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.
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.
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=== Fratellis ===
[[Image:Goonies_Fratelli_Gun.png|left]]
[[Image:Goonies_Fratelli_Sing.png|right]]
The Fratelli brothers chase Mikey throughout every stage, trying to prevent him from meddling in their affairs. They are a danger to Mikey, and are the only enemies that can climb up or down ladders to reach him. They are very similar but they have different preferences in weapons. One Fratelli totes a gun wherever he goes, and fires a bullet at Mikey after he stops and aims in his direction. The bullet does the most damage to Mikey. The other Fratelli prefers to attack with sound, specifically the sound of his own singing voice. He will stand still and belt out a tune while six notes fly from him in six directions. You are generally safe if you stand directly above or below him. The Fratellis can be knocked down, but not out. Attacking them will stun them, and they will fall to the ground and lie there for a few secons. After that, they will rise to their feet and continue their chase.
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=== Rats ===
[[Image:Goonies_Rat_Red.png|left]]
[[Image:Goonies_Rat_White.png|right]]
The rats are the most common enemy you will encounter throughout the game. Red rats appear on a platform and patrol it by running back and forth. Kicking a rat once, or hitting it with a slingshot will kill it, and they will drop a bomb for you to collect if you are not filled to capacity. White rats appear far less frequently. They behave just like red rats, but when they are destroyed, they leave behind an invaluable invulnerability granting cross. Sometimes, it is worthwhile to travel out of your way to kill a white rat just for the protection it grants.
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=== Foxes ===
[[Image:Goonies_Rat_Yellow.png|left]]
[[Image:Goonies_Fox.png|right]]
Foxes disguise themselves at first as yellow rats. Yellow rats can be distinguished by one other characteristic besides their color: they like to jump around on the platform that they patrol. One kick or slingshot bullet to a yellow rat will make it disappear in the usual puff of smoke. However, they are merely shedding their disguise, and will be replaced with their true form, a fox. Foxes continue to jump around like the yellow rat did, and it will take one more attack to destroy them. They will leave a bomb behind when you do.
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=== Skeletons ===
[[Image:Goonies_Skeleton.png|left]]
[[Image:Goonies_Skull_Bone.png|right]]
In the various passages that connect some of the stages, the haunted remains of pirates and explorers will rise from the ground in the form of a skeleton and attack. Sometimes just the skull will appear. It will fly forward, or bounce along the ground. Other times, the entire skeleton will appear. When they do, they start out by throwing spare bones in your direction. You can destroy the bones with a well timed attack for extra points, or you can just dodge them entirely. Later in the game, a skeleton will throw his own head at you. It will come out fast and boomerang back to its body. Skeletons are quickly defeated by a kick or a bullet from a slingshot.
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=== Bats ===
[[Image:Goonies_Bat.png|left]]
Bats hover about in the passages between stages. They are quickly dispatched and more of a nuisance than anything. They float around and drift in a continuous direction until they hit a wall and bounce back. It can be hard to properly time an attack on them since they bob up and down when they fly.
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=== One-Eyed Willie's Ghost ===
[[Image:Goonies_Willie_Ghost.png|right]]
One-Eyed Willie was so determined to protect his treasure from those who would seek to take it from him, even after his death, that his soul now haunts the lower stages that are closer to his final resting place. He will blink into a stage and float towards Mikey, causing him pain if he passes through him. Interestingly, Willie's ghost can not be hurt by Mikey's kicks, but he can be dispatched by a material contained in a slingshot bullet. If you don't have the slingshot, jump over and duck under him, or just plain run away.
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=== Fish ===
[[Image:Goonies_Fish.png|left]]
These fish merely jump out of the water looking for a meal. They seem to see where Mikey is and jump out of the water in his direction. They will jump even higher if Mikey is further away from the water. They are hard to attack since they appear quickly and move fast. But if you do, they will provide Mikey with a bomb.
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=== Octopus ===
[[Image:Goonies_Octopus.png|right]]
The Octopus hang out on the platforms of wet locations. They behave in an similar fashion to rats. They tend to be a bit slower than rats, but they are far better at tracking and chasing Mikey. They move towards him with more purpose then the rats do. Give them a kick to remove them and collect the bomb they drop.
: 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.
Characters
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.
Items
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.
Item
Name
Desctription
Bombs
Bombs are the most important item that Mikey must collect and use throughout the game. Bombs are used primarily to blast open the sealed skull doors and collect the contents inside, which may be a Goonie, a key, a potion, or a slingshot. At first, Mikey can only hold on to one bomb at a time, but if he reveals the hidden backpack, then he may store up to two bombs at one time. Bombs are dropped by many enemies such as red rats, foxes, fish, and the octopus.
Cross
Crosses are only dropped by the rare white mice. When Mikey picks them up, he is granted temporary invulnerability. He can walk through and destroy any enemy that he touches. Mikey will flash while invincible and a different song will play in the background. The first cross that Mikey collects in a stage will last for quite a while, but subsequent crosses will only grant him a few seconds worth of power.
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.
Item
Name
Desctription
Key
Three keys are needed to escape from every single stage. The passage to the next stage will remain locked until all three keys have been discovered and collected.
Goonies
There is one captured Goonie hidden in all six stages. You do not have to find them before you escape, but you will not get to watch the ending cinematic if you don't collect five of them before you rescue Andy in stage 6.
Red Potion
Collecting a red potion restores 8 of Mikey's 23 Hit Points.
Yellow Potion
Finding a yellow potion earns you a 1-Up. A yellow potion will also appear if you manage to collect 32 diamonds.
Slingshot
When you find a slingshot, collect it to receive the sling and 50 stones to use as ammunition. When you have the slingshot, you can only use the slingshot, you may not kick. When you use up all 50 shots, the slingshot disappears and you return to kicking.
Jewels
These riches may only be collected on the sixth and final stage aboard One-Eyed Willie's pirate ship. They are worth 8000 apiece, and you are not required to collect them, but it's a smart idea (Andy can wait). After all, these are jewels that are going to save the Goon docks from foreclosure. So grab all of them for a super high score.
Andy
Andy is the sixth and final Goonie that you must rescue to complete the sixth stage. She is the only Goonie that differs in appearance. Once you collect her, you will be treated to the ending sequence if you rescued all of the other Goonies, or you will simply return to the first stage at a harder difficulty if you did not.
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.
Item
Name
Desctription
Diamond
Exactly 8 Diamonds are hidden in every stage and passageway. Every time you collect 8 Diamonds, your entire health meter will be refilled. You carry diamonds over from one stage to the next, so even if you don't locate all 8 diamonds from one stage, you can complete your set with diamonds from another stage.
Inventory item
Two different inventory items will be hidden in each stage. They will be revealed by exactly the same method as the diamonds are. However, some items can be found in more than one stage. And if you already collected an item that the current stage offers, you will be unable to make the bag that contains that item appear.
Invetory 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.
Item
Name
Desctription
Headphones
Headphones protect you from the ear-splitting chords that disperse from the singing Fratelli brother. With these headphones, you can walk through the notes he creates without taking damage.
Flamesuit
A flamesuit will allow you walk beneath the flame jets that line the ceilings of certain stages without taking any damage.
Raincoat
The raincoat will protect Mikey from any damage caused by water, whether it is in the form of steam released from pipes, water that drips from the ceiling, or the intermittent streams from the waterfalls.
Helmet
The helmet protects Mikey's head from the falling stalactites that drop from the ceiling. You won't receive any damage if you touch them while wearing the helmet.
Jump Shoes
The jump shoes aren't nearly as useful as you would expect. You collect them in the third stage, but you can only use them in one particular passage-way. In a lower section of the stage, you can use to shoes to reach a high platform that is otherwise unavailable. This platform leads to a warp that allows you to bypass stage 4. Even after you have collected these shoes, they will not enhance your jumping skills in any other section of the game.
Backpack
The backpack provides a very valuable ability to hold on to more than one bomb at a time. Once you collect the backpack, you can hold on to two bombs at one time. You may only ignite one at a time however.
Armor
The armor protects you from a number of potentially dangerous attacks, such as the bullet from the gun-toting Fratelli brother, the bones and skulls thrown by skeletons, and even attacks from bats.
: 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 
: 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 Start to begin the game, and pause the action.
: No use.
