The Goonies (FC)

The Goonies

Platform: NES Year: 1986 Developer: Konami Corporation Buy: Amazon

This page covers the Famicom, Famicom Disk System, PlayChoice-10, and Vs. System releases. For other games in the series, see The Goonies.

Even though the movie was a huge American box office success, The Goonies never made its way onto the NES in the USA, being only released in Japan for both the Famicom and Famicom Disk System. This is a bit of a loss because the game would have been quite an attribute to any collection in 1986. US players did have a chance at playing it on the PlayChoice-10 or the Vs. System arcade machines. All four releases have identical audio.

The game is a platform action adventure where you must beat up mice, foxes, bats, skeletons, and of course the Fratellis in order to save your Goonie friends. Each stage has three keys and a Goonie trapped behind doors that must be bombed open. Once you save the Goonie and get the keys, while avoiding the numerous enemies, you can unlock the door to the next stage.

A lot of liberties have been taken to make the game more exciting, but it features enough from the movie to make it fit. Cyndi Lauper's famous The Goonies 'R' Good Enough theme is heard, one of the Fratellis attacks you with his terrible opera singing, the falling rock traps from the movie are here, the pirate ship, and even the excised octopus exists as a monster.

Screenshots

The title screen. The beginning of stage 1. Saved the Goonie in stage 1. Stage 2 is much more dangerous with fire and pitfalls. Using the sling shot in one of the in-between stages. The traps are getting more elaborate in stage 4.

Music

The game's theme is Cyndi Lauper's, The Goonies 'R' Good Enough which would later be improved upon for The Goonies II (NES). The music for Stage 2 is also pretty catchy, but the rest is just short jingles, fanfares, and pretty basic music.

Recording

VGMPF Album Art

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#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen
01	Game Start	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:01
02	The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Stage 1)	Cyndi Lauper, Broughton Lunt, Aurthur Stead	Satoe Terashima	1:45
03	Stage 2 (and 4)	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	1:03
04	Space Between Stages	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:54
05	The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Stages 3 and 6)	Cyndi Lauper, Broughton Lunt, Aurthur Stead	Satoe Terashima	1:33
06	Stage 5	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:44
07	All Items	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:01
08	Stage Clear	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:02
09	Miss	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:01
10	Game Over	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:03
11	Invincible	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:13
12	Rescued Goonie	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:01
13	All Clear	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:01
14	Ending	Satoe Terashima	Satoe Terashima	0:21

Credits

• Ripper: Mk-II, Gil_Galad
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Satoe Terashima
  • Not Credited Composer: Cyndi Lauper
  • Not Credited Composer: Broughton Lunt
  • Not Credited Composer: Aurthur Stead

(Source: The game lacks credits, but Iku Mizutani confirmed that Satoe Terashima was the composer.)

Albums

Konami Game Music Vol.2 1986-09-10

Game Rip

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Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site. The recording was made using Not So, Fatso! v0.851.

Releases

Japan Title: グーニーズ (The Goonies) Platform: NES Released: 1986-03-21 Publisher: Konami Corporation     USA Title: The Goonies Platform: PlayChoice-10 Released: 1986-??-?? Publisher: Nintendo of America, Inc.     USA Title: Vs. The Goonies Platform: Vs. System Released: 1986-??-?? Publisher: Nintendo of America, Inc.     Japan Title: グーニーズ (The Goonies) Platform: Famicom Disk System Released: 1988-04-08 Publisher: Konami Corporation

Links

• mobygames.com/game/nes/goonies - Moby Games.
• gamefaqs.com/nes/577921-the-goonies - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies_(Nintendo_game) - Wikipedia.