P.K.E. meter

P.K.E. Meter or P.K. meter is a Prop. used in every Ghostbusters Movies , series ans comics .

Basically the P.K.E. meters are used to detect ghost by pointing to their general directions or to calculate the intensity of paranormal activity like slime presence .

P.K.E. stands for Para Kinesis Energy or Para Kinetic Energy .

the p.k.e meter is upstaged by the more powerfull Giga-meter seen in Ghostbusters II .
According to the P.K.E. meter there is a class 3 full thorso apparition .
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ecto 4

Ecto 4 is the last vehicle of the real ghostbusters to have a number on it , the remaining vehicle left being called the ecto bomber .

the ecto 4 is neither seen in the movies nor in the animated serie but only can be seen in the comic magazine as a flying jet , however , in the comic books it is reffered as the ecto 3 but as been corrected by the editor to be actually named the ecto 4 .

its concept never reached the status of toy .
Ecto 4 is a jet owned and operated by the real ghostbusters .
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Xenophobe

An arcade game made by Bally Midway in 1987 .

Three players cooperative game where each teams could choose from three different colorfull characters , the red , blue and yellow team had each three characters for a total of 9 different characters available .

The screen was splited in three horizontal bands simulating corridors of space structures like ships and starbases , every plyers could move independently of each others .

Many starships , planets , star bases are infected by acid spitting xenomorph ( alien monsters ) and your mission is to either eliminate the alien threat or to self destruct the bases before they get overrun by xenos .

The game spawned many home version for the atari 2600 , atari 7600 , Nes , atari st , commodore 64 , also available for the game cube as a conversion of the arcade game
Xenophobe is a 3 player arcade game .

Xenophobe is a cooperative game .

Xenophobe costs a quarter for 1000 health units .
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Proton pack

The proton pack is a fictional piece of equipment (Prop )used by the Ghostbusters in every episodes , film and comic books , it is what makes the Ghostbusters what they are .

Proton packs are essencially nuclearaccelerators that are used to accelerate particles also known as Particle throwers .

The particles create an energy stream or ribbon used to catch ghosts , it does not trap them only direct them to the ghost trap witch is emptiend in the containment unitinside the Ghostbusters firehouse headquarter basement .

Important to note that particle stream or ribbons should not be crossed or enter in contact with each other because the results could be catastrophic according the Egon Spengler in the first movie , yet in the 2009 Ghostbusters game simply cause some painful thingling to the characters .

In the 2009 games it is also noted that the packs can be upgraded with slime thrower and other types of energy beams to help the Ghostbusters cope with different kinds of spooks .

Note that in the pilot episodes of The real ghostbuster the ecto 1 have a particle thrower canon mounted on a seat on the hearse roof witch can also be seen in the toy version of Kenner , and in the DS version , the only one you can actually control the ecto 1A you can use a similar particle thrower .
Proton packs are unlicensed nucclear accelerators .
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Ghost sweeper

Toy made for the real ghostgusters characters but not featured in the animated series .

The ghost sweeper is made by Kenner .

The ghost sweeper comes with the street creeper ghost figure .

The ghost sweeper is the ghostbusters version of a street sweeper but it is mounted with a proton particle thrower proton pack and what seems to be a P.K.E. meter antenae , its colors is white and blue with some yellow , its got place for two characters , the driver and the cannon operator .
The ghost sweeper is going to clean the streets of any ghosts .
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ecto h2o

ecto h2o , also known as ecto 8 is the ghostbusters thugboat used by the ghostbusters to get to shandor's island in the Newly 2009 released pc game by atari .

It is a simple thug boat with tire bumpers all aroud it , the cabin section is painted white with the no ghost logo , it as the blue stroboscope and red lights , same as the ecto 1 and ecto 1a , also a parabolic dish is visible on the boats roof and a particle canon .

the game is available for Pc , x box and ps3 , also a derivate version featuring the ecto h2o is available for the playstation 2 and wii console witch is the same as the pc version but cartoony and it is also available in the even more derivate version for the nintendo dsi .

In none of the aforementioned games you can actually drive the ecto h2o it is merely used to bring you to the isle by another ghostbuster , in fact in no game ( exept the dsi version in witch you can use only the ecto 1a ) can you control any ecto vehicles .
Ecto H2O is also refered as the ecto 8 .

Ecto h2o is essientially a highly modified thug boat .
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Giga-meter

An upgraded version of the P.K.E. meter , is a prop. used in the movie ghostbusters 2 .

The Giga-meter varies in the fact that it calculates Gigaelectron Volts instead of Parakinetic Energy .

The prop. itself can be seen ( modified ) in one of the star trek movie and also in the They live movie .
the Giga-meter is a complement used in conjuction with the P.K.E. meter .
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