Ghost Hunters

Product
Ghost Hunters
Status Discontinued
Introduced 1994
Discontinued 1999
First built Ghost Hunters (Osaka ATC Galbo)
Last built Ghost Pirates
Statistics
Type Large attraction (Sega Product)
Capacity 2 per car
Duration 4 Minutes

Ghost Hunters is a large attraction product from Sega, and produced through their AM5 division.

Based on the company's lightgun toy of the same name, the attraction combines a Tracked Dark Ride with augmented reality and light gun shooter gameplay, where the moving ride vehicle will stop at points of the route to allow the shooting game element to take place throughout.

Revisions

Ghost Hunters

The original version of the attraction was featured at many Galbo and Joypolis venues in Japan in addition to being seen at a small number of non-Sega venues, as well as SegaWorld London and Sega World Sydney.

Ghost Hunters II

Fully titled Ghost Hunters II - The Labyrinth of Poisonous Moths, this software rendition replaced the original Ghost Hunters ride at Osaka ATC Galbo and Yokohama Joypolis in September 1995, and was soon expanded to other Joypolis venues. It featured an altered storyline and brand new theming, but otherwise featured the same gameplay. A duplicate was originally intended to be located at Shinjuku Joypolis, but instead went with Treasure Panic.

Ghost Hunters DX

Another upgraded rendition - Ghost Hunters DX, was located in Fukuoka Joypolis as an opening day attraction in 1996. It was similar to the other renditions of the ride aside from some minor differences to the original version's game and theming. However, it's downgraded to Ghost Hunters II not long after.

Treasure Panic

Treasure Panic debuted at Tokyo Joypolis in July 1996 and was later seen at Shinjuku Joypolis under the name Ghost Hunters - Treasure Panic in October 1996. This version of the ride changes the setting to a sunken ship helmed by enemies and ghosts, while players battle against the ghost captain to obtain the buried treasure.

The Tokyo Joypolis rendition was removed sometime after 2000, while the Shinjuku rendition was downgraded to Ghost Hunters II in 1997.

Ghost Pirates

Ghost Pirates was located at the Sega World Hakkeijima Carnival House game center. It is unknown if this was a clone of Treasure Panic or a different rendition outright. It was added to the venue in 1999 and removed within an unknown timeframe.

Completed attractions

At least twelve installments have existed over the years. Some of them have been relocated or seen at Non-Sega owned venues. At least two standard Ghost Hunters models were relocated to Yokohama Dreamland and YoYo Land in Thailand.

The only model to remain in operation is the model at Haailand, which was formerly located at Sega World Sydney.

Name Owner Country Opened Status
Ghost Hunter
Formerly Ghost Hunters
Haailand Resort & Theme Park
Sega World Sydney
India
Australia
2010 or earlier data-sort-value="19970318" | March 18, 1997 OperatingClosed 2000/11/12
Ghost Hunters Ichikawa Galbo
Japan
November 30, 1994 Closed 1996
Ghost Hunters Yokkaichi Galbo
Japan
March 18, 1995 Closed 1995/12/19
Ghost Hunters Neo Geo World Tsukuba
Japan
1995 Closed 2001/05/31
Ghost Hunters II Osaka ATC Galbo
Japan
April 14, 1994 Originally Ghost Hunters, upgraded to Ghost Hunters II revision on 1995/09/11, closed 1998
Ghost Hunters II Joypolis H. Factory
Japan
July 20, 1994 Originally Ghost Hunters, upgraded to Ghost Hunters II revision on 1995/09/11, closed 2001/02/28
Ghost Hunters II Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis
Japan
December 9, 1995 Originally Ghost Hunters, upgraded to Ghost Hunters II revision in 1996, closed 2001/01/16
Ghost Hunters II Fukuoka Joypolis
Japan
April 20, 1996 Originally Ghost Hunters DX, downgraded to Ghost Hunters II revision sometime within the same year, closed 2001/09/24
Ghost Hunters II Shinjuku Joypolis
Japan
October 4, 1996 Originally Ghost Hunters - Treasure Panic, downgraded to Ghost Hunters II revision sometime after 1997, closed 2000/08/31
Ghost Pirates Sega World Hakkeijima Carnival House
Japan
1999 Closed within an unknown timeframe
Ghost Train
Formerly Ghost Hunt
Funland
SegaWorld London
UK
UK
2001data-sort-value="19960907" | September 7, 1996 Closed 20022000
Treasure Panic Tokyo Joypolis
Japan
July 12, 1996 Closed after 2000