The Goonies

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NEXT GEN FANS: Parents, Grandparents and cool Aunts and Uncles can introduce young readers to the beloved film! In February 2007, Chrysler's Jeep division sponsored The Goonies: Return to Astoria, a Flash-based online game developed by Fuel Industries. The player's goal is to collect map pieces and doubloons, and then race the Fratellis to One-Eyed Willy's treasure. [40] [41]

The Goonies was originally named " The Goon Kids" in Steven Spielberg's original story concept. [1] I enjoyed the additional character depth and insight added to this version of the story, but I feel like the first-person POV harmed the way the overall story was told, especially regarding the group of villains the Fratellis. Having the entire story told from the perspective of a single Goony (Mikey) lessened the scope of the narrative, the action and the involvement of the rest of the cast (which is too damn good to ignore) and it makes me view the film as being superior in almost every way. Still a fun and nostalgic read, but there's just no beating the movie.The Goonies has been adapted into a number of video games. Direct adaptions were released for the Nintendo Famicom and Famicom Disk Engine, the arcade VS. System, the PC-88 computer, and the Sharp X1 compute, the MSX computer, and the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC computers. A sequel to the Famicom game was later made, as The Goonies II. There is a pit trap with many nostalgic property based games that look enticing but fall flat once you play. The nostalgia isn’t a pirate’s treasure hoard but just a bunch of counterfeit fifty dollar bills. In other words, it is superficially that property but once the gameplay is examined it could be any other game. The Goonies Never Say Die is not that. The treasure is in the details and you should explore those unknown tunnels with kids to discover it. The film has a number of Deleted scenes cut from the final version. The most famous of these is the octopus scene, which is still referenced by Data in the last scene of the movie.

When I realized it was essentially an “RPG in a Box” I had conflicting thoughts. The veteran RPG player voice said, “That’s it? You don’t even level up your character.” But, at the same time that little 80’s kid voice said “Yeah, but what did you expect it to be? It was fun!” The Goonies was adapted into a novel by James Kahn, released a month before the film. A storybook also exists, as well as a number of activity and coloring books. What worked for me: the characters, whom I already knew and loved, so that was less due to the author and more due to the original screenwriters and most importantly the actors who portrayed them. It was great to get even more description/explanation of the caves than we saw in the movie, more of a “start to finish” feeling of exploring One-Eyed Willy’s secret caverns. Restored pieces of the script, often hinted at, helped to flesh out the overall story. And there was something to be gained from being in Mikey’s head...you not only see what Mikey sees, but more importantly you feel what Mikey feels, in a way that can never fully be attained in film. That’s what really drove this book home for me. A better understanding of how Mikey feels about his friends, about himself, about his life in general, and especially his connection with One-Eyed Willy. That is the value that reading the book can bring to a Goonies fan.The Goonies is one of my favourite movies. A movie I've watched countless of times and has chased me from childhood all the way into adulthood. We even watched it with our daughter when she was a kid. Actually, we watched it again last Christmas. 😁