Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game)
| Ghosts 'n Goblins | |
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Promotional arcade flyer | |
| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Tokuro Fujiwara |
| Programmer(s) | Toshio Arima |
| Artist(s) | Masayoshi Kurokawa |
| Composer(s) | Ayako Mori |
| Series | Ghosts 'n Goblins |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | September 4, 1985 |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura in Japan, is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.
It was a major commercial success across arcades and home systems. It was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1986 in Japan and the US, as well as the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, with the NES version selling over 1.6 million units worldwide. It initially received generally positive reviews from critics; it is often cited as one of the most difficult games of all time, and has retrospectively been considered one of the greatest video games ever made.