i've been on a lifelong crusade to figure out just who in the hell this is...
you run into them in the goonies 2 in a room off to the side and they tell you the obvious goal of the game.
their inclusion seems pointless, but everything about it seems to indicate it was added in after the fact.
there's no character like this (that i've noticed) in the first goonies game or the movie, and the game is chock full of cameos.
the detail oriented can find simon belmont and stinger (twinbee) through the transceiver messages, konami-man is pretty prominent throughout the game, and one could even argue that pentarou is in the ice stage as an enemy. there are a number of characters that serve no purpose and are not cameos,
but i feel this is something different.
we tried to figure this out long ago when i was ripping the data for this game, but ended up inconclusively marking it as "alien".
i dug up the credits and most of the staff worked on castlevania, gradius/life force, twinbee, and other konami games.
this, among other factors, leads me to believe that it's someone from big K's pantheon.
i have scoured their rosters tirelessly (not hard, given the parodius and wai wai titles), but still i have come up short.
is it a discolored konami-girl? that's about the closest thing i have to a guess and it seems pretty unlikely.
i reached out to Kenji Shimoide (worked on goonies 2, gradius 3, contra 3, etc) to see if he might be able to answer this,
but as of yet have received no reply.
and sure it's easy to say that it doesn't matter who this no-name character is in a forgotten game from 1987,
but at this point it's about the principle of the thing. i have to know.
help me, konami-man. you're my only hope.