The Goonies (Famicom video game)

The Goonies
The Goonies
Cover art of The Goonies by Noriyoshi Ohrai
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Nintendo (VS. System)
Composer(s)Satoe Terashima[1]
Platform(s)Family Computer, Arcade (VS. System, PlayChoice-10), Family Computer Disk System, PC-8801, X1, MSX
ReleaseFamicom
  • JP: February 21, 1986
PC-8801/X1/MSX
  • JP: October 23, 1986
  • EU: 1986 (MSX)
VS. System/PC-10
Famicom Disk System
  • JP: April 8, 1988
Genre(s)Platform game
Mode(s)Single-player
Screenshot of the restaurant stage

The Goonies (Japanese: グーニーズ, Hepburn: Gūnīzu) is a 1986 platform game based on the film of the same name produced by Konami for the Family Computer. Konami also developed a completely different version for the MSX in Japan.[2] First released on cartridge, it was later re-released in Disk System format in 1988.[3]

Although the game was never sold in retail in North America, Nintendo published an arcade port in North America for the VS. System (a coin-operated platform which runs on the same hardware as the NES) under the title Vs. The Goonies and it was also available as a PlayChoice-10 title in the region.[4]

A sequel was released titled The Goonies II, which saw a worldwide retail release in 1987.[5]

The main theme song for most of the game is a chiptune rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough".

  1. ^ "ファミコン名曲5選!『ドラキュラ』『ゼルダ』…限られた音で表現されたガチ名曲集(マグミクス)|dメニューニュース".
  2. ^ "Goonies, the (Konami) – Hardcore Gaming 101".
  3. ^ "Goonies, the Famicom World".
  4. ^ "The Goonies (Arcade)". Mobygames. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Goonies II, the – Hardcore Gaming 101".