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Dan Aykroyd happy to revisit old 'Ghostbusters' haunts by Stu Horvath DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Monday, June 15th 2009 Dan Aykroyd has been waiting 20 years for this moment. While this Tuesday`s release of "Ghostbusters: The Video Game" is made for living rooms instead of movie houses, the 56-year-old actor says the game was the chance he and fellow actors Bill Murray, Harold Raimis and Ernie Hudson were looking for to reprise their famous roles. "To me, this is the third movie," says Aykroyd, "The third movie might wind up being a sequel to this game." The game, developed by Terminal Reality, picks up two years after the events of the 1989 sequel, "Ghostbusters II." In addition to the voices and likenesses of the four Ghostbusters, actors Annie Potts and William Atherton reprise their characters while Alyssa Milano and Brian Doyle-Murray voice new ones. With all that talent and an original script by Raimis and Aykroyd, calling it "Ghostbusters III" isn't that out of this world. The project has scared up a lot of interest from fans who have been eagerly awaiting a third film installment, which has been foiled by everything from budget concerns to Bill Murray's schedule. "It's show biz. Dreams get perforated, says Aykroyd of the problems. I just had to kiss it goodbye for a long time." Last summer, it looked like the game wouldn't materialize either. Originally developed for Activision, following that company's merger with Vivendi, the project was dropped - a controversial move in gamer circles considering the positive buzz the title had generated. Thankfully, Atari stepped in and secured the publishing rights. Now Ghostbusters: The Video Game is hitting stores on the 25th anniversary of the original movies release and renewed interest in the franchise has prompted the team behind The Office to pen a script for a new movie. Aykroyd gives the game developers all the credit. "The guys who built this game were real fans, real passionate fans, he says, That love comes through."
