Ghostbusters: The Video Game: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[Heroic Mime]]: The Rookie

* [[High Turnover Rate]]: Implied with the rookies in the game.

{{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.

* [[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.

** 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.

** The Sloth Ghost is a shout out to [[Monty Python]]; more specifically, the "Mr. Creosote" sketch from ''The Meaning Of 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.

** 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.

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Peter Venkman in the video game.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: The 2009 game is set 2 years after the second movie, but it's obvious some of the voice actors have aged more than 2 years since that movie came out in 1989.