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Ghostbusters Games and gamesTM Memories (with Dave Scarborough)

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01:46:20 - 01:47:06

... I like this next one a lot. And I think you would like it too. I couldn't get you to play it because it's really, really difficult to play now. Can you do you know what it is? No, Lego Dimensions. There was a Ghostbusters set. It rips. It rips not only because and I've got the figures on my on my collection behind me because it has a Stay Puft in it. And for listeners who haven't seen my pictures on Discord. I have a whole Stay Puft, Marth Schmeleman collection surrounding me in my office. But this is great.…

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... Because that directly ties in. So anyway, this is a four player twin stick shooter. Gameplay is incredibly repetitive. I bounced off this so hard. It's recycling a lot of environments and enemies from Ghostbusters video game. Absolute poop. Not worth the time of day. I like this next one a lot. And I think you would like it too. I couldn't get you to play it because it's really, really difficult to play now. Can you do you know what it is? No, Lego Dimensions. There was a Ghostbusters set. It rips. It rips not only because and I've got the figures on my on my collection behind me because it has a Stay Puft in it. And for listeners who haven't seen my pictures on Discord. I have a whole Stay Puft, Marth Schmeleman collection surrounding me in my office. But this is great. It's it basically does what a lot of the Lego games did back then. It takes the movie, just recreates it in Lego form with the with the original audio, but adds more physical and slapstick humor around the edges. It's this was a time when Lego games reach an impact was at its peak. And I'd say arguably the ambition of Dimensions got away from it as it was trying to sort of latch on to the Disney Infinity Skylanders toy to life success and it never quite got there. ...

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