Spooky Pinball Launches The Goonies

Design Team

• Design: Spooky Luke, Corwin (Bug) Emery and Luke Peters
• Code: Matt Kemp and Casey Butler
• Art: Christopher Franchi
• Music and sound: Brady Hearn
• Sculpts: Back Alley Creations
• Animatronic topper: Gary J. Tunnicliffe

Spooky Luke and Bug are Spooky's regular design pair, and Luke Peters joins them this time. Franchi is on his third Spooky game since signing an exclusive deal with the company in 2024, and Tunnicliffe, the horror makeup effects designer behind the Evil Dead and Beetlejuice toppers, sculpted this one too. In Spooky's featurette, the team says the designers write the rules themselves, with Kemp leading the code. Franchi built his art around earth tones with gold and aqua, softer than his hard-edged Beetlejuice, and says it's the first time he's drawn pirates.

Hype & Rumors

The Goonies was #2 in our 2018 readers' poll of dream themes, behind only Harry Potter (Beetlejuice was #9, so Spooky has now made two of that list). In 2020, Pinball Magazine reported that a 2021 game Deeproot Pinball had hinted at was widely believed to be The Goonies. Deeproot never shipped a game, and in 2021 the SEC sued its founder, alleging he'd defrauded investors in his funds.

The community started pinning the license on Spooky in 2024, and The Goonies was rumored as its next game for most of 2026. It's been #1 on the Kineticist Hype Index nine times since May, rarely left the top 10 all year, and went into reveal day at #1. In April, we found a Goonies logo inside every public Beetlejuice code update, in a file dated October 2025, a month before Spooky revealed Beetlejuice. Spooky now says it signed the two licenses at the same time.

Spooky's October 26 teaser confirmed the game and the reveal date, and most of the talk since has been about who gets one. A rumored run of 1,300 games plus 85 SLEs turned out to be close, and word that most build spots were already spoken for at distributors frustrated a lot of collectors who felt shut out, much as it did before Beetlejuice.

The SLE Drawing

At 1,384 games, The Goonies run is bigger than Beetlejuice's 999 (plus the games Spooky built for shows). Some of the 85 SLEs went to distributors, and the rest go to CE buyers by drawing.

Spooky Luke said on Pinside that the drawing pool is all 1,299 CE buyers and that it will happen after launch, once everyone has a game number, calling it "a fun celebration for everybody." Winners can switch to an SLE at $14,999.

There are 85 because the film came out in 1985, and Spooky says it came up with the SLE after the game was finished. It's a sunken-treasure version: shipwreck art blades with portholes you can see treasure through, an aqua patina on the playfield's ship's wheel and other pieces, and a small octopus arm grabbing something Spooky won't name. Tunnicliffe is sculpting a hat for each of the 85 toppers, and Franchi is hand-signing the number on every apron.

Pricing & Editions

• Collector's Edition: $10,999 (1,299 games)
• Super Limited Edition: 85 numbered games, some by drawing among CE buyers at $14,999, the rest through distributors at their own prices
• Add-ons: the animatronic talking skull topper, Ghost Glass, a Chunk playfield dust cover, the Butter Cabinet and Dead Ring under-cabinet lighting

Edition Comparison

Collector's Edition

Every CE comes with:

• A three-layer LED pirate skull topper (the talking skull is an add-on)
• An IPS LCD "Scream Screen" with clips and speech from the film
• A direct-printed backglass, vinyl art blades and magnetic display and speaker panel art
• Whiskey bronze powder-coated armor, Dead Bar backboard lighting and an RGB waterfall backboard
• RGB speaker lights behind pirate-skull grills, RGB flipper and action buttons
• A knocker, a shaker and a Collector's Edition plaque

Super Limited Edition

Everything in the CE, plus:

• The "hat" version of the animatronic talking topper
• An "Aqua" color variation of the playfield
• Alternate cabinet art, shipwreck art blades, and alternate-art bezel, coin door and lockdown bar magnets
• Brassy gold armor and a mirrored backglass with gold-framed art
• The Butter Cabinet
• An alternate gold cave rock sculpt
• An apron magnet with alternate art, signed and numbered by Franchi

Availability

Spooky hasn't posted ship dates. The game's first public appearance will be at Pinball at the Beach, February 5 to 7, 2027, in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Notable Features

The playfield has five stainless steel ramps and seven whiskey bronze habitrails, and no pop bumpers.

The Inferno

The upper playfield is the Fratellis' pirate ship, the Inferno, built on a sculpted hull with quarterdeck stairs and a motorized ship's wheel that turns. A ball gets there from the treasure chest, where a mechanized lift ramp carries it into a translucent pile of treasure that launches it up to the ship. From the deck you can take Walk the Plank down to the Octopus Pit, ride a VUK out to the One-Eyed Willy lock, or loop the Jump Rope, a repeatable 180-degree orbit. Hit a loop and hold the flipper up, and the ball goes straight to Walk the Plank.

One-Eyed Willy

One-Eyed Willy is a full sculpt at the top of the playfield and the multiball lock, with an add-a-ball hidden under a drop target at his jaw. Up to three balls lock in his eye socket and fire back out of it when multiball starts, with the lights down and every coil in the game firing at once.

The Bone Organ

The bone organ from the film sits on the right side of the playfield. It moves and flashes, and its keys are targets. Hit all four ("Play the Organ") and the display switches to "Rock the Bones," a rhythm game where notes come down three lanes and you play them on the left flipper, the action button and the right flipper. It's Guitar Hero at One-Eyed Willy's organ. Spooky says the organ carries three modes in all; in the bone organ adventure, the lift ramp lowers a step with each correct shot, like a drawbridge.

The Lighthouse Lounge

The Fratellis' hideout gets a fireplace with three secret entrances and RGB-lit drop targets. Elsewhere there's the Waterslide, a repeatable spinner loop off the upper flipper; an X Marks the Spot captive ball; and Data's "Data Gadget," a rattle switch that drives a multiplier.

Music and Film Clips

Spooky's announcement promises footage, dialogue and music from the film, Brady Hearn's original score, and the original recording of "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough," which is in the game as well as the trailer.

The Animatronic Topper

The topper in the trailer is an add-on, a sculpted One-Eyed Willy skull on a gold coin base, with candles that flicker and "Beware the Curse of One-Eyed Willy" across the front. It talks in One-Eyed Willy's voice, its jaw moves, and in the trailer it looks like it's singing along. Spooky says it's tied to all of the game's callouts, not only Willy's, so he gets to say Sloth's "Hey, you guys!" too.

Rules & Gameplay

Spooky hasn't posted a rules sheet, but its featurette lays out the structure. The main modes are Adventures, which start at the Lighthouse Lounge fireplace. Each Goonie also has a mode of their own, unlocked by leveling that character up and started at the wishing well: Chunk's is Truffle Shuffle Multiball, and Data's is a shooting gallery with his suction-cup belt. Level them all up and the wishing well starts a "Goonies 'R' Good Enough" mode.

Every mode moves you down a treasure trail on the playfield toward X Marks the Spot, which lights the wizard mode, Inferno Escape.

Media & Flyers

Spooky's official trailer:

Bug posted a 23-minute gameplay reveal, without narration, on his Bug's Scream N' Stream channel:

Spooky's featurette, with the design team and Franchi:

Spooky on the Super Limited Edition:

Spooky's teaser from October 26: