Spooky Pinball Reveals The Goonies Pinball Machine

Punks, Spooky Pinball has finally said it out loud: its next machine is The Goonies. The Wisconsin maker revealed the game on Friday 13 November, three weeks after a teaser, and it is a widebody built around One-Eyed Willy, the Fratellis’ pirate ship and that bone organ.

It has been the worst kept secret in pinball for most of the year. According to Kineticist, which covered the reveal in detail, a Goonies logo had even been hiding inside the code updates for Spooky’s last game, Beetlejuice. Spooky now says it signed both licences at the same time.

What’s on the playfield

The upper playfield is the Inferno, the Fratellis’ ship, on a sculpted hull with a motorised ship’s wheel that actually turns. A lift ramp carries the ball up from a treasure chest to the deck, and from there you can drop down the Walk the Plank shot. Elsewhere there is:

One-Eyed Willy, a full sculpt that doubles as the multiball lock. Up to three balls sit in his eye socket and fire back out when multiball starts.
The bone organ, whose keys are targets. Hit all four and the game switches to “Rock the Bones”, a rhythm mode played on the flippers and the action button.
The Lighthouse Lounge fireplace, where the main Adventure modes start, plus a waterslide spinner loop, an X Marks the Spot captive ball and Data’s gadget multiplier.
Five stainless steel ramps, seven habitrails and no pop bumpers at all.

Each Goonie gets a mode of their own (yes, there is a Truffle Shuffle Multiball), and the whole thing leads down a treasure trail to the wizard mode, Inferno Escape. Film clips and dialogue are in there, along with an original score by Brady Hearn and Cyndi Lauper’s “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough”.

Prices and editions

Edition	Run	Price
Collector’s Edition	1,299 games	$10,999
Super Limited Edition	85 games	$14,999 for CE buyers drawn in the lottery; distributors set their own

There are 85 SLEs because the film came out in 1985. They get a sunken treasure look with an aqua playfield, gold armour, shipwreck art blades and a hat on the animatronic topper. Speaking of which, the talking One-Eyed Willy skull topper seen in the trailer is an add-on, not standard. The design team is Spooky Luke, Corwin “Bug” Emery and Luke Peters, with art by Christopher Franchi.

For a sense of where boutique pinball prices sit now, the Collector’s Edition costs $1,000 more than Beetlejuice did, and it sits a little above Stern’s recently revealed AC/DC Remastered, which starts at $10,199.

When can you play it?

Orders opened through Spooky and its distributors on reveal day, and Kineticist reports Spooky’s own phone allotment sold out in about 23 minutes. No ship dates yet. The first public outing is planned for Pinball at the Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida, from 5 to 7 February 2027. Wherever you are, keep an eye on the Spooky distributor list, because the run is spoken for fast.

Our take

A pinball machine where you play the bone organ with your flippers is exactly the kind of daft, lovely idea Spooky is known for, and The Goonies was always going to suit a ball being chased round a pirate ship. Eleven grand is a lot of truffle shuffling, but if the layout plays as well as it looks, this one will be on location wish lists for years. Hey you guys: would you rather have this or Beetlejuice in the games room?