[5] The main theme song for most of the game is a chiptune rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough".

[7] The player defends himself with a kick, bombs (whose explosions are instantly fatal if he is hit), and a slingshot (found randomly behind doors).

The Famicom version roughly follows the film, with stages resembling the restaurant, caverns and a pirate ship.

The ending also recreates one scene from the film where the Goonies are on a beach watching The Inferno ship sail away.

The theme "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper, featured in the beginning of the Famicom title and its sequel, was remixed by Tomoyuki Uchida for Pop n' Music 10, from Konami's Bemani Series.

The three hidden items, Konami Man,[8] Vic Viper (from the Gradius series), and TwinBee, would reappear in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, as well as in Order of Ecclesia.