The History of the Wonder Boy Franchise - Arcade console documentary
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- The history of the iconic platform RPG franchise
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I can never get depressed with you in the world, sir. Keep doing what you do!
That is very nice of you to say, keep your chin up it's bound to get better
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Indeed!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries which version is your favorite
Wonder Boy in Monster Land is one of my favorites of all time. Love this franchise.
So do I, it's a classic
@oktopustrainer Did you watch the video? I talk about it in depth
It's a top 10 of all time for me! 👍👍
Understandably). Hands down, WBML marks the sweet spot, and in my view remains the best of the franchise - while most of the others shown are really good games.
The music, graphics, animations, the RPG elements (stores with quirky characters, store & in-level upgrades, boss rooms, secrets, magic items, the story & narrative) are lovely, witty and harmonic to an extend, for me it crossed the border from being a video game to experiencing a fantastic and lively world shown through the window of an arcade machine. Even though I was a youngster when I first played it, not many other games achieved that impression.
Same...after years I've been able to get more than 3,000,000 in wbml in just one ocassion but never 4M or more by some bada$$ players through the world.
Hugs from Chile, South America 🤗. Enjoying here second half of Spring in November (Christmas here's in *summer* rather than winter 😅)
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.
Glad to see you're OK. That is more important. Thanks for another excellent video!
So glad you are safe. Been chopping trees in Shellsburg. Your new video is a welcome respite 😃 Thank you so much!
I was wondering what happened to you, glad to hear you're safe! I still love the Adventure Island NES music.
Thank you very much
I authorized only four ads. Are you serious when you said there was a dozen? When people complain about a few ads they need to realize his videos take between 20 and 30 hours to produce with me myself and I Doing every single thing.
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.
LOVE wonder boy, its in my upright full size arcade unit and i'm still playing it, great and entertaining vid as usual !
Glad you enjoy it! I would love to own an originalCabinet
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I built a mortal kombat 2 full size cab and i'm using Mame and Wonder boy is in there with a bunch of other games, its not an original Wonder boy cab but it gets the job done ! Cheers !
When *PatmanQC* said Boy Wonder instead of Wonder Boy... I was in stitches! 😂😂
LOL, thank you :-)
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.
Thank you very much, you say safe as well
Don't know how you do the research for all these games of my childhood but I'm sure glad you did.
It takes a lot of time that's for sure. Thank you, glad you enjoyed them
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!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I tried to be as thorough as I could but it's possible I missed a couple of things. Glad you enjoyed my sense of humor :-)
I love your channel and it was nice having a longer episode.
Thank you very much :-)
I agree the longer the better, nice one patman
Him and gaming historian literally do the best video game documentaries for real!
@@1stBlood Thank you :-)
@@hjames78 That is very nice of you to say, Gaming historian Has put out some fantastic videos So to be put in the same breath as Him is quite an honor
CZcams 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
Thanks,, Glad you found my channel. Also glad I could scratch that nostalgic itch :-)
Enjoyed these so much on my Master System. I think Wonderboy 3 the Dragon’s Trap was my favorite!!
It was fun as hell! It might be up there for me too.
It's definitely in the upper echelon
Ron Fiasco I revisited it a few years ago and even though I beat it as a kid it was a lot harder at this age.
Same!! Big fan of WB1 and Monster lad, but dragon's trap was excellent. Even the remake was excellent!!✌
RetroVin Monster Land is basically the first “RPG” type game I played. I was like 12. It lit the fire inside of me for games like final fantasy.Going from playing the 2600 to monster land blew my little mind!
Thanks for another great video, many thanks for all your hard work.
My pleasure! Thank you very much
Monster Lair: "You play as a character named Leo"
Monster World: "For the first time, you're no longer in control of TomTom"
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.
As I said it in the top comment I tried to be thorough but but I knew something would slip to the cracks
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I totally understand and you really did a fantastic job capturing the huge scope of this decades-old franchise. It must be really hard to put something like this together because everyone has that one game that is especially meaningful to them.
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!
That's great, glad I could help
I played every pixel of these games, Thank You.
Yea, haha me too. Solidarity! Good times, huh,
Ron Fiasco I obsessed over the games I had and this was the first game I had!
@@GameOfDepth Alright, I take that back. I never played the SG-1000 version. I did play all the Master System versions, the Arcade, NES and if I remember right a TG-16 version. Oh yea, this game was a must play during NES days. Good stuff.
Absolutely, hope you enjoyed it
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.
Thanks for the info
U collect little letter blocks that are hidden in certain spots on each level. They appear if you hit the area with an ax or jump right by the spot. The letters are E-S-C (for Escape). Then on the following level, if you hit the hidden spot, a Tom-Tom doll will appear for an extra life. Every level has one of these hidden icons.
You are doing really really well with this youtube channel and brining happyness to thousands and thousands of people
That is very nice of you to say, thank you so much
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 🎮👍🏻
Excellent, the master system version with the best home port at the time
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
I was always gutted they never released WB1 on the Megadrive - I was always frustrated the Master System version wasn't quite arcade perfect (I'm a bit of a freak when it comes to stuff like that 😂😂) when I was younger......
Haven't heard that Wonderboy arcade tune for 30 years! 😍
I can still hear ringing in my head :-)
I was counting down till a new PatmanQC video. Cheers Pat!!
We had a power outage for a few days plus due to the length of the video it took quite a bit longer to put together. Thanks
Thanks Patman!!!! I never played the SNES version, but played the NES version a lot!
Absolutely, you should check it out it's a lot of fun
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 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries for sure, thank you!
Love your videos so detailed. And that pic in the beginning was hilarious.
Glad you like them, thank you :-)
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 👍
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.
Look for "Monica no Castelo do Dragão (the monster land version) in youtube
The video was almost 40 minutes long, I had to cut a few things out. Sorry about that
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries But did you know about this brazilian version ?
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~!
That is awesome! Your daughter must have some pretty good eyes :-)
I played this so much on my beloved C64
That is awesome, thank you for sharing
Killed these games on Master system and arcade. Great video as always.
Thank you very much :-)
This is pure Nostalgia Pat! Great Vid! Happy Holidays to You and Your Family!
Thank you, I really appreciate that. Hope you had a Merry Christmas
One of the best shows around, thank you.
That's very nice of you to say, glad you enjoyed My content
Great movie again man!
I played the arcade and C64 version back then and i always felt blessed with the latter at home.
Thanks a lot, those were the versions I played the most
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.
It was really good I agree
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.
Thanks for the tips, did not know that
Loving your vids Pay man, and especially that lovely Bob Ross fro at the end of the vid!
LOL, thank you :-)
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!
Thanks again. Always enjoying your videos.
Thanks again!
The Wonder boy series is very underrated in my opinion, it has so many solid games in the franchise.
I couldn't agree more
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
That is fantastic, I could only make it to the third world and that was it.
Monster Land was my favorite. It was in an old arcade I visited for about 25 years before it shut down.
Just out of curiosity, where was this located at?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries At this old arcade called Fun City in Nanaimo in British Columbia.
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 😊
My pleasure! Greetings back in the USA thank you
Wonder Boy 3 for the SMS remains one of my favorite games ever.
It is really good
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries It really is really really good
Man, that remake is good. I still gotta play through the new, direct-sequel. I flipped the visuals back & forth constantly while playing through the remake. It was solid & I played the original alot at my cousins, growing up.
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.
It was probably one of the most complicated videos I've done. There were even things I left out because the video was already close to 40 minutes long. Thanks for the nice words
Congratulations for the incredible video!
Glad you like it! Thanks
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!
Glad I could help! Have fun
Awesome review! Thanks for doing these.
Glad you like them! Thank you so much :-)
An interesting and in-depth overview of a fun series of games.
Thank you
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!
LOL, that's hilarious
As always this is a great video, awesome narration and well documented.🙏
Thank you kindly!
Super, my favorite series of all time. I own most games and also the arcade pcb.
Excellent, you sound like a true fan :-)
Love the channel. I honestly never heard of Wonder Boy though. And I was an arcade nut from 1980-1990.
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!
Someone should, hell, maybe even retexture Wonder Boy to look like Jack Black.
RedZ gaming 68 yes! lol
A+ work like always, good sir!
Thank you! Cheers!
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!
Excellent research work mate .. very entertaining
Glad you enjoyed it Thank you
Great video thanks pacmanqc
Glad you enjoyed it
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
Fantastic, thank you for watching
They recently did “Asha in Monster World,” so you might want to look at it for this video.
Thanks for sharing part of the great history of this game.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video. Always learn something.
Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching :-)
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 =)
Thank you for the nice words, I will put them on the list and see what I can unravel
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Awesome! =)
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.
LOL that's hilarious
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.
Thank you, I love seeing concept art and unused sketches
Informative content, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
love your channel very much!!! Always a great trip down memory lane back to being a teenager in the 80's :)
Glad you enjoyed it Thank you
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries on that note I've converted my Nvidia shield for meme emulation and have 6,000 arcade games that are calling my name LOL keep up the good work really enjoy your videos!
@@elmartillo7931 Is it emulation just absolutely fantastic? Every single game from her childhood and more at your fingertips. Thanks for the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries and all in one place! I can leave all my old consoles in storage and play my favorites in HD on a 70" Plasma lol. Really appreciate you taking the time to comment, thank you very much! I'm torn right now between "Tiger Heli 1 and 2" and "Moon Cressida" hahaha. You should do a video about the history of the Laser disc games. MACH3, Thayer's Quest, Dragon's Layer. One of my friends from HS has them in his garage, we spent a lot of quarters playing those in the arcade back in the day lol
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I can still hear the computer voice from "Thayer's Quest" saying "choose the item you want to drop......" between the quests
WONDERBOY! Won't you take me far away from the mucky-muck, YEAH!
I thought I was the only one.Now take out the broad sword.....lol
You forgot Wonderboy In Monsterworld on the Master System in 1993. Great video and enjoyed it.
Another great video. Used to love Monsters trap in the arcade. I'd love it if you did a video on the dizzy series!
Thank you, I can put it on the Ever-expanding request list but don't know when I will be able to get to it
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
Great vid!!! Thank You
Glad you liked it! Thank you
2021 and still my favourite game evaaaa!!!Thank you!
Thank you for watching :-)
Thanks for this, I had no idea there were that many different versions!!!
Thank you for watching, I knew they were a lot of versions but not this many :-)
I forgot how good the Master System conversion was, it looks incredible :-)
I was surprised it was so well done
Another awesome vid
Glad you enjoyed it Thank you
Great childhood memories of playing this on arcade in my local village in ireland with my friends. Waiting for a game was torture though.
The Sega Master System conversion was excellent and very close to the arcade in many ways.
It was very close, and I played extremely well
@PatmanQC Yes, nice playing. Funny commentary too! Good documentary and I thought Hudson's game was a rip too but sounds like it wasn't. Cool. Thanks!
@@BlackArroToons Thanks a lot. I always thought it was a ripoff as well. Always enjoyed this game can still recall playing it in the arcades back in the days
I just wanna add that
1) Wonder Boy in Monster World had a version on the Master System.
2) There were re-skins of Wonder Boy in Monster Land and Wonder Boy 3: Dragons Trap for the SMS and Wonder Boy in Monster World for the Mega Drive featuring characters from the Brazilian cartoon Monica's Gang.
The video was already 40 minutes long didn't feel the need to add any extra versions that were just re-skins
Great video!
Thanks!
This was my favourite series on the master system!!
It was really good
Love these videos
Thank you kindly :-)
Thank you for this video.
My pleasure!
Great video bro
Appreciate it, Thank you
Excellent video! Congratulations! I am the Wonder Boy World Champion (2738000pts 1CC). Great classic! LIKE!
Cool, thanks!
Hi there. How are you doing today? Thank you so much for the new video. It was really good!
You are so polite, that is rare these days. Best wishes.
I've been a little under the weather but trying to keep my chin up. Thanks for asking. Glad you enjoyed the video, thank you
Thank you very much cheers
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries So sorry to hear that. I hope things are on the up. Best wishes.
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, glad you enjoyed it
One of my fave series for sure.
I always enjoyed it as well
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
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.
That's one of the best home versions the play that is not running under emulation
Another good video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
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.
LOL, it sure looked like it. I wish they would've brought the original arcade game to the Amiga
This is am awesome game I didn’t get to play much of. But your review makes me want to revisit it
It is really good
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.
I was extremely close to adding a Magnum PI reference but went with the boy wonder/Robin joke instead. Thank you, glad you enjoyed them :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries if I had to pick I woulda gone with the Robin one too. Ya chose wisely.
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!
I never understood that either, from the first time I played it. Thanks for the nice words
The way I got introduced to Wonderboy was a bit weird. Here in Brazil, the Master System was (maybe stil is) a quite popular console. We had several games that were only released here, I think, and one of them was Monica no Castelo do Dragão, which was actually a reskin of Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I was very young when I got to play it and the Master System was already quite outdated by that point, but it was still quite fun! I never really got to finish it on my own though. My mom was the one that beated several times. Too bad she doesn't enjoy gaming anymore. In anycase, I'm quite interested in trying the other titles now.
I thought about including Monica since it was a re-skin of the video was already close 40 minutes. That's pretty cool about your mom being good videogames :-)
Feels weird how another Wonder Boy: Asha was announced mere days after this video came out.
Yes that is very odd timing :-)
Great vid. 😁
Thank you
I played wonder boy in monster land in 89 in New Zealand. It wasn't just released in Japan. It was only released in Japanese on arcade.
I’m going to be humming the music to #1 all day...
The music is fantastic :-)