1992 · Imagineering · Action · Adventure

Ghoul School

Nintendo exclusive

One day Spike O'Hara, a senior from the academic institution of Cool School High found a glowing skull in the local cemetery, a finding that would prove to be a disaster. Spike brought the skull to his teacher and it is from here that our ghostly tale unfolds...The skull ended up being a beacon, a homing device for all the spirits and monsters from the realm of the dead. These ghouls from a land downunder have sort of captured your dream girl Samantha Pompom, the beautiful head cheerleader of the school. She's being held somewhere in the school and you've got to find her. (Everyone before you has failed -- but don't let that discourage you.)

Released: 1 March 1992
Platforms: NES
Genres: Action Adventure Halloween Horror Metroidvania Platformer Survival horror
Developers: Imagineering
Publishers: Electro Brain
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Action Horror
Country: United States

About

Ghoul School is an action-adventure video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 by Imagineering. It takes place in a high school which has been overrun by ghosts/demons.

Keywords

death
side-scrolling
silent protagonist
bats
8-bit
cheat code
sequence breaking
spiky-haired protagonist
ghoul

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

While taking the usual shortcut home through the cemetery from Cool School High, Senior Spike O'Hara found a strange, glowing skull. He put it in his backpack to show to his anatomy teacher the next day, which happened to be Halloween Eve. When Dr. Femur wanted to keep the skull for a special study, Spike was concerned because it appeared that the skull was bigger than it was the day before.

Little did anyone know that the skull had begun transmitting its message to the realm of the dead. The ghouls had begun their assault...