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Radio Ghosts

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

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Developer
B.J. Best
Publisher
B.J. Best, Butlersnake Games
Release
July 31, 2025
1 year and 2 days ago
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About the Game

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom. It was created for and playable on the original Nintendo Game Boy, but through super-spooky frequencies is brought here to modern gaming machines.

Features:

  • High-quality pixel graphics that only an original 160 x 144 resolution can provide

  • Genuine simulated four-way D-pad movement

  • Highly efficient single-button interaction using the Z key

  • (Seriously, though, the game also supports common controllers and is Steam Deck compatible)

  • Four shades of green

  • Genuinely awesome original four-channel Game Boy soundtrack

  • All the snark from a fifteen-year-old girl that you can handle

Gameplay:

  • Meet interesting people and irritate them, including:

    • Your mom

    • A radio ghost

    • A vampire barista

    • A haughty wizardess

    • A touchy goblin

    • A cold and calculating cat

    • Paul

  • Top-down super-fun non-Euclidean cartographic action

  • Petty theft

  • Marine biology

  • Crushing reality

The experience:

  • 60-90 minutes of playtime

  • Controls: arrow keys + Z key to interact; Xbox and PS4 / PS5 controllers also supported

  • Customizable GB emulator courtesy of GBCBag2

  • No, there's no saving, stop asking

  • Costs about the same as a coffee, but won't stain your teeth

Face the facts:

Radio Ghosts is the finest Game-Boy-compatible lost-in-the-woods moody-girl camping sim of this or any other decade. Buy today!

Coda: Where's the ROM?

If you'd like to play Radio Ghosts on a different emulator or on a flash cart on real hardware (GB / GBC / GBA supported), find the location of the game's install. The ROM is located at game/game.gb. Rename the file as you see fit. Please do not redistribute the ROM in any form, or you might turn into a radio ghost yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Credits:

Designer and developer: B.J. Best

Music: Joel Matthys

Graphics: 2bitcrook, Beachboogeyman, B.J. Best, Elvies, GibbonGL, Gumpy Function, Icko, MaterialFuture, Moshuo, PixelMech, The Pixel Nook, Reakain, Sondanielson, Timbo Johnson

Fonts: Codeman38, Joel J Games, Miffies, MxAshlynn, Santaigo Crespo

GB Studio and plugin: Chris Maltby, Pau Tomas

GBCBag2: Chris from Eastpixel

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