Who you going to play? "Ghostbusters" back as game

The team also was able to add cooperative play to the cartoonish Wii and PlayStation 2 versions of the game while a game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was fine-tuned with competitive four-player online gameplay.

"There are over 30 ghosts in the game ranging from the green glob, Slimer, to fishermen ghosts to an assortment of golems and a T-Rex," said Slepian. "Players will come face to face with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man."

Ramis said getting everyone on board with the new game -- even Annie Potts reprised her role as the receptionist -- has rekindled their interest in doing a third live-action feature.

"It had sort of been contemplated before, and Dan had once written a spec script about it, which was not bad, but there was no group will that galvanized around that script," said Ramis.

"I think what the game did was revive our belief in it and certainly demonstrated that there was a public appetite and interest in it."

Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp, has optioned Emmy-nominated screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg ("The Office") to write a script for a third feature film.

But despite the brand appeal of "Ghostbusters," Michael Pachter, videogame analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities, said he thought Atari would struggle to sell more than a million units.

"It's a fun concept, but it's really old, and my guess is that the game will fizzle after a few weeks," said Pachter.