Capcom brought a port of Ghosts'n Goblins to the GBC, an arcade legend famed for its merciless difficulty. The European release, backward-compatible with the original Game Boy and dated to mid-1999, stays sought after by fans of punishing platformers and followers of the Makaimura line. Its appeal owes as much to the Capcom signature as to a relatively short PAL run, in a market where arcade ports of this calibre were scarce on backward-compatible monochrome.