Every once in a while one stumbles across a really remarkable little website. Today, I found thegoonies.org and was quite enchanted by it. Be sure to check out the Goonies vacation movie. In it, two guys go on a road trip to Astoria, OR where The Goonies was filmed. Not only do they visit a bunch of the locations from the movie and comment on them, but they have a number of scenes from the movie where they cut themselves in and out of it. It’s quite a lot of fun.

As a side thought, I really enjoyed playing the Goonies video game on the Commodore 64 when I was younger — I’m sure I’d still enjoy it now. There were many things to appreciate about the game, especially the gameplay where you had to solve a puzzle at each stage of the game by contolling two Goonies. You could only control one of them at a time and had to swap back and forth to progress through the puzzle. For example one Goonie would have to run up to the top of the screne and push a button that let the other Goonie, in the middle of the screne, through a trap door who could then pull a cord that released some bats that would chase a bad guy away from the first Goonie who could then escape, etc. etc. Lot’s of fun.

But that wasn’t even what I remember most about the game. I liked the fact that it used three colours, a deep dark red, a dark blue and white all on a black background. The C64 had sixteen colours, but the designers limited themselves to just those three and the results were beautiful. I think I remember trying to use just three colours in one of my many started (harly ever finished) C64 games. Inspiring.