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Ghost Hunters is an platform/action game that also combined Operation Wolf style shooting gameplay at the same time. It was released in February 1986 by Codemasters. This title compains elements from the survival horror genre despite pre-dating it, making it one of the fathers of the genre. Image File history File links Ghost-hunters-game-cover. ...
A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ...
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to develop computer games professionally while they were still at school. ...
Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ...
Codemasters (earlier known as Code Masters) is one of the oldest British software houses. ...
A game engine is the core software component of a video game. ...
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February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ...
A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ...
Shooter games cover a fairly broad spectrum of sub-genres that have the commonality of controlling a character who is usually armed with a firearm that can be freely aimed. ...
In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ...
Games, like most other forms of media, may be categorized into genres based on gameplay, atmosphere, and various other factors. ...
Amstrad CPC 464, with CTM644 colour monitor The Amstrad CPC was an 8-bit home computer produced by Amstrad in the 1980s. ...
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. ...
For the meaning of cassette in genetics, see cassette (genetics). ...
A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ...
Action games could be considered the video game equivalent of action movies. ...
Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter arcade game by Taito made in 1987. ...
Shooter games cover a fairly broad spectrum of sub-genres that have the commonality of controlling a character who is usually armed with a firearm that can be freely aimed. ...
Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ...
February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Codemasters (earlier known as Code Masters) is one of the oldest British software houses. ...
Survival horror is a prominent video game genre in which the player has to survive an onslaught of undead or creepy opponents, usually in claustrophobic environments in a third-person perspective. ...
 Screenshot of Ghost Hunters. The series was developed by the Oliver twins at the age of 17 and was their second title published by Codemasters after the commerically successful Super Robin Hood. The twins credit the film Ghostbusters and the cartoon series, Scooby Doo for influencing the game. Image File history File links Ghost-hunter-screenshot. ...
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The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to develop computer games professionally while they were still at school. ...
Screenshot of the loading screen. ...
Ghostbusters (sometimes written Ghost Busters) is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three parapsychologists who are fired from a New York City University, and start up their own business investigating and eliminating ghosts. ...
A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...
Scooby-Doo is a popular and long-running animated series produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions (now Cartoon Network Studios) from 1969 to 1986, 1988 to 1991, and from 2002 to the present day. ...
Like their previous game, Super Robin Hood, the player controlled a person around the platformer style screen using the keyboard, however uniquely, to attack the enemy the player is required change modes and move around the targetting cursor Operation Wolf style to shoot the Ghosts and demons, causing the player to stand still. This resulted in the player requireing to shoot the targets quickly and operate their player to move around the screen before more would appear.
Codemasters paid the Oliver brother's £10,000 for the Amstrad CPC released and were offered another £10,000 for a ZX Spectrum release. However the twins didnt wish to produce a port by actually coding on the Spectrum, so to save time, they hired their friend Ivan Link to build a cable that links the Spectrum and the Amstrad. After which the twins produced the only software for the Spectrum they ever wrote called SPLINK (SPectrum and LINK) that enabled the code to be altered for the Amstrad and ported to the Spectrum.
 | This enabled us to write Spectrum games on our Amstrad, making the most of the benefits of its on-board source code and graphics, its very fast and reliable disk drive and a leading Assembler/Machine Code compiler called MAXAM. That way SPLINK gave us an enormous advantage over our competitors who were trying to write Spectrum games - using a Spectrum! |
 | - Philip and Andrew Oliver [1] Image File history File links Quotation marks File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Quotation marks File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
After being released both Spectrum and Amstrad versions went to No. 1 in commerical sales, this in combination with their previous No. 1 title, Super Robin Hood being ported to other platforms gave the Oliver twins a large amount of media exposure, being dubbed "The Oliver Twins - Whizz Kids."
See also The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to develop computer games professionally while they were still at school. ...
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