Ghost Battle

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Ghost Battle
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Developer(s) Interactive Design [1]
Publisher(s) Thalion Software [1]
Programmer(s) Erwin Kloibhofer [1] [2]
Artist(s) Henk Nieborg [1] [2]
Composer(s) Jochen Hippel [1] [3]
Platform(s) Amiga, Atari ST
Release
Genre(s) Action, platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Ghost Battle is a 1991 action-platform video game developed by Interactive Design and published by Thalion Software for the Amiga and ported later to the Atari ST. [4] After finishing Ghost Battle as freelancers, Austrian programmer Erwin Kloibhofer and Dutch graphic designer Henk Nieborg got an in-house job at Thalion. They went on to design another side-scrolling platform game, Lionheart (1993). It received a higher critical reception. Nieborg cited influences for Ghost Battle as Ghosts 'n Goblins , Green Beret , and various horror films. [5]

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Gameplay

The game is a side-scrolling platformer that consists of five levels. [6] Three difficulty levels can be chosen at the beginning: easy, normal, hard. The player is a barbarian that has wandered into an evil forest and witnesses a princess being captured. [7] The barbarian can throw rocks and bombs at the enemies. [8] Additional weapons are available that are guarded by monsters. [6]

Reception

Ghost Battle received generally average reviews from critics. Amiga Action recommended the game overall but didn't like the slow movement of the main character and the badly translated manual. [6] Amiga Format concluded: "It is not the best platform romp ever designed, but the evil puzzles, good pics and excitable soundtracks are far better than the box lets on." [3] Games-X compared the game to Horror Zombies from the Crypt (1990). Graphics and sound were praised, the gameplay was said to be uninteresting at first but getting better over time. [8] The One found the music to be the game's best feature. Graphics were described as nothing special, gameplay as "largely uninspired", and controls as "very finicky". [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Games Reviews - Ghost Battle [Atari ST]" (PDF). Games-X . No. 16. Europress. 8 August 1991. p. 23.
  3. 1 2 3 Webb, Trenton (August 1991). "Screenplay - Ghost Battle". Amiga Format . No. 25. Future plc. pp. 82–83.
  4. ↑ Interactive Design (1991). Ghost Battle (Atari ST). Thalion Software. Level/area: Title screen. Converted to Atari by Michael Bittner
  5. ↑ "RVG Interviews: Henk Nieborg". at RVG. 7 June 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Reviews - Ghost Battle". Amiga Action . No. 23. Europress. August 1991. p. 90.
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  9. ↑ Fuchser, Dirk (January 1992). "Konvertierungen - Ghost Battle" (PDF). Aktueller Software Markt (in German). Vol. 7, no. 1/92. Tronic-Verlag. p. 112. Gesamtnote: 5/12
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