Trivia / Extreme Ghostbusters

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Some viewers tuning in and familiar with The Real Ghostbusters mistook Eduardo, Garrett and Roland for Peter, Ray and Winston! Plus they wondered why Ray was now in a wheelchair.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The show had only six episodes released on VHS in the United States and didn't have a full DVD release until 2024. Before this, thirteen episodes were been released on DVD overseas but the rest of the series was no where to be found. The only places the series could be found was on YouTube and torrents (though most of the episodes were recordings from when the show was on the European Toon Disney, so some scenes of horror may be edited). Episodes were posted on the official Ghostbusters channel around the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife in 2021. In 2024 the full series on DVD was released on Amazon by Sony and the show can be watched on Hulu.
• Licensed Game: Since the show was more popular in Europe than in the US, several video games based on the series were developed there.
  • Creativity Centre, a compilation of programs for the PC
  • A Game Boy Color action platformer.
  • Zap the Ghosts!, a shameless Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble clone for the PC.
  • Code Ecto-1, a Game Boy Advance action game. This one was released in the USA as well, by Dream Catcher Interactive.
  • The Ultimate Invasion, a PlayStation light gun shooting game which supports Namco's "Gun Con" controller.
  • It should be noted that most of these games were released in 2001, long after the series ended. Code Ecto-1 was released in 2002, and The Ultimate Invasion was released in 2004, seven years after the series ended and four years after the PlayStation 2 came out.
• The Merch: Trendmasters released action figures and role-play accessories. The most notable of these were the deluxe figures, which featured battery-powered packs with light and sound.
  • Toyless Toyline Character: Garrett was not included in the toyline, although a prototype figure of him exists.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Neither Laura Summer nor Kath Soucie returned to voice Janine. Her voice actor in this series was Pat Musick.
  • Billy West took over for Frank Welker as Slimer, although Welker returned as Ray Stantz.
  • While Frank Welker reprises his role as Ray Stantz in the Grand Finale two-parter "Back in the Saddle", some of his lines were actually done by Pat Fraley because of Welker being sick at the time those lines were recorded. This is interesting because Pat Fraley played another Ghostbuster.
• Reality Subtext: Maurice LaMarche had just become a father, and some of his exhaustion found its way into his older, more weary characterization of Egon.
• Recycled Script: It's odd how difficult Egon found it to tell Janine he loves her in the climax of "The Crawler," considering they went through the exact same situation in the original series episode "Janine, You've Changed."
• Role Reprise: Not only does Maurice LaMarche reprise his role as Egon Spengler from The Real Ghostbusters, but the two-part episode "Back in the Saddle" also has Frank Welker, David Coulier, and Buster Jones return to reprise their roles as Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, and Winston Zeddemore.
• What Could Have Been: See here
• Working Title: In early development, the show was called Super Ghostbusters which was dropped in early development- so early that the crew working on the show doesn't remember that title, but early promotional material◊proves it was used◊. Although confusingly, In some TV listings, the show was called Ghostbusters Dark.

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