We kids here in Germany also loved to grow up with our Commodore 64 game collections. Wonder boy was my absolutely fave. No one could beat me. Meanwhile I am 40 but when I see this video it feels like yesterday. 😊
+Anja Glas Hallo Anja, geht mir nicht anders. Dieses und andere legendäre games standen auch im Gasthaus um die Ecke. Für kleines Geld, hatte man ein paar Stunden Unterhaltung. By the way, 75er Jahrgang is schon was geiles.liebe Grüße aus Österreich
+Knall frosch Hallo, sehe die Nachricht heute erst. Ja, diese Spiele waren schon toll. Bei uns in der "Kneipe um die Ecke" stand immer ein "Dattel-"/ Arcade -Automat mit "Pacman" und einer mit "Streetfigher". Das Ganze neben ein paar tollen Flipperautomaten. Ach, waren das Zeiten ! Und ja.....75er Jahrgang hat was. :)
woooooo did I just hear you say someone say no one could beat them on wonder boy! when I switched my master system on I was wonder boy! awesome isn't even close, I'm too fast on a skateboard for you! and duck hunt don't even get me started.....
I have a story if you care to read it. Back in high school, 1989 I used to play Wonder Boy on my lunch hour at school at the local shopping mall arcade. The music is permanently etched in my memory. I had one hour for lunch so I rushed as fast as I could to make sure I got on the game first. I was usually late for class as most games I played lasted 45-55 minutes. Sometimes the game was already being played by a dirty looking dude in his late thirties. (as a teenager, I assumed he was unemployed), but he was really good at this game as I was. Most times I had the game to myself and a comfy stool. (The arcade provided some stools that were very comfortable). I can't imagine standing for an hour. So I dropped one quarter and I played for the entire lunch hour. I played pretty much every day for 6 months or so and occasionally I would cut class if the class was lame and I wasn't doing too poorly in the subject. One fine day, as the dirty looking dude watched on as well as others who liked to watch the game, (likely waiting for their turn), I remember my heart racing as I got to what we figured would be the final level of the game. It was a sweet success to see the words GAME OVER. I "got the girl at the end", but I expected some sort of story. Either was I was so happy to have finished the game. This might sound lame, but as a guy who didn't really excel at much in my life and rarely finish what I start, I really kicked ass at this game and felt very accomplished. I did graduate high school, and it's decades later, but it was a great time in my life when the only stress I had was from this game. Thanks whoever developed and programmed this game, it was very fun. Thanks for uploading it and bringing me back to 1989.
I was one of the dudes looking at you play. Surely n another country far away, i wasn't that good, but i liked the gameplay and i watched how other more skilled players played
Wow. I mean WOW! That was a true Wonder Boy MASTERCLASS! Amazing skill. Hats off to you. Some of the later sections and levels are incredibly tricky and to go through the whole game on a single life is an incredible achievement.
This was the first arcade game I remember playing. It was in holiday at the hotel in newquay, cornwall in 1986. Another memory from that holiday is a queue to play Outrun in the beach front arcade. Upstairs in that arcade, I was blown away by the graphics on a game called Firefox (based on the film). It was laserdisc which was so new and experimental (basically later became dvd). I was 9 years old.
One of the Best games EVER i had memorized 70% of this huge platform game when i was young ! the Music still moves around in my mind from time to time same like Bubble bobble etc
I love Wonder Boy. It's an iconic game that I saw everywhere in the arcades growing up (seriously, it was 2nd to Street Fighter in sheer popularity or something). But even though I had it on MAME for years, I couldn't get myself to finish it just because of how long this game is. It's amazing how long they decided to make this game. Players who actually had the tenacity and skill to finish this game back in the arcades must have had some serious stamina.
When I was a kid, my best buddy and I played this all night one night at the 7-Eleven by our neighborhood. We were so into it, getting just a little further with each quarter, pumping all our coins into that machine. And then, the effin' storeclerk flipped the breaker for the arcade machine and chased us out. We'd never hated any adult more than that jerk. Makes me happy to finally see this game again, and beat!
Alientcp ye my dad played this on his lunch break in the 1980's and he would play it for an hour or two and he said even though he ALWAYS played it for years he never completed it because at the end he said there was a jump that NO ONE could make on the clouds, but I'm playing on an emulator and am going to try beat him, im on area 7 so im pretty close :D
Quantum Network Yeah, i dont recall where it is, should be around that area, i only made it that far a couple of times and there is indeed an impossible jump. Yeah,Try to do it, but as it should be, start from scratch, and if you fail, you have to do the whole thing again. Im not against the use of emulators, but i am agaisnt the use of savestates. This game has to be beaten as it was designed. Oldschool. XD
Alientcp Yeah true, I don't see any impossible jump here but you and my dad who has played it CONSTANTLY as a kid after work and on his lunch, said that there was indeed that one jump near the end with clouds. I unfortunately did indeed use savestates, but I was using the game gear version which was a little longer with more areas, but I did complete it eventually, biggest anticlimax ever lol. No special ending it just starts again but oh well.
Your dad was stuck same as me, I could get to 7-2 without a single loss of life! I was that good at it but I couldn't make that jump either. It seems like this guy did it in his first try. Its the last scrolling cloud jump in area 4 @ 54:24. I use to get there and then everyone in the shop use to try and make that jump and none was able to do it! To me the distance between the clouds was always too big that you couldn't get to the upper cloud and I swear I have tried every single combination of clouds, waited different times but distance between the two scrolling clouds was always too much for me to get to the upper cloud. I have tried that hundreds if not thousands of times but couldn't do it. I used to play it almost every day for 3-4 years!
@@theDiYwizard I just finished this tonight and this was the hardest part, I slowed down this video to 0.25 and you have to get the jump pixel perfect. Watch for when he jumps and when the cloud is coming down. You have to jump at the exactly the right point. Pretty much it's when the moving cloud touches the static background cloud
Believe it or not, when you get proficient with the skateboard, the game actually becomes easier. The game is meant to be played as speedrunner and the skateboard can actually be controlled in the air.
It's clear that this is a TAS - the player is able to slip and slide without error and skip all those close deaths every time by a mere pixel. This kind of run was impossible at the arcades.
The best game ever for arcade!!! Other classics I loved was Alex Kidd in miracle word, Rainbow Island, Golden Axe & 1942 so many childhood memories would love to do it all over again!!
I really can't believe I watched the complete 1:10:13 hours of this video, I swear that song will ring in my head for the rest of my life. :'( Hats off to you, Turrican, for going through all those long hours to bring us this release! :D
Haha - I loved this game in my youth. So much fun bunking off school and going to the local Arcade to spend my dinner money on Arcade Games...until the Police started coming in the Arcade looking for kids skipping school ;)
When my wife was 16, her mum owned a pub that had this game. Her Mum had the key to open it so she used to give her all the money to put back into it. Got to the point she could play the whole game beginning to end on one 20c piece
Thank you DtM2000 gor the great clue . Today for the first time i managed to play to a finish and rescue Tanya with a new highscore of 1.902.010 ! This particular jump is indeed very hard to learn. Unfortunately i missed a doll at area 7 round 2 so i didn't reach round 8. Maybe next time ....
i've been looking for this game for years, when ever i described it to people they kept say it was joe and mac, but i knew it wasnt, this is actually the game right here, i had nintendo my neighbor had a genesis, so when ever i was at his house we'd play this game,
I got a Master System with Wonderboy one christmas. Wonderboy was my favourite arcade game. The machine that I played on made the game more challenging as the stick was always pushing forwards, so one had to ''break'' to stop. I can tell that the Master System programmers paid an awful lot of attention to the game design. It's an almost perfect port.
It is certainly a good port. But I can’t play it anymore. You can’t control the skateboard in the air like the arcade. This is the main advantage of the skateboard in the arcade.
I played this in the arcades back in the 80s I got so good at it that I went from sticking 20 10ps in to clearing it out in just one 10p but four years later i got the sega master and I have to say thats the best arcade cross over ive played it even had extra levels the original arcade didn't have.
It is one of the best games of all times. It is incredible how you make it look so easy. I would not believe that it is possible to finish the game unblemished. I have never seen the ending of the game so I will not watch it now as I would like to get there myself and be surprised but thank you for inspiration.
Let me get this straight, SEGA did Wonder Boy first, but Hudson ported the game as “Adventure Island” to the NES/Famicom, which is essentially the same game. Is that about right?
At the local laundromat.. 40cents.. play for minimum of atleast 5-10 minutes.. unless you were in the zone and clocked the entire session on one credit - “Rad!” A couple years later you’d pump a golden coin into a machine and get maybe just past the first level.. utter shyt On the 4th stage of Wonderboy (just after the first cave) the theme song changes up.. it sounds almost exactly like an evil rap song from a group out of Las Vegas called ‘Doomsday Productions’ and the song was called ‘Murder Made A Man Of Me’ (1997)
From Germany: My last comment is from 2013. I played it in the pub in 1986/87. I was 14/15. I was addicted to the game. With one credit I sat at the cab for over an hour. And that was the mission: one credit - one goal😅. Never played through. The passage in Round 7 Aera 2 was my achilles heel. In 2015 at 42 years I played through on the original. 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 (1999-2015), 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 while 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 I think..NOW.....i had to do it right now....one mission, just one level....one credit - one goal WONDER BOY ...a masterpiece
Aaaah!!! This is amazing! It was my dream as a kid to finish this game but never managed to... I always got up to the teddy bear. OTL But dude, HOW DO YOU NOT LOSE?! XD Seriously, I was watching this video with my breath sharp at all the moments you were about to lose.. haha, you did amazing, woa, thank you for uploading this. :D
I started playing WB when I was 9-10 in 1985 or so, made it to 7-2 pretty quickly but just couldn't get past 7-2 -as a matter of fact none of my friends at the local penny arcade could. It was only with the internet and videos like this that I finally beat the game..a good 20 years later.
Although I still do not understand how he did it. I tried hundreds, possibly thousands, of times but I couldn't pass it. Same as you, no one in the shop could do it either and believe me we tried so many ways but the gap between clouds was always too big. So i'm not sure how this guy was able to do it.
Great childhood memories of this in my village. This game was totally about memory because u had to keep running all the time. And knowing where the bears and frogs etc were.
All those zillions of years back when me and the other sad arcade hounds were vying for the best viewing position while we weren't playing SFII- most days, a girl would come in, (Yes, a GIRL!) and absolutely OWN this game! She'd play on one credit, NEVER die and keep checking the time in between levels (lunchbreak was our guess.) for about twenty mins or so; she'd then just walk away from the machine, still on her first life, then leave without speaking. (We were too scared to talk to a GIRL!)
WestOne, the developer of this and its clone, Adventure Island, weren't the only ones that WestOne created for Sega, then recycled for Hudson. WestOne also created Riot City for Sega, then recycled it as Riot Zone (known in Japan as Crest of Wolf) for Hudson.
Such an awesome game. I remember being about 3 ft high and having a crowd of gawkers watching me play it. Could only ever make it to level 24 in one game but even now as I watch this vid it makes me appreciate it even more. Memorizing the enemies and hidden spots where you could find dolls and extra lives, the constant pressure of the timer and having to find more fruit to stay alive while also avoiding dangers from every angle. Would love if they remastered it.
WOOOOWW this video game was my best friend!!! I still remember when I used to play it (by the way very well!) and had all the teenagers girls around me!! hahaha the sound effects of this game are really addictive, when you kill frogs, spiders etc....THANK YOU SEGA!!! with only 1 coin I could play 1,30 hr!
Seeing how Wonder Boy was actually almost the same game as in the Adventure Island series I searched a bit in Wikipedia and what I found there was quite interesting: it appears Sega, publishers of Wonder Boy, retained the rights to the game's name and characters but everything else went to the hands of Westone, the developer. Westone then worked with Hudson Soft and the Adventure Island series were born, series which became even more popular than the Wonder Boy games themselves. ^_^
Is the System 1 the Arcade? I'm playing this on the Anniversary Collection and, any time I get to the 54:24 mark where you have the descending clouds, there are more clouds than shown here. When I try to jump up the character only lands on the same cloud and I can't get past this part.
I bought this game with my SMS 2 (with Alex Kidd in Miracle World of course!!) back in 1988 for under $99!!! It was my first forge into the world of SEGA (yes around the that time I already played alot of NES too!). I must of spent 1 whole day fighting through all 99 and grabbing every single doll bonus as well even at the expense of death but I made it to the 100th round!!! I couldn't pass it, there boulders, fires, bees all over the place!! I couldn't even past round 2!! Never made that far ever again!.
I did the same thing. Just made it my mission to finish the game properly. I couldn’t do it, but I didn’t sleep well afterwards. I closed my eyes and could still see Wonder Boy.
QUE LINDO VER EL FINAL DEL JUEGO Y TANTAS PANTALLAS JAMAS VISTAS! YO JUGABA EN MAR DEL PLATA CUANDO IBA DE VACACIONES. LLEGABA A LA MITAD POR LO QUE VEO. ME ACUERDO QUE MIENTRAS JUGABA ME PREGUNTABAN : A QUE MONSTRUO LLEGAS?
You JUST about cleared the 7th monster in time. And there has been many occasions that you should have died, but survived. I dunno if you were lucky or was it skill. I only know you're better than me in this game, and I can get to the 7th monster. :)
me acuerdo de pendejo en Alta Gracia habia minas que se pasaban la tarde entera sentadas en este juego yo de pajerito las miraba y me termino gustando. Ahora que tengo el mame me copo horas jugandolo pero no puedo llegar a la calidad de este pibe, es una masa como juega.
Yeah, used to play this around 1990, good game, memorisation a lot of the time but thats whats good about it, especially when gaming was social. I need this version, shame the VC one is SMS version, even though its nearly the same.
![Arcade Longplay [149] Growl](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GKyk45O4LCw/mqdefault.jpg)
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![Wonder Boy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD] [All Dolls & Letters]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lb_7PyfwbmU/mqdefault.jpg)
We kids here in Germany also loved to grow up with our Commodore 64 game collections. Wonder boy was my absolutely fave. No one could beat me. Meanwhile I am 40 but when I see this video it feels like yesterday. 😊
+Anja Glas Hallo Anja, geht mir nicht anders. Dieses und andere legendäre games standen auch im Gasthaus um die Ecke. Für kleines Geld, hatte man ein paar Stunden Unterhaltung. By the way, 75er Jahrgang is schon was geiles.liebe Grüße aus Österreich
+Knall frosch Hallo, sehe die Nachricht heute erst. Ja, diese Spiele waren schon toll. Bei uns in der "Kneipe um die Ecke" stand immer ein "Dattel-"/ Arcade -Automat mit "Pacman" und einer mit "Streetfigher". Das Ganze neben ein paar tollen Flipperautomaten. Ach, waren das Zeiten ! Und ja.....75er Jahrgang hat was. :)
Anja Glas vielleicht sollten wir uns mal privat unterhalten, denke das wäre sicher sehr interessant
Remember playing this at the laundromat back in the 80s -1 quarter equaled 1/2 an hr of fun!
woooooo did I just hear you say someone say no one could beat them on wonder boy! when I switched my master system on I was wonder boy! awesome isn't even close, I'm too fast on a skateboard for you! and duck hunt don't even get me started.....
I have a story if you care to read it. Back in high school, 1989 I used to play Wonder Boy on my lunch hour at school at the local shopping mall arcade. The music is permanently etched in my memory. I had one hour for lunch so I rushed as fast as I could to make sure I got on the game first. I was usually late for class as most games I played lasted 45-55 minutes. Sometimes the game was already being played by a dirty looking dude in his late thirties. (as a teenager, I assumed he was unemployed), but he was really good at this game as I was. Most times I had the game to myself and a comfy stool. (The arcade provided some stools that were very comfortable). I can't imagine standing for an hour.
So I dropped one quarter and I played for the entire lunch hour. I played pretty much every day for 6 months or so and occasionally I would cut class if the class was lame and I wasn't doing too poorly in the subject. One fine day, as the dirty looking dude watched on as well as others who liked to watch the game, (likely waiting for their turn), I remember my heart racing as I got to what we figured would be the final level of the game. It was a sweet success to see the words GAME OVER. I "got the girl at the end", but I expected some sort of story. Either was I was so happy to have finished the game.
This might sound lame, but as a guy who didn't really excel at much in my life and rarely finish what I start, I really kicked ass at this game and felt very accomplished. I did graduate high school, and it's decades later, but it was a great time in my life when the only stress I had was from this game. Thanks whoever developed and programmed this game, it was very fun. Thanks for uploading it and bringing me back to 1989.
I was one of the dudes looking at you play. Surely n another country far away, i wasn't that good, but i liked the gameplay and i watched how other more skilled players played
BEST ARCADE OF ALL TIME ?
Wonderboy 2 in monsterland was slightly better for me anyway but i loved both.
Street fighter 2
Wow. I mean WOW! That was a true Wonder Boy MASTERCLASS! Amazing skill. Hats off to you. Some of the later sections and levels are incredibly tricky and to go through the whole game on a single life is an incredible achievement.
Mark Alldridge Hello, I was just wondering when you played this if you did, did u come across an "impossible jump" on one of the cloud maps?
He literally doesn't play well.
This was the first arcade game I remember playing. It was in holiday at the hotel in newquay, cornwall in 1986. Another memory from that holiday is a queue to play Outrun in the beach front arcade. Upstairs in that arcade, I was blown away by the graphics on a game called Firefox (based on the film). It was laserdisc which was so new and experimental (basically later became dvd). I was 9 years old.
One of my favourite arcade games
Truly an epic ending!!! :D
You're still alive you simpleton idiot?
@@FPietros lmao did he spill your cereal or something?
Hellooooooo, yooouuuuu…….!!!
I've been looking for this for years! This and Double Dragon were probably my favourite arcade games of the day.
Wonderboy and Bubble Bobble are the best arcades ever...magical pieces of art.
The music for both is excellent
One of the Best games EVER i had memorized 70% of this huge platform game when i was young ! the Music still moves around in my mind from time to time same like Bubble bobble etc
I loved this game when I was a kid. What a flawless run you made here, congratulations!
I love Wonder Boy. It's an iconic game that I saw everywhere in the arcades growing up (seriously, it was 2nd to Street Fighter in sheer popularity or something). But even though I had it on MAME for years, I couldn't get myself to finish it just because of how long this game is. It's amazing how long they decided to make this game. Players who actually had the tenacity and skill to finish this game back in the arcades must have had some serious stamina.
Definitely in the top 10 best arcade games ever.
Das absolute Kult Spiel. Ich verzockte damals mein ganzes Taschengeld daran.
When I was a kid, my best buddy and I played this all night one night at the 7-Eleven by our neighborhood. We were so into it, getting just a little further with each quarter, pumping all our coins into that machine.
And then, the effin' storeclerk flipped the breaker for the arcade machine and chased us out. We'd never hated any adult more than that jerk.
Makes me happy to finally see this game again, and beat!
lol good ole days lol am next in line got my quarter up dude....lol
He chased you out for spending money in the store?
Seriously. I think that i spent over 300 dollars in quarters and i was never able to beat the game, and to have this ending, epic.
Alientcp ye my dad played this on his lunch break in the 1980's and he would play it for an hour or two and he said even though he ALWAYS played it for years he never completed it because at the end he said there was a jump that NO ONE could make on the clouds, but I'm playing on an emulator and am going to try beat him, im on area 7 so im pretty close :D
Quantum Network Yeah, i dont recall where it is, should be around that area, i only made it that far a couple of times and there is indeed an impossible jump.
Yeah,Try to do it, but as it should be, start from scratch, and if you fail, you have to do the whole thing again. Im not against the use of emulators, but i am agaisnt the use of savestates. This game has to be beaten as it was designed. Oldschool. XD
Alientcp Yeah true, I don't see any impossible jump here but you and my dad who has played it CONSTANTLY as a kid after work and on his lunch, said that there was indeed that one jump near the end with clouds. I unfortunately did indeed use savestates, but I was using the game gear version which was a little longer with more areas, but I did complete it eventually, biggest anticlimax ever lol. No special ending it just starts again but oh well.
Your dad was stuck same as me, I could get to 7-2 without a single loss of life! I was that good at it but I couldn't make that jump either. It seems like this guy did it in his first try.
Its the last scrolling cloud jump in area 4 @ 54:24. I use to get there and then everyone in the shop use to try and make that jump and none was able to do it! To me the distance between the clouds was always too big that you couldn't get to the upper cloud and I swear I have tried every single combination of clouds, waited different times but distance between the two scrolling clouds was always too much for me to get to the upper cloud. I have tried that hundreds if not thousands of times but couldn't do it. I used to play it almost every day for 3-4 years!
@@theDiYwizard I just finished this tonight and this was the hardest part, I slowed down this video to 0.25 and you have to get the jump pixel perfect. Watch for when he jumps and when the cloud is coming down. You have to jump at the exactly the right point. Pretty much it's when the moving cloud touches the static background cloud
I almost had a heart attack when he was jumping the clouds with the skate.
Man, this dude is a risk taker.
I've done it before and completed the game once.
Jr
Believe it or not, when you get proficient with the skateboard, the game actually becomes easier. The game is meant to be played as speedrunner and the skateboard can actually be controlled in the air.
@@OldAussieAds I used to hate loosing the skateboard it's much easier with it.
It's clear that this is a TAS - the player is able to slip and slide without error and skip all those close deaths every time by a mere pixel.
This kind of run was impossible at the arcades.
The music to this game randomly came into my head and I had to look it up. Classic game!
The best game ever for arcade!!! Other classics I loved was Alex Kidd in miracle word, Rainbow Island, Golden Axe & 1942 so many childhood memories would love to do it all over again!!
Masterpiece of arcades
Amazing game for its time,it only used to be 10p a game in my local arcade & I used to sit on it for ages untill I beat the game,pure fun
One of the greatest games ever love this game could never remember the name though till now
So much nostalgia. I remember playing this to death in the hotel when I was on holiday in the late 90's. Loved the music too.
The sound effects and music are some of the most memorable in arcade history
Awesome playthrough. Years of mi youth life dedicated to this games. I've never been so good playing it
I really can't believe I watched the complete 1:10:13 hours of this video, I swear that song will ring in my head for the rest of my life. :'(
Hats off to you, Turrican, for going through all those long hours to bring us this release! :D
Haha - I loved this game in my youth. So much fun bunking off school and going to the local Arcade to spend my dinner money on Arcade Games...until the Police started coming in the Arcade looking for kids skipping school ;)
Hahahaa, yep they were the days. I was into the arcades in the street fighter days, but still just as much fun!
I remember 1 quarter would last half an hour playing at the laundromat
Ha ha yeah no school uniforms permitted
Where did you live?
One of my all time favorites as a kid, could never get past 6-1.
Capolavoro
the feeling of finding a new life during the game was indescribable
When my wife was 16, her mum owned a pub that had this game. Her Mum had the key to open it so she used to give her all the money to put back into it. Got to the point she could play the whole game beginning to end on one 20c piece
Genial,das waren noch Zeiten-das waren noch spiele die richtig spaß gemacht haben!!
Thank you DtM2000 gor the great clue . Today for the first time i managed to play to a finish and rescue Tanya with a new highscore of 1.902.010 ! This particular jump is indeed very hard to learn. Unfortunately i missed a doll at area 7 round 2 so i didn't reach round 8. Maybe next time ....
i've been looking for this game for years, when ever i described it to people they kept say it was joe and mac, but i knew it wasnt, this is actually the game right here, i had nintendo my neighbor had a genesis, so when ever i was at his house we'd play this game,
+01hondascott ok
+01hondascott Except this game was never released for the Genesis.
+Saruman38 Unless his buddy owned a Power Base Converter and played the SMS version on a Genesis.
+Saruman38 he means 'Master System'
01hondascott think you’re thinking of super adventure island or adventure island
I got a Master System with Wonderboy one christmas. Wonderboy was my favourite arcade game. The machine that I played on made the game more challenging as the stick was always pushing forwards, so one had to ''break'' to stop. I can tell that the Master System programmers paid an awful lot of attention to the game design. It's an almost perfect port.
It is certainly a good port. But I can’t play it anymore. You can’t control the skateboard in the air like the arcade. This is the main advantage of the skateboard in the arcade.
After 25 years I finally managed to beat this game last night lol
Which version?
I played this in the arcades back in the 80s I got so good at it that I went from sticking 20 10ps in to clearing it out in just one 10p but four years later i got the sega master and I have to say thats the best arcade cross over ive played it even had extra levels the original arcade didn't have.
It is one of the best games of all times. It is incredible how you make it look so easy. I would not believe that it is possible to finish the game unblemished. I have never seen the ending of the game so I will not watch it now as I would like to get there myself and be surprised but thank you for inspiration.
It's tool-assisted, that's why it's unblemished.
Eshlar what's the tool?
hlmrtn Hello, I was just wondering when you played this if you did, did u come across an "impossible jump" on one of the cloud maps?
Hail to the player. One of my favorite games of my childhood, more than 20 years ago :)
Let me get this straight, SEGA did Wonder Boy first, but Hudson ported the game as “Adventure Island” to the NES/Famicom, which is essentially the same game. Is that about right?
You are the best! I did never could cross the last hole in 8-3 but you solved so simple. Congratulations!
I always loved the way he does the whole quest while holding his pants up.
At the local laundromat.. 40cents.. play for minimum of atleast 5-10 minutes.. unless you were in the zone and clocked the entire session on one credit - “Rad!”
A couple years later you’d pump a golden coin into a machine and get maybe just past the first level.. utter shyt
On the 4th stage of Wonderboy (just after the first cave) the theme song changes up.. it sounds almost exactly like an evil rap song from a group out of Las Vegas called ‘Doomsday Productions’ and the song was called ‘Murder Made A Man Of Me’ (1997)
Respect! Played it many time in the Arcade and on the C64, but never managed to get passed Area 7...without a trainer.
From Germany:
My last comment is from 2013.
I played it in the pub in 1986/87. I was 14/15. I was addicted to the game. With one credit I sat at the cab for over an hour. And that was the mission: one credit - one goal😅.
Never played through. The passage in Round 7 Aera 2 was my achilles heel.
In 2015 at 42 years I played through on the original. 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 (1999-2015), 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 while 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
I think..NOW.....i had to do it right now....one mission, just one level....one credit - one goal
WONDER BOY ...a masterpiece
Imagine the furore that would come if this game was released today! A little white dude slaying natives with his axe.
59:37 - 59:40 *standing ovation*
Aaaah!!! This is amazing! It was my dream as a kid to finish this game but never managed to... I always got up to the teddy bear. OTL
But dude, HOW DO YOU NOT LOSE?! XD
Seriously, I was watching this video with my breath sharp at all the moments you were about to lose.. haha, you did amazing, woa, thank you for uploading this. :D
It's tool-assisted.
I used to get to level 7-2 in one life all the time! but never got past it!
Eshlar Tool assisted?
What other game could give you so much play time for one quarter!
Pang! 3, maybe.
YOU ARE THE KING!!!
Lol the beheaded boss is smiling too at 1:09:38 what a G rated ending :P
Nice man, never completed it back in the day´s. I was fun to watch.
@Turrican0815.... nice video, i played this game years ago, but could never get to the higher levels.now i know what they look like , thanks
Thanks for doing this!! Really enjoyed playing this game when i was younger :)
I started playing WB when I was 9-10 in 1985 or so, made it to 7-2 pretty quickly but just couldn't get past 7-2 -as a matter of fact none of my friends at the local penny arcade could. It was only with the internet and videos like this that I finally beat the game..a good 20 years later.
Although I still do not understand how he did it. I tried hundreds, possibly thousands, of times but I couldn't pass it. Same as you, no one in the shop could do it either and believe me we tried so many ways but the gap between clouds was always too big. So i'm not sure how this guy was able to do it.
never knew this was on Sega! I had the tape for my commadore 64 in the 80s x
never passed over area 6 round 3, thanks for this! such great memories!
Its same like Adventure island
Great childhood memories of this in my village. This game was totally about memory because u had to keep running all the time. And knowing where the bears and frogs etc were.
Aww yis Memories, This game was my cocaine, i could never stop playing this game
That’s crazy how good u are at this game! And u did it with just one life!
All those zillions of years back when me and the other sad arcade hounds were vying for the best viewing position while we weren't playing SFII- most days, a girl would come in, (Yes, a GIRL!) and absolutely OWN this game! She'd play on one credit, NEVER die and keep checking the time in between levels (lunchbreak was our guess.) for about twenty mins or so; she'd then just walk away from the machine, still on her first life, then leave without speaking. (We were too scared to talk to a GIRL!)
THIS IS A CLASSIC!!!! ...AWESOME JOB, CUBEx55
WestOne, the developer of this and its clone, Adventure Island, weren't the only ones that WestOne created for Sega, then recycled for Hudson. WestOne also created Riot City for Sega, then recycled it as Riot Zone (known in Japan as Crest of Wolf) for Hudson.
Such an awesome game. I remember being about 3 ft high and having a crowd of gawkers watching me play it. Could only ever make it to level 24 in one game but even now as I watch this vid it makes me appreciate it even more. Memorizing the enemies and hidden spots where you could find dolls and extra lives, the constant pressure of the timer and having to find more fruit to stay alive while also avoiding dangers from every angle. Would love if they remastered it.
They did remaster it. Several times. And all versions suck.
I loved this game in the past
Awesome vid .... loved playing this as a kid
I was never really good at it, yet, I liked watching people who were, play it.
WOOOOWW this video game was my best friend!!! I still remember when I used to play it (by the way very well!) and had all the teenagers girls around me!! hahaha the sound effects of this game are really addictive, when you kill frogs, spiders etc....THANK YOU SEGA!!! with only 1 coin I could play 1,30 hr!
So true. Every sound is satisfying.
Masterful board control!
Seeing how Wonder Boy was actually almost the same game as in the Adventure Island series I searched a bit in Wikipedia and what I found there was quite interesting: it appears Sega, publishers of Wonder Boy, retained the rights to the game's name and characters but everything else went to the hands of Westone, the developer. Westone then worked with Hudson Soft and the Adventure Island series were born, series which became even more popular than the Wonder Boy games themselves. ^_^
First game I ever played, loved it.
me too ^^
and "alex kidd" :D
Rob C Hello, I was just wondering when you played this if you did, did u come across an "impossible jump" on one of the cloud maps?
2nd for me after Ghosts N Goblins.
Bon jeu
Coloré
this game play is a wonder by itself
this game was so frickin cool back in th day and even now too...oh th fond memories.
Is the System 1 the Arcade? I'm playing this on the Anniversary Collection and, any time I get to the 54:24 mark where you have the descending clouds, there are more clouds than shown here.
When I try to jump up the character only lands on the same cloud and I can't get past this part.
I bought this game with my SMS 2 (with Alex Kidd in Miracle World of course!!) back in 1988 for under $99!!! It was my first forge into the world of SEGA (yes around the that time I already played alot of NES too!). I must of spent 1 whole day fighting through all 99 and grabbing every single doll bonus as well even at the expense of death but I made it to the 100th round!!! I couldn't pass it, there boulders, fires, bees all over the place!! I couldn't even past round 2!! Never made that far ever again!.
I did the same thing. Just made it my mission to finish the game properly. I couldn’t do it, but I didn’t sleep well afterwards. I closed my eyes and could still see Wonder Boy.
I have finished it for first time. I was stacked at 7th level last cloud until I saw your video:)
Same problem for me growing up playing the original arcade
QUE LINDO VER EL FINAL DEL JUEGO Y TANTAS PANTALLAS JAMAS VISTAS!
YO JUGABA EN MAR DEL PLATA CUANDO IBA DE VACACIONES. LLEGABA A LA MITAD POR LO QUE VEO. ME ACUERDO QUE MIENTRAS JUGABA ME PREGUNTABAN : A QUE MONSTRUO LLEGAS?
You JUST about cleared the 7th monster in time. And there has been many occasions that you should have died, but survived. I dunno if you were lucky or was it skill. I only know you're better than me in this game, and I can get to the 7th monster. :)
the most difficult game
Carlos Espinola its a really good game though i love it so much
Gotta get all those dolls if you miss one then good luck starting over
@@moneymoney-ve4jh what even?!
not even close
@@wirti94 how?
congratulations, well done.
Ten pence a go in the pub back in the day..and a full hours entertainment...needed a runner to bring pints.
Wonder Boy and Adventure Island are the same game, so stop saying "Is this based on AI?"
***** They are the same game, different graphics
:P
*****
Ok, ok, I get it, now everyone shut the f**k up
Jeremy Rasmusson temper temper
Ristar the Shooting Star Rude. You stfu first. ;p
Ristar the Shooting Star few
So, this was the original Adventure Island.
Joguei muito esse jogo na minha infância, eu tinha medo quando chegava no Boss kkk
LIKE THAT A LOT THANK YOU VERY MUCH
oh man I used to LOVE this game I never got to the end but it was still the best game I ever played
me acuerdo de pendejo en Alta Gracia habia minas que se pasaban la tarde entera sentadas en este juego yo de pajerito las miraba y me termino gustando. Ahora que tengo el mame me copo horas jugandolo pero no puedo llegar a la calidad de este pibe, es una masa como juega.
Ohhh gosh -- wow, how much i spent on this game !! I love the 80s :)
Yeah, used to play this around 1990, good game, memorisation a lot of the time but thats whats good about it, especially when gaming was social. I need this version, shame the VC one is SMS version, even though its nearly the same.
This gave me so much anxiety to watch
Sega needs to port this to 3DS
@Roymungus its probably garbage lol
@Roymungus I was far from impressed.
One of the best games ever!
10 centavos y ficha 32 episodios y rescatadas a la novia... Una genialidad cuánta nostalgia y recuerdos hermosos
Amazing great memories..
Unreal!! epecially how he deals with the final monster, jumping between the fireballs...
Knew a guy that could clear this one... He was a dab at Pac-Land too
Great games, great times
The theme reminds me "they don't care about us"