Artwork from the back of the Japanese Megadrive version of Ghouls’n Ghosts.
One that I forgot to make in time for yesterday’s Ghosts’n Goblins article. Astaroth sure does look impatient.
At the big VGJunk site today: only one article this week, but it’s a big one about Capcom’s 1985 arcade classic Ghosts’n Goblins! Games don’t come much tougher than this, and never with the same utter disregard for the players feelings - featuring hordes of smug aerial aces, religion usurped by shields, the cruelty of armour and many, many, many deaths. You can read all about it here!
It’s a question that I’m sure has been asked by many people, but I’ve never seen a satisfactory answer so here it is again - in the Ghosts ‘n Goblins intro, why has Arthur taken Princess Prin-Prin on a picnic in a graveyard in the middle of the night with no clothes on besides his boxers?
My own personal theory is that Arthur and Prin-Prin’s romance was growing a little stale so he put her in the most demon-kidnap-friendly situation he could think of. He fights through Hell to rescue her, she’s extremely grateful and the spark has returned. What I’m saying is Arthur is probably a sociopath.
