10 Video Games That Answer MAJOR Movie Questions
5. Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Where Does The River Of Slime Come From?
With two decades of “will they/won’t they” surrounding the Ghostbusters returning for another sequel, it seemed that Atari’s 2009 video game was one way for the cast to deliver a new story without having to go to the effort of actually being on location. With Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis, Hudson and more returning, it was for all intents and purposes Ghostbusters 3.
The events of 1989's Ghostbusters II features gallons of pink slime lurking under the city that is feeding on the negative emotions of 16 million New Yorkers. Whilst the slime flows towards the museum of art, where the painting of Vigo the Carpathian resides, the very valid question of “where is it flowing from” is never addressed.
In Ghostbusters: The Video Game, the boys in grey explore a castle that rises out of the Hudson River where Ivo Shandor, the man who had built the Gozerian temple in the first film, had resided. Here, his cult had pulled a ghost called a Sloar into our world. Shandor converted and pumped the slime it created into the tunnels of New York, hoping to utilise its spiritual powers to bring forth Gozer. However, with Gozer defeated in the first film, the slime remained for Vigo to take advantage of.
As any good third part story should, the video game managed to tie the two separate stories of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II together in a surprisingly satisfying way.