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Play Ghostbusters II (US edition · English) Online
Ghostbusters II
Play Activision's Ghostbusters II online and race through seven NES scenes with the slime blower, ghost traps, Ecto-1A jumps, power-ups, and the Statue of Liberty.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Ghostbusters II
Quick start
At the title or demo, press Start or A. Select one or two players with Select or Left/Right, confirm, and advance to the tunnel. Keep ahead of the spider while aiming with Up/Down and firing the slime blower with A. Jump low threats with B. If a flying poltergeist object ignores the blower, press Start to place a trap behind your route; it captures passing targets until its power expires. Do not leave a second trap because only one can operate. Shoot logos when the path is safe, since twenty produce an extra life and lives do not reset between stages. After losing a scene, A or Start chooses Continue while chances remain.
Controls
On foot: Left/Right runs, Up/Down adjusts the blower, A fires slime, B jumps, Start drops a trap. Ecto-1A: Up/Down changes lane, Right speeds up, Left slows down, A fires the equipped weapon, B jumps. Statue of Liberty: Left/Right walks; with the aiming upgrade, Up aims right and Down aims left; A fires the torch and B triggers a collected book bomb. Title/menu: Start or A proceeds; Select or Left/Right changes between one and two players. This layout is for Imagineering/Activision's NES game, not HAL's New Ghostbusters II.
Ghostbusters II — About this game
Activision's Ghostbusters II for NES follows the team from the river of mood slime to the Manhattan Museum of Art in seven stages. It is a separate game from HAL Laboratory's New Ghostbusters II. The on-foot format combines side-scrolling movement, an adjustable slime blower, jumps, and a limited ghost trap; other scenes shift to the Ecto-1A, where lane changes, speed control, weapons, power-ups, and timed jumps matter. The Statue of Liberty stage becomes a marching shooter with aim upgrades and screen-clearing book bombs. Four starting lives are shared across the full run, though collecting twenty Ghostbusters II logos awards another. In two-player mode, players alternate after a completed or failed scene rather than acting together, and both attempt the same sequence on their respective turns.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
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