June 16th marks the release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, a project that brings together much of the original cast of the movies for an all-new story in the Ghostbusters franchise. In this week's The Score, we crunch some of the numbers behind the cast, the legacy, and the game.
THE CAST
Number of movies Dan Aykroyd has appeared in since Ghostbusters 2: 43
Number of movies Ernie Hudson has appeared in since Ghostbusters 2: 47
Number of movies Bill Murray has appeared in since Ghostbusters 2: 29
Number of movies Harold Ramis has appeared in since Ghostbusters 2: 11
Number of movies Dan Aykroyd has written since Ghostbusters 2: 3
Number of movies Harold Ramis has written since Ghostbusters 2: 5
Number of projects involving alcoholic beverages Dan Akroyd is involved in: at least 4
Number of those projects that are a vodka sold in a crystal skull-shaped bottle: 1
Approximate current age of the baby in Ghostbusters 2: 20
Maximum drinking age in Dan Aykroyd's native land of Canada: 19
THE LEGACY:
Number of words on the end screen of the NES Ghostbusters game: 20
Number of those words that were misspelled: 2
Number of times you have to play through the final level in the NES Ghostbusters 2 game: 4
Number of times you play a level in the Sedgewick Hotel in the 2009 Ghostbusters: The Videogame: 2
Number of classic video game characters rescued from ghosts by Ernie Hudson: 1 (Luigi on the Super Mario Super Show)
THE GAME:
Number of writers credited in the game's opening credits: 2
Number of writers credited on the game: 5
Amount of writing the two writers featured in the game's opening credits (Aykroyd & Ramis) say they actually wrote: "little tiny structural things"
Number of achievement points granted for sliding down the firepole: 5
Rotten Tomatoes score for Ghostbusters: 93
Rotten Tomatoes score for Ghostbusters 2: 52
Metacritic score for Ghostbusters: The Videogame (as of 4:00 PM, June 11, 2009): 78
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