Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon features a multiplayer mode, ScareScraper, in which up to four players can team up to hunt down ghosts in a haunted building.  In an interview, ABC told the Nintendo 3DS game’s producer, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, that ScareScraper has a Ghostbusters vibe.  Miyamoto responded by saying that, while he is a fan of the film, it wasn’t an inspiration for the original Luigi’s Mansion on Nintendo GameCube. 

ABC: “Dark Moon” multiplayer features four Luigis tracking down ghosts with vacuum-cleaner backpacks.  It has a “Ghostbusters” vibe.  Are you a fan of the movie? 

Miyamoto: I am a fan of “Ghostbusters.”  That wasn’t the inspiration for the original “Luigi’s Mansion.”  In fact, when we were developing the original “Luigi’s Mansion,” we were taking care as a team, even though that wasn’t our original inspiration, to make sure that people didn’t just assume that that was what we were trying to do.