Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game)

Ghosts 'n Goblins
Ghosts 'n Goblins
	Arcade flyer
Developer	Capcom
Publishers	WW: Capcom; NA: Taito (arcade);
Director	Tokuro Fujiwara
Programmer	Toshio Arima
Artist	Masayoshi Kurokawa
Composer	Ayako Mori
Series	Ghosts 'n Goblins
Platform	Arcade NES, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, IBM PC, PC-8801, Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Android, iOS;
Release	September 5, 1985 Arcade JP: September 5, 1985; NA/EU: October 1985; NES JP: June 13, 1986; NA: November 1986; EU: March 23, 1989; ZX Spectrum EU: June 1986; C16, C64, CPC EU: 1986; IBM PC NA: 1987; PC-8801 JP: 1987; Amiga, Atari ST UK: 1990; Game Boy Color NA: January 20, 2000; EU: August 24, 2000; Game Boy Advance JP: May 21, 2004; iOS, Android WW: March 15, 2017; ;
Genre	Platform
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer

Ghosts 'n Goblins, known as Makaimura in Japan, is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise, and has since been ported to numerous home platforms.

It was a major commercial success across arcades and home systems. It was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1986 in Japan and the US, as well as the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, with the Nintendo Entertainment System version selling over 1.6 million units worldwide. It initially received generally positive reviews from critics; it is often cited as one of the most difficult games of all time, and has retrospectively been considered one of the greatest video games ever made.