Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding award:
- The Real Ghostbuster: Most ghosts trapped or destroyed.
- Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost: Least amount of knockouts.
- Medic: Most revivals of teammates.
- Most Revived: Most times revived by a teammate.
- Marathon Runner: Longest total distance traveled in the match.
- Slowpoke: Shortest total distance traveled in the match.
- Slime Magnet: Most times slimed.
- Rollin In Dough: Most cash earned in the match.
- Broke: Least cash earned in the match.
- Tech Head: Most power-ups collected in the match.
- Purist: Fewest power-ups collected in the match.
- Itchy Trigger Finger: First Person to shoot in the round.
- Nice Shootin Tex: Highest accuracy with the Proton beam (including the Boson Dart).
- Light Show: Lowest accuracy with the Proton beam (including the Boson Dart).
- Dead Aim: Most ghosts hit with the Meson Collider (including alternate fire).
- Darkest Matter: Most ghosts hit with the Shock Blast (including the Stasis beam).
- Ghosticle: Most ghosts frozen with the Stasis Beam.
- Slimer: Most shots with the Slime Blower (including the Slime Tether).
- Befriender: Most ghosts turned into good guys with Pink Slime.
- Duckin and Dodgin: Most dodges and jumps.
- Slammer: Most wrangled ghost slams.
- Long Time Wrangler: Longest ghost wrangle.
- Demolitions Man: Most ghosts damaged in a single explosion.
- Keeping An Eye Out: Longest period of time in PKE goggle view.
- My Ghosts My Trap: Most ghosts trapped in your own trap.
- We Came We Saw: First person to trap 10 ghosts.
- Destruction Master: Most Evil Relics destroyed.
- Smashy Smashy: First player to destroy 10 Evil Relics.
- Blink Out: Most ghosts eliminated by destroying Evil Relics.
- Rampager: Shortest period of time between destroying two Evil Relics.
- Soul Survivor: Longest run without getting knocked out.
- Team Savior: Revived each teammate at least once.
- First Death: First knockout of the round.
- Commando: Highest ghost defeat to player knockout ratio.
- MVP: Most points in Slime Dunk.
- Slimer Wrangler: Longest amount of time wrangling Slimer.
- Slimer Dodger: Least number of times knocked down by Slimer.
- Gloop Dreams: First person to perform 5 Slime Dunks in the match.
- Best Rescuer: Most Artifacts returned to the safe zone.
- First Rescuer: First player to destroy an Artifact thief.
- Red Handed: The player who destroys the most Artifact thieves.
- True Protector: Trap three ghosts in a row while the active PKE Disruptor remains undamaged.
- Comeback Kid: Trap three ghosts in "Sudden Death".
- Vendetta: Be the first to destroy or capture a ghost after it has damaged a PKE Disruptor.
- Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost: Least amount of knockouts.
The player ranks in order are as follows:
- Intern Ghostbuster
- Rookie
- Greenhorn
- Supernatural Investigator
- Novice Ghostbuster
- Paranormal Examiner
- Slime Collector
- Spook Spotter
- Spirit Trapper
- Ghostbuster
- Proton Slinger
- Slimer Snagger
- Phantom Blaster
- Ecto Exterminator
- Elite Ghostbuster
- Wraith Wrangler
- Soul Hunter
- Specter Slayer
- Defender of New York
- Ghostbuster of the Year
- Rookie
Successfully complete the indicated tasks in the following locations:
Library (Reading Room, Basement Stacks, Twisted Stacks)
- The Book Of Pain: Successfully complete any job in any of the Library levels.
- Captain Of The Guard: Capture The Book Of Pain, and kill twenty paper enemies.
- Olga The Terrible: Capture the Captain Of The Guard, and successfully complete five jobs in the Library.
- Dredge: Capture Olga The Terrible, and successfully complete ten Library thief jobs.
- Captain Of The Guard: Capture The Book Of Pain, and kill twenty paper enemies.
Times Square (Streets, Office, Rooftops)
- Smelly Ned: Successfully complete five containments in the Times Square maps.
- Dolnasky: Capture Smelly Ned, and collect fifty power-ups.
- Grimgreave: Capture Dolnasky, and kill twenty gargoyles and/or cherubs using slams.
- Binky: Capture Grimgreave, and successfully complete ten survivals on the Times Square maps.
- Dolnasky: Capture Smelly Ned, and collect fifty power-ups.
Museum (Rotunda, Mayan, Egypt)
- Grundel: Successfully complete five Museum protections.
- Sharpshooter Bailey: Capture Grundel, and capture fifteen civil war ghosts.
- The Maestro: Capture Sharpshooter Bailey, and successfully complete ten Museum survival jobs.
- Grand Pappy Sargassi: Capture The Maestro and successfully complete fifteen jobs on the Museum levels.
- Sharpshooter Bailey: Capture Grundel, and capture fifteen civil war ghosts.
Cemetery (Graveyard, Altar, Lost Temple)
- Mad Mad Minimo: Earn $50,000 in any Cemetery job. Must be in a single match (survival recommended).
- The Darkest: Capture Mad Mad Minimo, and kill fifteen Black Slime monsters.
- The Clawed Menace: Capture The Darkest, and kill fifty Cemetery crawlers (spider like tombstone creatures).
- The Uprising: Capture The Clawed Menace, and successfully complete ten survival jobs in the Cemetery.
- The Darkest: Capture Mad Mad Minimo, and kill fifteen Black Slime monsters.
Any level except for Slime Dunk
- Rotten Slimer: Capture 10 Slimers.
- Wee Slimer: Capture Rotten Slimer, and win at least three Slime Dunks.
- Polar Slimer: Capture Wee Slimer, and achieve twenty Slime Dunks on each of the Slime Dunk maps.
- Glutton Slimer: Capture Polar Slimer, and successfully complete 60 jobs.
- Wee Slimer: Capture Rotten Slimer, and win at least three Slime Dunks.
Check your messages when you get back from the "Stay Puft Marshmallow" level. The new person's father or friend says "You're doing adequate work out there Luke, keep it up!". This reveals that his name is Luke Hoss.
When hunting Slimer, you will find room 1221, the Spider Witch's room. Looking through the Paragoogles at the lower left decoration will reveal a glowing spider.
In the firehouse after the "Shador Island" level, there are Spanish newspapers scattered all over. The headline reads "Un Cubano En El Cosmos", which means "A Cuban in Space".
Go upstairs at Ghostbusters headquarters. You can find a drawing by a child on pink paper hanging near some electrical equipment. The text "To Uncle Egon, from Ed." appears on it. This is a reference to the fan fiction Ghostbusters videos "Freddy vs. Ghostbusters" and "The Return Of The Ghostbusters" which features Egon's nephew Ed Spengler.
When you are in the hotel ballroom with Slimer, press [Action] by the piano to sometimes hear the same notes that Peter played in Dana's apartment in the first movie.
In the "Sedgewick Hotel" level, you will pass room 1204 while hunting for Slimer. Inside you can hear the original Ghostbusters commercial for the movie. This is also a reference to Dana Barrett, who had a habit of leaving her television turned on too loud.
In front of the water fountain in the firehouse is a window looking back into storage. You can see the "Ghostbusters II" sign and some doors from Ecto 1A.
When you are in the firehouse just before returning to the closed-up Sedgewick, play through the phone messages. You will hear a woman asking for the number to Ray's Occult bookstore.
One of the messages on the answering machine is from a Professor Jones who is trying to locate the Vigo painting, stating that it belongs in a museum.
The portrait of Ivo Shandor's mother on Shandor Island is modeled after Francois Boucher's 1750s portrait of Madame de Pompadour, courtesan to Louis the XV of France. Though a political and historically significant figure, she was essentially a prostitute.
Look at one of the monitors on a desk upstairs at the Ghostbusters' headquarters. You can see the ending screen from Ghostbusters on the NES.
One of the messages from the Vigo painting is a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial. It reads, "I see the evil in the times to come. The glove won't fit."
When you are in the firehouse, go down by the containment unit. Look on one of the work desks to see a circular ghost trap that was used in the late 1990's cartoon called The Extreme Ghostbusters.
In the basement, on the far work station there is a PKE meter modeled after the one from The Real Ghostbusters.
When listening to the answering machine messages, one will be of a man talking in a gruff voice asking, "Who busts the Ghostbusters?"