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Adventure Island
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Item Description
Master Higgins was modeled on a real person. Hudson Soft based its grass-skirted hero on Toshiyuki Takahashi, the company's spokesman, known in Japan as Takahashi Meijin and famous for his rapid-fire button tapping, and the Famicom original, Takahashi Meijin no Boken Jima, put his name right in the title. Adventure Island began as Hudson's planned port of Sega's arcade hit Wonder Boy. Because Sega owned the Wonder Boy name and character, Hudson built a new star around the same fast, unforgiving design, and when it reached the NES in North America in 1988, a long-running series was under way.
Playing it is a constant sprint. Higgins' energy meter drains every second, so you're always moving, snatching fruit and milk to stay alive while dodging rolling rocks, bonfires, snails and swooping birds across eight areas of four rounds each. You have to find the stone axe before you can fight back at all, fireballs extend your reach, a skateboard sends you hurtling forward at thrilling, terrifying speed, and the Honey Girl fairy grants a few seconds of invincibility. Not every egg is a gift, though: the eggplant tags along and drains your meter even faster. The last round of each area ends in a showdown with the Evil Witch Doctor, who wears a different head every time you meet him.
It is hard in the honest, old-school way, with pinpoint jumps and no mercy for hesitation, and that challenge is a big part of why it has stayed in conversation for decades. This is where Master Higgins began, before the dinosaurs and inventory screens of the sequels, and it's the purest version of the Adventure Island formula to play on original NES hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1986
- Publisher
- Hudson Soft
- Genre
- Platformer, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Hudson's Adventure Island, also known simply as Adventure Island and released in Japan as Takahashi Meijin no Bouken-jima, is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was first released in Japan for the Famicom and MSX on September 12, 1986. 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. Adventure Island is an adaptation of the arcade game Wonder Boy, originally published by Sega for developer Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment). Adventure Island was followed by a series of sequels that were independently developed by Hudson Soft.
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Adventure IslandB · Collector Grade
$19.99
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Adventure IslandB · Collector Grade
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