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Monster Party for the NES was one of those consistent rental games for me as a kid. The gameplay was solid, and the setting had a unique charm to it with its creepy atmosphere. And the game was *just* challenging enough that I could make good progress with it, but never get very far in the game. I decided to go back and put in a solid effort to fully finish the game this time, and knock it off my ever growing backlog. What better time to talk about this weird game full of weird half fish monsters and surprising-considering-Nintendo's-censorship-policies blood than the Halloween season?

Just in time for Halloween, let's look at five of my favorite episodes of The Real Ghostbusters!

Collect Call of Cathulhu

While the other episodes on this list are favorites from my childhood, this is one that I only have the vaguest recollection of as a kid, but now, as an adult and a lover of H.P. Lovecraft's writing, this is a real standout episode. The Necronomicon is being loaned to the New York Public Library from Arkham University, and is stolen by Cathulhu worshipers. It's later revealed by Egon and Ray that Cathulhu is one of several 'ancient ones' that writers like H.P. Lovecraft used as the basis for their stories. This episode is a real treat for Lovecraft fans by bringing in several elements of the Cthulhu mythos, and simply saying they were real elements that Lovecraft simply weaved into his stories. We get some great creepy character designs of the [find what they were], and a pretty great looking Cathulhu himself in the end. This is a really well-written episode that is fast paced and packed with action, intrigue and comedy.

Halloween is always my favorite time of the year. Starting in August, I'm drinking pumpkin spice coffee, I'm watching spooky movies and Halloween cartoon specials, and I'm playing lots of spooky games. Playing through the first Castlevania game, or at least playing one a Castlevania game in general, has become something of a yearly tradition now. So last year, I started thinking about making a short Halloween game for the Game Boy using the wonderful GB Studio engine.

You might have realized from looking around this site that I'm a fan of the Ghostbusters. I'm also a huge fan of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, and back when it aired on Saturday mornings my whole morning would revolve around their timeslot. I had tapes and tapes filled with episodes. And two of the most memorable episodes involved a certain spirit of Halloween. I speak of course, of Sam Hain. He just looked awesome, so…

Well, shoot. Halloween came and went and I spent most of it working on school work! So please allow me to make one final Halloween-themed post as I discuss one final bit of spooky video game music, the music from The 7th Guest. I was crazy about The 7th Guest back when it came out. The atmosphere, the story, the brain-busting puzzles had my friends and I hooked like mad back in the day. While…

I took yesterday off from work due to feeling like crap, which gave me a lot more time to devote to gaming. Or at least that’s what I thought it would do. As it turns out, I simply devoted my time to doing weird time-wasting activities. Like going into Playstation Home. I hardly ever go there anymore. But the lure of Halloween events was too great, and I had to see what there was to…