A much-hyped game, Elite first started advertising this from around Autumn 1985.

The game was to feature all the characters from the cartoon and was set in a Scottish castle owned by Shaggy's auntie.

The castle is haunted and Scooby and the gang have 48 hours to solve the mystery.

[1] Gargoyle Games were then contracted by Elite to produce a less-ambitious version.

[2] Reviewing the Spectrum version, the critics of Crash praised that the game is addictive, well-animated, and "extremely playable", though one of them remarked that the simplistic gameplay's lack of challenge made it wear thin before long.