Terminal Reality may have just been put on the map with its recently released Ghostbusters: The Video Game having sold an estimated one million copies worldwide. The creation of the game did not come easily or cheap, however, having taken three years, thousands of man hours and a budget between $15 million and $20 million, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram [thanks Kotaku].
All the buzz the game has created has apparently made certain bigwigs in Hollywood interested in creating a third movie chapter to the Ghostbusters saga. "It is great to realize," said Randel co-founder and president of Terminal Reality. "That if they are thinking of rebooting Ghostbusters, of handing off the torch from the old guard to the new for a new Ghostbusters, that the success of the game definitely had something to do with green-lighting that project. And you can bet that if that movie were to come out, we’d just love to do another Ghostbusters game based on it."
IndustryGamers cringes to think of a third Ghostbusters movie coming out- Ghostbusters II had only a fraction of the charm of the first and we have difficultly believing it'd work out better now, decades after the first film.
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July 22, 2009
David, you're a hater, Ghostbusters II had the feel good ending of the decade! Liftin me higher, thanks walking Statue of Liberty for making New Yorkers say hooray for everything!
July 22, 2009
Wha? "he success of the game"??
Wasn't it just in the news last week that the game is conspicuous in it's absence off the of the NPD charts, and isn't selling through?
All I know is that in recent visits to two GameStops and one Blockbuster, there's *ZERO* signage or merchandising for the game. I own it, yeah it's a good game, but it's not exactly burning up the charts.
July 22, 2009
The game fizzled, no doubt due in part to horrendous marketing... I too noticed no advertising for the game, either on the net or tv or at retail. The trailers that I did see earlier were horrible.
Sad, because I rented the game and it was pretty decent (though not great), and certainly could have sold better with at least an attempt at marketing.
Sad state that Atari is in, and it seems to just keep getting worse...
July 22, 2009
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not John, but I don't hate Ghostbusters II. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I thought it was an O.K. movie, just not as good as the first, and I don't think a third movie would recapture that magic.
And guys, you have to realize that Ghostbusters: The Video Game released on seven platforms in the U.S. and also came to Europe on PS2 and PS3, so the million in sales isn't as unlikely (or incredible) as it sounds.
July 22, 2009
I also think a third movie would suck....unless they got J Abrams to reboot it.