The Goonies for the Apple II

Came also out for:

Amstrad CPC
Atari 8-bit
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum


Game description:

Datasoft's The Goonies is one of the most fondly-remembered games in the genre of platform action-adventure-puzzle games for which Datasoft was known (other games included Conan: Hall of Volta, Bruce Lee, and Zorro, all well-regarded classics).

The game is licensed from the internationally-beloved Steven Speilberg film of the same name, in which a motley crew of suburban kids in Astoria, Oregon, must save their homes from being foreclosed upon and find their salvation in a treasure map leading to an old pirate ship in a cavern. However, they must maneuver around an eccentric family of Italian criminals -- the Fratellis -- on the lam, who are also on the trail of the treasure.

The game is divided into a series of eight screens based on scenes from the film, each of which contains unique and creative puzzles that must be solved by coordinating the activities of two of the kids from the Goonies (and in the last screen, the elephant-man-like Sloth) without getting killed by deadly bats, homicidal Fratellis, flying demon-skull thingies, or other environmental hazards. For example, in one screen one player must wind up and hold a winch that lifts a large stone so that the other player can pass it, run backward on a ball floating in deadly water, bypass a series of three water buckets going up and down that kill you if you do not time your passage underneath correctly, jump to the top of a rail, and slide across to grab the key to the door below -- and all this without getting hit by a wandering bat.

One of the characteristic elements of this series of games is that it was organized more like an arcade game than an adventure game; the game kept a score and a high score, you got a certain number of lives, which would be replenished at certain points or at certain score totals, and there was no save feature. In other words, the game had to be played all in one sitting, near-perfectly, to see the ending. As might be expected, not many people finished these games. (However, nowadays with emulators and memory-state-saving features, this is no longer such a frustrating problem.)

The Goonies can be played single-player, with the joystick button used to switch between the two characters on-screen, or cooperatively, with each player controlling one of the characters.


What I think:

A really fun game, and easily one of the better movie-licensed games!

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[EarthwormJim55]

This was also for the famicom

[Highretrogamelord89]

@EarthwormJim55

The same exact game? I mean has it the same levels and gameplay?

[Vysethedetermined2]

I have some pretty fond memories of the NES/FC Goonies game I played. This game looks awesome!

[Highretrogamelord89]

@Vysethedetermined2

Yeah, it is really fun.

But you have to get used to the controls when you are on that rock in the water in the 2nd level.

[ThePeoplesGamingSite]

Nice, big Goonies fan.

[Northisbest]

cracked version boo-yeah !

[Ruudos]

@Highretrogamelord89 No it hasn't. Goonies for Famicom is a different game, developed by Konami.

[BradTheProducer]

I regret not knowing this game existed when I was a kid. I would have played it for hours on end until I mastered it.