Most of the filming took place on the campus of Columbia University; when the Ghostbusters fight the "Library Ghost", the external shots, and some of the internal shots, are of Columbia's Butler Library.
In 1985, game publisher West End Games produced a Ghostbusters roleplaying game which later spawned a second edition called Ghostbusters, International. The Ghostbusters game was a revolutionary design, influencing countless other designs including Risus and Over the Edge.
The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran from 1975 to 1976 and was not affiliated with the 1984 movie. It starred Forrest Tucker as Jake Kong, Larry Storch as Eddie Spenser, and Bob Burns as Tracy the Gorilla. Its characters were later incorporated in to a cartoon television series called Ghostbusters which ran from 1986 to 1987.
