I used to be addicted to this game as a child. Very cool nostalgia seeing it again after all this time ❤️
@scoobydoobydoo48802 жыл бұрын
Agreed - although I played it on Sega rather than arcade :)
@Eighties-Jadie2 жыл бұрын
@@scoobydoobydoo4880 I played it on both but would love to play it again in an arcade for nostalgia ✨
@not1iota2298 ай бұрын
@@Eighties-Jadie If you want the authentic arcade play you could make a groovymame pc build using CRT Emudriver and compatible AMD GPU and run it on a crt monitor. I was playing wonderboy last night on a 15khz crt monitor, i fire it up once in awhile and play old school classics. You could even play pretty much everything upto ps2 on a setup like that. Once its setup its alot of fun. Could buy a arcade machine and put the pc in it.
@not1iota2298 ай бұрын
Me too man, my local gym had it on freeplay and when i would be in a proper arcade playing it i used to get a crowd lol.
@Eighties-Jadie8 ай бұрын
@@not1iota229 I remember those times in the arcade when someone was really good at a certain game there'd be a big crowd surrounding and watching them! 😃 Those were the days. I loved Bubble Bobble, Pac Land and Tetris as well in the arcades
@toddybody Жыл бұрын
From Germany: I played it in the pub in 1986. I was only 14. I was addicted to the game. With one credit I sat at the cab for over an hour. The score over an million. Never played through. The passage in Round 8 Aera 3 was my Achilles heel. In 2015 at 42 I played through on the original. The Score 1,53 milliones But only up to Aera 7 Round 4, i missed one dollbonus, only one fucking dollbonus. Had i reached it, the game would have gone on until Aerea 8 Round 4. Insiders know that. But anyway, Tanja was rescued and I had made my peace with Wonder Boy. All these years it had annoyed me that I had not made it as a teenager. With Mame I had practiced all the years, but never made it either. So the real PCB and a cabinet had to come. Man, I've never felt so young since 2015. So many memories and flashbacks playing this game. The brothers are history ... It's actually just memorizing the levels. If you don't play for a while, you forget so much (watch out, rolling stone in Aera 5 Round 1, don't lose your stone axe😂). The Cabinet is still here...I rarely play Wonderboy....but it is one of my favorite games of this decade
@gaskellr445 ай бұрын
lol, wd.
@g4mm41t84 ай бұрын
Flashbacks wenn ich es nur höre 🤣
@toddybody83894 ай бұрын
Ja, 9 Jahre später fühle ich es immer noch...😂
@TheStuffMade3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite arcade games of all time, still remember most of the secrets and surprises.
@atrain8182 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I like it so much I bought the actual arcade cabinet. Sitting in between my 2 other favorite games (gun.smoke & donkey kong) in my basement
@franckstannnephilippi5140 Жыл бұрын
bonsoir, svp comment faire pour le télécharger bien évidement pour essayer de jouer je ne sais pas si cela est possible merci beaucoup, bonne soirée à vous.
@jamesanthonyfoley Жыл бұрын
@@atrain818 Hey been trying to find a copy/cabinet of this game myself for years now. Any tips?
@atrain818 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesanthonyfoley try to find a board first. Ebay, Craigslist FB marketplace. Offer up. KLOV has them occasionally. Then try to find someone selling an empty cabinet. That's how I did mine. WB was sold mostly as a kit game anyway. Some ppl actually ordered them in that sega system 2 cabinet. With the blue & white sides that looked like crosses. Then u will have to do a make,-over on the cabinet. That will take a while. New sides art , bezel art, etc. Then hook everything up. And u should be done.
@anibaldk9 ай бұрын
Arguably, one of the hardest games of its time. Well done!!
@GenxJul6 ай бұрын
This was my fav game as a young teen. We had it for Sega:)
@lothburke22436 ай бұрын
Mine to ❤ and double dragon 🐉
@evanhanley64373 жыл бұрын
Loved playing these on the Master System. They are incredible.
@tonyp93132 жыл бұрын
These are a lot better on the Master System.
@Evghenios792 жыл бұрын
Wonderboy and Wonderboy II are two of the best arcades ever made. And they were rewarding the "investment" you put as a kid, both in terms of money and time Later generations of arcades ignored your skill and simply focused on just eating your money away as fast as possible.
@user-ih4fd9sf8x2 жыл бұрын
Accurate asf
@HellenicLegend72 жыл бұрын
As a kid I played this game in arcade in my village in Greece (didn’t get past the 4th boss, others did) and I loved it. Later on as a teenager in the ‘90’s I played this game for 1 coin for more than an hour in an arcade at a festival in the Netherlands. Next day it disappeared!! 🤪😂
@LeShark753 жыл бұрын
For me this is the best Arcade Platformer ever made, I love Monster Land and Monster Lair too. I was hooked on Wonder Boy through the Summer holidays of 1986/87/88 and acquired a Sega Master system for Christmas 88 just for this game. I've just recently treated myself to the Sega Astro City Mini that contains all three games. So I'm kicking the hell out of all three games again. Good times.
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays3 жыл бұрын
I had Wonder Boy on Game Gear - good conversion as I recall. I also loved Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap! Glad to hear you're enjoying the Astro City Mini; looks very cool.
@OldAussieAds11 ай бұрын
I too loved the original Wonder Boy back in the day. The first port I played was the C64 version which I loved until I saw the Master System version - then it was like all my Christmases came at once. I couldn’t believe how close to the arcade it was. I can’t play it now though as I’m so used to the arcade version that any slight variation in timing would hurt. Plus the big difference between the two is the arcade version let’s you control your skateboard speed mid air - that makes all the difference.
@OldAussieAds11 ай бұрын
If you’ve got Wonder Boy as number 2 then you obviously have good taste in games. I’ll have to check Rygar out.
@not1iota2298 ай бұрын
Dragons trap on master system was good fun too
@joashjohnston7119 Жыл бұрын
We had the flat top arcade deck for this game in our living room for 3 years as kids. Took me 2 years to complete it. Hard toiling hours day after day before and after school. Good ol days
@rhyswoodman6781 Жыл бұрын
Let's all just appreciate being a kid in the 80s/90s.
@EFreD-ed4ds2 жыл бұрын
I love this game. Played in many times back in the eighties on the arcades. Later, in the nineties, I had it on Gamegear and after that I spend many hours with it on MAME32. Never managed to get to the end though, let alone find all the secrets. Great job!
@routercoach2 жыл бұрын
One of the only games I never saw actually completed on one credit in the arcade when I was a youth - tough as nails! Saw bubble bobble, snow bros, oscar, wonderboy in monsterland and many others - but never the original. Thanks for the recap - brings back memories :)
@m0v3st4R3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a million for this video. I am playing the Remix version right now and this video helped me on the 1-coin run to get all the letters for extra lifes. Unfortunately one letter glitched already twice for me around Area 5 or 6 but all the others can be obtained with the help of this. Plus you can study enemy placements and traps with this video. One goblin on the arcade did not spawn for me in remix but then I had 4 bees there, that were not on the arcade version. Today I failed at 8-2, hopefully tomorrow I manage :)
@noisyminer7 ай бұрын
I played this game so much, yet only the first 3 levels a familiar to me. I think 10 year old me would be sad to know there were more then 3 levels to this game. Gosh it was hard.
@vanessameaker9515 Жыл бұрын
My Fav Sega Game. I could still hum the theme music at 41!! Oh the day I clocked this game was huge lol
@towerbridge043 жыл бұрын
You're spoiling us rotten in 2021 with these daily uploads; thank you so much! Interesting that your Double Dragon (Neo-Geo) upload has 23k views - as much as the following 9 uploads combined 🤔 You deserve many more views of course!!
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays3 жыл бұрын
I've been on leave from work, so I've had more time to dedicate to creating videos (sadly, I'm back to work this week ). As for the video's success, we'll never fully understand the inner workings of the KZfaq machine 😉
@Swisshoopz9 ай бұрын
i played thisi in Italy Arcade Rooms as a Child. I was so good at this, that many People around me watching me when i Play. After i Buy the Sega Game for Home and finished too, but it took me many Mounth for finish the Game. nice to see someone finish, because i always have the Theoria that the Game is Unfinishable.
@OntarioAtOrion7 ай бұрын
Omg. I used so many quarters on this as a kid at the arcade jn Grand Bend Ontario. Fav game at the arcade for sure. Remember how there was Wonder Boy in Monsterland too! Wow memories
@Imgema3 жыл бұрын
Love the quality. Looks almost as if it's real time on my screen.
@moffit1 Жыл бұрын
That god damn theme tune will be forever engrained in my brain since playing this in arcades when i was younger
@handymangamer238 Жыл бұрын
I'm only 10 mins in but he is although playing without a loss but there is no class in the play. He is hesitant in many places, When I used to play this game I had every step, every jump, every bonus memorized and my play was very fluent. He is also no getting the banners that come up when you jump at certain places. I always used to get to 7-2 without dying and then used to lose all of them at the cloud jump, I could never do it. It was always couple of hours with one coin and everyone in the arcade shop used to watch me play!
@atrain818 Жыл бұрын
Those are French fries 🍟 that he is missing. Yeah his play is rather odd, but he is getting the job dun. The cloud ⛅ jump on 7 - 2 has to be timed perfectly. 2 clouds are closer than the other 2. Go on the far apart ones.
@atrain818 Жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtJjmbydkq_DfoE.html
@GeorgePlaten3 ай бұрын
It's absolutely unwatchable! This must have been solved by an AI with constant saving and reloading.
@huggybear3529 Жыл бұрын
Amazing I wish I could buy this arcade game. I spent many days in the arcade room of my apartment complex putting an insane amount of quarters into this game! ❤
@sakis-c9x7 ай бұрын
This and Bubble Bobble are the best games ever made...perfect in every way...my favorite game in the arcades was Starforce...best shmup ever...very difficult but addictive asf
@atrain8182 жыл бұрын
Great playing, but I'm not sure if the person playing is aware that you can make the letters appear by jumping where they are located. You don't have to hit them with the ax
@magoperbambiniprestigiator68722 жыл бұрын
is same, jump or hit
@BobTheBreaker92 ай бұрын
Just got a multicade with over 20000 games on it. Was trying a few and stumbled upon this game. It's currently all im playing
@curleed852 жыл бұрын
I remember a cheat in this game that I’d use while playing at the local Dairy Queen. After losing all my lives, I would enter three hearts for the initials. Doing that would give me a free continue, but it only worked once.
@MediaRavenEditor20243 жыл бұрын
This brings back the memories.
@user-ih4fd9sf8x2 жыл бұрын
I woke up with this song in my head. I dont even know why lol but I love this game. I used to play it in the MAME 32 for daaays. Great game
@OldAussieAds11 ай бұрын
How on earth did the first person to discover the doll in the backwards jumping frog in Area 3 Round 2 figure that out?
@LogrusUK3 жыл бұрын
One of my favourites, Dude.
@johnwardjr-ru2bx4 ай бұрын
Big points,big prizes..... I love it!!!!
@darrencodling98247 ай бұрын
This game was in my local youth club the music is so nostalgic one of my best games ever 😊
@McDaniel776 ай бұрын
SEGA made an awesome Master System port of this great arcade game.
@BenJabituya Жыл бұрын
This video game comes to mind, whenever I watch the 1960's Batman, because Commissioner Gordon always called Robin the Boy Wonder.
@allanhyllested24403 жыл бұрын
Best arcade game ever :-)
@HellenicLegend72 жыл бұрын
Yes, this one and Bubble Bobble
@iciouailleurs19773 жыл бұрын
I often played it on an arcade machine
@HellenicLegend72 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@binkaram65773 жыл бұрын
i used to play in arcade and went so far however never beat the game i always thought it goes repetitive with higher difficulty with no end this is one of the longest game in the arcade along with ninja kun bubble bobble in 80's
@HellenicLegend72 жыл бұрын
I love bubble bobble also, in fact I’m playing it now on iPhone app!!
8 ай бұрын
You never forget the song. 😂
@planetX157 ай бұрын
The Sega Master System version made absolutely certain that the song will get burnt in my mind
@murrayreid27483 жыл бұрын
Loved the visuals on this almost as much as Ghosts'n'Goblins,but unlike my mate's,I tended to die way too quickly!😂 Viscious traps for the unwary like the Grim Reaper egg too. Well played!👍
@OldAussieAds11 ай бұрын
It’s funny you should say that as Ghosts N Goblins was the first arcade game I played regularly as a kid and Wonder Boy was the second. I thought of Wonder Boy as a a brighter successor - Gravestones swapped out for rocks.
@iciouailleurs19772 жыл бұрын
a good game very nice from my childhood, ah really thank you very much it's great. I still play it sometimes thanks to an application or with an emulator
@HellenicLegend72 жыл бұрын
Where can I find it with iPhone?
@KingCastleGamer3 жыл бұрын
The history of videogame
@Keviel1 Жыл бұрын
At minute 7:33 I keep falling what the hell I doing wrong to reach the other platform??
@birdfanboi2 жыл бұрын
the arcade doesn't have the secret heart stages like in the Master System version where you find a secret item like a purse, or sunglasses which summons a lil red head girl then both the blond boy & the red head girl jump into the sky onto the clouds where you collect hearts. Also the Master System has extra enemies like flies (not to confuse with the wasps but a new fly enemy for the master system) that swoop down from a tree, those spiky pods that fall from trees, vultures, lizards, scorpions, active volcanos shooting rocks & an extra stage types like a desert with cactus, a cloud stage, & bridge stage with waterfalls in the backdrop with new small red fish enemies (not to get confused with the big blue fish on the island stages)
@gabrielsylvestre3708 Жыл бұрын
If I would have known that this arcade was like this as a kid, I would have avoided it. They pulled the main song from some 90s song I vaguely remember too. It had some carribean latin flare. These old game are harder than new era games. They keep getting easier and easier
@chachodvega Жыл бұрын
A great classic game!
@vandolmatzis81468 ай бұрын
Wish I could ollie like Wonderboy
@not1iota2298 ай бұрын
The first letter on the 1st stage can be a extra life if you hit it right
@jahanzaibjabbar46852 жыл бұрын
My favourite game of childhood Apny pury Area me Is game Mein Sub se zeyada mein Player Thaa missing Those day
@zaibkhanmytutorpod549311 ай бұрын
you are an amazing player of this game, just want to know haver you hacked it or turned on a cheat mode or something that you struck with a fire and got 50 points, not burnt, it never happened to me,
@TopRetroGames3 жыл бұрын
Gem retro game!
@SG-zm8cx10 ай бұрын
My best game ever
@flyguss94103 жыл бұрын
Wonder Boy fantastic arcade game,I like it,very good.
@ChannelZeroX Жыл бұрын
Wow they were all in on that one melody
@matpoliquin3 жыл бұрын
This was first game on my first console, the sega master system!
@fransdozy8877 Жыл бұрын
It was in Amsterdam in the 80s Many arcades and many games at home
@bendoubleu75162 жыл бұрын
Damn, that music brings back memories lol
@marchoffman60172 жыл бұрын
I love this game too.
@joshbrekke63742 ай бұрын
Funny No Mountains in the background shooting rocks, lava or lightning strikes or no Doll bonus zone up in the clouds? I prefer The Master System version I finished late in 1986 with my lil cousins. Great play through, wow this one is tougher for sure. I can only make to 3rd boss. Subscription!!
@Cloudcolin Жыл бұрын
Area 8 Round 1 Timestamp should be 55:21 Also great run. Who would have known back then in the arcades to find the hidden letters and hidden dolls?
@gaskellr445 ай бұрын
In our seaside town, we had 2 in various arcades in 1987/88, and watching this vid, I must have got to the last villain, but never killed him.wd
@ZeroHourProductions4073 жыл бұрын
I know the title says wonder boy, but everything about this is reminding me of adventure island.
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays3 жыл бұрын
That's because Adventure Island is derived from Wonder Boy - you can read more about the history here: segabits.com/blog/2016/04/15/sega-retrospective-from-wonder-boy-to-monster-world-to-adventure-island-and-beyond/
@Gaz66d4 ай бұрын
Oh yeah, the letters… I only found a couple and almost forgot they existed. Do they do anything?
@freedomfruits74239 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant!!!
@allantaglia6473 Жыл бұрын
Skills for days!
@morenopazzelli46710 ай бұрын
Un mito nelle sale giochi italiane
@damiangonzalez_esp9 ай бұрын
Hey but... Wasn't there an extra area if you collected all dolls?
@silvinaconstante23756 ай бұрын
Soy muy fanática de este juego, me encanta. Llego solo al 3 monstruo.
@danielseaton35047 ай бұрын
Im sure ample swearing,heart attacks while playing and then u get that ending haha
@rego0233 жыл бұрын
This was a guarantee in any arcade around my area as a kid. C64 version was good too. Have you covered it on that platform yet?
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays3 жыл бұрын
Yep - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ip6ngLFkytLTYZc.html
@OldAussieAds11 ай бұрын
It’s tempting to dismiss the C64 version as a poor port. But believe me, when it was new it felt like a miracle it could be ported to the humble C64 at all. That humble machine punched well above its weight. Glad you liked it.
@deceiver4443 жыл бұрын
I had no the game was so freaking long
@SubidubidubiDu13 жыл бұрын
Adventure Island on steroids :) but does it look damn good. I luv it
@jasonfarrall6974 Жыл бұрын
Loved this game 👍✌️🥳
@truemperahzentertainment6133 Жыл бұрын
Played it before and Pre-ordered PS4 edition! I mean now own just tried it too. 😄 I'm 8 Again 😂. Get em Island Bwoy I did much of that in Jamaica very oddly similar in 1983, 3 years prior. That compelled me to add it to A Novelty!
@jantait612510 ай бұрын
There used to be this gorgeous goth girl in our arcade, she would put in 10p, smash the whole game! We would crowd around and stare! She was awesome!! 👍 👌
@marchoffman60172 жыл бұрын
Way to go wonder boy.
@imraniqbal7411 ай бұрын
I played on Mame but the frames are not smooth and there are overlapping frames when moving forward. Please suggest fix or other emulator.
@not1iota2298 ай бұрын
IMO The only good way to play these old games, to feel just like the arcade is to play them at their original resolutions and refresh rates on a 4:3 crt display. The arcade version of wonderboy should be running at its original intended resolution of 512 x 224 @ 60.096153Hz so the image is displayed 60.096153 times per second, modern pcs and gpus cant output those resolutions and timings anymore and modern displays cant display them. When you run mame the games being displayed are probably 1920 by 1080 @ 60hz the timing of the game gets messed up to fit and you get those issues you describe. If you really want to play mame games properly at their original "native resolutions" there are a few options, i chose a windows 10 pc with CRT Emudriver and a compatible AMD GPU for it to work in combination with Groovymame and other emulators that will allow them to automatically display at the resolutions once setup. You could get a MiSTer FPGA to do it and is supposedly more accurate than mame but less titles to play or a raspberry pi might be the cheapest and easiest through AV cables to pretty much any crt or you could get a RGB Pi cable would give the pi nicer image but you would then need to also find a CRT with RGB inputs like i had to for the PC setup i have. Its a hobby though will take abit of work to get going but its alot of hours of fun to be had with friends and family.
@infinitygenealpa7 ай бұрын
What?! Letters?! Do you need to collect those?!
@stevenclark288 Жыл бұрын
I played this from around 86 and never did get to complete it but I did get pretty dam far 8-2 maybe I can't recall the exact level but it had like a cloud jump that seemed impossible
@tonyp93132 жыл бұрын
I just want to know, do you have to get every doll to play the 8th World?
@atrain818 Жыл бұрын
Yes. All 28 thru level 7 - 4. Will unlock area 8. If not, when you beat the elephant, the game ends.
@tonyp9313 Жыл бұрын
@@atrain818 Ah ok. I like the Sega Master system version a whole lot better.
@metamorphicblood Жыл бұрын
Probably should’ve kicked the final boss’s head into the pit, just to be safe.
@DMIV4N6 ай бұрын
7:35 that last jump is almost impossible if you play in arcade
@AndrewNewZealand6 ай бұрын
Is that last head supposed to look like someone?
@kanewmrogers19953 жыл бұрын
If u collected every one why was there no 9th boss? That is what it used to do in the arcade i used to play this at ??
@sfxleon17203 жыл бұрын
The 7th boss (7-4) is the final boss unless you get all the dolls which opens up the secret final area 8 and final boss on 8-4. There are additional levels on the Master System version, 9 areas in total (10 in total if you get all dolls) so perhaps you might be thinking of that version