The Goonies/How to play

Controls

 * : Use the direction pad to control Mikey through each stage. Press  or  to make Mikey run, and press  or  to make Mikey climb up or down a ladder or vine.
 * : Press A to make Mikey jump. You can jump straight up, or jump to the left or right.  If you jump straight up, you can control the jump slight with  or, but if you perform a running jump to the left or to the right, you cannot change directions until you land.
 * : Press B to make Mikey attack. Normally, when Mikey is unarmed, Mikey attacks with a powerful kick.  This kick is enough to hurt most enemies in the game.  When Mikey is armed with a slingshot, press B to fire one of the slingshot stones which will continue to travel until it hits something or leaves the screen.
 * + : Press down and B to light and deposit a bomb on the floor as long as you are holding a bomb in your inventory.
 * : Press Start to begin the game, and pause the action.
 * : No use.

Mikey
Mikey is on a mission to rescue the rest of the Goonies, and you must guide him through each of the stages in order to do it. Mikey can run, jump, climb, and kick. Kicking is Mikeys primary means of offense unless he arms himself with a slingshot. Throughout the game, Mikey will have to attack various enemies in order to remove them from his path, and collect bombs to open doors and find keys or other Goonies. In order to escape from each stage, Mikey has to find and collect three keys that will open the passage to the next stage. Mikey has a health bar and will lose his life if he takes enough damage to reduce it to zero. Mikey can restore his life by collecting a red potion, revealing eight hidden diamonds, or by completing a stage. Mikey can also lose his life through other means, such as standing on an exploding bomb, or being crushed by a giant rock. Mikey is awarded an extra life if he collects a yellow potion.

Drop Items
These are items that drop from an enemy after you kill some of them. Drop items will remain on the screen for a short while. They will disappear after that time if you do not collect them.

Reveal Items
These are items that can only be found behind the sealed skull doors. You must use a bomb to reveal their contents. The contents in each stage is predetermined, but their placement behind the skull doors are randomized.

Hidden items
Hidden items must be revealed by pressing the right input. That input is different on every stage. After you beat the game on the first level, the input changes for each of the stages during the second level. After you complete the second level, the input switches back to the original input, and the cycle repeats.

Inventory Items
These are the items that you can collect from the two inventory item bags hidden in each stage. Once collected, they appear in your inventory at the top of the screen.