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Wonder Boy is the first in a long running series of games and was followed up by five sequels,
Wonder Boy in Monster Land,
Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair,
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap,
Wonder Boy in Monster World and
Monster World IV.
Originally designed for the arcade, it was later ported to the Sega SG-1000, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear by Sega, and to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC by Activision.
The "Wonder Boy" in question is a character known as "Tom-Tom" - a caveman-like character whose girlfriend, by the name of Tanya, has been captured by a monster. The player must guide Tom-Tom through seven "areas", each consisting of four "rounds". The levels are made up of forests, hills, oceans, caves, ice palaces and occasionally mountains lands. The levels always run from left-to-right, with some vertical movement.
Escape/Westone had a licensing arrangement whereby they owned the rights to the game, but Sega retained rights to the main characters, bosses, and names. Because of this they teamed up with Hudson Soft to produce a conversion of the game for the NES, under a new license. To get around the licensing issue, Hudson Soft simply had the graphics of the main character and the title changed. The result was
Adventure Island, which instead of featuring Tom-Tom, featured a character known as Master Higgins, who bore a striking resemblance to Tom-Tom, albeit with a hat.
(Game info courtesy of wikipedia)Published by:SegaReleased:1987The game is available on the Wii Virtual Console.
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