The “Ghost Boy” was a concept that sadly never made it to the screen.
Last year, Christian Pearce, a senior concept artist at Weta Workshop, released a bunch of the concept art that he had created for 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This included a fascinating glimpse at an unused, alternative spin on the Ghostbusters’ PKE meter that was built out of a Nintendo Game Boy.
The “Ghost Boy”, as the design was called, was a makeshift device that was repaired by Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis in the original films) in the early ’90s and used a Game Boy running a hacked ROM to detect psychokinetic energy. Pearce notes in the illustration that it was considered “a well-built and relatively reliable piece of equipment” but states that it also had “the odd habit of playing the Tetris theme music at inopportune moments.”
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The “Ghost Boy” was a concept that sadly never made it to the screen.
Last year, Christian Pearce, a senior concept artist at Weta Workshop, released a bunch of the concept art that he had created for 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This included a fascinating glimpse at an unused, alternative spin on the Ghostbusters’ PKE meter that was built out of a Nintendo Game Boy.
The “Ghost Boy”, as the design was called, was a makeshift device that was repaired by Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis in the original films) in the early ’90s and used a Game Boy running a hacked ROM to detect psychokinetic energy. Pearce notes in the illustration that it was considered “a well-built and relatively reliable piece of equipment” but states that it also had “the odd habit of playing the Tetris theme music at inopportune moments.”
Read the full article on timeextension.com
