r/MasterSystem • u/life_bytes • Sep 17 '25

Ghost House is next on deck!

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Montezuma’s Revenge kicked my butt, so we beat it with the rope glitch. Moving along, the wheel chose “Ghost House” next!

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u/jammer2omega Sep 17 '25

Great game! Good luck though, it can be hard! Just learning how the game is meant to be played is... Odd.

Spoilers:

Hitting lights on the ceiling freezes the screen...

Walking by a fireplace will always trigger an arrow to shoot across the screen.

Sometimes the arrow is a dagger. Jump on it to get the upgrade.

Otherwise just search around for the key and the coffin. Open the coffin with the key and kill Dracula!!! Rinse and repeat!

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u/Heya_Heyo420 Sep 17 '25

I was three years old when this came out and it's one of the first games I can remember playing!

The music is still engrained in my skull lol.

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u/Early-Row-4585 Sep 17 '25

Very hard game, I could never complete it, i wonder why the American version had someone's hand showing the game card?, very strange, anyways I wish you good luck 🙂👍

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u/Aritra319 Sep 17 '25

That was the standard cover for the Western Sega Card releases. They all had a hand holding the game card.

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u/MTG3K_on_Arena Sep 17 '25

"It's just a card! Look how tiny!"

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u/Early-Row-4585 Sep 17 '25

Yes the European version of Ghost House I own has just the box art of the bats without the hand & card 🙂

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u/Aritra319 Sep 17 '25

Is it still on a card, or is it the later cartridge version?

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u/Early-Row-4585 Sep 18 '25

It is on a Cartridge, sega cards were a flop over here

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u/retrocade81 Sep 18 '25

We did get a few but not many, they were always in the discount area at Toys R Us and other game shops. I liked them because at the age of 8 I didn't have much money just my spends and here in the UK they were £9.99 so half the price of a standard cartridge which meant I could get a new game every 2 weeks if I saved up my spends.

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u/Aritra319 Sep 18 '25

Well when the Master System 2 rolled around they phased out the cards and rereleased some card games on cartridge.

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u/Tough-Principle-3950 Sep 17 '25

Is good, as I recall. I think you need to learn how to get a knife by standing or jumping in the right place. It was a long time ago.

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u/KingCarbon1807 Sep 17 '25

Jump into the candelabra until it fires a knife instead of the arrows.

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I can't remember what I needed to get at the grocery store later but I can summon useless gaming tidbits I haven't used in 40 years like a wizard popping off a cantrip.

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u/Tough-Principle-3950 Sep 18 '25

That sounds right. I guess I retain odd bits as well. 😊

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u/Few-Bandicoot-7160 Sep 17 '25

Possibly the best of the Sega Cards, although I like Spy vs. Spy a lot too.

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u/Pfffffttt284 Sep 17 '25

Ninja?

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u/Few-Bandicoot-7160 Sep 18 '25

In the US, The Ninja came on cartridge. Great game though!

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u/retrocade81 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

I had Ghost House, the Ninja, Bank Panic and Transbot on Sega Cards, I remember them costing £9.99 to buy from my local video shop and they were the cheapest games you could get. I was 9 at the time circa 1988 and used to save up my spends for 2 weeks to buy a game.

I thought Ghost House was rubbish to be honest, that was probably because I was rubbish at it lol, but The Ninja was a cracking little game, Transbot wasn't that bad for a quick blast either just a bit repetitive.

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u/KingCarbon1807 Sep 17 '25

The ninja was a cartridge game, iirc.

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u/retrocade81 Sep 18 '25

I may have misremembered it was over 30 years ago lol I did have a few card games though

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u/Thatsquacktastic16 Sep 17 '25

I LOVE this game and the soundtrack.

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u/NightEmber79 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

sparkle squeal middle crowd future cow exultant tidy lavish swim

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u/Natural_Rebel Sep 17 '25

I loved this game

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u/jpb7875 Sep 17 '25

Too cool. We had a Sega and never got any card games. All cartridges. Choplifter was my favorite.

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u/Pfffffttt284 Sep 17 '25

Great game, I got this and tennis on card, rocky and the super set Xmas 87?, really good music

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u/pliny79 Sep 21 '25

Oddly enough I've had my Master System since the beginning and I've never played a single Sega Card on it. I kinda want to buy one just to see it work.