Ghostbusters 2016 (And its Controversy)

[Kosheh]

I never watched anything related to Ghostbusters but for some reason this film had a lot of game tie-ins, even on the C64 of all things


At least the chiptune version of the movie theme is very cool

the true downer about Ghostbusters is that it's like Garfield or the Ninja Turtles: it's like this accidental classic of the 80's that the big companies bought and pretty much just milked the shit out of its licensing afterwards.

i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

The Turtles most people know and love was the milk, the original comics were a success but the 'classic of the 80s' was a 5 part TV show made to sell action figures. When people say "I liked the original Turtles" they are normally talking about the cartoon.

Not to mention that the old cartoons are awesome (upto a point) 3/4 of the 'old' films were good, the fox kids (was it fox kids?) cartoon was good (again upto a point) the Nicktoons one is good and the new comic series is good. Sometimes, man, milk away. Sure we got space hockey Rapheal and the new films but it's a small price to pay for continued existence of a still promising franchise.

d-did you just explain the Turtles franchise to someone who already knew the Turtles franchise? lol I know the comic book was an underground indie hit that CBS said "we can turn your hundreds into BILLIONS" - and when people talk about the original Turtles - yes, it's the '87 cartoon (which you guys got rebranded as "Hero Turtles"), but in actuality that was probably the weakest in the series; since they managed to squeeze out 188 more episodes to push the sales of Playmates action figures. Remember, that's the era of the Turtles that spawned the Pizza Hut "Coming Out of Our Shells" tour collaboration
(also, I'm kinda holding 2016 standards to a show from 1987. What made the Turtles then was how fitting it was of the period - sorta like Ghostbusters, actually)

The '87 series actually got pretty terrible at like the start of season 2 - the show had little direction with one-off plots and some of them were downright absurd (though to be fair, part of it was probably done as to not alienate kids [or concerned parents] of the 90's) I've actually heard from other Turtle nerds that their favorite series was the Fox Kids one due to how close it was to the Mirage comics.
The new show and comic though is pretty dang good. I guess that franchise milking was worth it if it led to them to getting some of the best names in the industry to work on the series. x)