Wonder Boy
| Wonder Boy/Monster World | |
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| Genres | Platform game |
| Developers | Westone Bit Entertainment |
| Publishers | Sega |
| MONSTER WORLD COMPLETE COLLECTION ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK | |
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| Soundtrack album by Shinichi Sakamoto, Jin Watanabe | |
| Released | March 8, 2007 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
Wonder Boy (ワンダーボーイ Wandā Bōi?) and the later Monster World (モンスターワールド Monsutā Wārudo?) make up a series of video games published by Sega and developed by Westone Bit Entertainment (formerly Escape).
The series itself consists of the main Wonder Boy series, and the Monster World sub-series. Games may be part of one, the other, or both. This has resulted in a sometimes confusing naming structure resulting in titles like "Wonder Boy V: Monster World III". North America and Europe received every game that was under the Wonder Boy brand, but Japan received one exclusive title that is exclusively part of Monster World.
To further complicate matters, Westone had a unique licensing arrangement with Sega whereby Sega retained the rights to the names "Wonder Boy" and "Monster Land", but Westone retained the rights to everything else. Westone, in turn, had a licensing arrangement with Hudson Soft, who created new characters and titles and ported these games to non-Sega platforms. The most well known of these is Adventure Island, which was more commercially successful than Wonder Boy was.
There are a combined six official titles in the Wonder Boy and Monster World series:
The first game of the series was initially an 1986 arcade game simply titled Wonder Boy developed by Escape (later known as Westone) and published by Sega. It was a side-scrolling action game where the player controls a young boy seeking to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend, making use of items such as throwing axes and riding skateboards in order to proceed through eight worlds, each consisting of four stages and a boss. During the same year the arcade version was released, Sega developed a version of Wonder Boy for the SG-1000, available exclusively in Japan and New Zealand, that was a great departure from the arcade version due to hardware differences. The following year, Sega released a second home version titled Super Wonder Boy, this time for the Sega Mark III. In contrast to the SG-1000 predecessor, the Mark III was a more faithful conversion of the arcade original, but with added content such as a new set of eight additional stages and all-new bonus stages. Since the SG-1000 was unavailable outside Japan and New Zealand, Super Wonder Boy was the first console game in the series released in North America, Europe and Brazil. The overseas releases for the Master System had the title changed to simply Wonder Boy (omitting the "Super" prefix).
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