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* [[Admiring the Abomination]]: Egon admires Ivo Shandor's work from time to time. He's quick to add that he was completely evil. Winston reminds Egon to "stick to the Light Side." "It's hard."
* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: The Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Getting too close in Times Square gets the player "stomped into jelly.".
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The Ghostbusters's descriptions of the chaos the mandala node will cause -: whole city blocks vanishing into other dimensions, cockroaches the size of ponies, panic in the streets... and the return of disco.
** Winston discussing the results of Shandor's antics: "...booger snot ghosts, marshmallow ghouls, spider witches, the comeback of the Civil War, King Tut, and new property in the Hudson that I can't afford."
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The Juvenile Slor has a glowing green node on top of its head.
** In the Wii version, its replacement, the Black Slime Behemoth, has weak points in its mouths. They're only visible with the Ectogoggles.▼
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Egon during the fight when he mentions that, in terms of scientific probability, the Slor doesn't necessarily have a weak point, but advises that the node is the best place to try.
▲** In the Wii version, its replacement, the Black Slime Behemoth, has weak points in its mouths. They're only visible with the Ectogoggles.
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: {{spoiler|Ivo Shandor turns into a giant entity reminiscient of the Devil at the end of the HD versions.}}.
** Azetlor, the Collector, is a 40-fool long bookworm in the Stylized version.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Egon to Ivo Shandor in the game.
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'''Ray Stantz''': 'We eat gods for breakfast'?
'''Egon''': Too much you think?
'''Ray''': No, that was good. I like it. }}
** [[Stealth Pun|And it's absolutely true --... assuming they eat marshmallows.]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Late in the videogamevideo game, Ray wonders why Gozer didn't take on a more effective Destructor form than the Staypuft Marshmallow Man again, and thinks that gods are probably limited to one Destructor form per dimension. One has to wonder what Vigo's plan was for after he took on the body of an infant. He gets to [[Child's Play (TV series)|be a kid again]].
* [[Body Surf]]: Later on, {{spoiler|it is revealed that the Mayor had this happen to him with Ivo Shandor.}}.▼
** One has to wonder what Vigo's plan was for after he took on the body of an infant.
*** He gets to [[Child's Play (TV series)|be a kid again]].
▲* [[Body Surf]]: Later on, {{spoiler|it is revealed that the Mayor had this happen to him with Ivo Shandor.}}
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: A mild example, Peter has a voice mail that goes, for the most part, like this.
{{quote|''Peter'sRandomGirlfriends Random Girlfriend:'' Yeah, hi Peter. I think I left my ear rings at your place... and my shoes... and my cat. Any way I had a ''wonderful'' time last night.}}
* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: The game has this in the form of a Cursed Artifact--: a commode with a demon bound to it.
* [[The Chessmaster]] / [[Crazy Prepared]]: Gozer cult leader Ivo Shandor, mentioned in the original film, but featured much more prominently in the video game.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The plot of the game is essentially an excuse to re-visit every location and set-piece from the first film. The second film is also given some smaller nods, notably the painting of Vigo the Carpathian being disarmingly approachable and quite talkative in the firehouse, the use of the mood slime and slime blowers, and revealing where that slime came from.
* [[Artifact of Doom|Cursed Artifacts]]: Averted. These don't kill the Rookie or his friends; instead, they have an infamous dex descriptions.
* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: A lot of the equipment the Rookie gets is untested ([[Fridge Brilliance|though the other Ghostbusters will start using it on the next level after you get it]]), and the warnings are hilariously dangerous. Stripping off some metal from the proton pack wand, for example, can cause numbness in the hands, while altering the PKE Meter can leave stains on your hands that will ''never come off''. Most importantly, the Rookie is the one testing the equipment because, in case there's a problem, the other Ghostbusters don't want to be [[Noodle Incident|blown to New Jersey]]. The Rookie is ''not'' reassured by this.
* [[Destructive Savior]]: The game keeps track of how much property damage you cause through the course of the game. Even if you play through as carefully as possible, it's still going to be in the 6-figure range. There are achievements/trophies for causing more than 3 ''million'' in damage (Thethe Destructor) and less than $300,000 (Nice Shooting, Tex!). The Stylized versions actually encourage this, as despite the money being useless, re-playing levels shows your "high score". The damage values only ever go ''up'', meaning the goal is to break ALL THE THINGS.
** The Stylized versions actually encourage this, as despite the money being useless, re-playing levels shows your "high score." The damage values only ever go ''up'', meaning the goal is to break ALL THE THINGS.
* [[Do Well, But Not Perfect]]: In the [[Sega Master System]] version of the game based on the first film, you can't keep any of the money you earned throughout your game if you defeat Gozer at the end. So the best way to rack up as much money as you can, as quickly as you can, is to do as well as possible in phase one, and then deliberately let Stay-Puft kill you in phase two.
* [[Enemy Scan]]
* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: The game based on the first movie.
* {{spoiler|[[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]}}: {{spoiler|Despite his pure evilness, Ivo Shandor loves his mother that he commissioned a painting}}.
* [[Evil Chef]]: The Chef ghost in both the stylized and realistic versions of the 2009 game.
* [[FatEvil BastardChef]]: The Chairman, Chef [[Deghost Forrest]],in andboth the Mr.stylized Creosoteand lookalikerealistic fromversions of the firehouse2009 game.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: The Chairman, Chef [[De Forrest]] and the Mr. Creosote lookalike from the firehouse.
* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: theThe video game battle against Gozer's Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
* [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: The final battle of the game takes place in the ghost world.
* [[Food Porn]]: Slimer has a calendar with pictures of large banquets inside his containment unit (November's is a rather delicious-looking Thanksgiving turkey).
* [[Giant Mook]]: Each level has its own variation, starting with the Kitchen Golem in Sargassi's.
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Ivo Shandor becomes somewhat disenchanted with Gozer after the Destroyer he summoned to bring about the end of the world is defeated by the Ghostbusters ''twice''. So he decides to do it himself.}}.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Ivo Shandor:''' Anyway, I figured, why worship a god, when you can actually become one?}}?}}
** {{spoiler|And after you defeat ''him'' too:}}:
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''The Architect:''' I AM A GOD!}}!
{{spoiler|'''Egon:''' [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|We eat gods for breakfast!]]}} !}}
* [[Hell Hotel]]: The Sedgewick in the game, oh God, the Sedgewick is so hard on the return level.
** The PC version of the game contains SecureROM [[Copy Protection]], a much-maligned, user-unfriendly system. This particular version actually alters gameplay if it's set off; a pirated copy with a poorly done crack or a legitimate copy flagged as a false-positive will give the candelabra enemies in the Sedgewick smaller collision boxes so they're nearly impossible to hit, as well as reduce the player's weapon damage to 25%, making it a literal and unwinnable [[Hell Hotel]].
* [[Herd-Hitting Attack]]: The Boson Dart can take out groups of minor enemies, especially the Marshmallow Minis and Flying Skulls.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: The Rookie.
* [[High Turnover Rate]]: Implied with the rookies in the game.
{{quote|'''Venkman''': No, no. No names. I don't want to get too attached to this one.}}
* [[Identical Ancestor]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn has Shendor's mother good looks}}.
* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: Averted, in time. By the 2009 video game, the Ghostbusters have become licensed state agents in the direct employ of New York City. A good thing, considering they seem to solely provide a service that seems nearly, if not equally, crucial as firefighting or crime deterrence.
* [[Make My Monster Grow]]: The Chairman absorbs energy from the mandala node before confronting the Ghostbusters, becoming nearly as large as Stay Puff.
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNf7gh9Tt2c This trailer] has scenes of the Ghostbusters dancing down the street and a parade looking up at a float, as well as a scene of several ghost chasing the Ecto-1B down a street, none of which shows up in the game.▼
** There are multiple references to ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' in the form of Slimer being the [[Team Pet]], the upgraded containment unit looking like a bank vault and the show's PKE meter showing up on a table as a piece of random technology.▼
** This was actually a reference to ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' animated series.
*** The Ghost Traps from both ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' and ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' can be seen in the basement too.▼
** Or possibly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uxIo4t7xM this] old music video.
**** Replaced with the movie versions of the same in the Wii version.▼
** Many of those scenes are from the Thanksgiving Day Parade level, which was cut from the game for unknown reasons (but is still referenced by the mayor).
*** The online Tobin's Spirit Guide may be a reference to "The Bird of Kildarby,", in which an electronic version of the book appeared.▼
** If the player interacts with Vigo's painting in the game, one of Vigo's possible responses is commanding the Rookie to bring him a child, but from some of the other things he says, he seems depressed and resigned to the idea that he isn't getting out.▼
▲* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNf7gh9Tt2c This trailer] has scenes of the Ghostbusters dancing down the street and a parade looking up at a float, as well as a scene of several ghost chasing the Ecto-1B down a street, none of which shows up in the game. This was actually a reference to ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' animated series, or possibly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uxIo4t7xM this] old music video. Many of those scenes are from the Thanksgiving Day Parade level, which was cut from the game for unknown reasons (but is still referenced by the mayor).
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The titular NES game of the first movie is one of the biggest examples in all of gaming history, just for those fucking STAIRS. Until [[That Guy With The Glasses|Lord Kat]] revealed a technique in episode 1 of Until We Win.
** [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] was particularly pissed off about the stairs... among other problems that game had.
** Possibly referenced in the 2009 video game during the ghost-dimension-library level.
{{quote|'''Egon''': Oh, no.
'''Ray''': See something scary Egon?
'''Egon''': Stairs, LOTS of stairs... }}
** The Playstation 2 version of the 2009 video game had [[Nintendo HardnessHard]]ness also --... mostly stemming from the lack of save points. If your game freezes up and glitches, you're forced back to the start of the level you were on once you restart. This is likely a result of being a port of the Wii version, which as designed from motion controls.
*** This is likely a result of being a port of the Wii version, which as designed from motion controls.
** The Atari 2600 game of the first movie was even worse. The jumping Stay-Puff only had one point in his jumping arc where his altitude was greater than the height of a Ghostbuster. That point was the exact width of a Ghostbuster. So you had to figure out that exact point, run to it, and stop exactly on it - with no margin for error - and then continue the rest of the way across the screen once Stay-Puff jumped over you in order to beat the game. And you have to do this twice in order to be able to cross the streams.
* [[No Name Given]]: Your character in the 2009 game is only ever referred to as "Cadet", "Kid", "Hoss", "Tiger", "Sport", "Scooter", "Rookie" or "Rook" for short. Even his nametag says "Rookie".
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: The handwave for the player-character's anonymity (and what happened to his predecessor) in the game, see [[No Name Given]] above.
{{quote|'''Peter''': No names, Ray. I don't want to get too attached to this kid. Remember what happened to the last one?}}
** And also from the game, Egon talking to Peter in the first level about "the Ellis Island Incident,", never spoken of again.
*** That's probably just a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to the second movie.
* [[Not So Harmless]] (: {{spoiler|Subverted by Walter Peck in the game, going hand in hand with the below-mentioned [[Red Herring]]}}).
* [[Product Placement]]: The developers of the game hope you'll get hungry for Doritos. It's possible that the "what about the Twinkie" scene was, as well, but it also plays into Egon's lovable fondness for junk food.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Heavily implied in regards {{spoiler|to the [[Player Character]] from the 2009 game, although it makes sense, considering the game was polished by the original writers, and a ''Ghostbusters 3'' in movie form is still a possibility. They probably just don't want to make him a [[Canon Immigrant]] to the movies and focus on the original four.}}.
* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: At one point, Egon reports that PKE readings are off the charts. Then he mentions that he's going to need new charts.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: In the game, Winston - the most down to earth of the Ghostbusters - is revealed to have a vested interest in theatre.
* [[Red Herring]]: In the game, the flagrant, obvious implications that {{spoiler|Walter Peck is a Gozer cultist, thus explaining his completely unreasonable attitude towards the Ghostbusters,}}, turns out to be untrue. Subverted;: from dialog at the end of the game, [[The Un-Reveal|it's obvious that Egon figured it out before the actual reveal]].
* [[Regenerating Health]]: The player's health will start to regenerate if he is kept out of harm's way for a few seconds.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: The Collector (or his mask, in the HD version) appeared behind Ray after he made the comment about the Ghostbusters taking the Gozerian Codex. It was even lampshaded.
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** In the Stylized version, this is replace with time-delayed slime mines, which do more damage the longer they're charged.
* [[Serial Killer]]: All of the [[Five-Bad Band|Node Guardians]] in the video game were stated to be this during life (except the [[Eldritch Abomination|Juvenile Slor]], of course). After seeing the [[Nightmare Fuel|inside of the Spider Witch's domain]], it's not hard to doubt.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]:* To [[MythBusters|another famous "busters"]], when after an explosion, Egon asks if he still has eyebrows.
** The Sloth Ghost is a shout out to [[Monty Python]];: more specifically, the "Mr. Creosote" sketch from ''The Meaning Ofof Life''.
** A crayon drawing in the firehouse gives one to amateur Ghostbusters movies ''Freddy Vs Ghostbusters'' and its sequel ''Return of the Ghostbusters''. You can also see the ending screen of the 8-bit ''Ghostbusters'' game on the computer monitor in the firehouse.
** Also featured in the game is an answering machine message from one [[Indiana Jones|Professor Jones]] demanding the ghostbusters return the Vigo painting.
{{quote|'''Professor Jones''': It belongs in a museum! }}
▲** There are multiple references to ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' in the form of Slimer being the [[Team Pet]], the upgraded containment unit looking like a bank vault and the show's PKE meter showing up on a table as a piece of random technology.
▲*** The Ghost Traps from both ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' and ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' can be seen in the basement too.
▲**** Replaced with the movie versions of the same in the Wii version.
▲*** The online Tobin's Spirit Guide may be a reference to "The Bird of Kildarby," in which an electronic version of the book appeared.
** When the Ghostbusters are talking about possessions, Winston mentions "having your head spin around and puking pea soup", a clear shout-out to ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
▲** If the player interacts with Vigo's painting in the game, one of Vigo's possible responses is commanding the Rookie to bring him a child, but from some of the other things he says, he seems depressed and resigned to the idea that he isn't getting out.
* [[Starter Villain]]: The Fisherman's Ghost is the first level boss you fight, and the only level boss without any ties to the Gozer Cult or the overarching plot.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: In the 2009 game, the other Ghostbusters do try to carry their weight, but expect to be reviving them every minute or so. You shouldn't complain too much, though, since they'll be doing the same for you quite often.
* [[Take That]]: Vigo the Carpathian, the painting from the second game, is in the film. As well as comments ranging from [[Badass Boasts]] to demands he be brought a child to moping about his defeat he has this gem: "You will elect a leader more evil than I. Twice." [[Bill Clinton|Oh...]], [[George W. Bush|ouch]].
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Peter Venkman in the video game.
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: The 2009 game is set 2two years after the second movie, but it's obvious some of the voice actors have aged more than 2two years since that movie came out in 1989.
* [[The Voiceless]]: (Your character in the 2009 game has no dialogue whatsoever (apart from the occasional scream). His facial expressions and body language are detailed enough to tell what he's thinking, though.)
** He DOES attempt to talk a few times, but always gets cut off.
* [[A Winner Is You]] The infamous "Conglaturation!!! You have completed a great game. And prooved the justice of our culture. Now go and rest our heroes!" ending screen of the NES game.
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* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]:
{{quote|'''Winston Zeddemore:''' Just once, I wouldn't mind running with these other fools ''away'' from the trouble.
'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Where's the fun in that? }}
 
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