The Guidebook helped me with so many games... Metroid, Zelda, Goonies, Kid Icarus... Nintendo Power as well. Still have them. Some are very worn! Can't tell you how much trouble my brother and I got into for calling Redmond WA. multiple times(long distance phone calls, remember those?) for the Nintendo hotline for help before the Guidebook.
My mom found this at a garage sale back in the late 80s. The label was missing, and someone had written "Goonies 2" on it in it's place. But I played it like crazy and beat it. I passed it on to a friend when I gave them my NES. Truly a classic.
I mapped this game out on graph paper and marked where all items were. No nintento power for me, hand-sketched, color pencil marked - good times. And it worked.
I beat this game as a kid, in one glorious long summer vacation. It took me forever to find the ladder. I triple-checked every door in the whole game before I found it in one of the rooms in the underwater area.
I owned this game back in the day. Had no clue what to do until I got that strategy guide which I bought for Zelda. I never would have beaten this game without it.
No problem! Your channel has great potential and I basically grew up with these games back in the day. Me and my cousins would play Nintendo all the time
Damn! I've been playing this game since '88 and I never knew you could throw the boomerang in multiple directions! I relied on the Official Nintendo Player's Guide to beat this game back in the day. Hell, I busted it out the last time I played this game on stream because I had completely forgotten where one item was. I have notes written in it from ten-year old me. Present me really appreciates that! Oh man, I have Wai Wai World. It kinda sucks. One thing worth mentioning is to pay attention to which way Mikey is facing in the corner of the first person sections. It's crucial to navigating between the front and back maps, and once you realize this, the game becomes a lot less disorienting. Great video, dude!
Yeah dude I just came about the boomerang thing by accident. I was trying to see if I could throw a bomb while jumping and when I did that combo of buttons in mid air it threw the boomerang in that direction. And it worked for any other direction I tried too. It was cool but I assumed others figured that out too lol. So cool you have your own notes in your guide from when you were a kid. Thanks as always for watching dude. Always enjoy your comments.
Thanks so much. Always appreciate you taking time to watch and comment. I think this game would not be the most appealing game for the first time as an adult lol.
Back in 1988 I committed to playing this game with hopes of actually making it somewhere....played it a few times previously and saw my older brother find a couple Goonies (it was his game). It felt like I played it for the entire day, I remember the feeling of realizing how the maps connected like something clicked and was able to open up the entire world and find all the Goonies and the mermaid. I beat it at the age of 6 and I knew I did something amazing although I never thought it was possible.....it’s not an easy game but definitely one of the best nes games and the music I can still hear til this day
I won this game only bc of the Players Guide, like you said. A few years ago, early in my 40's, I beat this game again start to finish by drawing my own map of action and adventure scenes from scratch. Hooo boy, was that work but rewarding in the end.
Awesome! The same thing happened to us. My parents had bought us the system with the Zapper, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt (two seperate cartridges). We didn't want Duck Hunt and the Zapper, so we returned the system, bought the lesser one without the Zapper, and used the extra money to buy Goonies 2.
The official Nintendo player's guide was my first video game magazine ever!!!! I used to look at it everyday. Man, all your videos brings me such nostalgia. Thank you, man.
Easily one of my favorite NES games of all time. I loved the mystery and all the RPG elements. Finding items, hidden doors & holes in the floor was always so exciting. I still play it sometimes. Awesome vid!
I LOVED the Goonies on C64, and is one if my all time favorites on the system. I'm proud that I was able to solve all the puzzles, and beat it! I also thought Goonies II was a sequel to the movie, and didn't hear about the playchoice arcade until last year. I need to revisit this because I've never beaten it! Thanks!
How to show a video game in a 1980s/early 1990s movie: 1 - Use prerecorded footage of your kid playing the game. 2 - Replace the audio with Atari 2600 sfx no matter what console is being played. 3 - Have the actor "playing" the game manhandle the controller like a confused monkey. Optional - Describe the game in a completely inaccurate manner by spewing out random, "gamer term" gibberish. Even if your film was specifically intended to revolve around video games and marketed to the gamer audience (looking at you 'The Wizard'). Strangely even a lot of modern movies continue to use this formula....
Used to play co-op goonies with my brother and sister back in the 80s when we were all young kids. Also had goonies 2 for NES and always thought it was just the sequel to the commodore game I had. Loved both games.
I remember having Goonies II and loving it so much, yet being confused as to how to complete it. Then one day my parents too me to Hills department store and there it was....Goonies the arcade! all i remember was that it started in a cave. the graphics were much better of course, and the music was awesome....but it was so hard and i only played it two or three times before i had to go.....i never saw it again. it wasnt a dream, but it felt like one.
That was the first Goonies game on a VS cabnet. He said in the video it was on the 10 play choice... not sure about that but I do know it was on Vs along with harder versions of other games.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I remember as a kid drawing my own map, with codes and icons and the whole bit. This game consumed me. Now, all these years later, I'm endeavouring to make my own platformer game. Goonies II is definitely a major influence.
Loved it. I was 13 in 1987 and grew up with all the now- classics for NES. I was a big fan of the action - adventure genre and this was certainly one of my 10 favorite games.
goonies 2 was a game that completely enthralled me as a kid, even tho i had no idea what was going on along with star tropics, shadowrun (snes) n earthbound
I loved Shadowrun. It took a couple rentals before I beat it the first time, and it's the only game I ever rented again so I could replay it after beating it. I finally own a copy thanks to Ebay.
Aw man, I can only imagine you knew about the Black Book (aka Nintendo Player's Guide) when you were a kid and it got flushed down the memory whole somewhere. That guide was the prized possession of many an 80s kid.
back in the day in a unsigned little store in a little mall, I found a bootleg 23 in 1 game cartridge for my NES from Japan and the first goonies was on it....good game. At that time, a 1 in 23 was AMAZING and then I remember 100 in 1 being available but too expensive. Great channel man....
This was one of my favorite games as a kind on the NES. I remember picking it out at Children's Palace for my birthday- which actually would have been 31 years ago today, actually! Even though the Front/Back map system confused me, I played through it as a kid. Funny thing is, until I saw your video, I don't know if I ever realized Ma Fatali was even in the game!
My brother and I were completely hooked on this game back in the day. He got it as a gift one year when I was around 8 years old, and we both tried our hardest to play through the whole thing, but kept hitting roadblocks in our progress. The funniest one (and my favorite memory of the game) revolves around that got-dang CANDLE. Nowhere in the game does it tell you to hit that old woman five times, and we were so fed up with not being able to progress without it that we began systematically going through every room and hitting every corner of the screen with every tool in our arsenal. When we reached that old woman, our patience had completely run out, so we just started hitting her over and over out of sheer frustration. You can imagine our laughter and bewilderment when she spit out the candle. That stupid candle-spitting woman made us paranoid about checking every corner of every game we played after that point, for a good number of years. Funny thing is, this actually HELPED us in games like Metal Gear or the Metroid series.
This was actually one of the first games I owned for the NES and I played the heck out of it. I did beat it back inn the day but I probably wouldn't have without owning the NES manual. As you said, it was more or less essential to beating this great game.
THIS!!!! This was my go to game when I was a kid! I used to have the whole thing memorized to where I could guide friends over the phone where to go/what to do!!!
This game is somewhat underrated. I enjoyed this game as a kid, and I also did not beat this game as a kid, but rather beat it back in 2016 with cheats and RUclips tutorials lol. Awesome review. And yes Jay the NES Addict is awesome.
The reason the sound effects for pacman was used over goonies II in the movie my blue heaven I think is because the pac man sound effects are recognized more easily than goonies. sure we knew visually it was goonies II but not many people would but the pac man sound effects people can instantly recognize.
This video kept popping up in my recommended, so I gave in and clicked dammit!!! lol. What a great video, simple yet in-depth too. Great template you got going on brother, keep it up!
I love this game so much. My brother and I probably beat this one together 10 or more times. Back in the day we did everything together, and we didn't have much so we beat our games over and over again. Thx for all the videos you make, they help me relive the good times of my childhood.
Thanks for making this video! As much as I love the game, it always felt too obscure and underrated to me. I'm floored to see that (at the time of this writing) there are over 118,000 views; over 3,000 likes; and over 700 comments! It's astonishing to realize I'm not alone in loving this game. When the game does come up in conversation, I'm always surprised to find out how many people had a hard time beating the game. I did have the instruction manual and the wonderful Player's Guide that you mentioned, but even with those things for many other classic games, I never could beat them. But "Goonies II" had just exactly the right learning curve for me, and it was the first game I ever beat, and to this day one of the few I've ever beat. That's why it remains my favorite video game of all time! (I'm glad you beat it now, and I'm sure you beat many, many more games in your childhood than I did. And you beat them without the manual! It's just interesting how different things work for different people.) I knew all the strategies but not the trivia. I didn't know about Mikey's appearance in the Wai Wai game, and I had no idea it cameoed in a movie! Re: your question about the Pac-Man sound effects -- only the very earliest games had sounds that no one bothered to copyright, and so are public domain. It doesn't matter what video game from what era, or how sophisticated the game's sound is; you'll always get Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, or Space Invader noises dubbed into the movie or TV show! Thanks again for sharing and allowing us to relive the memories!
Bought the first Famicom Goonies game thanks to this video. Little by little my Famicom collection is growing thanks to recommendations from videos like this on RUclips.
I had this game as a kid. And I also used to wonder daily if there was a Goonies 1 game out there somewhere. Here's what I remember most about this game "Ouch! What do you do?", "Please! Help me!". As well as the sound effects and music. So awesome. Great video as always GGG.
Probably my favorite NES games of all time. I use to draw maps for my friends in elementary school cause I actually beat the game. Goonies 1 I knew about because the arcade version was at Chuckie Cheeses, man..those were the days
Great Video. I rented this in a galaxy far away, something is very special about this game. Unable to put my finger on it, must be the whole package with the slow version of her song and the design. I didn't get too far but nice to see someone does. Guess i was too young and stupid.
I bought this game in 7th grade from Walmart for $20. It took me about 6 months hard playing, but I beat it. Even without a walkthrough. Loved this game so much. To this day I still cannot find the walkie talkie. Cheers, -J.O.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid. I had a huge sense of accomplishment when I beat it and it still ranks among my favorite video game soundtracks. It's sad to think I probably wouldn't have the patience for it now, but man the nostalgia hits hard for me on this one.
I remember the PC version, I had it for the C64 and played the heck out of it but I was about 7 so I wasn't too good....I should check to see if I can fine it again and bust out my C64....man I LOVED that version. It was the best version out.
Very nice! this brings good memories as well as answer questions from when I was a kid, back then we had this game but the japanese version, I managed to get till the underwater areas just by playing blindly, and drawing my own map and such. really good job, I'll try to get this game a go again sometime soon.
I beat this game back in the day renting it from Blockbuster with no guide, you make me feel awesome. You beat a lot of games I didn't but now I have some real G-creds.
being a young child in the Philippines, we had a vcd player with nes emulator and i found Goonies 2 in the 300-in-1 nes games cd. it was in japanese, so the game gave me a language limitation. i played the game for 3 years always getting stuck on the violet cavern with a large chasm between platforms. it was fun, but i find the limitations frustrating. i left it unfinished for 6 years. then, we bought a new dvd player with a usb reader. i finally downloaded a nes rom of Goonies 2 in english and everything made sense after that. after two hours, i finally finished the game. what an underrated game! i replay this game once every two years just for nostalgia.
The music in the NES game brings back great memories. I always watch the Goonies when the weather gets cool outside. I also remember seeing the commodore version and had a blast playing that as a kid. Mullet boy 12:25.
This is one of my favorite NES games of all time. I beat this game without a guide, but then again it probably took me at least 20-30 hours. I remember having so much difficulty finding the last Goonie all because i missed one hidden door. I still play this game quite often and can get through it rather quickly now. I think I still have most of it memorized. I played it so much the in game map actually still makes sense to me!
Just had to watch the Goonies 'R' Good enough videos (yes, there are two, or rather two parts!) after this. So much talent in those videos including several wrestlers, the Goonies themselves, and even the Bangles before they were well known- apparently Cyndi Lauper's opening act at the time. A comment in the second video mentions one of the wrestlers at the end trying to get into a car (to make an escape)- that car was not part of the act but a surprised bystander- lol! To the game, I remember it and played it a few times but never got really far. Like G^3, I also remember being surprised at the first game showing up in a Playchoice-10 machine. Finally, not having watched too many videos here, I did not know about "mullet boy"- I was just like, "WTH is that photoshopped head doing in that flyer(?) artwork??" :D
Great video as always!!! I got my copy of Goonies II in 1988. I still have it. I beat the game that summer and I’m sure I used the Player’s Guide. I still have G2 (as well as all my original NES games as well as my Player’s Guide. Too many great memories to ever let them go. Cheers, Tyler!
When I played this as a kid I found every item and every kid but one! I could never find him and finally beat the game with a game genie code. I remember going straight to Annie, opening the cage, and being completely unsatisfied at the ending. It really is much more gratifying to beat the game using skill and not cheating. I may have to follow your suggestion and use the players guide to finally get that feeling of satisfaction. Thanks for sharing your video. :)
The way the agent in that film is holding the controller is not that far off from how old school arcade players would play on console. My dad glued a nes controller down to play Galaga on the nes when I was a kid.
The Nintendo Players guide was a must have back in the day. It was like $25 back then which was expensive as a kid but worth it. You kept it until the pages were falling apart. Helped me beat Goonies II and Rygar (also had awesome music). Nice video!
At 4:00 I have a bit of an explanation for the SFX. For some reason the only videogame SFX an engineer is allowed to use is those from atari's port of Pac Man. I'm no expert but I think 2600 Pac Man and Donkey Kong SFX are part of a royalty free SFX library. Also, when I was a kid our local arcade had a standalone Goonies machine. Not a Play 10 machine, an actual cabinet dedicated to Goonies. It was one of the mini machines Nintendo put out. We had one for Duck Hunt/Hogan's Alley and the one opposite it was for Goonies. It was always fun watching the older kids play since they had the money to commit to finishing it. If you can find it, play the game in emulation. It's a lot of fun and really deep for an arcade game.
One of the few games that I was wrong about in the beginning. When I first started playing I was like wth is this. After getting sick of my other games I came back to give this a second try and ended up loving it. Haven't thought about this game for a while. Thanks for the reminder.
A friend of mine in the neighborhood had this game when I was a kid. He would never let anyone borrow it and we never were inside his house very long to play it much. But to this day I still remember the music.
Man idk how I stumbled onto your channel, but I am definitely going to subscribe! Your history of the games, review of music, talking about that nostalgic feeling of renting a game on Friday nights. Absolutely love what you're doing. Thank you for researching and putting together these videos! Can't wait to see what's coming. I've fallen down a rabbit hole of watching your videos. Thanks again!
This is a personal thing, but I truly appreciate your extra bit of information including the other available Goonies games. I played a game at my grandmothers house almost 30 years ago, that I could never remember the name of, and have been trying to remember for many years. Since I was very young when I played it I also had no idea what game system I was playing on. Turns out that it was Goonies on the Commodore 64! Now I can track it down and play it again, all thanks to you! Thank you!
Goonies 1 was also released as a stand-alone arcade cabinet, so you could play it without worrying about the timer expiring because you paid for individual game credits instead of time (though I think you take more damage from enemies in that version than in the other versions, probably as a means of raking in more money because you were paying for credits instead of time so people could just pop in a few quarters and beat the game on only 1 or 2 credits if they’re good enough).
Yesterday (2-27-21) I finished my Rygar museum in Terraria & went right away to work on building the 1st stage of the original goonies game. Goonies Forever !! 👍 💀
I have the original cart to this and have been able to finish it within 30 minutes. I have quite a bit of the game memorized from when I played this back in the day.
Mmmm? Ok thanks.Come to think of it,i dont remember seeing the Dragons,Ma Fratelli,and some of the screens you showed!!!??? And i finished the game already! Mandella effect? I still have the game so i’ll give it another go to see for myself! Great video👍🏻
Alright, Alright, you win. I started watching your videos during your top 5 or top 10 favorite underrated NES games sometime ago. Now you keep showing up on my suggested list and I keep watching. There is something charismatic about your videos that I just keep watching and enjoying. So needless to say I subscribed finally. Keep up the good work Tyler.
I too remember renting this game several times. I had forgotten so much about it except the yo-yo until watching. The boomerang definitely the best weapon
I beat this game as a kid, and still have it along with the Nintendo player's guide. I remember hitting Konami Man by mistake, and not getting energy refills anymore or going straight to get the early hyper shoes. My favorite part was using the diving suit, and using the unlimited harpoon.
Thank you, Tyler at G3, after watching this I had to buy a copy for my collection, the awesome part of this is the Goonies II is actually featured in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, you know that other must have gamers black book which was included with some console's.
this was one of the few games i could beat as a kid. i actually had no idea what i was doing or what i was supposed to do, over time i just painstakingly explored everything until i beat it. i didnt even know that i was supposed to be looking for the kids... how can this game really be THAT hard if i could figure it out without any understanding of what the objectives were?
I still love this game. The music makes it better still. It’s a true ”feel-good-game” , if there ever was one. I actually learned at least 2 secrets from this video. I’m hitting the old shoebox HARD tomorrow. I really enjoy your straight forward approach to have fun with games. It’s refreshing visavi all the trash-talkers. Good work !
Thanks Roger. This is definitely a quirky game, but I do get upset when people trash it so much. It was always fun for me. I agree the music makes the game much more enjoyable.
I owned this game on my NES, but I never understood it as a kid, because I got a lot of my NES games second-hand from a family member that owned a rental store, so I never had a manual. I had also never seen the Goonies movie, so the only nostalgia I have for this game is that it's a super difficult game about a movie I'd never seen- and I assumed the same as you, that it was a sequel to the movie. Fantastic video by the way! It definitely shed some light on a mysterious game from my childhood that I'd always wondered about!!
That is so awesome your family owned a rental store to pass down games to you. I would have never got anything done other than games and movies if I were you lol. Glad you enjoyed the video man. Dude you gotta watch Goonies!!!
Oh WOW, I TOTALLY forgot about the computer version of this game until I just watched this Tyler. I played that thing for hours on a Commadore 64 that my older cousins had I think, it's been a while and I was like 7 or 8... Shows my age haha, love seeing videos like this that bring back old memories. We used to frequent Daytona Beach every summer as a family vacation, and all the arcades there had the Playchoice-10\Famicom Goonies, which I dumped at least 1000 quarters into since first discovering it. I've played all the games in this video and loved them all, great job on this man!
Really enjoyed reading your comment here Ryan. Thanks for sharing. I had played a few playchoice 10 machines as a kid but for whatever reason I overlooked Goonies on there lol. And I would have loved to have the C64 version. Thanks again!
This was the second game I ever finished as a kid. I even did it without a game guide. The real turning point for me was finding my first Goonie. After that, it all started falling into place. I was able to beat it in 2 hours back in the day. I still have my old copy of it. Maybe I should pop it in again...
I loved this game as a kid, and I did beat it without a guide getting everything. My buddy randomly figured out how to get the candle during one of my birthday parties. I believe the jumping shoes are another item that is necessary to complete the game. I want to say it is the lava level where there is a jump that definitely needs them. And I always that Ma Fratelli looked like an old chinese kung fu master.
I beat this one back in the day without a guide. It took a long time to do though and it basically came down to just trying everything I could everywhere to find secret doors.
A friend of mine in the neighborhood had the Official Nintendo Players Guide back in late '87. His Mom and Aunt were Gradius fanatics. The book was cool to look at even if You had not played 'em yet.
My "Goonies II" would have to be either Wizards and Warriors or Mega Man 1. I used to rent those games quite a bit growing up, but never owned them as a kid. It wouldn't be until many years later when I would purchase the Mega Man Anniversary Collection and a copy of Wizards and Warriors where I would finally have my own versions of those games. Although, I do remember renting Goonies II several times as a kid as well. I never made it far in the game, because I didn't know what to do most of the time, but I never stopped trying.
@@GenerationGapGaming Same here...I remember playing it for the first time when I was 7 years old (I think). I loved the game from the very first time I played it and it was one of the first games I purchased when I started to look online for video games several years ago. I also own Ironsword, which is another game that I like, though it does have a few more flaws than the first Wizards and Warriors game. (The continue system in the game seems a bit screwed up, and the glitch in the first part of the water realm is annoying.)
4:08 - Fun fact: if you watch almost ANY 90s movie that have video games depicted casually (in the background, or a character playing for a moment,) it's pretty much ALWAYS Atari 2600 pacman sounds.
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Thanks John. I have heard of people randomly being unsubbed to a channel. Just a RUclips glitch I'm sure. Glad to see you back man!
Your channel is the best man. Keep it going! I’d have a beer with this dude any day.
The Guidebook helped me with so many games... Metroid, Zelda, Goonies, Kid Icarus... Nintendo Power as well. Still have them. Some are very worn!
Can't tell you how much trouble my brother and I got into for calling Redmond WA. multiple times(long distance phone calls, remember those?) for the Nintendo hotline for help before the Guidebook.
Yeah it would not have been a good day if I called the hotline back then either lol
SeibRazib I got in trouble calling the Nintendo hot-line back in the day haha. I was trying to get help on Rygar 😂
My mom found this at a garage sale back in the late 80s. The label was missing, and someone had written "Goonies 2" on it in it's place. But I played it like crazy and beat it. I passed it on to a friend when I gave them my NES. Truly a classic.
Goonies 2: one of the most underrated games of all time
definitley agree Joe.
Absolutely
Never found a single goonie.
I loved this game as a kid
I had a hell of a time beating this at age 3 lol
I mapped this game out on graph paper and marked where all items were.
No nintento power for me, hand-sketched, color pencil marked - good times.
And it worked.
I beat this game as a kid, in one glorious long summer vacation. It took me forever to find the ladder. I triple-checked every door in the whole game before I found it in one of the rooms in the underwater area.
Same, i remained breathless for some seconds when it appeared!! It was such a blocker
I owned this game back in the day. Had no clue what to do until I got that strategy guide which I bought for Zelda. I never would have beaten this game without it.
The Goonies II is one of my all time favorite NES games
Thank you! I just discovered this channel not too long ago and I really like how this channel does video games and such
Glad you are enjoying the content man! Thanks for taking time to comment.
No problem! Your channel has great potential and I basically grew up with these games back in the day. Me and my cousins would play Nintendo all the time
Sounds like we had similar video game upbringings lol
pretty much. We used to take turns playing Punch Out, The Goonies 2, and such. We even took turns playing the NES Maniac Mansion and other games
"You know it's dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section.... CAUSE YOU COULD MELT ALL THIS STUFF!"
Damn! I've been playing this game since '88 and I never knew you could throw the boomerang in multiple directions! I relied on the Official Nintendo Player's Guide to beat this game back in the day. Hell, I busted it out the last time I played this game on stream because I had completely forgotten where one item was. I have notes written in it from ten-year old me. Present me really appreciates that! Oh man, I have Wai Wai World. It kinda sucks. One thing worth mentioning is to pay attention to which way Mikey is facing in the corner of the first person sections. It's crucial to navigating between the front and back maps, and once you realize this, the game becomes a lot less disorienting. Great video, dude!
Yeah dude I just came about the boomerang thing by accident. I was trying to see if I could throw a bomb while jumping and when I did that combo of buttons in mid air it threw the boomerang in that direction. And it worked for any other direction I tried too. It was cool but I assumed others figured that out too lol. So cool you have your own notes in your guide from when you were a kid. Thanks as always for watching dude. Always enjoy your comments.
My truffle shuffle has sadly gotten increasingly more accurate in the last couple of years....
Joking aside, fantastic vid man! Those tips seem invaluable to someone wanting to play this for the first time.
Thanks so much. Always appreciate you taking time to watch and comment. I think this game would not be the most appealing game for the first time as an adult lol.
Mine too!
I remember owning this as a kid. Didn't use the players guide to beat it, but did call the 1800 number a few times.
Back in 1988 I committed to playing this game with hopes of actually making it somewhere....played it a few times previously and saw my older brother find a couple Goonies (it was his game). It felt like I played it for the entire day, I remember the feeling of realizing how the maps connected like something clicked and was able to open up the entire world and find all the Goonies and the mermaid. I beat it at the age of 6 and I knew I did something amazing although I never thought it was possible.....it’s not an easy game but definitely one of the best nes games and the music I can still hear til this day
I won this game only bc of the Players Guide, like you said. A few years ago, early in my 40's, I beat this game again start to finish by drawing my own map of action and adventure scenes from scratch. Hooo boy, was that work but rewarding in the end.
I got this game for Christmas the year I got my NES. Super Mario and Goonies II. Best Christmas ever!
I had Super Mario/Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley and Spy Hunter. Would have traded Hogan's Alley and Spy Hunter for Goonies II!
That does sound like a solid Christmas!!!
Awesome! The same thing happened to us. My parents had bought us the system with the Zapper, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt (two seperate cartridges). We didn't want Duck Hunt and the Zapper, so we returned the system, bought the lesser one without the Zapper, and used the extra money to buy Goonies 2.
The official Nintendo player's guide was my first video game magazine ever!!!! I used to look at it everyday. Man, all your videos brings me such nostalgia. Thank you, man.
The NES was home to a lot of bizarre titles, Monster Party, Street Fighter 2010, and this game. I think it's why I love going back to it so much.
Easily one of my favorite NES games of all time. I loved the mystery and all the RPG elements. Finding items, hidden doors & holes in the floor was always so exciting. I still play it sometimes. Awesome vid!
I LOVED the Goonies on C64, and is one if my all time favorites on the system. I'm proud that I was able to solve all the puzzles, and beat it! I also thought Goonies II was a sequel to the movie, and didn't hear about the playchoice arcade until last year. I need to revisit this because I've never beaten it! Thanks!
You're welcome Kenneth. I'm sad I missed out on the C64 version growing up lol
Back in the 80's and early 90's, Pac-Man on Atari is the common tune used in video games scenes/arcades heard in TV shows and movies.
How to show a video game in a 1980s/early 1990s movie:
1 - Use prerecorded footage of your kid playing the game.
2 - Replace the audio with Atari 2600 sfx no matter what console is being played.
3 - Have the actor "playing" the game manhandle the controller like a confused monkey.
Optional - Describe the game in a completely inaccurate manner by spewing out random, "gamer term" gibberish. Even if your film was specifically intended to revolve around video games and marketed to the gamer audience (looking at you 'The Wizard').
Strangely even a lot of modern movies continue to use this formula....
That and the 2600 version of Donkey Kong
Used to play co-op goonies with my brother and sister back in the 80s when we were all young kids. Also had goonies 2 for NES and always thought it was just the sequel to the commodore game I had. Loved both games.
Mullet boy at 12:25 with the Konami main characters....lol Great vid!
That is right Justin! You are the first and will get a shoutout in the next vid. Thanks for watching man!
I remember having Goonies II and loving it so much, yet being confused as to how to complete it. Then one day my parents too me to Hills department store and there it was....Goonies the arcade! all i remember was that it started in a cave. the graphics were much better of course, and the music was awesome....but it was so hard and i only played it two or three times before i had to go.....i never saw it again. it wasnt a dream, but it felt like one.
That was the first Goonies game on a VS cabnet. He said in the video it was on the 10 play choice... not sure about that but I do know it was on Vs along with harder versions of other games.
Steve Fitz now I will google how to hack the Nintendo mini.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I remember as a kid drawing my own map, with codes and icons and the whole bit. This game consumed me.
Now, all these years later, I'm endeavouring to make my own platformer game. Goonies II is definitely a major influence.
Loved it. I was 13 in 1987 and grew up with all the now- classics for NES. I was a big fan of the action - adventure genre and this was certainly one of my 10 favorite games.
goonies 2 was a game that completely enthralled me as a kid, even tho i had no idea what was going on
along with star tropics, shadowrun (snes) n earthbound
I loved Shadowrun. It took a couple rentals before I beat it the first time, and it's the only game I ever rented again so I could replay it after beating it. I finally own a copy thanks to Ebay.
Aw man, I can only imagine you knew about the Black Book (aka Nintendo Player's Guide) when you were a kid and it got flushed down the memory whole somewhere. That guide was the prized possession of many an 80s kid.
back in the day in a unsigned little store in a little mall, I found a bootleg 23 in 1 game cartridge for my NES from Japan and the first goonies was on it....good game. At that time, a 1 in 23 was AMAZING and then I remember 100 in 1 being available but too expensive. Great channel man....
This was one of my favorite games as a kind on the NES. I remember picking it out at Children's Palace for my birthday- which actually would have been 31 years ago today, actually! Even though the Front/Back map system confused me, I played through it as a kid. Funny thing is, until I saw your video, I don't know if I ever realized Ma Fatali was even in the game!
I really must say, watching your videos makes me feel like I’m hanging with an old buddy. I really enjoy your material.
My brother and I were completely hooked on this game back in the day. He got it as a gift one year when I was around 8 years old, and we both tried our hardest to play through the whole thing, but kept hitting roadblocks in our progress. The funniest one (and my favorite memory of the game) revolves around that got-dang CANDLE. Nowhere in the game does it tell you to hit that old woman five times, and we were so fed up with not being able to progress without it that we began systematically going through every room and hitting every corner of the screen with every tool in our arsenal. When we reached that old woman, our patience had completely run out, so we just started hitting her over and over out of sheer frustration. You can imagine our laughter and bewilderment when she spit out the candle.
That stupid candle-spitting woman made us paranoid about checking every corner of every game we played after that point, for a good number of years. Funny thing is, this actually HELPED us in games like Metal Gear or the Metroid series.
This was actually one of the first games I owned for the NES and I played the heck out of it. I did beat it back inn the day but I probably wouldn't have without owning the NES manual. As you said, it was more or less essential to beating this great game.
I played this game as a kid for countless hours. I discovered and memorized every secret in the game and completed it many times.
The Official Nintendo Players guide was my childhood.
Required reading back in the day.
THIS!!!!
This was my go to game when I was a kid! I used to have the whole thing memorized to where I could guide friends over the phone where to go/what to do!!!
This game is somewhat underrated. I enjoyed this game as a kid, and I also did not beat this game as a kid, but rather beat it back in 2016 with cheats and RUclips tutorials lol. Awesome review. And yes Jay the NES Addict is awesome.
I remember getting the original Goonies back in the 80's but I never knew about Goonies 2.
The reason the sound effects for pacman was used over goonies II in the movie my blue heaven I think is because the pac man sound effects are recognized more easily than goonies. sure we knew visually it was goonies II but not many people would but the pac man sound effects people can instantly recognize.
Doesn't really matter. Don't put a video game in your movie this way.
It just makes everyone involved look incompetent.
This video kept popping up in my recommended, so I gave in and clicked dammit!!! lol. What a great video, simple yet in-depth too. Great template you got going on brother, keep it up!
I love this game so much. My brother and I probably beat this one together 10 or more times. Back in the day we did everything together, and we didn't have much so we beat our games over and over again. Thx for all the videos you make, they help me relive the good times of my childhood.
Nothing like playing with family and yes we definitely cherished our NES games back then. Thanks for the kind words Jay!!
I never had a problem beating most games back in the day. I think Maniac Mansion and Astyanax are the only ones I still haven't.
New to your channel. Awesome review and it's good to see someone keeping NES alive! 👍
Thanks so much for the kind words Raymond. Welcome to G3 man!!!
You're welcome 👊
Thanks for making this video! As much as I love the game, it always felt too obscure and underrated to me. I'm floored to see that (at the time of this writing) there are over 118,000 views; over 3,000 likes; and over 700 comments! It's astonishing to realize I'm not alone in loving this game.
When the game does come up in conversation, I'm always surprised to find out how many people had a hard time beating the game. I did have the instruction manual and the wonderful Player's Guide that you mentioned, but even with those things for many other classic games, I never could beat them. But "Goonies II" had just exactly the right learning curve for me, and it was the first game I ever beat, and to this day one of the few I've ever beat. That's why it remains my favorite video game of all time! (I'm glad you beat it now, and I'm sure you beat many, many more games in your childhood than I did. And you beat them without the manual! It's just interesting how different things work for different people.)
I knew all the strategies but not the trivia. I didn't know about Mikey's appearance in the Wai Wai game, and I had no idea it cameoed in a movie! Re: your question about the Pac-Man sound effects -- only the very earliest games had sounds that no one bothered to copyright, and so are public domain. It doesn't matter what video game from what era, or how sophisticated the game's sound is; you'll always get Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, or Space Invader noises dubbed into the movie or TV show!
Thanks again for sharing and allowing us to relive the memories!
So many days and time playing The Goonies first one tho…. I see the game in that moovie ❤
"OUCH, what do you do!?" My childhood LOL!
Nice!
Bought the first Famicom Goonies game thanks to this video.
Little by little my Famicom collection is growing thanks to recommendations from videos like this on RUclips.
I remember renting this game back in the 80’s, with no manual, and had no idea what the hell I was supposed to do!
I had this game as a kid. And I also used to wonder daily if there was a Goonies 1 game out there somewhere. Here's what I remember most about this game "Ouch! What do you do?", "Please! Help me!". As well as the sound effects and music. So awesome. Great video as always GGG.
Thanks Dan.! Yes, "Ouch! What do you do," is encountered way too much in this game lol.
Probably my favorite NES games of all time. I use to draw maps for my friends in elementary school cause I actually beat the game. Goonies 1 I knew about because the arcade version was at Chuckie Cheeses, man..those were the days
Great Video. I rented this in a galaxy far away, something is very special about this game. Unable to put my finger on it, must be the whole package with the slow version of her song and the design. I didn't get too far but nice to see someone does. Guess i was too young and stupid.
I dont think you were too young and stupid. I didn't make it far as a kid either lol
I bought this game in 7th grade from Walmart for $20. It took me about 6 months hard playing, but I beat it. Even without a walkthrough. Loved this game so much. To this day I still cannot find the walkie talkie. Cheers, -J.O.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid. I had a huge sense of accomplishment when I beat it and it still ranks among my favorite video game soundtracks. It's sad to think I probably wouldn't have the patience for it now, but man the nostalgia hits hard for me on this one.
Only thing I really remember from this game is if you hit one of the people in the game they say "ouch, what do you do?" LMAO.
I remember the PC version, I had it for the C64 and played the heck out of it but I was about 7 so I wasn't too good....I should check to see if I can fine it again and bust out my C64....man I LOVED that version. It was the best version out.
Very nice! this brings good memories as well as answer questions from when I was a kid, back then we had this game but the japanese version, I managed to get till the underwater areas just by playing blindly, and drawing my own map and such. really good job, I'll try to get this game a go again sometime soon.
I beat this game back in the day renting it from Blockbuster with no guide, you make me feel awesome. You beat a lot of games I didn't but now I have some real G-creds.
being a young child in the Philippines, we had a vcd player with nes emulator and i found Goonies 2 in the 300-in-1 nes games cd. it was in japanese, so the game gave me a language limitation. i played the game for 3 years always getting stuck on the violet cavern with a large chasm between platforms. it was fun, but i find the limitations frustrating. i left it unfinished for 6 years.
then, we bought a new dvd player with a usb reader. i finally downloaded a nes rom of Goonies 2 in english and everything made sense after that. after two hours, i finally finished the game.
what an underrated game! i replay this game once every two years just for nostalgia.
Bubble Bobble music is the best.
True! Also a amazing game 👍
Thank you for this video! I love Goonies II, and it's one of my favourite games on the NES. It's sad it always gets so overlooked. :-)
These secrets and trivia are gooood enoooougggh! Also, man you did great! I love getting that Cindi Lauper song stuck in my head!
Thanks dude. That song will never leave me I believe.
Another great video. I just love all the history you provide of our childhood. My son and I continue to watch all your videos. Thanks Tyler.
You are welcome Brian. Really happy it brings you and your son together.
The music in the NES game brings back great memories. I always watch the Goonies when the weather gets cool outside. I also remember seeing the commodore version and had a blast playing that as a kid. Mullet boy 12:25.
I'm jealous you got to play the C64 version lol. I need to try to find it. And you are correct on mullet boy!!
It's criminal how underrated his game is. I own a complete copy. Received it as a Valentine's gift from my mother back in 1988.
Great video. Love goonies 2.
This is one of my favorite NES games of all time. I beat this game without a guide, but then again it probably took me at least 20-30 hours. I remember having so much difficulty finding the last Goonie all because i missed one hidden door. I still play this game quite often and can get through it rather quickly now. I think I still have most of it memorized. I played it so much the in game map actually still makes sense to me!
Just had to watch the Goonies 'R' Good enough videos (yes, there are two, or rather two parts!) after this. So much talent in those videos including several wrestlers, the Goonies themselves, and even the Bangles before they were well known- apparently Cyndi Lauper's opening act at the time. A comment in the second video mentions one of the wrestlers at the end trying to get into a car (to make an escape)- that car was not part of the act but a surprised bystander- lol!
To the game, I remember it and played it a few times but never got really far. Like G^3, I also remember being surprised at the first game showing up in a Playchoice-10 machine.
Finally, not having watched too many videos here, I did not know about "mullet boy"- I was just like, "WTH is that photoshopped head doing in that flyer(?) artwork??" :D
I had that game as a kid, such great memories...
Great video as always!!! I got my copy of Goonies II in 1988. I still have it. I beat the game that summer and I’m sure I used the Player’s Guide. I still have G2 (as well as all my original NES games as well as my Player’s Guide. Too many great memories to ever let them go. Cheers, Tyler!
thanks Matt! I knew you would love this video. I remember you talking about Goonies II.
Just watched the Goonies' movie last week..... A classic
When I played this as a kid I found every item and every kid but one! I could never find him and finally beat the game with a game genie code. I remember going straight to Annie, opening the cage, and being completely unsatisfied at the ending. It really is much more gratifying to beat the game using skill and not cheating. I may have to follow your suggestion and use the players guide to finally get that feeling of satisfaction. Thanks for sharing your video. :)
The way the agent in that film is holding the controller is not that far off from how old school arcade players would play on console. My dad glued a nes controller down to play Galaga on the nes when I was a kid.
Should've got him an NES Advantage 😉
The Nintendo Players guide was a must have back in the day. It was like $25 back then which was expensive as a kid but worth it. You kept it until the pages were falling apart. Helped me beat Goonies II and Rygar (also had awesome music). Nice video!
Thanks man. I wish I found the guide when I was a kid. Can't believe I never saw it cause I know I would have got it.
At 4:00 I have a bit of an explanation for the SFX. For some reason the only videogame SFX an engineer is allowed to use is those from atari's port of Pac Man. I'm no expert but I think 2600 Pac Man and Donkey Kong SFX are part of a royalty free SFX library.
Also, when I was a kid our local arcade had a standalone Goonies machine. Not a Play 10 machine, an actual cabinet dedicated to Goonies. It was one of the mini machines Nintendo put out. We had one for Duck Hunt/Hogan's Alley and the one opposite it was for Goonies. It was always fun watching the older kids play since they had the money to commit to finishing it. If you can find it, play the game in emulation. It's a lot of fun and really deep for an arcade game.
One of the few games that I was wrong about in the beginning. When I first started playing I was like wth is this. After getting sick of my other games I came back to give this a second try and ended up loving it. Haven't thought about this game for a while. Thanks for the reminder.
A friend of mine in the neighborhood had this game when I was a kid. He would never let anyone borrow it and we never were inside his house very long to play it much. But to this day I still remember the music.
Man idk how I stumbled onto your channel, but I am definitely going to subscribe! Your history of the games, review of music, talking about that nostalgic feeling of renting a game on Friday nights. Absolutely love what you're doing. Thank you for researching and putting together these videos! Can't wait to see what's coming. I've fallen down a rabbit hole of watching your videos. Thanks again!
Awesome man! Thanks for the kind words. Glad to have you here at G3!
This is a personal thing, but I truly appreciate your extra bit of information including the other available Goonies games. I played a game at my grandmothers house almost 30 years ago, that I could never remember the name of, and have been trying to remember for many years. Since I was very young when I played it I also had no idea what game system I was playing on. Turns out that it was Goonies on the Commodore 64! Now I can track it down and play it again, all thanks to you! Thank you!
Oh wow man that is awesome! Glad this helped you remember.
Amazing game, one of my top 10 as a child. I had that players guide. it was so EPIC. I miss the good ol day of gaming, before the interwebz
Players Guide is such a great and helpful piece of NES history.
Goonies 1 was also released as a stand-alone arcade cabinet, so you could play it without worrying about the timer expiring because you paid for individual game credits instead of time (though I think you take more damage from enemies in that version than in the other versions, probably as a means of raking in more money because you were paying for credits instead of time so people could just pop in a few quarters and beat the game on only 1 or 2 credits if they’re good enough).
Yesterday (2-27-21) I finished my Rygar museum in Terraria & went right away to work on building the 1st stage of the original goonies game. Goonies Forever !! 👍 💀
Awesomeness 😎
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Yes, the classic NES games are.
I have the original cart to this and have been able to finish it within 30 minutes. I have quite a bit of the game memorized from when I played this back in the day.
Mmmm? Ok thanks.Come to think of it,i dont remember seeing the Dragons,Ma Fratelli,and some of the screens you showed!!!??? And i finished the game already! Mandella effect? I still have the game so i’ll give it another go to see for myself! Great video👍🏻
Alright, Alright, you win. I started watching your videos during your top 5 or top 10 favorite underrated NES games sometime ago. Now you keep showing up on my suggested list and I keep watching. There is something charismatic about your videos that I just keep watching and enjoying. So needless to say I subscribed finally. Keep up the good work Tyler.
Lol Thanks Felix. You are officially welcomed to G3!!!
@@GenerationGapGaming glad to be a part of it!
I too remember renting this game several times. I had forgotten so much about it except the yo-yo until watching. The boomerang definitely the best weapon
I beat this game as a kid, and still have it along with the Nintendo player's guide. I remember hitting Konami Man by mistake, and not getting energy refills anymore or going straight to get the early hyper shoes. My favorite part was using the diving suit, and using the unlimited harpoon.
Yeah Konami Man dont mess around lol. Happy to hear you beat it as a kid!
Thank you, Tyler at G3, after watching this I had to buy a copy for my collection, the awesome part of this is the Goonies II is actually featured in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, you know that other must have gamers black book which was included with some console's.
this was one of the few games i could beat as a kid. i actually had no idea what i was doing or what i was supposed to do, over time i just painstakingly explored everything until i beat it. i didnt even know that i was supposed to be looking for the kids... how can this game really be THAT hard if i could figure it out without any understanding of what the objectives were?
I still love this game. The music makes it better still. It’s a true ”feel-good-game” , if there ever was one. I actually learned at least 2 secrets from this video. I’m hitting the old shoebox HARD tomorrow. I really enjoy your straight forward approach to have fun with games. It’s refreshing visavi all the trash-talkers. Good work !
Thanks Roger. This is definitely a quirky game, but I do get upset when people trash it so much. It was always fun for me. I agree the music makes the game much more enjoyable.
@@GenerationGapGaming what is the name of song used in the background for your videos ?
Another game where a yo-yo was used as a weapon is "Yo, Noid!" which came out in 1990.
12:26. Found mullet boy on the cover of the Konami man manual.
I owned this game on my NES, but I never understood it as a kid, because I got a lot of my NES games second-hand from a family member that owned a rental store, so I never had a manual. I had also never seen the Goonies movie, so the only nostalgia I have for this game is that it's a super difficult game about a movie I'd never seen- and I assumed the same as you, that it was a sequel to the movie.
Fantastic video by the way! It definitely shed some light on a mysterious game from my childhood that I'd always wondered about!!
That is so awesome your family owned a rental store to pass down games to you. I would have never got anything done other than games and movies if I were you lol. Glad you enjoyed the video man. Dude you gotta watch Goonies!!!
Oh WOW, I TOTALLY forgot about the computer version of this game until I just watched this Tyler. I played that thing for hours on a Commadore 64 that my older cousins had I think, it's been a while and I was like 7 or 8... Shows my age haha, love seeing videos like this that bring back old memories. We used to frequent Daytona Beach every summer as a family vacation, and all the arcades there had the Playchoice-10\Famicom Goonies, which I dumped at least 1000 quarters into since first discovering it. I've played all the games in this video and loved them all, great job on this man!
Really enjoyed reading your comment here Ryan. Thanks for sharing. I had played a few playchoice 10 machines as a kid but for whatever reason I overlooked Goonies on there lol. And I would have loved to have the C64 version. Thanks again!
This was the second game I ever finished as a kid. I even did it without a game guide. The real turning point for me was finding my first Goonie. After that, it all started falling into place. I was able to beat it in 2 hours back in the day. I still have my old copy of it. Maybe I should pop it in again...
Awesome video Tyler! I'm glad to see this game getting some love. Keep up the great work! Love your channel!
I loved this game as a kid, and I did beat it without a guide getting everything. My buddy randomly figured out how to get the candle during one of my birthday parties.
I believe the jumping shoes are another item that is necessary to complete the game. I want to say it is the lava level where there is a jump that definitely needs them. And I always that Ma Fratelli looked like an old chinese kung fu master.
I beat this one back in the day without a guide. It took a long time to do though and it basically came down to just trying everything I could everywhere to find secret doors.
Most impressive Heather. Lots of dedication to beat it without a guide.
That’s impressive
I have fond memories of Goonies II. And yeah the music was awesome.
A friend of mine in the neighborhood had the Official Nintendo Players Guide back in late '87. His Mom and Aunt were Gradius fanatics. The book was cool to look at even if You had not played 'em yet.
My "Goonies II" would have to be either Wizards and Warriors or Mega Man 1. I used to rent those games quite a bit growing up, but never owned them as a kid. It wouldn't be until many years later when I would purchase the Mega Man Anniversary Collection and a copy of Wizards and Warriors where I would finally have my own versions of those games.
Although, I do remember renting Goonies II several times as a kid as well. I never made it far in the game, because I didn't know what to do most of the time, but I never stopped trying.
Chad I absolutely love Wizards and Warriors!!! I am sure I will do a secrets and history video of it someday.
@@GenerationGapGaming Same here...I remember playing it for the first time when I was 7 years old (I think). I loved the game from the very first time I played it and it was one of the first games I purchased when I started to look online for video games several years ago.
I also own Ironsword, which is another game that I like, though it does have a few more flaws than the first Wizards and Warriors game. (The continue system in the game seems a bit screwed up, and the glitch in the first part of the water realm is annoying.)
I have this game still and had that guide. You took me back to 4th grade.
4:08 - Fun fact: if you watch almost ANY 90s movie that have video games depicted casually (in the background, or a character playing for a moment,) it's pretty much ALWAYS Atari 2600 pacman sounds.
I never had a problem with finishing this game as a child of the '80s without guide books. Great game!