Before the Franchise Gets Cooties, You Can Crowdfund a Ghostbusters Game That’s All Dudes

Sorry, but it’s hard not to be cynical, knowing full well that if the new all-female Ghostbusters takes off there will be merchandise galore, probably including a board game. And with that in mind, it’s equally hard to ignore the fact that none of the proposed figurines for Cryptozoic’s Kickstartering board game is a female character – no Dana, Janine, or Gozer in “prehistoric bitch” mode.

That said, it looks like it could be pretty fun – the crowdfunding aspect is apparently so that the game can come loaded with extras that a more corporate-mandated product would have to cut back on. It will apparently feature characters from the comics, movies and cartoons, and the designs are comic-based caricatures to avoid likeness issues.

For extra-realistic fun, declare the Spengler figure unplayable, hide the Venkman somewhere nobody can find him, and let whoever’s playing Stantz hog the dice for about 20 years as he tells everyone else his various plans for winning, then fails to execute any of them.