Finally... ...the game most people don't know exists... ...the 8-bit Prequel to Goonies II... ##### # ## ##### #### #### ### ### ## #### ### #### # # # # ######## ###### ####### #### ### # ####### ###### # # # ## ### ########### ####### #### ########## ### ### ### ## ## # ### ### ### ### ## ### ## ### ### # ### ### ## ## ### # ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ####### ###### ### ##### ## ## ## ## ####### ## ###### ####### ### #### ### ## ## ## ### #### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ## ### ## ### #### ## ### ### # ### ######### ############### ### #### ######### ####### ####### ###### ###### ### ####### ##### ###### v1.4 ...brought to you by AdamL "Sloth...love...Chunk" ========================= GOONIES...THE WALKTHROUGH ========================= v1.4 - Completed 3/8/02 Written and maintained by Adam Lamontagne Copyright (c)2000,2002 Adam Lamontagne (alamont1@maine.rr.com) ASCII art title by Dallas (dallas@dodgerstats.com) An 8-bit Famicom game by Konami 1986. [NOTE: This game was actually released in the USA, but only on the vs. Unisystem...see ODD FACTS section for more details] ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= I. Revision History II. Introduction III. Story IV. Gameplay V. Controls VI. Main Characters VII. Hidden Characters VIII. Enemies IX. How to Attack X. Items XI. Special Items XII. Scoring XIII. Walkthrough A. Stage 1 B. Stage 2 C. Passageway Stage A D. Stage 3 E. Stage 4 F. Passageway Stage B G. Stage 5 H. Passageway Stage C I. Stage 6 XIV. Frequently Asked Questions XV. Odd Facts XVI. Acknowledgements XVII. Disclaimer =================== I. REVISION HISTORY =================== 3/8/02: v1.4 -Added my current email address. -Removed 2 sites where this FAQ was hosted. -Added a lot of contributed information. 12/18/00: v1.3 -Added info on Goonies being released in arcades in the USA. -Added another site where this FAQ/Walkthrough can be posted. -Re-organized Revision History section. -Added the Stages in the Walkthrough to the Table of Contents. 8/6/00: v1.2 -Added tip on how to make the Helmet and Spring Shoes appear. -Added a few people to the Acknowledgements section (thanks guys!). -Added some info on second quest. -Changed Vampire to Ghost Pirate. 7/7/00: v1.1 -Added tip for finding Special Items. 6/8/00pm: v1.0 -Completed Walkthrough section. -Added to Enemies section and Scoring section. -First version submitted online. 6/8/00am: v0.6 -Added more to the Frequently Asked Questions section and the Walkthrough section. 6/7/00: v0.5 -Worked on the Frequently Asked Questions section and Walkthrough section. 5/26/00: v0.3 -Added a Special Items section. 5/24/00: v0.2 -Started Walkthrough. -Worked on Items, Hidden Characters, How to Attack, Controls and Disclaimer section. -Received nice ascii art title from Dallas. 5/11/00: v0.1 -Started initial layout. -Worked on the Introduction, Story, Gameplay, Main Characters and Odd Facts section. ================ II. INTRODUCTION ================ This FAQ/Walkthrough is for the Famicom game Goonies. If you've ever wondered why there was a game for the NES called Goonies II and not just Goonies, you're not alone. I always thought the NES game was a sequel to the movie, hence the "II" in the title. This was before learning of the vast amount of cool Japanese NES (Famicom) games that never made it to the states. One of these was a simple little game called The Goonies. In 1986, early in the Famicom's young life, Konami decided to cash in on the movie's success with a cute little platform game of the same name. I'm not sure how popular it was in Japan, but it never made its way over to the states. We did get the sequel, Goonies II, which is a great game in itself and got to enjoy the adventures of Mikey and the gang, but it would have been nice to get a taste of the original. The original Goonies game is only available for the Famicom, but there are at least 3 ways of playing the game. You can either (1) find the actual Famicom cart. These are hard to find, but they pop up on eBay every now and then. (2) The Goonies is found on quite a few Famicom Multi-Carts. In fact, the first time I ever played the game was when I bought a 64-in-1 cart and found the game among the 64 first generation Famicom games. (3) The last way to play the game, and probably the most common nowadays, is to download the ROM somewhere. Do not ask me where to find it. The ROM I found is a mapper 3 version which played fine on NESticle. Since I own Goonies, albeit on a multi-cart, I guess I can legally possess the ROM. Those that do track down the game will find that it is pretty similar to the NES game Goonies II. That familiar Goonies II music starts the game off and the colors as well as some of the enemies are the same. The major difference is that Goonies I is only a platform game. There are no 3-D mazes to go through as in the sequel. This game is also much shorter. If you liked Goonies II, you should enjoy this simpler version as well. ========== III. STORY ========== Since I don't have the manual (and probably couldn't read it anyway, as it would be in Japanese), I will try to give you the basic storyline. The Fratelli's have rescued your 6 fellow Goonies and you have to get them back. You'll travel through houses, caves and even One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship in your search to save the Goon-docks. ============ IV. GAMEPLAY ============ You play as Mikey and have to go through 6 stages of play (plus 3 Passageway Stages) and rescue your 6 Goonie friends, Data, Mouth, Chunk, Brand, Andi and Stef, who have been kidnapped by the Fratelli gang and scattered throughout the stages. Along the way you must find 3 Keys in each stage to open the gate to the next stage. A few of the stages are really short passageway-type areas, but since the time limit resets when you enter and leave them, I counted them as Passageway Stages and not regular Stages. You do not have to rescue any Goonies or collect any Keys in these Passageway Stages. The most important item in the game is the Bomb. You can get them by killing certain enemies, like the mice. When you find a closed door with a skull on it, place a Bomb in front of it and move away while the Bomb detonates and opens the door. You will find one of 4 things inside these doors, Keys, Goonies, a Slingshot or Potions (the last stage is an exception to this...you will find some treasure behind the skull doors). The item behind each door is random with each new game played, but I figured a way to work around this in the walkthrough section. There are also several Special Items that are hidden in the game which aid you in different ways. To find these you have to jump, duck, kick or shoot in the right place to make a bag appear. [NOTE: Jordan Houghton (halberg@pcfl.net) sent an email saying the following: "You say the way to get some items (spring shoes, helmet, etc.) is to walk around in a certain space. Actually, all you do is press up and the bags appear" Cool, thanks for the tip Jordan!] Inside the bag will be an item that is helpful, yet unnecessary in solving the game. They sure do make life easier though. These Special Items are automatically activated, so you do not have to do anything special to use them. See the Items section for more info. The Goonies you find all look alike, except the one you rescue in the last stage will be female (most likely this is the Goonie that Mikey had a crush on in the movie, Andi...yes, it's a female). It's too bad the programmers couldn't have made each Goonie resemble their counterpart in the movie. They could have had an overweight Goonie doing the Truffle Shuffle and we'd have known it was Chunk ;) There are no bosses in the game to beat. It would have been nice to be able to fight Sloth over a tub of Rocky Road or something, but you're basically on a scavenger hunt in this one. Sloth really doesn't even make an appearance in this game...well, he kind of does...you'll see. Mama Fratelli's not even in this. =========== V. CONTROLS =========== Up - Climb ladders; Enter doors Down - Crouch down; Climb down ladders Left - Move left Right - Move right A - Jump; Super Jump (w/ Spring Shoes in a certain spot) B - Kick; Use Slingshot Down + B - Place a Bomb A then B - Jump kick Start - Pause Select - No known use =================== VI. MAIN CHARACTERS =================== MIKEY -He's the man in this game. Armed with only his feet as weapons at the beginning, he must single-handedly take on the Fratelli's and rescue his kidnapped friends. ====================== VII. HIDDEN CHARACTERS ====================== Konami likes to import other Konami characters into their games, and this one is no different. Here are some Konami characters as well as other hidden things I have found: KONAMI MAN This guy makes an appearance in Passageway Stage A. If you can find him, he rewards you with 5000 points. PEACE DUDE This guy appears in Stage 2. He's worth 5000 points if you grab him in time. UFO The Unidentified Flying Object appears in Stage 5 RACCOON This little guy pops up in Passageway Stage B. Catch him and reel in 5000 points. SLOTH He's located in Stage 6...at least it kind of looks like him. ============= VIII. ENEMIES ============= There are a bunch of different enemies in this game, but none are too strong to defeat. Since this game has no bosses I wouldn't worry too much about the enemies, but here are some of them: MICE These come in several different colors and most give up bombs when defeated. The white mouse gives you an invincibility cross instead. THE FRATELLI BROTHERS These guys roam each of the stages and relentlessly pursue Mikey. They wear suits and attack using guns or the ever-dangerous musical notes. GHOST OF ONE-EYED WILLIE This guy materializes in thin air and flies in a straight line. He can only be defeated with bombs or the Sling Shot. I initially thought he was a vampire, but as Jordan Houghton pointed out, he has a hook for a hand and a peg leg. [NOTE] Killing Machine sent an email saying that the Ghost Pirate is actually the Ghost of One-Eyed Willie. This definitely makes sense. BATS More of a nuisance than anything. One of the Special Items makes you immune to Bats. SKELETONS These guys attack by either throwing their heads at you or throwing bones. A certain Special Item will make you impervious to their bone attack. FISH They jump out of the water in an arc pattern. Shoot or kick them to get a bomb. OCTOPUS These little guys appear in the later stages. You can also get bombs by defeating them. I might have missed a couple, but you probably don't care about this section anyway :) ================= IX. HOW TO ATTACK ================= There are only 4 ways to attack and defeat enemies in this game: KICKING This is the most basic attack and you start the game only being able to kick. Simply hit the B Button to kick an enemy. You can also jump and kick in mid-air. BOMBING Not only can you use Bombs to blow open the skull doors, but you can blast enemies with them as well. Timing is the trick. The blast from the exploding bomb last a couple of seconds, so if the enemy hits the blast at any time, they will get hit. Be careful though, as the Bombs can also kill you. SLINGSHOT The Slingshot is a good long-range weapon. When you find the Slingshot (behind a skull door) you will automatically be armed with it. You get 50 shots and when you use them up you go back to just being able to kick. Use the Slingshot to take out the Vampire when he appears. INVINCIBILITY If you find a white mouse, defeat it and a Cross will appear. Grab it to become invincible. Now you can run through any enemy and destroy it. You're only invincible for about 10 seconds, so do as much damage as you can. ======== X. ITEMS ======== There are all kinds of surprises to find in this game. Some of them are easier to find than others. Here is a somewhat complete list of the different items in the game: BOMBS You get these when defeating most enemies. You can then use them to either bomb open the skull doors or to destroy enemies. DIAMONDS These are hidden throughout the Stages of the game. They are hidden and can be uncovered by jumping, kicking or ducking in particular spots. When you collect 8 Diamonds your life meter will be refilled automatically. KEYS These are found behind the skull doors. You must find 3 of these in each Stage to open the gate to the next Stage. Since it is random whether you will discover a Key or a Goonie behind a particular skull door from one game to the next, Keys will also be referred to simply as ITEMS. GOONIES Your 6 buddies, like the Keys, are also found behind the skull doors. In each Stage you must rescue a Goonie in addition to finding the 3 Keys in order to move on to the next Stage. All the Goonies you find will look the same (like Mikey), with the exception of the last one, which is female. If you find the Secret Warp that lets you skip Stage 4, you will find a Goonie in the Warp area, which makes up for the one that you will miss in the skipped stage. CROSS If you see a white mouse, defeat it and it will leave behind a Cross. Grab it to become invincible for a little while. SLINGSHOT Behind certain skull doors will be Slingshots. You will get a limited number of shots (50, displayed at the top of the screen) when you find this item and it will be turned into your default weapon until you run out of ammo. POTIONS Also behind some skull doors will be Potions. Grab them to increase your energy level. RING, NECKLACE & CROWN These are found behind skull doors only in the last stage. They give you a whopping 8000 points a piece. ================= XI. SPECIAL ITEMS ================= There are 7 Special Items hidden throughout the game. To find them, you must kick, jump, duck or move back and forth in certain spots to make a bag appear or in most cases simply press Up on the controller. Inside the bag will be one of the Special Items. You do not need to find any of these to finish the game, but they each make you invincible to certain hazards or help you get to previously unreachable areas. They are automatically equipped when you find them. David Lo (davidlo19@yahoo.com) emailed me with the following: "In Stage 3, you mentioned that "walk back & forth" for a secret to appear... what you should really do is press the UP key. This is what happens with the game. In 1st stage, it was attack that'll make secret appear, 2nd stage, DOWN. 3rd stage: UP, 4th: DOWN + attack... (I might have memorized them wrong, but that's as good as I can do for now...) So, in each stage, you'll know what to do to get the secret item and diamonds." Thanks David! Here are the Special Items: HEADPHONES These are found in Stage 1. They will make you impervious to the musical notes shot at you from the Fratellis. RAIN COAT Find this in Stage 2. This will protect you from the steam released from the exhaust jets. It will also allow you to jump through waterfalls without getting hurt. Protects you from water drops falling from the ceiling. HELMET This is located in Stage 3. It protects you from falling stalactites. FLAME SUIT Finding this will allow you to walk under the jets of flame in Stage 2 without being damaged. Otherwise you would have to time it just right to make it under the flame and risk getting scorched. You find this in Stage 1. BACK PACK This Item is nifty because it allows Mikey to carry 2 bombs at once instead of 1. It is found in Stage 4. RED SUIT This is also found in Stage 4. The Skeletons throw bones at you. If you are wearing the Red Suit, the bones will not hurt you. I also believe this protects you from Bats. SPRING SHOES Find these in Stage 3. If you have these, you will be able to find a secret warp in Stage 3 which brings you to Stage 5. They make you jump about 10 times as high as normal, but you can only use them in this one spot. ============ XII. SCORING ============ There is a scoring system in this game. You get points for killing enemies and finding items. You get an extra man when you score 50,000 points. You get another one at 150,000. I'm not sure when you get another one. Here are some point values for enemies and items: Red Mouse..............................................100 points Orange Mouse...........................................100 points White Mouse............................................100 points + Cross Fratelli Brothers......................................100 points Vampire................................................500 points Skeleton...............................................200 points Skeleton Bones.........................................200 points Skeleton Heads.........................................100 points Bats...................................................200 points Octopus................................................100 points Fish...................................................100 points Diamonds...............................................500 points Rescuing a Goonie.....................................1000 points Finding Peace Dude....................................5000 points Finding Konami Man....................................5000 points Finding UFO...........................................5000 points Finding Raccoon.......................................5000 points Finding Sloth.........................................5000 points Ring..................................................8000 points Necklace..............................................8000 points Crown.................................................8000 points Finishing the Game...................................50000 points ================= XIII. WALKTHROUGH ================= Alright, here's what you came for. In the walkthrough I will assume that you have a bomb handy or know how to acquire them (by killing most enemies), so I will just say, "Bomb the door" or whatever. Also, since every game has the items randomly placed behind the different skull doors, this walkthrough will lead you to the doors and will refer to the Key or Goonie simply as "ITEM" since that will avoid any confusion. Have fun! ---------- A. STAGE 1 ---------- Time Limit: 180 seconds Special Items to Find: HEADPHONES, FLAME SUIT Hidden Stuff: none -You start the game by a skull door. Jump over the gap to the right and kick the mouse to get a Bomb. Jump back over to the door and bomb it open to get the first ITEM (Key or Goonie) of the stage. -Fall down to the next level and stand beneath and a little to the right of the door on the level above. Press the button to kick and a bag should appear in the air above you. Grab it to acquire the HEADPHONES. -Go right, climb the ladder back to the top level, then down the next ladder and bomb the skull door for the second ITEM. -Climb back up the ladder and head right until you come to the end of the platform. Fall and hold left so you land in the small space below. Stand in the middle and kick to reveal another bag. This one contains the FLAME SUIT. -Jump over the gap to your right into another small space. Kick to reveal a couple of Diamonds. -Now fall down to the bottom level and bomb open the skull door to your left to get the third ITEM. -Walk all the way right and climb up the ladder. You'll find a Diamond here. Climb up the next ladder and bomb the skull door in the corner to get the fourth and final ITEM in Stage 1. -Walk left and fall down to the bottom level. Go left and up the ladder, where you will find more Diamonds. Head left and fall down to the bottom. Continue all the way left to the exit to Stage 2. ---------- B. STAGE 2 ---------- Time Limit: 360 Seconds Special Items to Find: RAIN COAT Hidden Stuff: PEACE DUDE -You will begin this stage under a flame jet. If you got the FLAME SUIT in Stage 1, none of these jets will harm you. -Start by going left, across a gap and up a ladder to a skull door. Bomb it to get your first ITEM. -Climb back down the ladder then fall down to the bottom floor. Go right, jump over the gap and go over to a ladder which leads up to a skull door in a small room. Bomb the door for your second ITEM. -Go down the ladder and go back left over the gap, up another ladder and continue left to a ledge. Jump up to the area with a skull door and bomb it for your third ITEM of the stage. -Continue left and make your way down two ladders and over a gap to another skull door. Bomb this for another ITEM. You may now have all the required ITEMS to exit this stage, but there is more secret stuff you may want to find. -Make your way up to the white skull at the top left corner of the screen and enter it. You will come out in a blue room. There is a DIAMOND on the upper right ledge in the room, but otherwise just go down to the bottom ladder to enter another section of the stage. -From the ladder, go right and stand to the right of the ladder directly underneath the center of the platform above you. Now duck down and the PEACE DUDE will appear. If you grab him quickly he's worth 5000 points, but if he disappears you only get 1000. -Now go back left and keep going until you reach a skull door. Bomb it for the ITEM. Climb down the ladder and then climb up the next ladder to the left to a platform with a flame jet above it. Stand on the very left edge of this platform and duck down to make a bag appear. Grab it to get the RAIN COAT. -Jump to the left and bomb the skull door for another ITEM. -Now head back to the right, fall down to the bottom level, and go all the way right to the end where a skull door is. Bomb it for an ITEM (it will probably be the Sling Shot...if not, you might have gotten it already). -Go back left. There is a DIAMOND in the small room in the center of the screen. Otherwise, make your way up to the ladder at the top of the screen (above the small room with the DIAMOND) to go back up to the previous area. -Go up and enter the white skull to go back to the beginning of the stage. -Now go ALL THE WAY to the right, staying on the upper level and enter the white skull at the upper right corner of the level. -You're in the last room of the stage. Make your way down to the lock to enter Passageway Stage A. --------------------- C. PASSAGEWAY STAGE A --------------------- Time Limit: 110 Seconds Special Items to Find: None Hidden Stuff: KONAMI MAN -This area is basically just an area connecting Stage 2 to Stage 3. -Walk down the ledges to the left. If you want to find about 3 DIAMONDS, take the upper path left. If you don't need them, take the lower path. -I recommend skipping the DIAMONDS, but if you really want them, take the upper path all the way up and to the left, then kick (or shoot the Sling Shot) to make them appear. -When you take the bottom path, head all the way left to the vine going down, but don't climb down it yet. Instead, go back to the right a bit and KONAMI MAN will appear! He will fly at you and is worth 5000 points. Now you can go down the vine. -This next small area is filled with enemies...and DIAMONDS. If you move through it slowly you can kill the enemies and back-track for the DIAMONDS. You can also just head for the exit, the vine on the lower right. This will bring you to Stage 3. ---------- D. STAGE 3 ---------- Time Limit: 420 Seconds Special Items to Find: HELMET, SPRING SHOES Hidden Stuff: WARP ZONE -From the start of this stage, go down the ladder to the left and enter the white skull. -When you come out, climb the ladder and go left, jumping over to a long ladder going up. Climb the ladder and bomb the skull door on the platform to your right for the first ITEM. -Jump off the platform to the right and continue right, jumping over a couple long gaps, until you reach a ladder. Climb it and bomb the skull door at the top for your second ITEM. -Jump to the left and head back, over the 2 gaps, to the white skull, back to the beginning of the stage. -From the white skull, climb up the 2 ladders and go right until you get to another ladder, and climb it. -Climb the ladder and bomb the skull door for your third ITEM. -Go right and climb the long ladder up to the white skull and enter it. -Now go left, down a ladder, left, and down another ladder. Walk left to the dead end where you will be standing on a metal pipe. Move back and forth on the pipe and press Up and a bag will appear. Inside the bag is the HELMET. -Go right, up the ladder and head to the right where you will find another skull door in the lower right corner. Bomb it for your fifth ITEM. -Head up the ladder from the skull door and all the way left until you see the ladder leading up to the white skull. Climb the ladder and go right, into the skull. -From the skull, go down the long ladder, then down the ladder right beneath it to the next area. -Go down this one, then down another one to the skull door, where you'll get the sixth ITEM of the stage. -Climb the ladder from the skull door and head right. Go over the gap and down a ladder to another ladder leading to the next area. -After you go down the long ladder, climb up to the skull door and bomb it for another ITEM. -From this skull door, fall or climb down the ladder and go left until you reach a ladder going down to an area with an exhaust pipe blowing steam. Climb down there and walk back and forth in the small area and press Up to make a bag appear. Inside the bag are the SPRING SHOES! -Now you have a choice to make. Since you have the SPRING SHOES you can find the SECRET WARP to Stage 5, but you will miss out on finding the RED SUIT and BACK PACK in Stage 4. It's up to you. I will present both scenarios below. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** TO THE SECRET WARP If you want to skip Stage 4 and go directly to Stage 5, do the following: -From where you found the SPRING SHOES, climb the short ladder and go all the way right until you see a ladder on the ground floor going down. Take it down to the next area. -You will now have to climb down a really long ladder. Now what do you do? For some reason your SPRING SHOES only work in this area of the game, so use them to jump up the cliff to your left. -Continue left, then down to a ladder. This ladder will lead to a skull door. Bomb it open to rescue a Goonie then fall down to the ladder below, which leads to Stage 5. ********************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************* If you don't want to warp and want to progress through the game normally, do the following: -From where you got the SPRING SHOES, climb up the ladder and up the next ladder to your right, so you are at the top level. Go all the way left, over a couple of gaps, and you will reach the last skull door of the level. Bomb it to get the ITEM. -Now go back right, fall into the first gap you reach, and go back left until you reach the ladder that leads down to the locked door. Enter to move on to Stage 4. ---------- E. STAGE 4 ---------- Time Limit: 500 Seconds Special Items to Find: RED SUIT, BACK PACK Hidden Stuff: none -You start this stage by falling from the top of the screen. Immediately hold right as you are falling to land on the ledge next to a rock masher. Move up and right to the skull door and bomb it for your first ITEM. -Go left, past the 2 rock mashers, and continue left on the upper part of the level until you reach a white skull. Enter it. -You will see a skull door at the bottom right. Ignore it for now and go left over a bunch of long gaps until you reach a skull door. Bomb it open for the ITEM. -Continue left until you are standing on a dead end ledge. Stand in the middle, duck down and press the fire button (if you have a bomb you might want to get rid of it first, as the explosion might kill you in this small area). A bag will appear above you. It contains the RED SUIT. -Now go all the way back to the right and bomb the skull door you ignored earlier to get your third ITEM of the stage. Climb up the vines and enter the white skull again. -See that vine at the bottom of the screen leading down? You want to get there. From the white skull, fall off the right ledge and go left to the rock masher. The only time these can hurt you is if you are directly under one, so fall down past it and run to the left to the vine going down. -Climb down the vine and head right, past the masher and up the cliffs to a dead end. While facing the wall, crouch and press the fire button and another bag will appear, this one containing the BACK PACK. Now you can carry 2 bombs at once! -Go back left, jump over the gap, and climb a vine to reach the skull door containing your fourth ITEM. -From here, jump over to the vine on the left and climb it to the next area. Ignore the skull door right above you for now. Climb the vine then climb another one up to the next area. Go left and climb the first vine you see, then continue left to a skull door where you'll get another ITEM. -Go back to the right and climb up a vine to enter the white skull. You will be in an area like the beginning of the stage. There are skull doors to the right and left, which will probably give you a POTION and SLING SHOT. Get them and return to the white skull where you entered this area. -From the white skull, work your way down to the vine at the bottom right of the screen and go down it. Now you can go left over to the skull door and get your last ITEM of the level. -Go down the vine under the skull door to the next level down. Climb the vine down and walk along the bottom level to the right, where you will unlock the door to Passageway Stage B. --------------------- F. PASSAGEWAY STAGE B --------------------- Time Limit: 90 Seconds Special Items to Find: none Hidden Stuff: RACCOON -You also enter this Passageway Stage in a free fall. Hold right on the controller to land on the ledge, then go to the area to the right to find some DIAMONDS. -If you go to the area left of where you landed to start this area, climb up the steps to the left wall and the RACCOON will appear. Snag him quickly for a cool 5000 points. -To exit to Stage 5, simply go all the way right and down the vine. ---------- G. STAGE 5 ---------- Time Limit: 450 Seconds Special Items to Find: none Hidden Stuff: UFO -Alright, you either got here from the Warp Zone in Stage 3 or you progressed normally through the game and just went through Passageway Stage B to arrive here. The only difference is that each of the 2 ways to get here start you out in different sections of Stage 5. I will begin this section of the walkthrough from the area you start in if you DID NOT warp here, but it is not that far from the area you start in if you did warp here from Stage 3, SO I will quickly guide Mikey to that spot in the next paragraph so that everyone will be at the same starting point. -So, if you came here from Passageway Stage B, Mikey lands to the right of a waterfall. Start by going right, past another waterfall, until you see a really long vine leading up to the next area. Climb up. Now go up the next vine to the ledge with the skull door, but ignore it for now. Go right past the waterfall and continue all the way to a dead end with a skull door on it. THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL HAVE BEGUN THIS LEVEL IF YOU WARPED HERE FROM STAGE 3. -Bomb open the skull door for your first ITEM. -After getting the ITEM, stand on the middle of the platform to your left (it's over the water), face left, and kick (or fire your Sling Shot). A UFO will appear. Quickly grab it for 5000 points. -Now go left until you reach another skull door to the left of a waterfall and bomb it for the second ITEM. -Quickly climb down the short vine below you then down the vine leading to the next area below you. Climb all the way down this vine and go right to the skull door for your third ITEM. -Climb back up the long vine to the next area again, then climb up the 2 vines to the top of the area and go left to the white skull and enter it. -From the skull, walk right until you reach a skull door and bomb it for your fourth ITEM of the stage. -Keep going right and you will eventually reach another skull door at the bottom of a vine, where you will get the fifth ITEM. -Now climb the vine and head all the way back to the left to the white skull and enter it. From the skull, climb down the vine and go right past the waterfall and down a vine to the next area. -In this area head all the way to the left and you will reach a white skull and a skull door. Get the ITEM from the skull door then enter the white skull. -From the skull, go right over a couple water holes, then up the vine to a skull door containing another ITEM. -Now head left on the upper level all the way until you get to the skull door containing the last ITEM of the stage. -Climb the vine back up to the top and go right until you see the white skull at the bottom. Enter it. -From the skull, climb the vine and start going right. Walk on the middle platform when you get the chance and keep going right until you can jump over to the key hole leading to Passageway Stage C. [NOTE] Frederick Delles sent in the following: I just want to let you know that there IS a 1-up on Stage 5. I'm not sure where, but I found an orange elixir (same shape as the red energy elixirs) behind a skull door that gave a free man. --------------------- H. PASSAGEWAY STAGE C --------------------- Time Limit: 90 Seconds Special Items to Find: none Hidden Stuff: none -This is the easiest of the Passageways. -Start by walking down some steps, collecting DIAMONDS along the way. -Go right, then up the vine. If you want more DIAMONDS, fall off the left of the platform and walk around to make some appear. Otherwise, enter the white skull to enter Stage 6, The Final Stage. ---------- I. STAGE 6 ---------- Time Limit: 120 Seconds Special Items to Find: none Hidden Stuff: Sloth? -This is it, you're at One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship! -Your goal here is to find the last Goonie behind one of the skull doors. The other skull doors have treasures worth 8000 points each, but all you really need to do is find the Goonie to complete the stage and finish the game. -Below is a map to the pirate ship. The last Goonie is randomly placed behind one of the skull doors (marked 1, 2, 3 and 4). Try each door in the order they are marked, as this is the quickest way through the ship. There is not much time, so hurry. Also, there is a hidden character in this stage that kind of resembles Sloth, except his eyes are in the right place. This probably isn't even Sloth, but to find him stand on the platform to the left of skull door #4 and fire. Sloth will appear and is worth 5000 points. /| / | /| / | / | / | / | /____| /___| | | | _____________ | | / | _______ START | _ | / _ | \ | |_____ ____ ___|__ _____________ _________________|3||/______ ___|2|__| \ | H | | H H / \ | H _ | ** _| H H / \|________H_|1|__ __|_____ __|4|___H____________ _____ __ ____H______/ \ | H H | H / \ |____________H_ ____________________ H | H _______/ \_______________|_______|____________________|__H__|__H____|______/ 1-1st Door to enter 2-2nd Door to enter 3-3rd Door to enter 4-4th Door to enter **-Sloth H-These are ladders -If you can't figure it out, from the START go down the ladder to skull door #1. Go down the next ladder, all the way right and up another ladder. Go right to the next ladder going up to skull door #2. Go back down the ladder and all the way left to the next ladder going up, then go left to skull door #3. Go all the way left, fall down the gap and stand on the platform you land on and press the fire button to make Sloth appear. Now jump over to skull door #4. -You will see a brief ending scene and the game will start you back in Stage 1 with no Special Items and faster enemies, but your score will remain intact. CONGRATULATIONS! [NOTE: Jordan Houghton emailed me with some info on the 2nd Quest: - No diamonds (that I know of, they maybe there but I don't know how to get them) - two Fratelli brothers on a screen at a time chasing you (they also use their music attack in first level) - MANY more monsters, maybe not more, but at least more frequent harder monsters (a lot more yellow mice instead of red ones, but also more white mice with invincibility cross) - Incibility (cross) last less time - Different ways to get item bags, for instance, to get item bags in first level, instead of kicking, drop bomb spot of bomb - Items (Konami Man, Peace guy, etc.) are not there (I don't think)] [NOTES] David Lo emailed me with this info: After beating the game, we're back at stage 1, but the secret items are still there, you just need a different combination to get it. (Down + Attack, I think). Frederick Delles sent this in: Also, there ARE diamonds in the "hard" mode after you finish the game. You have to place a bomb where you normally jump-kicked. Ditto with the items. =============================== XIV. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS =============================== Q: I read through your walkthrough and saw that there are a bunch of Special Items to find, like the Flame Suit and Spring Shoes. I played through the game a couple of years ago and beat it, but I never found any of these. Was I playing a different game? A: It's weird, the same thing happened to me. I had originally played through this game a few years ago without finding a single Special Item, yet I didn't have much of a problem finishing the game. When I decided to write a quick walkthrough I just happened to let the title screen stay on and a game demo started. Out of curiousity I watched it and it showed Mikey finding a Special Item in the 1st Stage! I then wondered if there were more Items like this hidden, and to my surprise there were, and I managed to track down all of them. They are not necessary to find, but they are fun to discover and definitely make things easier. --- Q: I found the Spring Shoes but I can't get them to work. A: The Spring Shoes are automatically activated in the Warp area in Stage 3. This is the only place in the game I found where they are used. If you try going to this area without the Shoes, you will only have your normal jumping ability. --- Q: Who is Konami Man? A: I know he appeared in the Famicom game Konami World as a playable character (along with Konami Girl and several other Konami characters). He also shows up to help in Goonies II. Otherwise, I'm not sure if he has his own Famicom game or if he just makes guest appearances in other games. --- Q: Are there any 1-Ups hidden anywhere? A: As far as I know, no. The only way I could get an extra man was to get 50,000 points. They might be hidden somewhere, but I couldn't find them. --- Q: Why isn't Sloth in this game? A: He really should be, shouldn't he. I don't even think he was in Goonies II either. I don't want to give it away, but he kind of appears in the last stage...sort of. --- Q: When I beat the game, it starts over at Stage 1. What happens if you go through it again? A: I don't know. When/If I find out, it will give me a reason to update this FAQ/Walkthrough. I bet nothing changes though. This game came out in 1986, so we should feel lucky that it even has one ending. Read the NOTES right before the FAQ section for more info. --- Q: What happens if I don't rescue the Goonie in the Warp Area in Stage 3? Will I still get to see the ending screen with only 5 Goonies rescued? A: Good question. Next time I play through I'll try it and update the FAQ with the results, ============= XV. ODD FACTS ============= -This game did come out in the US! Check out the emails I got after saying it was never released in the States: Tess (gargoyle@spacemoose.com) writes: There's one other way that one could be able to play the Goonies in the US. In the mid 80's Nintendo released their VS Unisystem in the arcade. Essentailly, it was an arcade system that housed the innards of an NES and used exact NES romsets that were slightly modified for arcade play. (insert coin/continue/no unlimited lives, etc) In fact, the VS Goonies machine was very popular. At one point in time, all Chuck E. Cheeses nation-wide had a sit-down VS Unisystem that had VS Goonies and VS Gradius. Steve Bush (srbush@charybdis.com): I was just reading your "The Goonies" FAQ (v1.0) and wanted to mention that you say the Goonies never appeared in the United States. This is likely true for the home consoles, however, the Goonies did actually appear in the United States in the form of a stand-up arcade game which I know simply because I used to play it on numerous occasions. It was not an extremely popular game, though, and was not around for very long. Sam Gray You mention that The Goonies never made it to the United States. You're right that it never made in to the US NES. However, it was available in the arcades as "Vs. The Goonies" - part of a series of "Vs." games that were slightly more difficult arcade ports of regular NES games (other ports included Super Mario Bros. and Castlevania, for example). I used to play "Vs. The Goonies" all the time when I was a kid. Also, users of MAME (available at ) can download this version of The Goonies if they have the latest version. Trenchmoon Not sure if this would be pertinent information, as you may already know this...but I have two facts that could be taken into consideration for your FAQ. As an avid arcade gamer for years, I've come into contact with MANY different games....and some of my favorites were Nintendo's Play Choice 10. They didn't seem very popular though...why waste your money on games for five minutes of play when you could buy the damn thing? But hey, I loved 'em. Well, one day at my local Wal-Mart all those years ago...there was a new game...THE GOONIES!... being the Gooniefreak I was (and still am)...plunked in a few quarters and was instantly addicted. But alas, I couldn't find it. Then a few months later came my salvation: in a very reputable video game distributors ad, I found the words..."THE GOONIES! NEW TO THE US!" So I ordered. And waited. And waited. And waited. Until my reply came, saying that the game hasn't been released yet and offered a different game instead...I chose to wait. About a year later, they still didn't have it.....so with a tear in my eye, I chose Wrestlemania Challenge. Sad story, eh? Well, okay...two facts...one story. Game was on PC10 and was teased for an American release. -Most of the characters from the movie Goonies went on to bigger and better things. One notable exception was Chunk, played by Jeff Cohen. I'm not sure what he is doing right now in 2000, but the last I heard of him was that he was President of the University of California at Berkeley student union in 95-96. -Sloth, the deformed Fratelli brother kept chained up in the basement, was named Lotney Fratelli in the movie, though he is only called Sloth. The actor that played him, former Oakland Raider John Matuszak, died of a heart attack in 1989. -Sean Astin, who plays Mikey in The Goonies, will be co-starring in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. He'll be playing Sam Gamgee. -There was a scene cut from the movie (though some people swear they saw it in the theaters) where an Octopus appears in the waters outside of One-Eyed-Willy's ship. The octopus is in the novel and Data even mentions an Octopus at the end of the movie, but as far as I know it never made it to the big screen. ===================== XVI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ===================== Konami - For making a cool game...too bad it never came out for the NES! Dallas - Thanks for the ascii art. The Ultimate Goonies Page at http://members.theglobe.com/slothaj/ultimatej.html - helped me with the names of the Goonies and some other info I didn't really need. Sloth - For being such a wretched...thing Jordan Houghton (halberg@pcfl.net) - For sending in the tip on how to make the Special Item bags appear...thanks dude! Also pointed out that the Vampire is really a Ghost Pirate. Emailed me some facts about the second quest. Ming Shui (mingshui@hotmail.com) - For also letting me know to press up to make the Helmet and Spring Shoes appear. Also informed me that it is the Rain Coat that protects you from the water drops. David Lo (davidlo19@yahoo.com) - For info on finding the Special Items in the first and second quests. He's also working on isolating hex values for secret items and other stuff (he already found the life value). Steve Bush, Tess, Sam Gray and Trenchmoon - For info regarding the Goonies being released in arcades in the USA. Killing Machine (killingmachine@exterminator.net) - For info on the Ghost Pirate actually being the Ghost of One-Eyed Willie. Frederick Delles (dellesfy@clarkson.edu) - For info on a 1-up in Stage 5 and for info on the 2nd Quest. By the way, if anybody else finds anything wrong with this FAQ/Walkthrough or has any info to add to it, please send it my way at alamont1@maine.rr.com. I will credit you in this here Acknowledgement (you just know that word has been used in a spelling bee) section...just let me know if you want to be before or after Sloth. ================ XVII. DISCLAIMER ================ This walkthrough is not endorsed by Konami, Warner Bros. Inc., Nintendo of America or Nintendo of Japan. The information contained within this document is provided without guarantee. All copyrights and trademarks are recognized. 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