I can never get depressed with you in the world, sir. Keep doing what you do!

Wonder Boy in Monster Land is one of my favorites of all time. Love this franchise.

Hello everybody, sorry for the delay we were without power for three days due to the horrible storms that ripped through Iowa and Illinois last week. I tried to be as comprehensive as I could With the entire franchise but it's possible I missed a few. Hope you enjoy the video.

The first Adventure Island was developed by Westone under the license of Hudson as a port of Wonder Boy. The rest of the series were developed by Hudson themselves as their own franchise, that's why they branched off as their own series. New Adventure Island for the Pc Engine was a sort of remake of the first Adventure Island but fully developed by Hudson this time.

So when I saw this vid pop up I immediately watched it as Im a fan of the series and have logged tons of time on the original arcade version. And I got to say, whoever did the game play for your footage is a fricken ace player. This game is hard and requires perfect timing under constant "moving forward" pressure.

When *PatmanQC* said Boy Wonder instead of Wonder Boy... I was in stitches! 😂😂

Without any doubt, Wonder boy, Monster Land & Monster Lair are my favourite platform games of all time. Wonderful charm and wonderful score attack games. Thanks for another great video PatmanQC, take care and stay safe sir.

I love your channel and it was nice having a longer episode.

Don't know how you do the research for all these games of my childhood but I'm sure glad you did.

I played every pixel of these games, Thank You.

LOVE wonder boy, its in my upright full size arcade unit and i'm still playing it, great and entertaining vid as usual !

Excellent history lesson on Wonder Boy; I just knew you could do it! My mind is at ease now, knowing that Hudson's Adventure Island was not a Nintendo rip off at all. I was pleased to see that you pointed out all those Wonderful extras for PS4 and Steam too. You really came through thoroughly on this Wonder Boy history. I am really glad that you did Btw, that joke about knocking on more doors in W.B.I.M.L than a jehovah's witness was pretty funny. I liked that one. I'll remember it. Thank you so much!

KZfaq got it right when one of ‘your history of ‘ videos was recommended a few months back. Great channel. Brings back a lot memories and learn the history of the games, most ones I loved as a kid

Enjoyed these so much on my Master System. I think Wonderboy 3 the Dragon’s Trap was my favorite!!

I absolutely loved Wonderboy 1 in the arcade! It's one of the reasons that got me into gaming when I was a kid because I had a Sega Master System just for this game. I now have the arcade version on my Raspberry Pi 🎮👍🏻

Killed these games on Master system and arcade. Great video as always.

This is an excellent retrospective on one of my all-time favorite game series. Thank you for putting it together. I've played every version of Dragon's Trap/Curse, and I'm currently playing the HD remaster! One tiny nitpick is that you didn't talk about the Master System version of Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I personally prefer that version over the other ones. Maybe because it's the first version I ever played.

Thanks for another great video, many thanks for all your hard work.

You are doing really really well with this youtube channel and brining happyness to thousands and thousands of people

I was counting down till a new PatmanQC video. Cheers Pat!!

Thanks Patman!!!! I never played the SNES version, but played the NES version a lot!

Haven't heard that Wonderboy arcade tune for 30 years! 😍

Love your videos so detailed. And that pic in the beginning was hilarious.

Monster Lair: "You play as a character named Leo" Monster World: "For the first time, you're no longer in control of TomTom"

Thanks again. Always enjoying your videos.

Was so glad to see this! I had the first two games on the SMS when I was a teen, serious nostalgia trip! A great series and a great history lesson 🙂

One of my favourite game franchise starting from the good old days at the arcades here in Australia and then on to my first Sega master system console I remember my dad getting Wonder Boy , Wonder Boy in MonsterLand , Wonder Boy 3 Dragon Trap oh the memories it was a great time back then growing up and what made me Sega kid 👍

i didn’t even know about monster boy and the cursed kingdom so thankyou patman! downloaded it to my ps4 last night & it’s amazing

An interesting and in-depth overview of a fun series of games.

Loving your vids Pay man, and especially that lovely Bob Ross fro at the end of the vid!

Thanks for another great review, Patman~! I used to have Adventure Island 2 and my daughters and I just loved it; we found the cartridge one day while out for a walk as it lay underneath a dumpster we were passing by. One of my girls said: 'Look, there's a game under there!' and I was amazed to see that she was right! Took it home, cleaned it up, and we had a perfect new game~!

Thanks to you , an over 20 year mystery was just solved. I used to play Wonder Boy in the back of a store in the mid nineties. When I first discovered MAME back in the early 2000's', I wanted to play the game again, but could not remember the name. I described it to my friend and he was sure I was talking about Adventure Island. Now that I know, I can finally play it again!

I didn't discover the Wonder Boy arcade machine until 1988. And I was super addicted. I have the MAME rom on my Super Retrocade. Small bit of info you didn't mention that some may not know are the hidden 1ups on certain levels that look like tiny TomTom dolls. I can't remember where they all are, but you get them by throwing your axe in key spots much like the hidden letters.

Congratulations for the incredible video!

One of the best shows around, thank you.

A very big thank you for discovering (at least to me) oodles of games I didn't know about its existence. I've written down in my personal 'to do' list to take some of my time off in order to play these jewels. I've just seen this video today and I felt a sudden feeling to play them all along this 2021!

My dad loved playing Wonder Boy in the arcade when he was young. I really enjoyed Wonder Boy in Monster Land. That was a very fun game to play on emulator.

This is pure Nostalgia Pat! Great Vid! Happy Holidays to You and Your Family!

Well done for tackling this game! - must be one of the most complicated game series ever. I loved Wonderboy in Monster Land for the Master System and Monster World on Mega Drive. - Sorry to hear about the storm problems.

A+ work like always, good sir!

Wow, great review ! I loved the one from Master system and also the RPG one, monster land and dragon's trap. One important thing that was missing in the review was the custom brazilian version of monster land and dragon's trap, made by TecToy, a Sega brazilian local reseller, which used the characters of "Turma da Monica" kids comic book (veryyyy famous comic HQ, by Mauricio de Sousa, since the 70's up to today, read by kids, teenagers and even adults from the eighties and nineties). The comics has been exported to the US and is know as "Monica's Gang" or "Monica and Friends" . The sword of the main character was switched by Monica's famous blue bunny cuddly toy.

I have totally forgoten this game until today! I used to play this arcade, thank you Patman for bringing great memories back. Greetings from Guatenala 😊

Someone should make a rom hack where Tenacious D’s Wonderboy plays as the background music. I always wondered about the whole Adventure Island thing... love your videos Patman. Keep it up!

Great movie again man! I played the arcade and C64 version back then and i always felt blessed with the latter at home.

My local post office had this and golden axe, I spent so much money on them! I even got in trouble when I got caught for using foreign coins in them! A lot of the commonwealth countries used the same blanks and I had a big collection!

Excellent research work mate .. very entertaining

Awesome review! Thanks for doing these.

Love the channel. I honestly never heard of Wonder Boy though. And I was an arcade nut from 1980-1990.

As always this is a great video, awesome narration and well documented.🙏

Great video thanks pacmanqc

Heya Patman! I'm new to ur channel and I love it. Wonder Boy was the game of my childhood...so much fun. I literally lived at the Arcade through the 80's...was the best time of my life. I'd sure like to see a vid on Time Soldiers and Heavy Barrel, u know the ones with the 8way joystick. Ur awesome...just like the 80's =)

Thanks for sharing part of the great history of this game.

Another great video. Used to love Monsters trap in the arcade. I'd love it if you did a video on the dizzy series!

Great video. Always learn something.

Thanks for this, I had no idea there were that many different versions!!!

Monster Land was my favorite. It was in an old arcade I visited for about 25 years before it shut down.

Great video on this series from Westone/Sega. The PS2 collection is really great, one of my favorite things in it are the sketches of discarded/unused content for Monster World IV, including a male hero named Eusha.

I played this so much on my beloved C64

love your channel very much!!! Always a great trip down memory lane back to being a teenager in the 80's :)

WONDERBOY! Won't you take me far away from the mucky-muck, YEAH!

You forgot Wonderboy In Monsterworld on the Master System in 1993. Great video and enjoyed it.

Great childhood memories of playing this on arcade in my local village in ireland with my friends. Waiting for a game was torture though.

Wonder Boy 3 for the SMS remains one of my favorite games ever.

Informative content, thanks.

The Wonder boy series is very underrated in my opinion, it has so many solid games in the franchise.

This is am awesome game I didn’t get to play much of. But your review makes me want to revisit it

Wonder boy 3 the dragons trap on Sega Master System was my favorite game for a large chunk of my childhood, the nostalgia is rather vast! I never had much money, my cousin was spoiled rotten and his parents would buy them so many games, lucky for me, my cousin was happy to share with his less fortunate relative. I used to open up the posters that came with most Sega games, you would open it up and it would have lots and lots of pictures akin to thumbnails next to the title of the game, clever marketting by Sega, i always wondered what these games were like. Having played Wonderboy 3 extensively made me wonder what these other titles were like, the poster advertised Wonder Boy in Monster land, or monster world, whichever was the Master system game, i never knew that the Dragons trap was a sequel, and it makes the intro make a lot more sense. I did not play the remake of WB3, however it looks very very loyal, so i doubt there is anything new to see except for the graphics, let me know if this is wrong! I used to get sad at the end of the game when the adventure was over, WB has defeated the Vampire dragon and the Salamander cross has returned our hero into human form, you return to the village which is now beautifully set at night, the 1 house you could not enter before now has a door, Wonder boy goes in, the door vanishes behind him, and the screen scrolls up with text to detail the ending. This used to make me really sad, not because the game was over, but it felt like WB was retiring, without rescuing a princess! Wonder boy seemed to have no family of his own at this stage, and the town seems rather ungrateful for our heroes efforts. I wished they would turn these 2 games into a movie! Also, all of the hidden rooms used to drive me crazy, as soon as you find 1, you are pressing up everywhere you go and looking for them!

Brilliant vid. I had a NES, I knew about WOnderboy 3 on the master, never knew abut the NES versions of Adventure island. :D

Thank you for this video.

my favorite Arcade game of all time, i was 15 and play everyday Wonderboy in the pub of my Town with my best friend..we were soo good at the end that we can play the whole game with only one Coin.It was Amazing for 1986 and now so many years later i build my own Arcade Cabinet and play it again..nothing lost ! it feels,looks ans play great today a truly wonder..oh boy

Great vid!!! Thank You

Another awesome vid

Been Playing Returns, Monster World 4, Asha in Monster World and dragons trap. Very confusing history early on but still a very charming series, glad it's been going again recently

2021 and still my favourite game evaaaa!!!Thank you!

Super, my favorite series of all time. I own most games and also the arcade pcb.

Love these videos

Great video!

Great video bro

One of my fave series for sure.

Excellent video! Congratulations! I am the Wonder Boy World Champion (2738000pts 1CC). Great classic! LIKE!

My mum would ask me to setup the Master System and Wonder Boy sometimes, before I would leave for school. She could almost beat it, and that game is hard.

Another good video!

Hi there. How are you doing today? Thank you so much for the new video. It was really good!

They recently did “Asha in Monster World,” so you might want to look at it for this video.

Talk of master Higgins with no magnum pi reference? How dare you sir. Haha Played the Monster World games on the Sega genesis mini with my 8 yr old daughter. We had a great time. Your videos keep getting better and better. Keep crushing man.

FUN FACT: Adventure Island 4 was the last game released in Japan for the Famicom. Although it was never released outside of Japan there exists fan made English translations on NES carts. I own 3, each with its own label variation. I just checked eBay and there are people selling it on NES carts with a 4th label variation. So Adventure Island 4 has at least 4 label variations, even though it was never released for the NES.

I forgot how good the Master System conversion was, it looks incredible :-)

This was my favourite series on the master system!!

Great in depth dive, always bugged me lvl one on 64 had a pitchblack sky when lvl two was fine...🙃 Needs that bright SEGA colour rush!

Feels weird how another Wonder Boy: Asha was announced mere days after this video came out.

I remember playing Wonder Boy in Monster Land on my Amiga. In fact it was the only encounter I ever had with the Wonder Boy series at all. It always sounded like the name of a sequel or series to me, and now I know that's the case! I always thought Wonder Boy was wearing a diaper in the Amiga splash screen.

Man, I played the HELL out of the original Wonder Boy on SMS with my sister. It was one of the first games we got for the system.

Nice video bro

Oh his name is Tom Tom haha. I had no freaking clue when I was a kid. I barely understood this game. I used a cheat where I could "time" the level and jump all the way to the last boss, which was just the fastest version of the previous bosses I remember. The totem poles and various artwork used to scare the shit out of me haha

It's quite comprehensive although you missed talking about the Master System version of Wonder Boy in Monster Land. My first exposure to the series was playing the ZX Spectrum version of the original game. Regardless of what platform I play it on always found it hard. Could never get past the first slope. 😁

Interesting video. On the arcade version, the letters that you collect to earn an extra guy are ESC for Escape. I believe it is sega in the master system version. Which is really a great port

I’m going to be humming the music to #1 all day...

I like this game, I was 6 years old when my dad took me to a place in my home town that had these new machines (Arcade) I played this game and will always remember it. Love you, dad!

The Sega Master System conversion was excellent and very close to the arcade in many ways.

Great work! I wish all your footage was 60fps, though