Ghostbusters DVD: Worst Video Titles Ever

Josh
Friday
5:25 pm

Given that I’d written a couple blog posts on the upcoming Ghostbusters games, I was developing a man-sized hankering to go back and watch the original movie.

Last year, I got a 2-disc “collector’s DVD” that came with a great production sketch booklet. I’d leafed through the booklet, but never watched the discs.

Until last night.

Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group isn’t exactly small potatoes, especially when you consider they’re backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. They probably retain more than 100 tons of graphic designer… whole Matrix-like pods of them just waiting to design DVD titles.

But you wouldn’t know it from looking at this baby. My three biggest problems with it (avert thine eyes below):

GREEN LINES: Let’s start with the worst offense first. Did an epileptic with a Koala Pad draw this on his Apple II? What am I supposed to be looking at? It sure as hell isn’t the Ghostbusters’ proton streams — not unless they hired another one in the directors’ cut. (And, no, those lines don’t move or wiggle — you’re literally seeing all that it’s got.)

THE ‘EASTER EGG’: See the little Ghostbusters logo on the slime building? That’s what we in the industry call an ‘Easter Egg.’ It’s a little extra thrown in for fans enterprising enough to find it. Know what this one does? You’d think you might get a bonus scene, or a fun excerpt. Nope — it turns those crappity-ass green streams red for a second. Worst Easter Ever.

THE BACKGROUND: Gee, thanks, Columbia TriStar, for taking me back to my mid-90s game collection. It’s just like I’ve been transported back to the world of Mechwarrior II. And, us much as I loved that game, I don’t really need to relive it — although, on second thought, stomping this cityscape to pieces may have its advantages.

Have you ever seen anything worse? Sound off below.