Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Ghostbusters 2 for C64 by Activision and Foursfield, loaded from tape.
This has got to be the single worst multiloader I have ever experienced on the c64 - there is about 3 minutes of in-game footage on a 30 minute video. People always talk about the horrors of Turbo Outrun and R-Type, but this beats them both by a significant marging, in terms of useless loading.
It's not even a bad loader system - it's actually cyberload, as far as I can tell - and gets a decent load rate, it's just that the mastering and implementation is so, so incredibly poor - there's 2 presentation loads before the first part of the game, and then a seperate load for the first level - a 4 odd minute load for about a minute of gameplay. At which point I died, and had to load _from the start of the tape_ again.
Get through level one on the second attempt, another presentation load, and then level 2, on which i died for reasons that honestly I didn't really understand, at which point it wanted me to load again from scratch. I, obviously elected to do that - this isn't the lonplays channel, and while I'm trying to give the games a serious play now (I actually have a capture setup now that is _after_ the monitor, so I can play without input lag), this isn't a longplays channel, and so try somehwere else to see level 3 ;).
Anyhow, this game is terrible, but not the worst i've ever played. The loader, however? THe absolutely and total worse. Never, ever, ever again.
Ghostbusters 2 for C64 by Activision and Foursfield, loaded from tape.
This has got to be the single worst multiloader I have ever experienced on the c64 - there is about 3 minutes of in-game footage on a 30 minute video. People always talk about the horrors of Turbo Outrun and R-Type, but this beats them both by a significant marging, in terms of useless loading.
It's not even a bad loader system - it's actually cyberload, as far as I can tell - and gets a decent load rate, it's just that the mastering and implementation is so, so incredibly poor - there's 2 presentation loads before the first part of the game, and then a seperate load for the first level - a 4 odd minute load for about a minute of gameplay. At which point I died, and had to load _from the start of the tape_ again.
Get through level one on the second attempt, another presentation load, and then level 2, on which i died for reasons that honestly I didn't really understand, at which point it wanted me to load again from scratch. I, obviously elected to do that - this isn't the lonplays channel, and while I'm trying to give the games a serious play now (I actually have a capture setup now that is _after_ the monitor, so I can play without input lag), this isn't a longplays channel, and so try somehwere else to see level 3 ;).
Anyhow, this game is terrible, but not the worst i've ever played. The loader, however? THe absolutely and total worse. Never, ever, ever again.
