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developed by AM Factory, with the assistance of

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, and released by Eleven/Gavaking on January 27, 2000. The game never received an official release for either the

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platforms. It concerns the story of gravediggers discovering a few graves being desecrated and their attempt to prevent the graverobbers from inflicting further damage.

Gameplay

A good ghoul goes around graveyards protecting them from evil doers. The player clears the area and collects power-ups using them to eliminate the enemies. There are five stages with five levels each, and each one of them has you throwing fireballs at ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and zombies. When you keep throwing fireballs at these enemies, they will ignite into a giant fireball, which you can throw at other enemies to kill them, and get the remaining treasure before moving on to the next level. At the end of the fifth level, a boss must be defeated in order to continue the game.

Plot

There lived one

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with magical power at a very small village in a remote region. He lived a quiet, solitary life in a corner of the

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. He kept away from the village people due to his very ugly appearance. One day, he found the graves were ransacked and some corpses were stolen. He didn't want the village people to find out, so he decided to eliminate the grave burglars by himself. Thus, he patrolled the cemetery every night. He found out that a powerful Wizard has been stealing corpses to build his army of undead to terrorize the village. He then took himself to eliminate the Wizard once and for all. After defeating the Wizard, he returns to his solitary life. Eventually, the villagers find out about his bravery in protecting them from the menace of the Wizard and go to his house and say thank you to him.

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