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==Reception== [[GameSpot]]: 6.5 [[IGN]]: 7/10 Gamestats: 7.3 ''Ghoulies'' was nominated for the awards of 'Console Family Game of the Year'<ref>[http://www.interactive.org/awards.php?winners&year=2004&cat=200413#200413 Interactive.org Awards]</ref> and 'Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition'<ref>[http://www.interactive.org/awards.php?winners&year=2004&cat=200427#200427 Interactive.org Awards]</ref> by the [[Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences]] in 2004. Game Informer lists the game among the worst horror games of all time,<ref>βThe Wrong Kind of Scary: Worst Horror Games Ever,β Game Informer 186 (October 2008): 121.</ref> although Rare didn't intend to make Ghoulies a survival horror game. While its gameplay and style was criticized, its graphics and video game effects were highly praised for their sophistication in its era. Such effects as the Grim Reaper decolorizing everything in its path or highly interactive objects that Cooper uses as weapons continue the company's prowess for pushing the limit of the consoles they use. The game has since been made fun of in successive Rare title ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. In the level ''Banjoland'', several North America boxes of the game can be found inside the trash can. There are also numerous not-so-subtle jokes as to how poorly it sold throughout the game. The fact that it was such a disappointing seller is constantly acknowledged and admitted by the company, such as on the editor Leigh Loveday's fan website community relations page 'Scribes'.
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