The Real Ghostbusters Board Game (Milton Bradley)

The Real Ghostbusters Board Game
Description Of Image:	Cover to Board Game
For Promoting:	The Real Ghostbusters
Produced By:	Milton Bradley
Features:	Board Game

The Real Ghostbusters Board Game by Milton Bradley which is not related to the board games made by Triotoys and Casper, which share the same name. It was one of the first items released based on the The Real Ghostbusters Animated Series and most of the ghosts are from the Pilot of the show.

Also the front picture of the kids playing with the kit shows the ghostbusters all in tan jumpsuits like the movie and pilot. However the playable character pieces are colored like the later shows.

The object of the game was to obtain for ghost cards and make it up the stairs while avoiding the traps. The game was based on a previous Milton Bradley game called, Which Witch?

Contents of Game

Information from Troll and Toad .com

• Game Board
• 4 Ghostbuster with plastic stands
• 1 Spooky spinner
• 1 Plastic skull
• 1 Label sheet
• 1 Die
• 4 "You've Been Slimed" cards
• 20 ghost cards
  • 2 Horizontal Grin Ghost
  • 2 Skeleton Pilot Ghost
  • 2 Caterpillar Ghost
  • 2 Big Spike Ghost
  • 1 Slimer
  • 1 Little Hopper Ghost
  • 1 Eye Visor Ghost
  • 1 Braided with Hair bows Ghost
  • 1 Elephant with Bow tie Ghost
  • 1 Big Mouth Ghost
  • 1 Big Mohawk Ghost
  • 1 Creepy Thing Ghost
  • 1 Pointy Ears Ghost
  • 1 (Yellow Cyclops) First of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot
  • 1 (Orange Ghost with White Shirt) Second of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot
  • 1 (Green Skull-faced Frog) Third of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot

The Series "Which Witch?"

The Real Ghostbusters Board game was updated theme version of "Which Witch?" first released in 1970. "Ghost Castle" which was released in 1985 was a non-Ghostbusters design of the same game.

In the 90's, Milton Bradley appears to have lost the license. There was a reissue of "Which Witch?" as "Haunted House" by "Denys Fisher". A company named "Flair games" in 2006 released its version of "Ghost Castle" which still reuses the staircase/tower plastic piece still in black. A third version of "Ghost Castle" was later released by "Goliath".

Trivia

• On page 2 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #5, the Museum section is used in a panel.
• On page 10 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #17, the Milton Bradley The Real Ghostbusters board game makes a non-canon cameo in the Firehouse's R&D lab on the mini cabinet.

External links

• BoardGameGeek -The Real Ghostbusters Game
• Article on the Board Game
• Troll and Toad .com- The Real Ghostbusters board game (Milton Bradley)
• Which Witch? instructions

Gallery

The front of the box for America

The back of the box for America

Museum

The front of the box in German.

The back of the box in German.

Cards

All 24 cards

Back of Cards

Slimer: "You've Been Slimed"

Horizontal Grin Ghost

Skeleton Pilot Ghost

Caterpillar Ghost

Big Spike Ghost

Slimer

Little Hopper Ghost

Eye Visor Ghost

Braided with Hair bows Ghost

Elephant with Bow tie Ghost

Big Mouth Ghost

Big Mohawk Ghost

Creepy Thing Ghost

Pointy Ears Ghost

Yellow Cyclops (First of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot)

Orange Ghost with White Shirt (Second of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot)

Green Skull-faced Frog (Third of three not based on a ghost in the Pilot)

Secondary Canon

Non-Canon Cameo in Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #17