Wonder Boy (Wii)

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Description

Just when things were going great with Tom-Tom and his girlfriend Tanya, some thug of a woodland king had to kidnap her and hide her away, and Tom-Tom doesn't have a clue where. That's why he has to explore deep dark forests, cross endless oceans, climb treacherous slopes, survive endless volcanoes, and even walk through clouds. But Tom-Tom will never be totally alone. You see, when he goes through the exotic locations, he has to come face to face with its inhabitants, like bees, spiders, snakes, coal-kids, frogs, bats, snails, coyotes, and octopuses, to name a few. The hatchet is Tom-Tom's only line of defense against these menaces.

There are ten areas, each containing four rounds each, but the tenth area can't be accessed unless Tom-Tom collects all the dolls during his rescue mission. During his journey, he can break open different eggs that will reveal hatchets, skateboards, mushrooms, milk, and even guardian angels. You can ride the skateboard through each round, as long as you don't collide with an inhabitant. When you complete each round while still riding the skateboard, you'll start the next round still riding it. As you progress through each round, your vitality will start to get low, but it can be increased by getting milk, mushrooms, potato chips,or fruit that appear everywhere you go. As well as the normal eggs, there are also speckled eggs that must be avoided, otherwise the God of Death will be released, and once he follows you, you'll lose vitality much quickly. At the end of every fourth round, there is a king waiting to destroy you with his fireballs or lightning bolts.

There are also warp-gates, but you don't find them, they find you. Warp-gates appear in rounds 1-4 of each area. If you happen to get one fruit, a special item will appear. These special items include handbags, wrist watches, a pair of shoes, a teddy bear, and a bottle of perfume. Another girl will appear and take you up to the clouds where the object is to collect as many hearts as you can without falling down or getting the item again. Once you have collected all the hearts, you can get the item to return to the surface, and more often than not, you'll get further in the round.

Screenshots

There are no Wii screenshots for this game.

There are 85 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.

Alternate Titles

• "Revenge of Drancon" -- American Game Gear Title
• "スーパーワンダーボーイ" -- Sega Master System Japanese Spelling
• "ワンダーボーイ" -- Japanese Spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
• Wonder Boy series

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The Press Says

Nintendo Life	Mar 31, 2008		70
Jeuxvideo.com	Aug 24, 2011	14 out of 20	70
IGN	Mar 31, 2008	6 out of 10	60
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Apr 11, 2008	5 out of 10	50

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Wonder Boy MSX	1	Kaminari (2059) Jun 04, 2008

Trivia

Adventure Island

Wonder Boy is the direct inspiration for Hudson's Adventure Island series.

C64 versions

Beau Jolly's Commodore 64 compilation Big Box features a slightly different version of the game, seemingly an earlier development version supplied to Beau Jolly by mistake. The main sprite looks different, the game's iconic skateboard does not appear, a few graphics and musical effects and enemy / platform positions have been changed, and completing the game dumps the player into what appears to be a bugged and uncompletable version of level 1.

Awards

• Power Play
  • 1987 - #3 Best Master System Game '87

Information also contributed by Martin Smith

Related Web Sites

• The Legend of Wonder Boy (An IGN retrospective about the history of Wonder Boy and his various exploits.)