I was 12 when I put my hands on this game. For me (1993, I'm dominican, and at that time I didn't know a word of english back then, but always played NES games with an english-spanish dictionary in hand), it was extremely difficult at first. I couldn't find anything beyond the key holder and the hammer. Everything changed one saturday afternoon, when I was bored and I hit a wall with the hammer, and a door appears out of nowhere (I can still remember the emotion I had back then). Afterwards, it was only matter of follow the same pro-tip of the 4 steps when you are in an empty room (which I developed by myself backthen). It is one of my beloved games of all times. I don't have the cartridge I had when I first played it (the chip was inside a different case, and I though it was another game... at that point I knew it was not the sequel to the movie), but I have another cartridge I bough years later dirt cheap. That game helped me learn a little bit of english, giving me access to a whole new world.
However sprawling and detailed games may be these days, this is the kind of game that felt like a whole world back in 1987. Mysterious, magical - but with some familiar suburban American iconography. In a way, it's a precursor to games like Star Tropics and Earthbound.
Justin Runge so true. I played this before Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus and this was the first game that truly felt like I was exploring a huge mysterious world.
I vaguely remember reading an article somewhere that stated that the Mermaid element was in one of the early drafts of the goonies 2 movie script that was in production at the time, which Konami was informed about, in hopes of having a simultaneous release- but the movie ended up in production hell, and the game was released without it.
I was 11 years old when Goonies II released in my part of the world, and I absolutely loved this game! So did many of my friends and other classmates. It had platforming like Super Mario, it had adventure and mystery like Zelda, and it had exploration and the need to search for items like Metroid. This, when it was released, was the ultimate adventure game. Sure, it took forever to search all the rooms, hitting everything with the fist and hammer, but that kind of exploration was fun back in the day. At least to me, and everyone else that I knew who was hooked on it.
agreed. The gameplay really has to be understood in context. It combined elements of other great games into one single challenge. And as someone who tried to burn every bush in Zelda and bomb every floor square in Metroid, the "hit-hammer-goggles" process was standard gaming experience.
Borrowed this from a friend back in 7th or 8th grade, and beat it in (effectively) one sitting from a Saturday morning to that night, loving every minute of it. This was a great game that I occasionally come back to just out of how fun it is to play.
I played the hell out of that game when I was a kiddo and it was brand new. Though I was too young to understand how the game functioned, I still loved it. Went back and played it again for a few hours some years back, and its still hard as hell hahahha ;) Thank you for making this video... Ive spent a week anticipating it and I was so happy when it popped up in my subscriptions list!!!
I remember dumping a ton of quarters into the original Goonies game in the arcade (the baby blue Vs. machine, not the play choice), but I never could quite get into this one. Now I'm gonna have Cindy Lauper stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Fantastic.
I was sorely disappointed by the lack of Sloth in Goonies 2, but my head cannon as a kid was that he was Konami man and healed you like as a superhero (but not Superman due to licensing issues)
Like others, I thought there was a Goonies 2, or a script of it which never got made, but Konami saw it and made this game. Lol I love this game, for it did improve and expand upon the gameplay of the first one. The only issue I had was finding invisible items, which was hard without the glasses.
I remember first seeing this on a PlayChoice machine. Never did try to tackle it thanks to the NES Player's Guide maps presenting it as a very daunting task. I love the first one on Famicom, so perhaps I'll try to go through this one only using the black guide as my only resource.
Been hyped for this episode for awhile and it does not disappoint. Countless rentals of this title as a child have firmly cemented it in my memory and lead to years of confusion about the story. When the term Metroidvania started getting thrown around in the early 2000s I remember comparing the concept to The Goonies II and getting a lot of strange looks as a result.
So glad to see someone that doesn't destroy this game when they talk about it. One of my favorite games of the NES era. When I finally beat it, I felt so accomplished.
It’s annoying to see people slam old games based on modern standards. Especially when modern games built on what was established in the very games they crap on. You have to compare old games to their peers at the time and what the standards were.
I don't know why folks would verbally put down a game like this one: Konami put a lot of effort into it, and it's genuinely fun to play. It's all too easy to complain about something after the fact without understanding the technical limitations that factored into its creation. People were neither less talented nor less intelligent 30 years ago!
This game holds a special place in my heart - I played it so much and memorized the map (thank you Nintendo Players' Guide, the holy grail of early NES gaming), I could beat the game in just under an hour. Looks like the current WR is ~15 minutes, which is really insane to me.
Keep up the great work Jeremy!!! Everytime i watch your videos it's takes me back to my childhood when in my opinion the videogames were way better. Goonies 2 was a difficult but great game.
I loved this game as a kid, despite the blind hunt issues you mentioned. Side note, I was well into adulthood before I realized that super-catchy main song was an actual song by Cyndi Lauper. :-P
Great episode. This is one of those games I never paid much attention to as a kid (I think I may have rented it once) but have always wanted to go back to. And oh boy, got some high grade kusoge coming up next episode. Can't wait for that!
The Goonies II is just the gang telling the events of the movie to the new kid in town, Dominic Palmieri, while they're baby sitting him and trying to get him to go to sleep. Hence all the crazy things like magma caverns, dragons, the mermaid, etc.
7:10 - When I was around 8 I beat this game. And so I drew this scene in a book. Thing is, I drew her with her boobs showing! About 20 years later I find this book again and saw the drawing, thus creating a false memory in my head that the boobs were always there. Honestly, I'm quite shocked! Here I was thinking this was an NES game with nudity in it for 25 years of my life in total.
Love this game! Again, best gaming channel on TH-cam. Perfectly captures the feeling of playing this awesome, under rated game. Can’t tell you how many hours I sunk into this game as a kid or how nerve racking it was to hit some of these areas, especially the bridge and the dragon infested areas. Can’t wait until the next video.
I think this was probably the first game I ever beat and it’s still one of my favorite games on the original Nintendo. I’ve replayed it quite a few times over the years. It’s good fun for an hour or so.
I had this game. I put quite a bit of time into it but I could only find something like less than half the items and maybe the first 2-3 characters. It was pretty confusing.
Oh yeah! This game was a big part of my childhood. Still love it :) I'm surprised you didn't mention how ridiculously cryptic it is to get the candle 😄
Excellent episode as usual. This game holds a special place for me, as the Goonies movie was iconic in my childhood, as was the NES of course. I remember playing this as a kid but I don't remember how complex it was. This was an amazing deep dive into the game!
Even though "Goonies 2" is a sequel to "Goonies" on Famicom, Goonies on Famicom has the same story as the movie. So in essence, Goonies 2 IS a sequel to the movie's story as well.
Your level of depth and fact checking is so impressive. Great video. Will you ever being doing a retrospective on Solstice for the NES? It's my favorite game of all time. Have a great rest of your day.
1987 was a good year for the adventure genre as a whole, video games, and otherwise. Edit:just realised the kids name was mikey walsh and he lived in Astoria oregon, and my last name is walsh and I grew up near astoria
This one was always a favorite of mine. The first time we played it, it took my sister and I at least a couple of weeks to finish it and it did seem like an epic adventure. Nowadays you can find and watch blind playthroughs that finish it in a couple of hours. Go figure.
I was one of those kids that saw this game at a friend’s and immediately went on a desperate quest to find the movie sequel this game was most certainly based on. “How did I miss this?”
This is an underrated game that I've always enjoyed, despite its weird Adventure scenes. The connection between those and the map always eluded me back then, the Warp Zones, which can take you anywhere, messed me up and obscured the connections between th action and adventure scenes and the map. My favorite thing about the game is that hilarious animated Ma Fratelli that shows up to taunt you in attract mode and when you lose!
I was so happy when I found a used copy of this a few years ago after all the talking up you did about it over the years, Jeremy! Now, about that Jetpack Goonies... 😁
I had the Goonies for Commodore 64 so I thought it was the sequel to that game. Loved both goonies games, the one on commodore was co-op that I played with my brother and sister. This one on the NES I would hammer and punch every wall, didn’t really bother me because I was young and just thought that’s what you did.
When I first heard of this game, I remember thinking that there was a Goonies sequel I had never heard of and this was a let down in that factor. It does look fun though so I need to give this a try. After all, it's an early NES Konami game.
I have a video of me receiving this game in July 1988. My mom was in a hospital bed holding my newborn sister and I was meeting her for the first time. I was 6 years old. "She" gave me the game as a welcome gift. I could not take my eyes off the game even though everybody could not take their eyes off my sister.
Man after countless hours I finally got the glasses and track back to the guy that needed glasses and fucking asshole won't take the glasses, I had no idea the glasses were for me!!!! These games were wayyyyyyyyy to hard
5:00 Wait, whaaaaaat? I never finished the game because I got stuck since I missed items, but now I realize I surely had them and didn't know about the submenu thing!
I never did beat this one despite many hours invested. I remember being convinced that I could deduce which captured Goonie was which based on what they said.
I stared playing Goonies II after listening to Jeremy talk about it on Retronauts. It can be a very fun game, but I strongly recommend new players use Nesrocks’s Goonies II Revised Design hack. In my personal option Nesrocks’s improvement hack makes this rough gem shine. Also check out Nesrocks’s Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition. It is an amazing love letter to the original game that improves it in every way.
I remember being stuck on this game too. I even tried to return it back to the shop thinking it had a fault. I was referred to the budding nintendo telephone helpline! Definitely a flawed game but the platform elements were fun.
Playing this spatial relation Pandora's Box for years on end gives one the ability to see THROUGH TIME AND THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS! Prove that I'm wrong.
These games had such an impact, that 15 years later I still couldn't get these games out of my DNA, so I became Indiana Jones. Drew a map, got a game geneie and dove in haha.
Oof, that next game coming up. I do hope the PC88 version gets at least a passing mention, as it makes a lot of the weird design choices make sense simply by actually implementing them properly. Even if it's still not a very good game. :)
The concept of a goonies 2 on the NES confused me greatly because as a kid. I wanted to see the movie it was based on and couldn't find it and never understood why it didn't exist. XD
Hey Jeremy! I'm going to try and come to your presentation at PAX East. Love your videos, by the way I don't know if you remember my mom.. Becky Barnhill?
I remember renting this game a couple of times back in 88-89 and really wanting to like it. But the menu driven parts sort of killed the game for me since I didn't have the patience back then to completely figure them out. Maybe it's time for me to fire up the emulator and give the game a proper play through!
Looking forward to that next one, Jeremy. I first played Super Pitfall back when it originally came out. It was the first clear time I was playing a video game where I knew it wasn't just me being a kid who was bad at the game. It just absolutely sucked.
I really enjoy the 1st game. Part 2 not so much. Even with the Nintendo Players Guide map as a kid I couldn’t get far. I don’t even want to try it now lol
this was definitely one of my favorites growing up! actually fairly recently scooped up the Japanese version of it as I saw a good deal on it. fun game but definitely want to have a walkthrough handy to find all the items, some of em aren't super obvious.
Nobody really played the first game. I couldn't even find it as a child. I started to believe that it didn't really exist until the internet told me otherwise.
It showed up very rarely in the U.S. as a Vs. System game. There was exactly one restaurant in my city of 200,000+ people and many, many arcades, mini golf courses, skate rinks, and pizza joints that had it for a while.
While in retrospect I can understand why Konami didn't bring over the first Goonies game for the NES in North America, VS. Goonies, the arcade counterpart using the VS. System arcade line of games, did get a western release. So that's odd. Ultra Games, Konami's shell corporation to circumvent the publishing limit Nintendo of America imposed, started up the following year after this game, so I'm wondering if Konami getting that free pass on publishing more than the limit in 1987 was making other publishers jealous or what. There's gotta be some story there.
You know what they should make an official film sequel I mean back then in the 80’s after director Richard Donner left and producer Steven Spielberg left when The Goonies (1985) was a successful film 🎞 but It needs a sequel for the best film of all time like they will add New filmmakers like Gene Roddenberry (who was a Produced Star Trek The Motion Picture) a Canadian/American film producer like Ivan Reitman (who was the Director of Ghostbusters 1984 version) and Director Don Coscarelli (the guy who directed Phantasm & The Beastmaster) so that way they will take over to make a sequel out of the most popular film 🎞 so that way they will call’ed it The Goonies 2 In search Of The Primeval Island 🏝 (1987) so they can bring back the same actors like Sean Astin as Mikey Josh Brolin as Brand Corey Feldman as Mouth Jonathan Ke Quan as Data Jeff Cohen as Chunk Kerri green as Andy Martha Plimpton as Stef and two new members of The Goonies name Molly Ringward as Malinda (Mikey’s girlfriend that she move to Mikey’s Neighborhood) and Leo O’Brien as Joey (Mouth’s buddy from one of his next door neighbors) but they will bring back John matuszak as Sloth (that he always said HEY YOU GUYS!!) even they will add New Bad guys known as the Monder day Pirates 🏴☠️ gang the terrorist group like Christopher Walken as Gary (The leader of the Pirate 🏴☠️ Gang that he’s obsessed too look 👀 for gold and diamonds on Primeval island) even Nicholas Worth Brion James Randy Savage/Macho Man Vernon Wells Carter Wong & Al Pacino as The Bad Guy’s Henchmen and Adrienne Barbeau as Lisa the hunch lady (that she’s always wanted Diamonds 💎 Of her own) & even they will add Stop motion animation Dinosaurs 🦖🦕 like Tyrannosaurus Rex 🦖 Triceratops Brontosaurus 🦕 Stegosaurus Pteranodon Dimetrodon Kaprosuchus 🐊 Woolly Mammoth 🦣 Giant Gourd Sloth 🦥 & The Gigantopithecus (a.k.a The Giant Ape 🦧 ) but The Dinosaurs 🦖 🦕Gigantopithecus (Giant Orangutan Ape 🦧) are going to be stop motion animated by Jim Danforth & The Chiodo brothers even Creature Animatronic by Carlo Rambaldi Special Visual Effects by Ernest Farino Sloth Make up artist by Thomas R. Burman Music by Dave Grusin Writer by Philip Kaufman Screenplay by Chris Columbus Producer by Ivan Reitman & Walter Hill executive producer by Gene Roddenberry Directed by Don Coscarelli so The Goonies 2 film will came out in March 6th 1987 it will opened against Angel Heart in that same year but in this movie sequel the Fratelli’s are going too be out of the picture in this Movie 🎥 but the film critics Siskel and Ebert might give it two thumps up 👍 or down 👎 if The Goonies 2 movie will be a good sequel or a bad sequel but the film 🎞 critic Leonard Maltin will think 💭 that The Goonies 2 Movie 🎥 might be a Terrible film 🎞 sequel but it turn’s out to be a knock off of other films in the past like King Kong (1976) and The Blue Lagoon (1980) but it will be still from Warner Bros Or De entertainment group, but the worst part in The Goonies 2 Movie 🎥 Mikey (Played By Sean Astin) and Malinda (Played by Molly Ringward) went Swimming 🏊 naked in the lagoon and they have sex but they got them a PG Rated in this movie Sequel.
I **think** it might've reached the PlayChoice-10 NES arcade units in North America in its original non-"Vs." form as well, but it definitely didn't get a consumer cartridge release outside of Japan
I wouldn't be shocked if someone is doing aftermarket NES cartridge repros of the Japanese ROM using black box stylings given the vintage of the game, repros are all over the place these days
I was 12 when I put my hands on this game. For me (1993, I'm dominican, and at that time I didn't know a word of english back then, but always played NES games with an english-spanish dictionary in hand), it was extremely difficult at first. I couldn't find anything beyond the key holder and the hammer.
Everything changed one saturday afternoon, when I was bored and I hit a wall with the hammer, and a door appears out of nowhere (I can still remember the emotion I had back then).
Afterwards, it was only matter of follow the same pro-tip of the 4 steps when you are in an empty room (which I developed by myself backthen).
It is one of my beloved games of all times. I don't have the cartridge I had when I first played it (the chip was inside a different case, and I though it was another game... at that point I knew it was not the sequel to the movie), but I have another cartridge I bough years later dirt cheap.
That game helped me learn a little bit of english, giving me access to a whole new world.
However sprawling and detailed games may be these days, this is the kind of game that felt like a whole world back in 1987. Mysterious, magical - but with some familiar suburban American iconography. In a way, it's a precursor to games like Star Tropics and Earthbound.
Justin Runge so true. I played this before Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus and this was the first game that truly felt like I was exploring a huge mysterious world.
I vaguely remember reading an article somewhere that stated that the Mermaid element was in one of the early drafts of the goonies 2 movie script that was in production at the time, which Konami was informed about, in hopes of having a simultaneous release- but the movie ended up in production hell, and the game was released without it.
I loved the game back in the day.
It was truly an adventure.
And I still love the music today.
I was 11 years old when Goonies II released in my part of the world, and I absolutely loved this game! So did many of my friends and other classmates. It had platforming like Super Mario, it had adventure and mystery like Zelda, and it had exploration and the need to search for items like Metroid. This, when it was released, was the ultimate adventure game. Sure, it took forever to search all the rooms, hitting everything with the fist and hammer, but that kind of exploration was fun back in the day. At least to me, and everyone else that I knew who was hooked on it.
agreed. The gameplay really has to be understood in context. It combined elements of other great games into one single challenge. And as someone who tried to burn every bush in Zelda and bomb every floor square in Metroid, the "hit-hammer-goggles" process was standard gaming experience.
the music has so much nostalgia for me, not only the iconic Goonies theme but also the other ones. classic!
This game was basically 6 months of my life around age 8. The music absolutely gets me in the feels.
I miss these days! Born in ‘80, this was my childhood.
Borrowed this from a friend back in 7th or 8th grade, and beat it in (effectively) one sitting from a Saturday morning to that night, loving every minute of it. This was a great game that I occasionally come back to just out of how fun it is to play.
I played the hell out of that game when I was a kiddo and it was brand new. Though I was too young to understand how the game functioned, I still loved it. Went back and played it again for a few hours some years back, and its still hard as hell hahahha ;) Thank you for making this video... Ive spent a week anticipating it and I was so happy when it popped up in my subscriptions list!!!
I remember dumping a ton of quarters into the original Goonies game in the arcade (the baby blue Vs. machine, not the play choice), but I never could quite get into this one. Now I'm gonna have Cindy Lauper stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Fantastic.
I was sorely disappointed by the lack of Sloth in Goonies 2, but my head cannon as a kid was that he was Konami man and healed you like as a superhero (but not Superman due to licensing issues)
"head cannon" made me chuckle :D
Like others, I thought there was a Goonies 2, or a script of it which never got made, but Konami saw it and made this game. Lol
I love this game, for it did improve and expand upon the gameplay of the first one.
The only issue I had was finding invisible items, which was hard without the glasses.
I remember first seeing this on a PlayChoice machine. Never did try to tackle it thanks to the NES Player's Guide maps presenting it as a very daunting task. I love the first one on Famicom, so perhaps I'll try to go through this one only using the black guide as my only resource.
Been hyped for this episode for awhile and it does not disappoint. Countless rentals of this title as a child have firmly cemented it in my memory and lead to years of confusion about the story. When the term Metroidvania started getting thrown around in the early 2000s I remember comparing the concept to The Goonies II and getting a lot of strange looks as a result.
So glad to see someone that doesn't destroy this game when they talk about it. One of my favorite games of the NES era. When I finally beat it, I felt so accomplished.
It’s annoying to see people slam old games based on modern standards. Especially when modern games built on what was established in the very games they crap on. You have to compare old games to their peers at the time and what the standards were.
That's the entire purpose of this series!
Jeremy Parish love this series for this reason. Keep it up!
@@Paiste2002Fan I attempted to say something similar on his Legend of Zelda episode, but I didn't communicate it very well.
I don't know why folks would verbally put down a game like this one: Konami put a lot of effort into it, and it's genuinely fun to play. It's all too easy to complain about something after the fact without understanding the technical limitations that factored into its creation. People were neither less talented nor less intelligent 30 years ago!
This game holds a special place in my heart - I played it so much and memorized the map (thank you Nintendo Players' Guide, the holy grail of early NES gaming), I could beat the game in just under an hour. Looks like the current WR is ~15 minutes, which is really insane to me.
Keep up the great work Jeremy!!! Everytime i watch your videos it's takes me back to my childhood when in my opinion the videogames were way better. Goonies 2 was a difficult but great game.
I loved this game as a kid, despite the blind hunt issues you mentioned. Side note, I was well into adulthood before I realized that super-catchy main song was an actual song by Cyndi Lauper. :-P
Great episode. This is one of those games I never paid much attention to as a kid (I think I may have rented it once) but have always wanted to go back to.
And oh boy, got some high grade kusoge coming up next episode. Can't wait for that!
The Goonies II is just the gang telling the events of the movie to the new kid in town, Dominic Palmieri, while they're baby sitting him and trying to get him to go to sleep. Hence all the crazy things like magma caverns, dragons, the mermaid, etc.
7:10 - When I was around 8 I beat this game. And so I drew this scene in a book. Thing is, I drew her with her boobs showing! About 20 years later I find this book again and saw the drawing, thus creating a false memory in my head that the boobs were always there. Honestly, I'm quite shocked! Here I was thinking this was an NES game with nudity in it for 25 years of my life in total.
Love this game! Again, best gaming channel on TH-cam. Perfectly captures the feeling of playing this awesome, under rated game. Can’t tell you how many hours I sunk into this game as a kid or how nerve racking it was to hit some of these areas, especially the bridge and the dragon infested areas. Can’t wait until the next video.
I love this game, flaws be damned. Looking at screenshots or hearing the soundtrack immediately transports me back to 1987.
That start game sound takes me right back to my friend's basement when I was six and the first time I had ever seen an NES.
I cannot wait for next episode. Super Pitfall was probably my worst NES purchase back in the day.
I really liked the game. But admittedly, I only bought it years later for very little money and with little expectations.
I think this was probably the first game I ever beat and it’s still one of my favorite games on the original Nintendo. I’ve replayed it quite a few times over the years. It’s good fun for an hour or so.
12:02 Goonies games r good enough for me. Ay-ya-ya-ya ya!
I had this game. I put quite a bit of time into it but I could only find something like less than half the items and maybe the first 2-3 characters. It was pretty confusing.
Oh yeah! This game was a big part of my childhood. Still love it :)
I'm surprised you didn't mention how ridiculously cryptic it is to get the candle 😄
Excellent episode as usual. This game holds a special place for me, as the Goonies movie was iconic in my childhood, as was the NES of course. I remember playing this as a kid but I don't remember how complex it was. This was an amazing deep dive into the game!
This was a game that I needed a guide for, but I know I really liked it as a kid.
Some day we'll get Jet Pack Goonies, Jeremy. Some day.
@ReyVGM gamespite.net/2012/07/07/the-true-story-of-jetpack-goonies/
Even though "Goonies 2" is a sequel to "Goonies" on Famicom, Goonies on Famicom has the same story as the movie. So in essence, Goonies 2 IS a sequel to the movie's story as well.
I always love and look forward to your work, Jeremy!
I will always remember this game for updog.
Your level of depth and fact checking is so impressive. Great video. Will you ever being doing a retrospective on Solstice for the NES? It's my favorite game of all time. Have a great rest of your day.
1987 was a good year for the adventure genre as a whole, video games, and otherwise.
Edit:just realised the kids name was mikey walsh and he lived in Astoria oregon, and my last name is walsh and I grew up near astoria
Am I the only that thinks the music in the Adventure rooms sound like the dungeon theme from the 1st Legend of Zelda on NES?
chaseman94 It also sounds similar to the indoor areas of Friday the 13th to me.
Great coverage on this classic!
This one was always a favorite of mine. The first time we played it, it took my sister and I at least a couple of weeks to finish it and it did seem like an epic adventure. Nowadays you can find and watch blind playthroughs that finish it in a couple of hours. Go figure.
Gnaaarlly! This is one game I never realized just how 0% of a chance I had at getting anywhere in it as a kid and my brother got it.
12:35; Nice...f***ing beautiful! (I know, not the spot where the Nerd said that particular quote, but it does describe my reaction to the next game.)
When i saw that clip, i immediatly thought "hey, let's play charades"
I was one of those kids that saw this game at a friend’s and immediately went on a desperate quest to find the movie sequel this game was most certainly based on. “How did I miss this?”
This is an underrated game that I've always enjoyed, despite its weird Adventure scenes. The connection between those and the map always eluded me back then, the Warp Zones, which can take you anywhere, messed me up and obscured the connections between th action and adventure scenes and the map.
My favorite thing about the game is that hilarious animated Ma Fratelli that shows up to taunt you in attract mode and when you lose!
Loved this! Thanks! (the sounds make me happy...)
I was so happy when I found a used copy of this a few years ago after all the talking up you did about it over the years, Jeremy! Now, about that Jetpack Goonies... 😁
I loved this when I was a kid. I've never understood why the first game wasn't released on the NES though.
I had the Goonies for Commodore 64 so I thought it was the sequel to that game. Loved both goonies games, the one on commodore was co-op that I played with my brother and sister. This one on the NES I would hammer and punch every wall, didn’t really bother me because I was young and just thought that’s what you did.
When I first heard of this game, I remember thinking that there was a Goonies sequel I had never heard of and this was a let down in that factor. It does look fun though so I need to give this a try. After all, it's an early NES Konami game.
Time for The Goonies III
I have a video of me receiving this game in July 1988. My mom was in a hospital bed holding my newborn sister and I was meeting her for the first time. I was 6 years old. "She" gave me the game as a welcome gift. I could not take my eyes off the game even though everybody could not take their eyes off my sister.
I 100% thought there was a Goonies 2 movie because of this game and tried to convince my 5th grade class of the fact.
Adore this game. I think its underrated due to the difficulty of map navigation. Such a fun game. Proud i've beaten it with no hints, too. ;']
Man after countless hours I finally got the glasses and track back to the guy that needed glasses and fucking asshole won't take the glasses, I had no idea the glasses were for me!!!! These games were wayyyyyyyyy to hard
I could never beat this game as a kid. But! I played the shit out of it!
I played this game a lot back on my NES days (its a mid 90s) , I remember watching the movie and love the games,but never be able to finished it
Next eps is the one I've been waiting for! SP gets so much hate, but I love it!
5:00 Wait, whaaaaaat? I never finished the game because I got stuck since I missed items, but now I realize I surely had them and didn't know about the submenu thing!
I never did beat this one despite many hours invested. I remember being convinced that I could deduce which captured Goonie was which based on what they said.
I stared playing Goonies II after listening to Jeremy talk about it on Retronauts. It can be a very fun game, but I strongly recommend new players use Nesrocks’s Goonies II Revised Design hack. In my personal option Nesrocks’s improvement hack makes this rough gem shine.
Also check out Nesrocks’s Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition. It is an amazing love letter to the original game that improves it in every way.
I had the game for awhile but never could complete it until The Official Nintendo Players Guide” came out with the complete map
I never got too into this title but for it's time it was pretty good
I remember being stuck on this game too. I even tried to return it back to the shop thinking it had a fault. I was referred to the budding nintendo telephone helpline! Definitely a flawed game but the platform elements were fun.
Playing this spatial relation Pandora's Box for years on end gives one the ability to see THROUGH TIME AND THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS!
Prove that I'm wrong.
These games had such an impact, that 15 years later I still couldn't get these games out of my DNA, so I became Indiana Jones. Drew a map, got a game geneie and dove in haha.
Seven year old me had such a hard time understanding the map layout in this game.
6:38 Ah, the timeless enemy-that-spawns-while-you're-in-midair...
...that scorpion's an asshole.
I must have rented this game ten times as a kid.
I beat this game back in the day on real nes, with non guide, no internet, and no cheating. It was EOIC. Took me a week or so.
Seriously dude your stuff is amazing
No, YOU'RE amazing
Uhhhh, is that Jetpack bit a reference to something?
Oof, that next game coming up. I do hope the PC88 version gets at least a passing mention, as it makes a lot of the weird design choices make sense simply by actually implementing them properly. Even if it's still not a very good game. :)
The concept of a goonies 2 on the NES confused me greatly because as a kid. I wanted to see the movie it was based on and couldn't find it and never understood why it didn't exist. XD
And "jet pack" were the last two words in the review. Why am I not surprised?
The first person adventure maze sequences have the same music as the first person shop scenes in Getsu Fuma Den. Konami recycling assets?
Hey Jeremy! I'm going to try and come to your presentation at PAX East. Love your videos, by the way I don't know if you remember my mom.. Becky Barnhill?
Wow! Now I feel old. Please say hello if you make it to the panel!
Goonies I NES soundtrack is a banger.
I remember renting this game a couple of times back in 88-89 and really wanting to like it. But the menu driven parts sort of killed the game for me since I didn't have the patience back then to completely figure them out. Maybe it's time for me to fire up the emulator and give the game a proper play through!
Another Great episode
Think of a remake now, where every Goonie has different stats and abilities, and boss fights.
Looking forward to that next one, Jeremy. I first played Super Pitfall back when it originally came out.
It was the first clear time I was playing a video game where I knew it wasn't just me being a kid who was bad at the game. It just absolutely sucked.
The only thing I can associate with this game now is "Updog" and I have no regrets.
I really enjoy the 1st game. Part 2 not so much. Even with the Nintendo Players Guide map as a kid I couldn’t get far. I don’t even want to try it now lol
The music of the adventure mode reminds me the music of "sword of hope" (in the part that you go in a labyrinth under the castle).
I love how much Parish downplays his role in the creation of the term "Metroidvania."
I didn't even know he created it. No wonder people don't know what I'm talking about.
I didn't create it...
The Smart-Casual Gamer. He popularized the term but didn’t create it.
0:55 - EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE WAS THINKING!!!
Was there Updog in there?
@Robert Gray *hyperventilating laughter*
Justice 4 Jetpack Goonies
Jeremy, don't forget to stick links to your books on the Fangamer store in the description!
I loved this game once I figured it out.
this was definitely one of my favorites growing up! actually fairly recently scooped up the Japanese version of it as I saw a good deal on it. fun game but definitely want to have a walkthrough handy to find all the items, some of em aren't super obvious.
Nobody really played the first game. I couldn't even find it as a child. I started to believe that it didn't really exist until the internet told me otherwise.
It showed up very rarely in the U.S. as a Vs. System game. There was exactly one restaurant in my city of 200,000+ people and many, many arcades, mini golf courses, skate rinks, and pizza joints that had it for a while.
While in retrospect I can understand why Konami didn't bring over the first Goonies game for the NES in North America, VS. Goonies, the arcade counterpart using the VS. System arcade line of games, did get a western release. So that's odd.
Ultra Games, Konami's shell corporation to circumvent the publishing limit Nintendo of America imposed, started up the following year after this game, so I'm wondering if Konami getting that free pass on publishing more than the limit in 1987 was making other publishers jealous or what. There's gotta be some story there.
"It's good enough for me." I see what you did there. 😂
You know what they should make an official film sequel I mean back then in the 80’s after director Richard Donner left and producer Steven Spielberg left when The Goonies (1985) was a successful film 🎞 but It needs a sequel for the best film of all time like they will add New filmmakers like Gene Roddenberry (who was a Produced Star Trek The Motion Picture) a Canadian/American film producer like Ivan Reitman (who was the Director of Ghostbusters 1984 version) and Director Don Coscarelli (the guy who directed Phantasm & The Beastmaster) so that way they will take over to make a sequel out of the most popular film 🎞 so that way they will call’ed it The Goonies 2 In search Of The Primeval Island 🏝 (1987) so they can bring back the same actors like Sean Astin as Mikey Josh Brolin as Brand Corey Feldman as Mouth Jonathan Ke Quan as Data Jeff Cohen as Chunk Kerri green as Andy Martha Plimpton as Stef and two new members of The Goonies name Molly Ringward as Malinda (Mikey’s girlfriend that she move to Mikey’s Neighborhood) and Leo O’Brien as Joey (Mouth’s buddy from one of his next door neighbors) but they will bring back John matuszak as Sloth (that he always said HEY YOU GUYS!!) even they will add New Bad guys known as the Monder day Pirates 🏴☠️ gang the terrorist group like Christopher Walken as Gary (The leader of the Pirate 🏴☠️ Gang that he’s obsessed too look 👀 for gold and diamonds on Primeval island) even Nicholas Worth Brion James Randy Savage/Macho Man Vernon Wells Carter Wong & Al Pacino as The Bad Guy’s Henchmen and Adrienne Barbeau as Lisa the hunch lady (that she’s always wanted Diamonds 💎 Of her own) & even they will add Stop motion animation Dinosaurs 🦖🦕 like Tyrannosaurus Rex 🦖 Triceratops Brontosaurus 🦕 Stegosaurus Pteranodon Dimetrodon Kaprosuchus 🐊 Woolly Mammoth 🦣 Giant Gourd Sloth 🦥 & The Gigantopithecus (a.k.a The Giant Ape 🦧 ) but The Dinosaurs 🦖 🦕Gigantopithecus (Giant Orangutan Ape 🦧) are going to be stop motion animated by Jim Danforth & The Chiodo brothers even Creature Animatronic by Carlo Rambaldi Special Visual Effects by Ernest Farino Sloth Make up artist by Thomas R. Burman Music by Dave Grusin Writer by Philip Kaufman Screenplay by Chris Columbus Producer by Ivan Reitman & Walter Hill executive producer by Gene Roddenberry Directed by Don Coscarelli so The Goonies 2 film will came out in March 6th 1987 it will opened against Angel Heart in that same year but in this movie sequel the Fratelli’s are going too be out of the picture in this Movie 🎥 but the film critics Siskel and Ebert might give it two thumps up 👍 or down 👎 if The Goonies 2 movie will be a good sequel or a bad sequel but the film 🎞 critic Leonard Maltin will think 💭 that The Goonies 2 Movie 🎥 might be a Terrible film 🎞 sequel but it turn’s out to be a knock off of other films in the past like King Kong (1976) and The Blue Lagoon (1980) but it will be still from Warner Bros Or De entertainment group, but the worst part in The Goonies 2 Movie 🎥 Mikey (Played By Sean Astin) and Malinda (Played by Molly Ringward) went Swimming 🏊 naked in the lagoon and they have sex but they got them a PG Rated in this movie Sequel.
Was Goonies 1 ever released on the NES or only in Japan?
In the U.S., it was only released in arcades as VS. The Goonies.
I **think** it might've reached the PlayChoice-10 NES arcade units in North America in its original non-"Vs." form as well, but it definitely didn't get a consumer cartridge release outside of Japan
I see. I remember seeing Goonies 1 with “black box” packaging. Shame, I really enjoyed VS Goonies in the arcade
I wouldn't be shocked if someone is doing aftermarket NES cartridge repros of the Japanese ROM using black box stylings given the vintage of the game, repros are all over the place these days
Yeah, that Black Box version was definitely not legit.
"Yes! Jeremy LOVES Goonies II, this episode is going to be juicy"
Completeness.
It's a great game, but man... Did they jump the shark on this one. 🤣
Definitely one of my favs on the NES. So obtuse tho.