "Oliver Cromwell

** known as "Lord Protector"

** Militaristic fanatic

* [[Fission Mailed]] - When Lord Hawksmoor has you realise that there is absolutely no way out of your predicament, and possesses your partner to shoot you dead, the game returns silently and sadly to the main screen. {{spoiler|Then the computer AI that's been guiding you on the game, and is present on the main screen, speaks up. And possesses a robot with a giant chaingun. And sets about fixing the problem and reviving the main character.}}

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]] - Inverted. The Spectral goggles come in very handy.

** Rob Paulsen voiced Lazarus Jones. Rob is best known for Pinky, in Pinky and the Brain. His trademark adlibs show up in the game.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] - Averted. The main character picks up five or six weapons over the course of the game, and carries them in various holsters and slings on his body. it never affects his aim, of course.

* [[Losing Your Head]] - The ghost of the British commander on the ship.

* [[Magic Mirror]]

** Later he talks to Agglin through it.

* [[Meaningful Name]]

* [[Panty Shot]] - Lazarus can maneuver to see up the ghost Librarian's granny skirt as she floats through Hawksmoor's castle lecturing. There's nothing inside.

* [[Portal Picture]] - {{spoiler|1=Lazarus turns a painting in the Weird DeMontford mansion into a portal to the Evil DeMontford mansion.}} Whereupon it becomes a [[Cool Gate]], with different exterior on one side than on the other.

** the parlor at the DeMontford Mansion.

** The lighting effects

*** Zoetrope projection lamp in christmas tree room in the DeMontford Mansion.

*** Lights when a ghost is captured.

** the parlor at the DeMontford Mansion.

** Construction yard

* [[Talking to Himself]] - Joe Morton voiced Professor Richmond as well as his younger computer incarnation.

* [[Tank Goodness]] - Lazarus gets to operate the turret, but not on the move.

* [[Troperiffic]] - What do you think?

* [[Variable Mix]] - [http://rexy.co.uk/2008/12/ghosthunter-music/ Ghosthunter Interactive Music]