Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Computer and Video Games | 33/40 |
| CRASH | 95% |
| Sinclair User | |
| Your Sinclair | 9/10 |
| ACE | |
| The Games Machine | 95% |
| Zzap!64 | 97% |
Ghosts'n Goblins was runner-up in the category of Arcade-Style Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.
The NES version of Ghosts'n Goblins was rated the 129th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list. It was also a best seller for the NES, selling 1.64 million units. Ghosts n' Goblins is often cited as an example of one of the hardest games of all time to beat, due to its high level of difficulty and the fact you must play through the game twice in order to fight the true final boss.
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)