The Goonies II

The Goonies II is one of the strangest games on the NES: half a side-scrolling platformer, half a first-person point-and-click adventure. Mikey has to rescue the other Goonies plus a mermaid called Annie, and the game switches view entirely depending on which room you walk into.

The side-scrolling sections are standard Konami platforming with punching, a yo-yo and bombs, plus the series' famous hidden passages - punching or bombing a wall reveals a door into a building. Inside those buildings the game becomes first person: you move between static rooms, pick up items, use them on the environment, and free the trapped Goonies one at a time. Because a lot of progress requires the right item in the right room, and because the map is large and deliberately unmapped, it plays like a puzzle box. Its soundtrack is one of Konami's best on the console.

• ▸Two interleaved play styles - side-scrolling platforming and first-person room exploration
• ▸Hidden doors revealed by punching or bombing specific walls
• ▸Item-based first-person puzzles required to free each Goonie
• ▸Famously unmarked map that rewards note-taking