Golly! Ghost! is an electro-mechanical/video game hybrid released by Namco

Namco

is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

in 1990.

Gameplay

There are two mounted guns on the arcade console. The gun on the left is colored blue and is nicknamed "Zip". The gun on the right is red and is nicknamed "Zap". The player(s) use the guns to shoot a specific amount of comical enemy ghosts before time runs out. This is a video ticket/redemption game. Players are rewarded based on their scores with tickets, which emerge from a ghost's mouth painted on the console.

Golly! Ghost! contains four levels of play and is also notable for its use of a three-dimensional diorama over which the actual video ghosts are projected.

Bubble Trouble / Golly! Ghost! 2

A sequel to the game, Golly! Ghost! 2, also known as Bubble Trouble, was released in 1991 and was themed around sunken treasure.

External links

• Golly! Ghost! at the Arcade Flyer Archive