Adventure Island Games

by **WonderfulWardy** Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:10 pm

The Adventure Island series first began development as a direct port of the Sega arcade game Wonder Boy, the rights to which Hudson Soft obtained from developer Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment) who were the original series creator of the first Wonder Boy game. During the development of the port, the decision was made to change the character design of the protagonist, modeling him and naming him after Hudson Soft's spokesman Takahashi Meijin. In the western version of Adventure Island, the Takahashi Meijin character was renamed to Master Higgins.

While the Wonder Boy series adopted an action RPG system for its sequels (beginning with Wonder Boy in Monster Land), most of the Adventure Island sequels stuck to the core gameplay system of the original Wonder Boy. Moreover, Hudson Soft also obtained the rights to port all of the Wonder Boy sequels to the TurboGrafx-16, changing the title and character designs of each game (with the exception of Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair).

What we have listed below are all of the very best games in the 'Adventure Island' series that kept the original arcade side-scrolling and 'quick-twitch-based' action we all grew to love, but have sprinkled them up with unique features that set each one of them apart from each other. The only game on this list that is probably a little too basic is the very first game. There's no denying that the original game that it is based on (Wonder Boy) is a far better product that is best played on the Sega Master System.

So... why is the original game still listed here?... Click it's image to find out. Wink

Adventure Island I (NES)
Is this the Bastardized version of Wonder Boy?

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Adventure Island II & III (NES)
Unique NES games with the ability to ride on Dinosaurs.

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New Adventure Island (Turbo-Grafx 16)
My personal favourite 'Adventure Island' ever made!

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Super Adventure Island (SNES)
Adds Swimming elements for the first time!

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