I was 12 when I put my hands on this game. For me (1993, I'm dominican, and at that time I didn't know a word of english back then, but always played NES games with an english-spanish dictionary in hand), it was extremely difficult at first. I couldn't find anything beyond the key holder and the hammer. Everything changed one saturday afternoon, when I was bored and I hit a wall with the hammer, and a door appears out of nowhere (I can still remember the emotion I had back then). Afterwards, it was only matter of follow the same pro-tip of the 4 steps when you are in an empty room (which I developed by myself backthen). It is one of my beloved games of all times. I don't have the cartridge I had when I first played it (the chip was inside a different case, and I though it was another game... at that point I knew it was not the sequel to the movie), but I have another cartridge I bough years later dirt cheap. That game helped me learn a little bit of english, giving me access to a whole new world.
However sprawling and detailed games may be these days, this is the kind of game that felt like a whole world back in 1987. Mysterious, magical - but with some familiar suburban American iconography. In a way, it's a precursor to games like Star Tropics and Earthbound.
Justin Runge so true. I played this before Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus and this was the first game that truly felt like I was exploring a huge mysterious world.
I vaguely remember reading an article somewhere that stated that the Mermaid element was in one of the early drafts of the goonies 2 movie script that was in production at the time, which Konami was informed about, in hopes of having a simultaneous release- but the movie ended up in production hell, and the game was released without it.
I was 11 years old when Goonies II released in my part of the world, and I absolutely loved this game! So did many of my friends and other classmates. It had platforming like Super Mario, it had adventure and mystery like Zelda, and it had exploration and the need to search for items like Metroid. This, when it was released, was the ultimate adventure game. Sure, it took forever to search all the rooms, hitting everything with the fist and hammer, but that kind of exploration was fun back in the day. At least to me, and everyone else that I knew who was hooked on it.
agreed. The gameplay really has to be understood in context. It combined elements of other great games into one single challenge. And as someone who tried to burn every bush in Zelda and bomb every floor square in Metroid, the "hit-hammer-goggles" process was standard gaming experience.
I was sorely disappointed by the lack of Sloth in Goonies 2, but my head cannon as a kid was that he was Konami man and healed you like as a superhero (but not Superman due to licensing issues)
I played the hell out of that game when I was a kiddo and it was brand new. Though I was too young to understand how the game functioned, I still loved it. Went back and played it again for a few hours some years back, and its still hard as hell hahahha ;) Thank you for making this video... Ive spent a week anticipating it and I was so happy when it popped up in my subscriptions list!!!
So glad to see someone that doesn't destroy this game when they talk about it. One of my favorite games of the NES era. When I finally beat it, I felt so accomplished.
It’s annoying to see people slam old games based on modern standards. Especially when modern games built on what was established in the very games they crap on. You have to compare old games to their peers at the time and what the standards were.
I don't know why folks would verbally put down a game like this one: Konami put a lot of effort into it, and it's genuinely fun to play. It's all too easy to complain about something after the fact without understanding the technical limitations that factored into its creation. People were neither less talented nor less intelligent 30 years ago!
The Goonies II is just the gang telling the events of the movie to the new kid in town, Dominic Palmieri, while they're baby sitting him and trying to get him to go to sleep. Hence all the crazy things like magma caverns, dragons, the mermaid, etc.
I remember dumping a ton of quarters into the original Goonies game in the arcade (the baby blue Vs. machine, not the play choice), but I never could quite get into this one. Now I'm gonna have Cindy Lauper stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Fantastic.
Even though "Goonies 2" is a sequel to "Goonies" on Famicom, Goonies on Famicom has the same story as the movie. So in essence, Goonies 2 IS a sequel to the movie's story as well.
I remember first seeing this on a PlayChoice machine. Never did try to tackle it thanks to the NES Player's Guide maps presenting it as a very daunting task. I love the first one on Famicom, so perhaps I'll try to go through this one only using the black guide as my only resource.
I loved this game as a kid, despite the blind hunt issues you mentioned. Side note, I was well into adulthood before I realized that super-catchy main song was an actual song by Cyndi Lauper. :-P
Borrowed this from a friend back in 7th or 8th grade, and beat it in (effectively) one sitting from a Saturday morning to that night, loving every minute of it. This was a great game that I occasionally come back to just out of how fun it is to play.
7:10 - When I was around 8 I beat this game. And so I drew this scene in a book. Thing is, I drew her with her boobs showing! About 20 years later I find this book again and saw the drawing, thus creating a false memory in my head that the boobs were always there. Honestly, I'm quite shocked! Here I was thinking this was an NES game with nudity in it for 25 years of my life in total.
Been hyped for this episode for awhile and it does not disappoint. Countless rentals of this title as a child have firmly cemented it in my memory and lead to years of confusion about the story. When the term Metroidvania started getting thrown around in the early 2000s I remember comparing the concept to The Goonies II and getting a lot of strange looks as a result.
This game holds a special place in my heart - I played it so much and memorized the map (thank you Nintendo Players' Guide, the holy grail of early NES gaming), I could beat the game in just under an hour. Looks like the current WR is ~15 minutes, which is really insane to me.
I think this was probably the first game I ever beat and it’s still one of my favorite games on the original Nintendo. I’ve replayed it quite a few times over the years. It’s good fun for an hour or so.
1987 was a good year for the adventure genre as a whole, video games, and otherwise. Edit:just realised the kids name was mikey walsh and he lived in Astoria oregon, and my last name is walsh and I grew up near astoria
Keep up the great work Jeremy!!! Everytime i watch your videos it's takes me back to my childhood when in my opinion the videogames were way better. Goonies 2 was a difficult but great game.
Oh yeah! This game was a big part of my childhood. Still love it :) I'm surprised you didn't mention how ridiculously cryptic it is to get the candle 😄
Great episode. This is one of those games I never paid much attention to as a kid (I think I may have rented it once) but have always wanted to go back to. And oh boy, got some high grade kusoge coming up next episode. Can't wait for that!
Love this game! Again, best gaming channel on UA-cam. Perfectly captures the feeling of playing this awesome, under rated game. Can’t tell you how many hours I sunk into this game as a kid or how nerve racking it was to hit some of these areas, especially the bridge and the dragon infested areas. Can’t wait until the next video.
This is an underrated game that I've always enjoyed, despite its weird Adventure scenes. The connection between those and the map always eluded me back then, the Warp Zones, which can take you anywhere, messed me up and obscured the connections between th action and adventure scenes and the map. My favorite thing about the game is that hilarious animated Ma Fratelli that shows up to taunt you in attract mode and when you lose!
Your level of depth and fact checking is so impressive. Great video. Will you ever being doing a retrospective on Solstice for the NES? It's my favorite game of all time. Have a great rest of your day.
This one was always a favorite of mine. The first time we played it, it took my sister and I at least a couple of weeks to finish it and it did seem like an epic adventure. Nowadays you can find and watch blind playthroughs that finish it in a couple of hours. Go figure.
When I first heard of this game, I remember thinking that there was a Goonies sequel I had never heard of and this was a let down in that factor. It does look fun though so I need to give this a try. After all, it's an early NES Konami game.
I have a video of me receiving this game in July 1988. My mom was in a hospital bed holding my newborn sister and I was meeting her for the first time. I was 6 years old. "She" gave me the game as a welcome gift. I could not take my eyes off the game even though everybody could not take their eyes off my sister.
Like others, I thought there was a Goonies 2, or a script of it which never got made, but Konami saw it and made this game. Lol I love this game, for it did improve and expand upon the gameplay of the first one. The only issue I had was finding invisible items, which was hard without the glasses.
I remember renting this game a couple of times back in 88-89 and really wanting to like it. But the menu driven parts sort of killed the game for me since I didn't have the patience back then to completely figure them out. Maybe it's time for me to fire up the emulator and give the game a proper play through!
I'm a big fan of this game. It seems to get trashed by a number of retro gamers, but I'm not sure why. Other than it's convoluted map, t's a lot of fun with some classic Konami gameplay.
I was so happy when I found a used copy of this a few years ago after all the talking up you did about it over the years, Jeremy! Now, about that Jetpack Goonies... 😁
Playing this spatial relation Pandora's Box for years on end gives one the ability to see THROUGH TIME AND THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS! Prove that I'm wrong.
These games had such an impact, that 15 years later I still couldn't get these games out of my DNA, so I became Indiana Jones. Drew a map, got a game geneie and dove in haha.
I never did beat this one despite many hours invested. I remember being convinced that I could deduce which captured Goonie was which based on what they said.
While in retrospect I can understand why Konami didn't bring over the first Goonies game for the NES in North America, VS. Goonies, the arcade counterpart using the VS. System arcade line of games, did get a western release. So that's odd. Ultra Games, Konami's shell corporation to circumvent the publishing limit Nintendo of America imposed, started up the following year after this game, so I'm wondering if Konami getting that free pass on publishing more than the limit in 1987 was making other publishers jealous or what. There's gotta be some story there.
Oof, that next game coming up. I do hope the PC88 version gets at least a passing mention, as it makes a lot of the weird design choices make sense simply by actually implementing them properly. Even if it's still not a very good game. :)
5:00 Wait, whaaaaaat? I never finished the game because I got stuck since I missed items, but now I realize I surely had them and didn't know about the submenu thing!
I remember being stuck on this game too. I even tried to return it back to the shop thinking it had a fault. I was referred to the budding nintendo telephone helpline! Definitely a flawed game but the platform elements were fun.
I had the Goonies for Commodore 64 so I thought it was the sequel to that game. Loved both goonies games, the one on commodore was co-op that I played with my brother and sister. This one on the NES I would hammer and punch every wall, didn’t really bother me because I was young and just thought that’s what you did.
Excellent episode as usual. This game holds a special place for me, as the Goonies movie was iconic in my childhood, as was the NES of course. I remember playing this as a kid but I don't remember how complex it was. This was an amazing deep dive into the game!
Looking forward to that next one, Jeremy. I first played Super Pitfall back when it originally came out. It was the first clear time I was playing a video game where I knew it wasn't just me being a kid who was bad at the game. It just absolutely sucked.
Nobody really played the first game. I couldn't even find it as a child. I started to believe that it didn't really exist until the internet told me otherwise.
It showed up very rarely in the U.S. as a Vs. System game. There was exactly one restaurant in my city of 200,000+ people and many, many arcades, mini golf courses, skate rinks, and pizza joints that had it for a while.
I had this game. I put quite a bit of time into it but I could only find something like less than half the items and maybe the first 2-3 characters. It was pretty confusing.
I really enjoy the 1st game. Part 2 not so much. Even with the Nintendo Players Guide map as a kid I couldn’t get far. I don’t even want to try it now lol
I stared playing Goonies II after listening to Jeremy talk about it on Retronauts. It can be a very fun game, but I strongly recommend new players use Nesrocks’s Goonies II Revised Design hack. In my personal option Nesrocks’s improvement hack makes this rough gem shine. Also check out Nesrocks’s Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition. It is an amazing love letter to the original game that improves it in every way.
The concept of a goonies 2 on the NES confused me greatly because as a kid. I wanted to see the movie it was based on and couldn't find it and never understood why it didn't exist. XD
Hey Jeremy! I'm going to try and come to your presentation at PAX East. Love your videos, by the way I don't know if you remember my mom.. Becky Barnhill?
As a kid, I first thought it was some weird sequel to the movie. Later, I thought it was a badly chosen Western license rebranding of some completely unrelated series.
this was definitely one of my favorites growing up! actually fairly recently scooped up the Japanese version of it as I saw a good deal on it. fun game but definitely want to have a walkthrough handy to find all the items, some of em aren't super obvious.
Man after countless hours I finally got the glasses and track back to the guy that needed glasses and fucking asshole won't take the glasses, I had no idea the glasses were for me!!!! These games were wayyyyyyyyy to hard
As a big fan of the movie I always wanted to play this one, but I wanted to play the first Goonies first. Obviously I could never find it and information about Famicom-only releases was sparse back then so I never played it.
I was 12 when I put my hands on this game. For me (1993, I'm dominican, and at that time I didn't know a word of english back then, but always played NES games with an english-spanish dictionary in hand), it was extremely difficult at first. I couldn't find anything beyond the key holder and the hammer.
Everything changed one saturday afternoon, when I was bored and I hit a wall with the hammer, and a door appears out of nowhere (I can still remember the emotion I had back then).
Afterwards, it was only matter of follow the same pro-tip of the 4 steps when you are in an empty room (which I developed by myself backthen).
It is one of my beloved games of all times. I don't have the cartridge I had when I first played it (the chip was inside a different case, and I though it was another game... at that point I knew it was not the sequel to the movie), but I have another cartridge I bough years later dirt cheap.
That game helped me learn a little bit of english, giving me access to a whole new world.
However sprawling and detailed games may be these days, this is the kind of game that felt like a whole world back in 1987. Mysterious, magical - but with some familiar suburban American iconography. In a way, it's a precursor to games like Star Tropics and Earthbound.
Justin Runge so true. I played this before Zelda, Metroid or Kid Icarus and this was the first game that truly felt like I was exploring a huge mysterious world.
I vaguely remember reading an article somewhere that stated that the Mermaid element was in one of the early drafts of the goonies 2 movie script that was in production at the time, which Konami was informed about, in hopes of having a simultaneous release- but the movie ended up in production hell, and the game was released without it.
I was 11 years old when Goonies II released in my part of the world, and I absolutely loved this game! So did many of my friends and other classmates. It had platforming like Super Mario, it had adventure and mystery like Zelda, and it had exploration and the need to search for items like Metroid. This, when it was released, was the ultimate adventure game. Sure, it took forever to search all the rooms, hitting everything with the fist and hammer, but that kind of exploration was fun back in the day. At least to me, and everyone else that I knew who was hooked on it.
agreed. The gameplay really has to be understood in context. It combined elements of other great games into one single challenge. And as someone who tried to burn every bush in Zelda and bomb every floor square in Metroid, the "hit-hammer-goggles" process was standard gaming experience.
the music has so much nostalgia for me, not only the iconic Goonies theme but also the other ones. classic!
This game was basically 6 months of my life around age 8. The music absolutely gets me in the feels.
I miss these days! Born in ‘80, this was my childhood.
I was sorely disappointed by the lack of Sloth in Goonies 2, but my head cannon as a kid was that he was Konami man and healed you like as a superhero (but not Superman due to licensing issues)
"head cannon" made me chuckle :D
I played the hell out of that game when I was a kiddo and it was brand new. Though I was too young to understand how the game functioned, I still loved it. Went back and played it again for a few hours some years back, and its still hard as hell hahahha ;) Thank you for making this video... Ive spent a week anticipating it and I was so happy when it popped up in my subscriptions list!!!
So glad to see someone that doesn't destroy this game when they talk about it. One of my favorite games of the NES era. When I finally beat it, I felt so accomplished.
It’s annoying to see people slam old games based on modern standards. Especially when modern games built on what was established in the very games they crap on. You have to compare old games to their peers at the time and what the standards were.
That's the entire purpose of this series!
Jeremy Parish love this series for this reason. Keep it up!
@@Paiste2002Fan I attempted to say something similar on his Legend of Zelda episode, but I didn't communicate it very well.
I don't know why folks would verbally put down a game like this one: Konami put a lot of effort into it, and it's genuinely fun to play. It's all too easy to complain about something after the fact without understanding the technical limitations that factored into its creation. People were neither less talented nor less intelligent 30 years ago!
The Goonies II is just the gang telling the events of the movie to the new kid in town, Dominic Palmieri, while they're baby sitting him and trying to get him to go to sleep. Hence all the crazy things like magma caverns, dragons, the mermaid, etc.
I remember dumping a ton of quarters into the original Goonies game in the arcade (the baby blue Vs. machine, not the play choice), but I never could quite get into this one. Now I'm gonna have Cindy Lauper stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Fantastic.
Even though "Goonies 2" is a sequel to "Goonies" on Famicom, Goonies on Famicom has the same story as the movie. So in essence, Goonies 2 IS a sequel to the movie's story as well.
I remember first seeing this on a PlayChoice machine. Never did try to tackle it thanks to the NES Player's Guide maps presenting it as a very daunting task. I love the first one on Famicom, so perhaps I'll try to go through this one only using the black guide as my only resource.
Some day we'll get Jet Pack Goonies, Jeremy. Some day.
@ReyVGM gamespite.net/2012/07/07/the-true-story-of-jetpack-goonies/
I loved the game back in the day.
It was truly an adventure.
And I still love the music today.
I loved this game as a kid, despite the blind hunt issues you mentioned. Side note, I was well into adulthood before I realized that super-catchy main song was an actual song by Cyndi Lauper. :-P
Borrowed this from a friend back in 7th or 8th grade, and beat it in (effectively) one sitting from a Saturday morning to that night, loving every minute of it. This was a great game that I occasionally come back to just out of how fun it is to play.
7:10 - When I was around 8 I beat this game. And so I drew this scene in a book. Thing is, I drew her with her boobs showing! About 20 years later I find this book again and saw the drawing, thus creating a false memory in my head that the boobs were always there. Honestly, I'm quite shocked! Here I was thinking this was an NES game with nudity in it for 25 years of my life in total.
Been hyped for this episode for awhile and it does not disappoint. Countless rentals of this title as a child have firmly cemented it in my memory and lead to years of confusion about the story. When the term Metroidvania started getting thrown around in the early 2000s I remember comparing the concept to The Goonies II and getting a lot of strange looks as a result.
This game holds a special place in my heart - I played it so much and memorized the map (thank you Nintendo Players' Guide, the holy grail of early NES gaming), I could beat the game in just under an hour. Looks like the current WR is ~15 minutes, which is really insane to me.
I cannot wait for next episode. Super Pitfall was probably my worst NES purchase back in the day.
I really liked the game. But admittedly, I only bought it years later for very little money and with little expectations.
I think this was probably the first game I ever beat and it’s still one of my favorite games on the original Nintendo. I’ve replayed it quite a few times over the years. It’s good fun for an hour or so.
1987 was a good year for the adventure genre as a whole, video games, and otherwise.
Edit:just realised the kids name was mikey walsh and he lived in Astoria oregon, and my last name is walsh and I grew up near astoria
Am I the only that thinks the music in the Adventure rooms sound like the dungeon theme from the 1st Legend of Zelda on NES?
chaseman94 It also sounds similar to the indoor areas of Friday the 13th to me.
I love this game, flaws be damned. Looking at screenshots or hearing the soundtrack immediately transports me back to 1987.
That start game sound takes me right back to my friend's basement when I was six and the first time I had ever seen an NES.
Keep up the great work Jeremy!!! Everytime i watch your videos it's takes me back to my childhood when in my opinion the videogames were way better. Goonies 2 was a difficult but great game.
This was a game that I needed a guide for, but I know I really liked it as a kid.
12:02 Goonies games r good enough for me. Ay-ya-ya-ya ya!
Oh yeah! This game was a big part of my childhood. Still love it :)
I'm surprised you didn't mention how ridiculously cryptic it is to get the candle 😄
Great episode. This is one of those games I never paid much attention to as a kid (I think I may have rented it once) but have always wanted to go back to.
And oh boy, got some high grade kusoge coming up next episode. Can't wait for that!
I 100% thought there was a Goonies 2 movie because of this game and tried to convince my 5th grade class of the fact.
Gnaaarlly! This is one game I never realized just how 0% of a chance I had at getting anywhere in it as a kid and my brother got it.
Time for The Goonies III
Love this game! Again, best gaming channel on UA-cam. Perfectly captures the feeling of playing this awesome, under rated game. Can’t tell you how many hours I sunk into this game as a kid or how nerve racking it was to hit some of these areas, especially the bridge and the dragon infested areas. Can’t wait until the next video.
This is an underrated game that I've always enjoyed, despite its weird Adventure scenes. The connection between those and the map always eluded me back then, the Warp Zones, which can take you anywhere, messed me up and obscured the connections between th action and adventure scenes and the map.
My favorite thing about the game is that hilarious animated Ma Fratelli that shows up to taunt you in attract mode and when you lose!
Your level of depth and fact checking is so impressive. Great video. Will you ever being doing a retrospective on Solstice for the NES? It's my favorite game of all time. Have a great rest of your day.
I loved this when I was a kid. I've never understood why the first game wasn't released on the NES though.
This one was always a favorite of mine. The first time we played it, it took my sister and I at least a couple of weeks to finish it and it did seem like an epic adventure. Nowadays you can find and watch blind playthroughs that finish it in a couple of hours. Go figure.
When I first heard of this game, I remember thinking that there was a Goonies sequel I had never heard of and this was a let down in that factor. It does look fun though so I need to give this a try. After all, it's an early NES Konami game.
Adore this game. I think its underrated due to the difficulty of map navigation. Such a fun game. Proud i've beaten it with no hints, too. ;']
I have a video of me receiving this game in July 1988. My mom was in a hospital bed holding my newborn sister and I was meeting her for the first time. I was 6 years old. "She" gave me the game as a welcome gift. I could not take my eyes off the game even though everybody could not take their eyes off my sister.
Seven year old me had such a hard time understanding the map layout in this game.
12:35; Nice...f***ing beautiful! (I know, not the spot where the Nerd said that particular quote, but it does describe my reaction to the next game.)
When i saw that clip, i immediatly thought "hey, let's play charades"
I always love and look forward to your work, Jeremy!
Like others, I thought there was a Goonies 2, or a script of it which never got made, but Konami saw it and made this game. Lol
I love this game, for it did improve and expand upon the gameplay of the first one.
The only issue I had was finding invisible items, which was hard without the glasses.
I remember renting this game a couple of times back in 88-89 and really wanting to like it. But the menu driven parts sort of killed the game for me since I didn't have the patience back then to completely figure them out. Maybe it's time for me to fire up the emulator and give the game a proper play through!
I'm a big fan of this game. It seems to get trashed by a number of retro gamers, but I'm not sure why. Other than it's convoluted map, t's a lot of fun with some classic Konami gameplay.
The only thing I can associate with this game now is "Updog" and I have no regrets.
I was so happy when I found a used copy of this a few years ago after all the talking up you did about it over the years, Jeremy! Now, about that Jetpack Goonies... 😁
I will always remember this game for updog.
Playing this spatial relation Pandora's Box for years on end gives one the ability to see THROUGH TIME AND THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS!
Prove that I'm wrong.
These games had such an impact, that 15 years later I still couldn't get these games out of my DNA, so I became Indiana Jones. Drew a map, got a game geneie and dove in haha.
I never did beat this one despite many hours invested. I remember being convinced that I could deduce which captured Goonie was which based on what they said.
Great coverage on this classic!
While in retrospect I can understand why Konami didn't bring over the first Goonies game for the NES in North America, VS. Goonies, the arcade counterpart using the VS. System arcade line of games, did get a western release. So that's odd.
Ultra Games, Konami's shell corporation to circumvent the publishing limit Nintendo of America imposed, started up the following year after this game, so I'm wondering if Konami getting that free pass on publishing more than the limit in 1987 was making other publishers jealous or what. There's gotta be some story there.
And "jet pack" were the last two words in the review. Why am I not surprised?
I never got too into this title but for it's time it was pretty good
I played this game a lot back on my NES days (its a mid 90s) , I remember watching the movie and love the games,but never be able to finished it
Loved this! Thanks! (the sounds make me happy...)
Oof, that next game coming up. I do hope the PC88 version gets at least a passing mention, as it makes a lot of the weird design choices make sense simply by actually implementing them properly. Even if it's still not a very good game. :)
I must have rented this game ten times as a kid.
I had the game for awhile but never could complete it until The Official Nintendo Players Guide” came out with the complete map
I love how much Parish downplays his role in the creation of the term "Metroidvania."
I didn't even know he created it. No wonder people don't know what I'm talking about.
I didn't create it...
The Smart-Casual Gamer. He popularized the term but didn’t create it.
5:00 Wait, whaaaaaat? I never finished the game because I got stuck since I missed items, but now I realize I surely had them and didn't know about the submenu thing!
I remember being stuck on this game too. I even tried to return it back to the shop thinking it had a fault. I was referred to the budding nintendo telephone helpline! Definitely a flawed game but the platform elements were fun.
I had the Goonies for Commodore 64 so I thought it was the sequel to that game. Loved both goonies games, the one on commodore was co-op that I played with my brother and sister. This one on the NES I would hammer and punch every wall, didn’t really bother me because I was young and just thought that’s what you did.
Excellent episode as usual. This game holds a special place for me, as the Goonies movie was iconic in my childhood, as was the NES of course. I remember playing this as a kid but I don't remember how complex it was. This was an amazing deep dive into the game!
I could never beat this game as a kid. But! I played the shit out of it!
Next eps is the one I've been waiting for! SP gets so much hate, but I love it!
Looking forward to that next one, Jeremy. I first played Super Pitfall back when it originally came out.
It was the first clear time I was playing a video game where I knew it wasn't just me being a kid who was bad at the game. It just absolutely sucked.
Nobody really played the first game. I couldn't even find it as a child. I started to believe that it didn't really exist until the internet told me otherwise.
It showed up very rarely in the U.S. as a Vs. System game. There was exactly one restaurant in my city of 200,000+ people and many, many arcades, mini golf courses, skate rinks, and pizza joints that had it for a while.
LoZ has the same problems as the adventure segments here. All games in the genre had them, but for some reason no one complains about LoZ.
I had this game. I put quite a bit of time into it but I could only find something like less than half the items and maybe the first 2-3 characters. It was pretty confusing.
"Yes! Jeremy LOVES Goonies II, this episode is going to be juicy"
I really enjoy the 1st game. Part 2 not so much. Even with the Nintendo Players Guide map as a kid I couldn’t get far. I don’t even want to try it now lol
I stared playing Goonies II after listening to Jeremy talk about it on Retronauts. It can be a very fun game, but I strongly recommend new players use Nesrocks’s Goonies II Revised Design hack. In my personal option Nesrocks’s improvement hack makes this rough gem shine.
Also check out Nesrocks’s Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition. It is an amazing love letter to the original game that improves it in every way.
"It's good enough for me." I see what you did there. 😂
The concept of a goonies 2 on the NES confused me greatly because as a kid. I wanted to see the movie it was based on and couldn't find it and never understood why it didn't exist. XD
Hey Jeremy! I'm going to try and come to your presentation at PAX East. Love your videos, by the way I don't know if you remember my mom.. Becky Barnhill?
Wow! Now I feel old. Please say hello if you make it to the panel!
The music of the adventure mode reminds me the music of "sword of hope" (in the part that you go in a labyrinth under the castle).
As a kid, I first thought it was some weird sequel to the movie. Later, I thought it was a badly chosen Western license rebranding of some completely unrelated series.
this was definitely one of my favorites growing up! actually fairly recently scooped up the Japanese version of it as I saw a good deal on it. fun game but definitely want to have a walkthrough handy to find all the items, some of em aren't super obvious.
Jeremy, don't forget to stick links to your books on the Fangamer store in the description!
The first person adventure maze sequences have the same music as the first person shop scenes in Getsu Fuma Den. Konami recycling assets?
6:38 Ah, the timeless enemy-that-spawns-while-you're-in-midair...
...that scorpion's an asshole.
I beat this game back in the day on real nes, with non guide, no internet, and no cheating. It was EOIC. Took me a week or so.
Was there Updog in there?
@Robert Gray *hyperventilating laughter*
Man after countless hours I finally got the glasses and track back to the guy that needed glasses and fucking asshole won't take the glasses, I had no idea the glasses were for me!!!! These games were wayyyyyyyyy to hard
0:55 - EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE WAS THINKING!!!
I loved this game once I figured it out.
No sequel Goonies unless they all have jetpacks.
Think of a remake now, where every Goonie has different stats and abilities, and boss fights.
Another Great episode
As a big fan of the movie I always wanted to play this one, but I wanted to play the first Goonies first. Obviously I could never find it and information about Famicom-only releases was sparse back then so I never played it.
Did you have a cold while recording this, Jeremy? You sound a bit congested. 😅
Please get well soon if you are! ☺️
Definitely one of my favs on the NES. So obtuse tho.
It's a great game, but man... Did they jump the shark on this one. 🤣
Uhhhh, is that Jetpack bit a reference to something?
Thank you. Just.. thank you.