Category: "Spook Central"
Hurricane Sandy Recovery/Spook Central Status Update
By Paul Rudoff on Jun. 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM , Categories: Personal, Spook Central , Tags: hurricane-sandy
http://tinyurl.com/rudoff-hurricane-sandy For those of you who haven't been playing along at home... Hurricane Sandy flooded my home of 23 years in East Rockaway, Long Island, New York with five feet of water on October 29, 2012. As a result, my family… more »
Spook Central Elementary Coming Soon (April Fools)
If you came to this site on April 1, 2013, you would have seen this Spook Central Elementary replacement main page instead of the Ghostbusters fansite Spook Central. The Spook Central Facebook page was also altered, too. Clicking on the link at the… more »
Spook Central Soon To Lose Its Oldest URL
In the late 1990s Spook Central moved around quite a bit from free webhost to free webhost. As a way to give the site some stability, and prevent my regular visitors from having the hassle of constantly updating their bookmarks, I signed up for a free… more »
Spook Central On Hiatus / Spook Central Halloween Treat - Making Ghostbusters PDF eBook
By Paul Rudoff on Nov. 9, 2012 at 7:46 PM , Categories: Personal, Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Books, Preservation , Tags: halloween_treat, hurricane-sandy
Last updated on November 11, 2012. Please check the blog post "Updates on Paul since November 16th and onward" for further updates. Spook Central On Hiatus Hey Everyone. Paul here writing in from the Red Cross emergency shelter at Nassau Community… more »
Spook Central's Hand-Drawn Tristan Jones Ghostbusters #9 Comic Cover
It now exists! Into this world was born the very first (and so far only) piece of officially-licensed Ghostbusters Spook Central merchandise! The Spook Central patches were the first piece of Spook Central merchandise (not counting the Spook Central… more »
Spook Central Webmaster, Paul Rudoff, Appears In Ghostbusters Comic Book
IDW's Ghostbusters #11 comic book, which comes out this Wednesday, July 25, 2012, features a scene in the Belda'r Cafe in Roswell, New Mexico with Peter Venkman and a female FBI agent. On page 19, there's a very special onlooker to the events... Does… more »
Shot On Site - A Look Into The Future
By Paul Rudoff on Apr. 9, 2012 at 5:17 AM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations
This isn't a regular Shot On Site article, so I'm not going to tag it as such. This is really a look into the future of the Shot On Site feature here at Spook Central, as well as a few odds and ends that wouldn't fit as regular SOS articles. Let's talk… more »
Limited Edition Spook Central 15th Anniversary Patch
It's hard to believe, but this month marks 15 years since I uploaded the first version of Spook Central to my tiny Geocities account. It's quite a milestone for a website to still remain online after 15 years. Interestingly, Geocities can't make that… more »
More Love From The Cross The Streams Podcast
Excerpt from Episode 17 (July 19, 2011) Your browser does not support the audio tag. Matt Prov and Brendan Mertens over at the Ghostheads podcast released their 17th episode last week, and they mentioned Spook Central's and Ghostbusters News' mention in… more »
Spook Central's Small Screen Debut
Looks like something strange is going on in a mall over in Italy... more »
Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime Script
Mrmichaelt from the Ghostbusters Wiki has not only transcribed all of the cinematic and level dialog from Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime, but he also got in touch with the game's writer, Tom Waltz, and snagged a copy of Mr. Waltz's original script for… more »
The Ghostbusters Community Proton Pack
A few months ago I wrote about how GBMax from Ghostbusters Mania decorated his Christmas tree and his cute little Ghostbusters Mania Ectomobile with home-made Ghostbusters community decorations. Now he's taken that devotion to the community one step… more »
Exclusive Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Developer Q&A
With Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime coming out this Wednesday, March 23rd, on the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC digital download (price $10), Atari is working overtime to get more and more information out to the fans up to the very… more »
Ghostheads Podcast Mentions Spook Central 14th Anniversary
Jason Hughes and Luke Crisalli (with guest Pat Harmon) over at the Ghostheads podcast released their 16th episode this past Friday, and I am honored that they spent a couple of minutes talking about Spook Central's 14th Anniversary in the broadcast… more »
Spook Central's 14th Anniversary Prize Giveaway Winner's List
To help celebrate the 14th anniversary of Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion, one of the longest-running Ghostbusters fan sites currently online, I held a prize giveaway from August 1st to August 7th 2010 to honor the momentous occasion. I… more »
New Spook Central Title Logo And Site Design
As you've undoubtedly have already noticed... The incredible Tristan Jones has put together a collection of new Spook Central title logos in honor of this site's 14th anniversary this month. There's a whole bunch of them, which should display randomly… more »
Spook Central 14th Anniversary Prize Giveaway
It was fourteen years ago this month, in August 1996, that I created Spook Central in my rinky-dink Geocities account. It was nothing big - just a picture of the library ghost, on a banana yellow background, with some links below it - but it was a… more »
Ghostbusters 1 & 2 Limited Edition DVD Gift Set Unboxing (Stay Puft Statue, Cards, Slime)
I just purchased the newly-released Ghostbusters 1 & 2 DVD Limited Edition Gift Set. It should be noted that I didn't purchase it for the DVDs, which is the 2005 Double Feature Gift Set (complete with movie scrapbook). I bought it for the bundled… more »
From The Vault - Slimer 3:16
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Fans, Internet , Tags: from-the-vault
Ten years and two weeks ago today I spotted a pretty cool Ghostbusters reference on the August 9, 1999 episode of the World Wrestling Federation's flagship program Raw Is War. I promptly reported it to Chris at Proton Charging, and he posted the… more »
From The Vault - Ghostbusters Online Community History
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 11, 2009 at 1:06 AM , Categories: Spook Central, Internet , Tags: from-the-vault
It was a lucky 13 years ago this month that Spook Central opened up at Geocities.com/Hollywood/7218. Oddly enough, in a turn of events that I never would have seen coming back in 1996, Spook Central is actually going to outlast Geocities, which is set… more »
Ghostbusters Home Video Comments
I just made a HUGE multimedia update to the site. I have added every single still image/frame from the Ghostbusters Criterion Collection laserdisc and the Ghostbusters 1999 DVD. You can view them on the site (though a fast connection may be required… more »
Spook Central's Ghostbusters 25th Anniversary Prize Giveaway Winner's List
To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest ghost movies ever made - GHOSTBUSTERS - the long-running website, Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion, held a prize giveaway from June 8th (the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters' U.S.… more »
Ghostbusters 25th Anniversary - Contest Open & Online Movie Showings
THIS IS IT, THIS IS DEFINITELY IT!! It was twenty-five years ago today, on Friday June 8, 1984 (not June 3rd, as that was a Sunday back then), that U.S. moviegoers first saw the ugly little spud attack, a terrifying dog running wild through Central… more »
Ghostbusters Video Game Comparison Pics
With the release of the Wii Slime trailer a few weeks back, Has anyone else noticed that the car is "Ecto-1B" in the PC/PS2/X360 version and "Ecto-1" in the PS2/Wii version? And there's two different style license plates, too! That's just great. So if… more »
Multimedia From Spook Central's Live Video Event
Last night I held a special 20th anniversary live online video broadcast of Ghostbusters, as originally broadcast on ABC on January 29, 1989. The video was streamed live from my VCR, with chat services provided by AJ Quick via his Ghostbusters Fans chat… more »
Spook Central Live Online Video Event (1/29 At 8 PM EST)
SPOOK CENTRAL LIVE ONLINE VIDEO EVENT Ghostbusters, as originally broadcast on ABC on Sunday January 29, 1989 (presumably at either 8:00 or 9:00 PM EST) I'd like to thank everyone who participated in tonight's event and made it a big success. We topped… more »
Real Ghostbusters DVD Collection Hands-On
By Paul Rudoff on Nov. 21, 2008 at 11:30 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Real Ghostbusters, Home Video
A surprise package was left on my porch today from TimeLife. I was expecting to get my copy of the set next week, but apparently some select people are getting copies of the set this week in advance of the shipment to the general public this Tuesday.… more »
Yes It's True, Activision Has No...Ghostbusters Game - Atari Has It!
Almost a year to the day that we got the official press release from Sierra we get one from Atari officially confirming that they are the new publishers of the video game, now set to be released in 2009 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first… more »
Site Update - Real Ghostbusters Bible & Scripts Added
This is it! This is definitely it! I have just added digital copies of every single The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer! script that I own! All of these scripts come from my personal collection and were personally scanned in by me. Although I have… more »
Extreme Ghostbusters Turns 10 Years Old
"Celebrating 10 Extreme Years" by Ben King WOW! Has it actually been 10 years since the next generation of Ghostbusters hit the airwaves? It's hard to believe, but YES, it was ten years ago today, on Monday September 1, 1997, that "Darkness At… more »