The Goonies

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Description

The Goonies is based on the Steven Spielberg 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 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.

The game keeps a score and a high score, and you have a certain number of lives, which would be replenished at certain points or at certain score totals, and there is no save feature. In other words, the game had to be played all in one sitting, near-perfectly, to see the ending. 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.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Inspiration: Movies
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Critic Reviews

Your Commodore	Commodore 64	Mar, 1986	9 out of 10	90
Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1987	8 out of 10	80
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	Dec, 1985	8 out of 10	80
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Jan, 1986	78 out of 100	78
ATARImagazin	Atari 8-bit	May, 1987	3 out of 6	60
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Dec, 1985		60
Le Geek	Commodore 64	Sep, 2007	3 out of 5	60
Happy Computer	ZX Spectrum	Feb, 1986	Unscored	Unscored
Happy Computer	Amstrad CPC	Feb, 1986	Unscored	Unscored
Happy Computer	Atari 8-bit	Feb, 1986	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Version differences

The Atari 8-bit version was released on both 5.25" diskette and cassette tape. The tape release has different music on the title screen and no demo mode. (Information from Atarimania.com.)

Related Web Sites

• CPCZone (CPCZone's page on the Amstrad CPC version of The Goonies.)