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Crush! Frag! Review! – Ghostbusters: The Video Game

ghostbusterslogoI’ll get this out of the way up front: when I was a kid, I wanted to be a Ghostbuster. There. I said it. Not a real paranormal investigator – although those are still cool – but an actual, honest-to-goodness, from-the-movie Ghostbuster.

I was eight years old when the first movie hit theaters and I latched onto it like a fiend. Some kids wanted a new bike for Christmas; I hoped against hope for a Proton Pack and my own PKE Meter. To this day I can quote the movies, line for line, from memory. Yes, even the second one that nobody seemed to like.

I tell you about my fanboy-ism in the spirit of full disclosure going into this review. However, I would say this qualifies me better to judge what they got right and what they did wrong. And I promise to refrain from slipping lines from the movie into the review like every other outlet under the sun has done in the name of weak humor and pop culture relevance…maybe.

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