Dear readers, good morning, today we will talk to you about the "Adventure Island" series produced by HUDSON. In fact, the first generation of this series belongs to the skin transplant after buying "Wonder Boy", but "Wonder Boy" is produced by escape, and if you want to enter the Nintendo camp that year, you must pay a lot of money. Coupled with the fact that Escape is holding SEGA's thigh, "Wonder Boy" did not successfully land on the Nintendo platform.
Fortunately, later, in the name of Takahashi Toshiyuki's 16-point hand speed, "Wonder Boy" was bought by HUDSON to license it, and after a makeover, it became the "Adventure Island" that we played as children on the red and white machine.
In the era of red and white machines, "Adventure Island" has produced a total of 4 generations, and the style of each generation has changed slightly, except for the last 4 generations, which may be because they want to show more elements on the screen, and the content of the game itself is indeed richer, so the slightly reduced proportion makes people feel less like the experience of "Adventure Island".
Although the original generation of "Adventure Island" belongs to the skin swap game, but since the 2nd generation, it has its own style and connotation, and the levels are directly mapped, and it is no longer played like the original generation. The entire game map is divided into eight islands, each with many small levels, and players need to go through many tribulations and challenge the boss of the islands to continue. A cool design is that the islands have their own styles, meadows, hills, caves, ice fields, volcanoes, snow, underwater, sky, it can be said that the 2nd generation is the entire "Adventure Island" to a complete upgrade, not only out of the shadow of the original "Wonder Boy", but also from this work to lay their own IP foundation.
Generation 2 brought high popularity to "Adventure Island", and not long after, HUDSON launched 3 generations, which are not so much a sequel as a plus version of the 2nd generation, the entire game system is not as obvious as the 2nd generation for the first generation, the 3nd generation plays almost the same as the 2nd generation, but on the basis of the original dinosaur, there is a green triceratops, and the weapon side is to increase the boomerang that can break the stone and the crystal stone that can resist a damage. In the end, the boss is an alien, which is also in line with the trend of the times in 1992, after all, at that time, the close-up film was very popular, aliens play monsters and so on, added to the slightly original story background of Adventure Island, which can definitely attract more popularity.
Everyone should play the most in the past is to exchange life for pterodactyls, after all, the number of pterodactyls themselves is small, and in the game, as long as they fail, they will return to the beginning of the level, but the props obtained will be retained. So many friends use this mechanism to save dinosaurs. Of course, later the selection cheats appeared, everyone no longer has to be so uncomfortable, as long as the title screen pressed left and right BABA can enter the selection menu, but this way itself is much less fun to break through.
"Adventure Island 4 Generation" did not save the wife, changed to save the dinosaurs, the whole added a lot of plot content, and the props and puzzle solving elements are very many, because they do not know much Japanese, so few friends successfully passed the level. There are also many mini-games in the game, some props, such as going home, weapon switching, blood return, resurrection... Now look, isn't this "Adventure Island 4 Generation" an ARPG work that comes alive and well? The best thing was that there was an archive password every time I slept, which was very cool at the time.
Unfortunately, this very classic IP has not been developed like a sequel like "Wonder Boy" since then, and the so-called online game "Adventure Island" that suddenly appeared that year is just rubbing heat.
Time has passed, childhood has become a memory, wonder what other unforgettable memories you have of Adventure Island? Welcome to leave a message and share with your friends.