Man takes 17 Years to Beat Chosts 'N Goblins

[Buddabing]

Here's a link to the article:

http://www.thetoque.com/021008/ghosts.htm

He finally did it with MAME and a HotRod.

[MameMaster!]

...that's funny.

The only arcade game I've "finished" was T2 recently in Mame using at leat $100.00 in virtual quarters!

....I don't think I've ever actually finished an arcade game in an arcade (just a few of the home versions of various games).

The MameMaster!

[hyiu]

sorry... but....

he could leave his computer on.... and press "pause"...

and go to bed... and continue tomorrow....

no need to go 37 hrs straight....

well.... at least he doesn't have the pressure anymore...
good luck to him....

[Minwah]

Great story, I like the way he lost his job and girlfriend...but it gave him the time required to beat the game.

It is bloody hard in fairness, tho I think the Ghouls 'n Ghosts might be slightly harder!...

[SirPoonga]

Yeah, this was descussed on chat some time ago.
Note
http://www.mrsalty.net/arcade/cabinet/original.jpg
and the pic in the article.  Hmmm, someone likes photoshop

[Dartful Dodger]

Yeah, this was descussed on chat some time ago.
Note
http://www.mrsalty.net/arcade/cabinet/original.jpg
and the pic in the article.  Hmmm, someone likes photoshop

Wow it must have taken hours to cut the dude and background out of that picture.


 

[JackTucky]

Does anybody get that this is a joke?  

The Toque "CANADA'S SOURCE FOR HUMOUR AND SATIRE"

Or maybe I'm missing the joke here?  
 

Art

[jakejake28]

Does anybody get that this is a joke?  

The Toque "CANADA'S SOURCE FOR HUMOUR AND SATIRE"

Or maybe I'm missing the joke here?  
 

Art

nah, i got it, but only b/c of other links:

Software Pirate Disappointed With Latest Game Releases
Quake Player Can't Distinguish Gaming From Reality
Why I Lost That Deathmatch
Cheater Not Challenged By Age Of Mythology
Chris Taylor Refuses To Sign Copy Of Dungeon Siege

all great stories... it's like the canadian The Onion

[CitznFish]

A cheap rip-off of the Onion..

[Nailz]

A cheap rip-off of the Onion..

Cheap ripoff?  Why can't funny just be funny?  Or does the Onion have the market cornered?  

[CitznFish]

A cheap rip-off of the Onion..

Cheap ripoff?  Why can't funny just be funny?  Or does the Onion have the market cornered?  

Nah, it can be funny except that it's canadian. The only thing funny from Canada is the smell.     [ducks]

[jerryjanis]

Ugh, I've been chasing the dream of Beating Ghouls and Ghosts for over 10 years - this all sounds way to familiar to be funny at all.

[CthulhuLuke]

It took my brother and I bout 6 hours to get to the last level of Ghosts n Goblins, we were both running on caffine at that point so we just turned it off and decided we'd better leave it for another day.  Now if he could beat Super Ghouls n Ghosts BOTH times in 36 hours, now that I would be impressed by!  That game is seriously impossible to every extent, I always die at the level where everything starts going pseudo-3D and the SNES hardware slows down when the graphics start spinning around your character.  That level is a freakin beast.  Hmm... ghouls and ghosts, I think I'm gonna go load something up....
        -Chu

[Isometric Bacon]

It's funny. I used to swear as a kid that I would ONE DAY get past the first level of that confounded game on the commodore 64, and I never did.

I remember watching someone complete "Super Ghouls and Ghosts" after going for it for longer than a day, (surprisingly enough my second cousins mother who would have been in their 40's) then reaching the very end, then discovering that they had to play through the game "again" and turning it off in disgust and relief.

Now, discovering Mame about 6 months ago, and probably 10 years after my first experience with Ghosts n' Ghouls I vowed that I will one day complete that game... and so far i've made it up to the 5 or 6th level, and it's still going... with no signs of ever getting there.

Ahh well. It took him what, 17 years? Give me another 7 years. I'll beat him someday!

[said7]

I used to work at an arcade and i flipped plenty of games.

I even had a record of 60-5 in blitz.