Master Higgins (the player character) loses a life whenever he touches an enemy, an enemy's attack or a fire roast, or when he falls into a pitfall or a body of water.
Game system For additional details, see Wonder Boy. The game is completed when the player saves the girl after defeating the eighth and final form of the evil lord. When the player reaches the fourth round of each area, he must confront a boss at the end to continue to the next area.
There are eight worlds called "areas", which are divided four stages or "rounds" each, which are further divided into four checkpoints. To rescue her, Higgins must survive a series of 32 stages. Their names would be largely standardized in later localizations. The Evil Witch Doctor may also be alternatively known as King Quiller, although this is not made clear in the game manual which lists it as a separate mystery enemy. Although she is referred as Princess Leilani in the English version's manual, the character is identified at the end of the game and both in the Japanese version and the original Wonder Boy as Tina. The player controls Master Higgins, a young man who ventured to Adventure Island in the South Pacific after hearing that the Evil Witch Doctor kidnapped Princess Leilani. In the western version of Adventure Island, the Takahashi Meijin character was renamed Master Higgins. 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. It was later released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System on September 1988 and in the PAL region in 1992 under the title of Adventure Island Classic.Īdventure Island began development as a direct port of the Sega arcade game Wonder Boy, to which Hudson Soft obtained the rights from developer Escape (later known as Westone Bit Entertainment). For the PC Engine game, see Dragon's Curse.Īdventure Island, also known as Hudson's Adventure Island, known as Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima (高橋名人の冒険島, "Master Takahashi's Adventure Island") in Japan, is the first game from the Adventure Island series, a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was first released in Japan for the Famicom and MSX on September 12, 1986. Single player For the Game Boy game, see Adventure Island II.
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