The Goonies is a platform game

Platform game

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 based on the film of the same name

The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg. The premise surrounds a band of pre-teens who live in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon hoping to save...

 produced by Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 for the Nintendo Family Computer

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 in Japan. It was later ported to the Disk System in . While the game was never officially sold in North America, an arcade port was released there for the Vs. System (a coin-operated arcade machine which played NES games) titled Vs. The Goonies. A sequel was released titled The Goonies II

The Goonies II

is an adventure game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released on in Japan, November in North America, and on in Europe. It is a sequel to the first Famicom Goonies game, which was only available in North America on Nintendo Vs. System and...

and it was later released overseas, outside Japan

Japan

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The main theme for most of the game is a chiptune rendition of Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough

The Goonies 'R' Good Enough

"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper. It was released as a single for The Goonies, a 1985 film which was released around the same time as the single...

".

Control

The player controls Mikey. Mikey defends himself with a kick, bombs (which can harm Mikey if he gets too close), and a slingshot (found later in stages).

Stages

The game roughly follows the film, with stages resembling the restaurant, caverns and a pirate ship. The game also recreates one scene from the film where the Goonies are on a beach watching The Inferno ship sail away.

Throughout the journey, Mikey has to find three keys and one Goonie for each level. Mikey can advance to next level after finding the three keys, but in order to really "finish" the game, Mikey must also collect all the Goonies to access the game's final level (The Pirate Ship). Otherwise, the game will re-start from the first level.

Enemies

An army of rats patrol the stages frequently. There are two kind of Rats- a blue one and a yellow one. The blue one needs one hit of kick/slingshot attempt, while the yellow one needs two. Jake Fratelli makes an appearance and attempts to attack Mikey by shooting at him. Jake Fratelli just can be stunned. After a while, he will get up and continue chasing the player (if still on screen). He cannot be killed, even by blue bombs.

Related releases

• The theme "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...
  
  , featured in the beginning of the Famicom title and its sequel, was remixed by Mr. T for Pop n' Music 10, from Konami's Bemani Series. The theme retains its original 8-bit song from the NES with added drum and bass beats.
• The three hidden items, Konami Man, Vic Viper (from the Gradius
  Gradius (series)
  The Gradius games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper...
  
  series), and TwinBee
  Twinbee
  is a video game series composed primarily of cartoon-themed vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up games produced by Konami that were released primarily in Japan. The series originated as a coin-operated video game simply titled TwinBee in , which was followed by several home versions and sequels...
  
  , would reappear in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
  Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
  Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, known in Japan as , is an action video game developed and published by Konami. The game was released on November 16, 2006 in Japan, and in the US on December 5, 2006 for the Nintendo DS handheld game console...
  
  , as well as in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
  Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
  Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, known in Japan as , is the third Nintendo DS installment of the Castlevania franchise, developed by longtime Castlevania developer Koji Igarashi.-Gameplay:...
  
  . The in-game description for these items is "5,000 points", which is what the player receives if he or she catches it before it disappears.

External links

• The Goonies video games at Hardcore Gaming 101