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Wonder Boy in Monster Land, known by its original arcade release as Wonder Boy: Monster Land, [a] is a platform video game developed by Westone Bit Entertainment and released by Sega in Japanese arcades in 1987 and for the Master System in 1988, with a number of other home computer and console ports following.
Wonder Boy was adapted into two stories that ran in Fleetway's Sonic the Comic, which were loosely based on Wonder Boy in Monster World. "Wonder Boy in Demon World" ran between issues 2-9 and saw Shion, the protagonist who has a dislike of being referred to as Wonder Boy, fighting to save some people while staving off a demon curse.
They were most famous for the Wonder Boy/Monster World series. Originally called Escape (エスケープ, Esukēpu), the company was renamed to Westone as the word Escape made them sound unreliable. [1] The company's name was changed yet again to Westone Bit Entertainment in April 2000. [2] The chief publisher was Ryuichi Nishizawa.
This category includes the arcade game Wonderboy and its sequels and ports to other systems. Pages in category "Wonder Boy (video game series)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Wonder Boy [a] is a 1986 platform game published by Sega and developed by Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment).Originally designed for arcades, it was later ported to the SG-1000, Mark III/Master System and Game Gear video game consoles by Sega, and to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers by Activision.
Incidentally, the Japanese version of Dragon's Curse (the TurboGrafx-16 adaptation of Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap) was titled Adventure Island. In 2004 Hudson Soft adapted Wonder Boy in Monster Land to mobile phones as Super Adventure Island. The rights to the Adventure Island series are currently owned by Konami, who absorbed Hudson Soft ...
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It is the third game in the Wonder Boy series and the last one released for the arcade. A console adaptation was made by Hudson Soft, released in 1989 in Japan for the PC Engine CD-ROM² System and the subsequent North American release on the TurboGrafx-CD dropped the 'Wonder Boy III' title.