Play Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts Online – MS-DOS Game

Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts is a side-scrolling platformer with 6 levels, featuring power-ups, diverse enemies, and co-op play as players navigate haunted environments to defeat ghosts.

Developer: Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.

Released: 1993

File size: 1.52 MB

Game Overview

Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts is a classic MS-DOS platformer that follows two graffiti artists, Joe and Nat, as they flee New York’s police and stumble into a haunted castle filled with supernatural dangers. Players control Joe (or team up with a friend as Nat), navigating through levels with abilities like jumping, crawling, and swimming while battling enemies with an arsenal of weapons—from molotovs to chainsaws. The goal is to defeat the villainous "Professor X," though the challenge is heightened by the lack of save games and the original disk-based copy protection.

Released during the heyday of side-scrolling action games, Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts stands out for its cooperative local multiplayer and gritty, urban-meets-supernatural theme. Its straightforward but demanding gameplay, combined with the era’s technical constraints, offers a nostalgic yet tough experience for fans of retro platformers.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".