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1986 video game

Adventure Island
Cover art of Adventure Island (N American NES version)
Programmer(south)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(due south)	Hudson Soft
Creative person(s)	Susumu Matsushita
Composer(s)	Jun Chikuma
Platform(s)	NES, MSX, Gamate, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation two, Game Boy
Release	Famicom/NES JP: September 12, 1986 NA: September 5, 1987^[1] EU: 1992 MSX JP: September 12, 1986
Genre(south)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player

Hudson's Gamble Island , known as Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima ( 高橋名人の冒険島 , Master Takahashi's Take a chance Island) in Japan and as well known as Take a chance Island ,^[a] is a side-scrolling platform game produced past Hudson Soft that was released in Japan for the Famicom and MSX on September 12, 1986. Adventure Isle was released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987 and in the PAL region in 1992.

Adventure Island is an adaptation of the arcade game Wonder Boy, adult by Escape for Sega. Adventure Island was followed by a series of sequels with no connection to the Wonder Boy series.

Plot [edit]

The player controls Master Higgins (known as Master Wigins in the United Kingdom^[2] and every bit Takahashi Meijin in Japanese versions), a young human being who ventured to Gamble Island in the Due south Pacific after hearing that the Evil Witch Medico kidnapped Princess Tina. To rescue her, Higgins must survive a serial of 32 stages. There are viii worlds called "areas", which are divided into 4 stages or "rounds" each, which are further divided into 4 checkpoints. When the player reaches the fourth circular of each expanse, he must face a dominate at the finish to go on to the next area. The game is completed when the player saves the daughter afterward defeating the eighth and last form of the evil lord.

Gameplay [edit]

The get-go phase in the NES version.

Master Higgins (the player grapheme) loses a life whenever he touches an enemy, an enemy'southward attack, a burn roast, or when he falls into a pitfall or a torso of water. The thespian also has a wellness gauge that starts out with 11 points, which gradually depletes over time or whenever Higgins trips on a rock in his path. When Higgins' health gauge reaches goose egg, he volition lose a life. If Higgins even so has extra lives, he will revive at the concluding checkpoint he passed through. The game ends when all of Higgins' lives run out. To replenish his wellness, Higgins tin pick upwardly fruit or a milk bottle and has a maximum health of up to sixteen points. When the histrion's score reaches 50,000 points, 100,000 points, and 200,000 points, Higgins will receive an actress life. Finding a bee-like fairy known as Love Girl will grant Higgins invincibility for well-nigh 10 seconds and permit him to kill enemies with a single bear upon. Also subconscious in each phase is a special pot, which doubles the player's end-of-phase bonus.

Higgins starts off each life without the power to attack and tin only proceeds the ability to assault by picking upwards a rock axe, which can exist found in specific spots in each stage. When Higgins is wielding the stone axe, he can merchandise information technology for magical fireballs that take longer range and are capable of destroying rocks and rolling stones (which are invulnerable to the stone axe).

To interruption an egg, the player must touch it or hit it with a weapon twice. In improver to weapons, in that location are numerous bonus items inside. There is also the possibility of receiving a negative particular, the eggplant, which drains Higgins' life meter. Some of the eggs are not immediately visible in obviously sight. The locations of these "subconscious eggs" are unremarkably indicated when a weapon thrown by a player disappears before falling to the footing and are uncovered by jumping at the indicated spot. Some of these hidden spots exercise non contain hidden eggs, but instead a cloud that will warp the role player to a bonus stage, which is instead uncovered by standing however for a short period of fourth dimension. During bonus stages, the player tin can collect a series of fruits (each worth 500 points regardless of the type) until Higgins falls into a pitfall. However, instead of losing a life, he volition return to the regular stage at the next checkpoint.

At the quaternary circular of each area, Higgins will face a unlike form of the Evil Witch Doc, the game'southward boss character. He has the ability to change his head past up to eight different types. Higgins must defeat him by striking his head a specific number of times with his weapon. The number of hits required to defeat him increases with each area (his commencement class requires eight hits and every subsequent form requires two boosted hits until the eighth and final form, which requires 22 hits). When the Evil Witch Doctor is defeated, he volition change his head and escape to the next area. He uses the same attack in each form, with the only changes being his durability, speed and the speed of his fireball attacks. When Higgins defeats his final form, the Evil Witch Doctor will fall into a pit and the daughter volition be rescued.

Development [edit]

Relation to Wonder Boy [edit]

Adventure Isle began evolution as a straight port of the Sega arcade game Wonder Boy, the partial rights to which Hudson Soft obtained from developer Escape (at present known as Westone Bit Entertainment). All the same, the developer had already signed abroad ownership of the Wonder Boy name and characters to Sega,^[iii] so Hudson created a new protagonist modeled and named afterwards Hudson Soft's spokesman Takahashi Meijin.^[4] In the western version of Take a chance Island, the Takahashi Meijin character was renamed Chief Higgins.

While the Wonder Male child serial adopted an activity RPG organization for its sequels (beginning with Wonder Boy in Monster Land), nearly of the Adventure Island sequels stuck to the game system of the original Wonder Boy. Moreover, Hudson Soft too obtained the rights to port all of the Wonder Male child sequels to the TurboGrafx-16, irresolute the championship and grapheme designs of each game (with the exception of Wonder Boy Three: Monster Lair). Incidentally, the Japanese version of Dragon's Curse (the TurboGrafx-xvi adaptation of Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap) was titled Hazard Isle.

The rights to the Adventure Island serial are currently endemic past Konami, who absorbed Hudson Soft in 2012.

Re-releases [edit]

The NES version of Risk Island was re-released in Japan for the Game Boy Accelerate as a Famicom Mini title on May 21, 2004.^[5] It was later re-released internationally for the Virtual Console service in 2008 for the Wii and in 2014 for the Wii U.^[6] ^[vii]

A remake was also developed for the PlayStation two and GameCube titled Hudson Option Volume 4: Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima, which was released exclusively in Japan on December 18, 2003.

Sequels [edit]

Two sequels were produced for the NES, Adventure Isle Two and Chance Island iii, too equally a quaternary game for the Famicom that was released exclusively in Japan titled Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima Iv.^[eight] ^[9] In addition to the standalone Famicom Mini re-release of the first game, all 4 games were re-released in a compilation for the Game Boy Accelerate titled Hudson Best Drove Vol half dozen: Bōken Jima Collection, released in Nippon on January xix, 2006.^[10]

Sequels were also released on other platforms, such as Adventure Isle and Risk Island II for the Game Boy (based on the second and third NES games respectively), Super Adventure Island and Super Gamble Isle II for the Super NES, New Risk Island for the TurboGrafx-xvi, Adventure Island: The Offset for the Wii, Gacha wa shi Meijin no Bōken Jima in 2007 for mobile, and Adventure Island Quest by Takahashi Meijin in 2010 for mobile.

Appearances in other games [edit]

Takahashi Meijin appears equally a playable graphic symbol in the crossover fighting game DreamMix Idiot box World Fighters, released in Japan for GameCube on Dec xiii, 2003.

Takahashi Meijin too appears in the sport mobile game Gachapin & Mukku no Dai Undoukai ("Gachapin & Mukku's Big Sports Day") in 2008, and crosses over with Katamari franchise in the mobile game Takahashi Meijin and Katamari Damacy in 2010.

Reception [edit]

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Adventure Island has received positive to mixed reviews from critics. GameSpot awarded the game 6.v out of 10, calling it a "fast-paced, challenging platformer".^[14] GamesRadar+ ranked it the 23rd best NES game ever made. The staff praised it for the fact that its challenge comes from quality level blueprint and non low quality.^[15]

Other media [edit]

ファミコンランナー高橋名人物語
Famicom Runner: Takahashi Meijin Monogatari
Manga
Written past	Kazuyoshi Kawai
Published by	CoroCoro Comic
Published	April 1986 – February 1988
Volumes	ane

Bugってハニー ( Bug-tte Honey )
Honey Bee in Toycomland
Genre	Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by	Minoru Okazaki
Produced by	Hidehiko Takei Shunzo Kato Yasutaka Tarumi
Written by	Kasumi Oka
Music by	Hiroshi Tsutsui
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Original network	Nippon Boob tube
Original run	Oct iii, 1986 – September 25, 1987
Episodes	51
Anime film
Bug-tte Love: Megalom Shōjo Rondo 4622
Directed by	Akinori Nagaoka
Produced past	Shunzo Kato
Written by	Kasumi Oka
Music past	Hiroshi Tsutsui
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Released	July 21, 1987
Runtime	48 minutes

Manga [edit]

Famicom Runner: Takahashi Meijin Monogatari ( ファミコンランナー高橋名人物語 , Lit. "Famicom Runner: Chief Takahashi's Story" ) is a manga based on Hudson Soft's graphic symbol Bee and Takahashi Meijin, was released on April 1986 to February 1988 in Japan, was published by CoroCoro Comics, and created by Kazuyoshi Kawai.

Anime [edit]

Adventure Island also inspired an animated tv series titled Honey Bee in Toycomland ( Bugってハニー , Bug-tte Honey ),^[16] which was produced by TMS Entertainment and aired in Japan from October 3, 1986, to September 25, 1987, lasting 51 episodes and a theatrical flick. The serial also inspired its own Famicom game titled Takahashi Meijin no Issues-tte Honey ( 高橋名人のBUGってハニー ), released on June 5, 1987. The TV series featured Love Girl (the bee-similar fairy who grants Higgins temporary invincibility in the original game) equally a major character. The plot involved the kidnapping of Takahashi (Principal Higgins) and his lady friend. Dearest Girl's mission is to rescue him by enlisting the help of I-Upwards, Dal, and Midori, three Earth children who also happen to exist video game aces. The series featured Minoru Maeda (known for his contributions to the anime versions of Dragon Ball) equally grapheme designer, and featured storylines incorporating elements of diverse popular video games of the mean solar day. Another Hudson character, Bomberman, makes a cameo in the second episode.

Notes [edit]

^ Released in the NES PAL-A region equally Risk Island Archetype , and in the PAL-B region as Take chances Island in the Pacific .

References [edit]

^ "Risk Island (Video Game 1986) - Release Info". IMDb.
^ Yeo, Matt (May 1997). "Things that Make You Go Nail!". Sega Saturn Magazine. No. 19. Emap International Limited. p. 42.
^ "The Fable of Wonder Boy". IGN . Retrieved 17 November 2019.
^ "Master Higgins Speaks from 1UP.com". Archived from the original on 2012-x-20. Retrieved 2011-08-23 . Around 1986, there was an arcade game called Wonder Boy that we at Hudson all liked, and there was a suggestion within the company to plow that into a Famicom game. And so the vice president and I went to take a look at the evolution of the character and the game, and as we were looking at the character being built, the character already somewhat resembled me. The vice president was looking at it and went, "Y'know, that character sort of looks similar you lot, and you lot are a celebrity – it doesn't make any sense for us not to make this game about you." And so they decided to plough me into that grapheme, and that's how Gamble Isle was born.
^ "Famicom Mini: Risk Island (Game Boy Advance) Specs".
^ "Adventure Island". 4 September 2014.
^ "Chance Island for Wii U - Nintendo Game Details".
^ "Adventure Island II".
^ "Adventure Island three".
^ "Hudson Best Drove Vol. 6: Bouken Jima Collection".
^ "Take chances Island for NES". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-10-04 .
^ Smith, Geoffrey Douglas. "Hazard Isle – Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on Dec 11, 2014. Retrieved Dec 6, 2012.
^ Provo, Frank. "Adventure Island Review". GameSpot . Retrieved December 6, 2012.
^ Provo, Frank. "Take chances Isle Review". GameSpot . Retrieved December half dozen, 2012.
^ "Best NES Games of all time". GamesRadar. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2013-12-05 .
^ "Honey Bee in Toycomland / TMS Entertainment". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2011-08-23 .

Adventure Island Operation Transmission. Japan: Hudson Soft. 1986.

External links [edit]

Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima (FC) at the Wii Virtual Console website (in Japanese)
Bug tte Dearest (anime) at Anime News Network'south encyclopedia
Gamble Island at MobyGames

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Island_(video_game)