The Goonies

The Goonies is a maze-like platform game based on the movie of same name. Your task is to find and rescue all your friends, who are behind closed doors which have to be opened with bombs that can be found from killed enemies. You also have to find key parts, which are also behind said doors. The game's difficulty level is low. Once you know your way through the rather small mazes the game offers not much challenge. Nevertheless it is maybe the second-best platform game for the NES at the time of its release (only beaten by Super Mario Bros.), due to its good playability and controls. Music is also well done when compared to the usual high-pitched noisy music of other early NES/Famicom games.

teran01 # 2009-03-16 00:48:53

software: Lutris,

display: raster

This was the second 8-bit Nintendo game based on a movie. And this on was actually created to be based on a movie (not a re-branded version of another game). Quite odd, its based on a North American movie and yet never released outside of Japan for the NES.

zerothis # 2013-08-01 00:57:25

Released only in Japan, Americans had to settle for the playchoice-10 or Vs. System arcade versions

(Zerothis) - # 2008-05-18 09:32:09

prequel of
The Goonies II (NES)

version of
The Goonies (Arcade)
The Goonies (Famicom Disk System)
The Goonies (NEC PC8801)
The Goonies (Sharp X1)