Agreed. It was really unneccesary to have to collect the bee and then input a code ontop of that just to continue. There shouldve been unlimited continues as well as passwords. The game is challenging enough with unlimited continues. Some of the patterns get very difficult in a few areas towards the end. I have good and bad memories of the game. It was frustrating as hell but it has a nostalgia to it for me as well. I like it but its not a great game to me. The control is a little loose. New Adventure Island on turbo grafx 16 is the best adventure island I played and super adventure island was solid as well.
Interesting and refreshing take on a popular old game. This kind of game is from a different age. The original game is called Wonder Boy (published by Sega) and it was a huge mid-eighties arcade hit, being ported to all the home computers of the day and most notably got an arcade perfect port on the Master System. Hudson bought the rights to port it to the NES, and a couple of years later reskinned it and gave birth to the Adventure Island 'fork' in the series. There was a point when I could pretty much one-credit the arcade game (and knew where all the secret handbags were), and almost did the same thing on the Master System. As much as I love some 8-16-bit Hudson Soft games their take on Wonder Boy always felt a bit dirty and inferior to Westone and Sega's efforts. I wouldn't say the AI series is exactly their finest hour.
I accidentally learned a cheat when I played this game. Unlimited Continues At the end of the first level right before the sign that says G on it there is a hidden egg. You will have to jump at the edge right next to the wooden platform that leads to this cliff and it will reveal the hidden egg. Inside this egg, you will find a bee that allows you to continue after a game over. After collecting the bee, anytime you are on the game over screen, hold Up + A + Select and press Start. This will respawn you at the start of the level you died on.
This game is a Wonder Boy clone from the SMS. The mustache among other things was needed for Hudson to make copyright changes from "Tom Tom" the original character from Sega.
The bee thing was ridiculous. I never liked the idea of the depleting health - which also happened on the SNES one too I think... never really understood the idea of that.
Ben Rai I don't mind the energy thing in Felix - there if you ran out of energy you'd just drop down to a less powerful form. Here you just die though. Also, having all the things that make the game easier be hidden seems contrary to an energy meter that compels you to move forward quickly.
I highly recommend Adventure Island 3! AI2 is really good as well but the third game just seemed to have the most dinosaur critters and tons of secret areas/stages to enjoy. The first game might be in my Top 5 HARDEST NES games list because it is truly THAT hard to beat (for all the wrong reasons too...kinda hard to beat any game with no weapons which is the position the game puts you in multiple times).
This is a Wonder Boy clone from the Sega Master System which came out a almost 2 years earlier. My NES friends could never figure out why I was so good at this game when they first got it 😅
I really like this game but yeah having to collect a secret bee to even be able to continue is absurd. Should have just given infinite continues by default like Castlevania. Also, a password system to save progress after each world or atleast every other world would have been really nice.
The difficulty and repetition of this game was insane. I own Adventure Islabd 2 so I can assure that one's a great game. I think therr's one on SNES but I never played it.
Though I never played this one as a kid, it sounds a lot like any other NES game at the time: Secrets are learned through word-of-mouth, and you only had a few games at the time, so you had plenty of time to play it over and over to get better, or you use a code (*ahem* Contra *ahem*). I did try this one a couple of times within the last few years, got to about the 4th or 5th level and decided to quit. There just isn't as much time to play as an adult!
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There was only one gaming girl on our street. And she would let her go in her house, and she would play Island. I hated it so much. To me it was the anti-video game. But if I find it somewhere, I will buy it. lol. Just for the memory,
Maybe there is another retro game you would like to check out on NES. I dunno the english title but it's called Doki Doki Amusement Park... or something like that... Starts with a boy in blue clothes jumps into a movie screen theatre in order to rescue a kidnapped girl... Was a pretty cute game.
Fair call. Honestly not a lot of NES games have aged well. They were good in 1986 when your alternative was losing heaps of money on arcade games, but these days we've been spoilt by the better games of the next two generations which are still much more playable.
Did you beat the game? This game is deceptively hard, it looks nice and friendly but really isn't. It took a good japanese player 23 hours(!) to beat this game(GameCenter CX)... (without the better weapon I might add)
Great review. Though you have to understand the gaming mentality of that decade, most games were not friendly or fun for all, games were made to challenge player and give them that adrenaline rush, and that orgasm(lol) of beating what it seemed impossible. That was an unique sensation far better than "fun", fun games didn't give that danger sensation and adrenaline. Later games lost it in order to be more popular, friendly and cash.
Ironically "cash" was also the reason why many of those games had an artificial and ridiculous level of difficulty. Most kids would only have 3 or 4 new games per year. They were quite expensive. And making the games freaking hard would make them last longer, because they still needed to be finished.
The character in this game is based off a Hudson employee by the name of Takahashi Meijin, known for his extremely fast thumb speed. There are videos that show how fast he can mash a button on a controller, the man literally doesn't need a turbo pad.
I enjoyed this game as a kid. I remember completing it then. Since being an adult I added it back to my collection just a few years ago. You touched on some very valid points. I can't see myself completing it now. Its very challenging and the 32 levels is a beating that's for sure. Still this game has a place in my retro history.
This was one of the first NES games I played when I bought a console in 1990. My gf's friend played Nintendo and this was one of her favorite titles so we started playing it. It is a very challenging game, for sure, and I've actually never beat it, one of the few games out of scores for the NES that I've never finished (also Star Wars, which is nearly impossible to beat without cheats). As far as hidden items go, here are my 2 cents...The first hit for the NES was Super Mario Bros., which had many hidden items. The first time I played it my immediate thought was "WTF?? How the actual fuck are you supposed to know those blocks are there??". I only knew because my gf had played before and knew where all the hidden items were. It was common in games then. it encouraged the player to explore the world. The challenge in AI, of course, is to explore while at the same time replenishing food and killing/avoiding enemies. I realized pretty quickly that the hidden eggs were almost always on the edge of a pit or cliff, so that saved some time (we also died a LOT looking for eggs). The Hudson Bee trick I didn't learn until later. Back in the pre-internet days the way to get game hacks was to read the few gaming magazines and books that existed at that time. I think once I got better at the game and knew where all the power-ups were I made it to level 8, but there was one jump I couldn't do. It was impossibly hard, and that's why I watched this video in the first place. But now that I've watched it it might be AI 2 I'm thinking of! I think I did finish this game. Anyway...thanks for the great video!
I'm with you on this one. Needlessly difficult games are not my cup of tea either. Platformers should ideally ramp up the difficulty the deeper you go. Not make you wonder why the developers hate you right out of the box. I was THIS close to buying it on the 3DS eshop till you were onto how hard it was. Not having certain information making it harder reminded me of playing the first Zelda game, which was way harder playing blind. As a side note, I've watched (and commented) on many of your videos, and am impressed with the quality of content you put out for as long as you have been doing this. That level of talent deserves to be commended. You did 2 videos of mean things you've read on here, ever considered showing and reading some of the positive?
I always felt like this game was someones attempt at Marios Cousin on crack. I enjoyed it myself. But it did feel like they were trying to both capitalize, and somehow..... improve of the Mario games while throwing in their own take on it. Not a bad idea. But..... I agree. Maybe a little too much thrown at you at once comparitvely.
Good review! What did you think about the music in the game? Not even worth mentioning, right? I think you would've had more fun with The Guardian Legend, and its music is fantastic :)
ShmupShmupPewPew The music was okay, I guess, it got quite repetitive. It's definitely not memorable like many other NES platformers. I think I may play The Guardian Legend next, that's the one I wanted to win the vote :)
Oh god! I had that nightmare of a game. I may have reached half the game. It was too hard for kids. This easily could have been a rival to Super Mario Bros if it had better main character design, music control and a little bit more easy(at least continues). And the ability to get rid of the skate board at will. Hated that thing mostly. I got the 3rd too which was better but I felt it surprisingly too easy after being used to the abuse of the first.
I grew up playing Adventure Island, because a friend had it, so I have more nostalgia for the game which definitely colors my opinion. I still enjoy it, but looking at it objectively, it is a pretty basic experience that is just really difficult because of the need to memorize everything. That said, a lot of 8-bit platformers relied on that same tactic, so it's not unprecedented, and at least the game has plenty of charm. I would agree that later games are better, because they add additional weapons, the ability to ride various kinds of dinosaurs, which also give the extra hit, and a bit more variety in the levels and boss fights.
nice review. ive never been a fan of this game or had any desire to own it cause of the reasons you mentioned and im a fan of 'hard' games but the no continues thing is a bit too much of artificially hard aspect for me. i think some of the sequels are better though. its also interesting the games a rehash of the wonder boy series but what evs. maybe some time youll get to those other two games. think you'd dig rock n cats. guardian i have mixed feelings about but i get its charm. ever play puss n boots. weird game but i think id rather play that over this first adventure island. least its short and easy.
BenevolentDick I really don't understand the point of the hidden bee to let you continue - it seems like that should just be a part of the game. It's a strange way of gating or extending the gameplay. I'm sure I'll get to TGL and RK soon, I wanted to play all 3 games I put up for vote. I have not played Puss n' Boots, but I do really like shorter Nintendo games.
I played 1 and 3(as a kid) AD1 is on my list of non beated games :( AD3 instead was too easy XD or maybe I was already got used to masochist difficulty XD also 3rd had rideable dinosaurs... before Yoshi. Coincidence?
I didn't play this one, though I did play Wonder Boy, which doesn't seem to be too different from this. Speaking of which, out of all the Adventure Island games, Super Adventure Island II on SNES seems to be the best one. It's rather distinct as it emphasizes on adventure more than just straight up platforming. I've actually seen it labeled as a Mertroidvania, so that's definitely interesting.
I'm giving a try to this game for the first time and I found no continue feature which I thought it was insane. Later I also checked the manual and noticed there was a continue option that activates finding a secret bee inside an egg and then pressing the DPAD and START during the main screen. What a bunch of bullsh*t!
I'm gearing up to play this for the first time soon. It's fun going through retro games and seeing all the different channels out there and the different takes.
Farthest I got was 8 1 back in a day. My best result is 7 4 currently... It gets crazy starting at world 7... I did beat Wonderboy in a day, because it has continues...
The sequels are much better. They have a stage select code, dinosaur friends, shorter levels and a boomerang to choose with the axe. This game does several things right, but it has not aged well. I've never been a fan of games that need you to enter a code to continue.
@@Cannotbetamed1 yayy thanks for replying to my comment however it's only top 5. I'm looking for games like adv island, wonder boy etc..that you just can't stop playing. Thanks ❤️
I’m sorry but back when these games were new you had 1 game and a lot of parents were like min no you can’t buy anther game if you haven’t finished that 1 and my dad if necessary would sit and watch me play for 3 hours making sure I didn’t cheat and he called skipping or warping levels cheating and only if I beat the whole game in front of him I could rent games 2 games a weekend weekdays were for school so with no picking up where you left off before you did the levels a lot
Adventure Island 1 is flawed - in particular the eggs and their rewards are too much of a guessing game in the later worlds - but I do think games like this need to be understood in the context of their day to help understand their design philosophies. You see this talked about a bit in the GameCenterCX episode, but the Hudson Bee being an easy to find secret - but a secret all the same - wasn't just to make the design more obtuse and difficult for difficulty's sake, but instead designed encourage players to just...play the game and just see how they do. It's not a design decision that makes much sense nowadays, especially for people that want continuous forward progression, but there is a logic to it, of playing and sharing secrets over brute force completion. And, of course, once you have the bee, you have infinite continues, and can use your lives to power through the checkpoints and learn each section. In that sense, the game does play fair with you. The remaining secrets in that context are more like schoolyard secrets than anything essential. Not to mention, the difficulty is better thought out and tested than a lot of "hard" NES games, in the sense that its repeating structure really does train you to incrementally learn the layouts and get better. Consider 8-3 and the infamous "3 bats" Before you even reach that level, you still have a variation of the stage where only every other platform drops, then afterwards every platform, then finally every platform with the bats. If this was the first time hitting the sequence, it would be an absolute wall. But knowing the structure of platforms, and anticipating that there's going to be some extra step to fuck you up, 8-3 ends up building a little suspense even before you know what's coming. And this is true throughout the whole game. This design also has the advantage of helping the player learn or identify secrets from earlier stages to use in later stages in many cases. Obviously this is not a perfect thing - repeating level structure is still at best a dated way to construct a challenge or theme - but the fact that it is done in such a deliberate way does make me more inclined to forgive or even appreciate it. Hell the fact that every challenge did feel so deliberate and playtested is probably the reason why I beat it, despite being a very precise game to win.
I actually forgot about Adventure Island till I googled up Island 3 and saw this video, thank you for highlighting the game, honestly, Island 3 was amazing, you should give it a shot.
This was really cool! we love this series at BFG and play the original all the time. it is an incredibly challenging game due to length and lack of lives.. also thanks for the background story a lot of people you wont hear that from. and finally i thought we were doing pretty good on finding secrets and the secrets level but the Hunny Bee was a great bit of information that will really help. keep up the good work
I have memories of playing part two I have seen super adventure Island II also but I did not even know there was a number one even if it sounds laughable
I was the only person in my family who used the NES but I also have fond memories of it. As far as getting Adventure Island, I actually got it on the Sega Game Gear. Decent game for its time.
Lol it's funny you keep reviewing games I just bought or thinking of getting ! Felix, maniac mansion, Kirby I bought over the past few months, I don't have the first but I just got adventure island 2.... Also 3 is on its way in the mail right now. Keep the vids coming, you are so good!
I've never cared for this franchise. Have you played the fourth one? It's the only one that mixes up the formula a bit. (Spoiler: It's still super boring.)
Great video, great channel, great series, we are attempting to do something similar, and I have fond memories of playing that game, I stress "playing" not beating, or winning, but it was a fun addition to my NES lineup.
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Agreed. It was really unneccesary to have to collect the bee and then input a code ontop of that just to continue. There shouldve been unlimited continues as well as passwords. The game is challenging enough with unlimited continues. Some of the patterns get very difficult in a few areas towards the end.
I have good and bad memories of the game. It was frustrating as hell but it has a nostalgia to it for me as well. I like it but its not a great game to me. The control is a little loose. New Adventure Island on turbo grafx 16 is the best adventure island I played and super adventure island was solid as well.
Interesting and refreshing take on a popular old game.
This kind of game is from a different age. The original game is called Wonder Boy (published by Sega) and it was a huge mid-eighties arcade hit, being ported to all the home computers of the day and most notably got an arcade perfect port on the Master System. Hudson bought the rights to port it to the NES, and a couple of years later reskinned it and gave birth to the Adventure Island 'fork' in the series. There was a point when I could pretty much one-credit the arcade game (and knew where all the secret handbags were), and almost did the same thing on the Master System. As much as I love some 8-16-bit Hudson Soft games their take on Wonder Boy always felt a bit dirty and inferior to Westone and Sega's efforts. I wouldn't say the AI series is exactly their finest hour.
Wonderboy on SMS is much more forgiving than the NES Adventure Island, imo.
Hudson spared no mercy for us gamers with this one 😂 colorful, vibrant, quirky characters, fun music and a brutal level of difficulty
I accidentally learned a cheat when I played this game. Unlimited Continues
At the end of the first level right before the sign that says G on it there is a hidden egg. You will have to jump at the edge right next to the wooden platform that leads to this cliff and it will reveal the hidden egg. Inside this egg, you will find a bee that allows you to continue after a game over. After collecting the bee, anytime you are on the game over screen, hold Up + A + Select and press Start. This will respawn you at the start of the level you died on.
some of the Hudson soft games are great but stay away from Milon's Secret Castle, it will drive you nuts
I still like playing milons secret castle...and still can't get through it
The first game suck but its sequels were alot better.
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I always thought he was just a chubby kid when I played this at 5 years old, never noticed the mustache. Too funny
lol, he does have the body of a baby
lol i thought it was a giant underbite
That's not a mustache, it's his mouth. That's why it changes shape based on his facial expression.
This game is a Wonder Boy clone from the SMS. The mustache among other things was needed for Hudson to make copyright changes from "Tom Tom" the original character from Sega.
Played it as a kid and it was super hard and cheap. I got to the final boss once and died. I never got that far again.
This game wants you to die every second, it's not fun to play...It represents what I hate the most in a video game: bad programming!!!
The bee thing was ridiculous. I never liked the idea of the depleting health - which also happened on the SNES one too I think... never really understood the idea of that.
Ben Rai I don't mind the energy thing in Felix - there if you ran out of energy you'd just drop down to a less powerful form. Here you just die though. Also, having all the things that make the game easier be hidden seems contrary to an energy meter that compels you to move forward quickly.
It’s called a challenge.
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I highly recommend Adventure Island 3! AI2 is really good as well but the third game just seemed to have the most dinosaur critters and tons of secret areas/stages to enjoy. The first game might be in my Top 5 HARDEST NES games list because it is truly THAT hard to beat (for all the wrong reasons too...kinda hard to beat any game with no weapons which is the position the game puts you in multiple times).
This is a Wonder Boy clone from the Sega Master System which came out a almost 2 years earlier. My NES friends could never figure out why I was so good at this game when they first got it 😅
Adventure Island 2 is SO MUCH BETTER.
I love the expression on the characters face when he's running around without the skateboard.
I really like this game but yeah having to collect a secret bee to even be able to continue is absurd. Should have just given infinite continues by default like Castlevania. Also, a password system to save progress after each world or atleast every other world would have been really nice.
The difficulty and repetition of this game was insane. I own Adventure Islabd 2 so I can assure that one's a great game. I think therr's one on SNES but I never played it.
why nobody talks about this game being an official port of SEGA's & Westone's: Wonder Boy 1
rofl, those bosses are goofy as hell
Though I never played this one as a kid, it sounds a lot like any other NES game at the time: Secrets are learned through word-of-mouth, and you only had a few games at the time, so you had plenty of time to play it over and over to get better, or you use a code (*ahem* Contra *ahem*).
I did try this one a couple of times within the last few years, got to about the 4th or 5th level and decided to quit. There just isn't as much time to play as an adult!
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There was only one gaming girl on our street. And she would let her go in her house, and she would play Island. I hated it so much. To me it was the anti-video game.
But if I find it somewhere, I will buy it. lol. Just for the memory,
Maybe there is another retro game you would like to check out on NES. I dunno the english title but it's called Doki Doki Amusement Park... or something like that... Starts with a boy in blue clothes jumps into a movie screen theatre in order to rescue a kidnapped girl... Was a pretty cute game.
Fair call. Honestly not a lot of NES games have aged well. They were good in 1986 when your alternative was losing heaps of money on arcade games, but these days we've been spoilt by the better games of the next two generations which are still much more playable.
I beat this game as a kid! As an adult I can’t do it! Fun game but damn it’s hard!
5:33 i just noticed that when the “new” boss head falls off it goes back up as the 1st head lol
Did you beat the game? This game is deceptively hard, it looks nice and friendly but really isn't. It took a good japanese player 23 hours(!) to beat this game(GameCenter CX)... (without the better weapon I might add)
No, I got to the 6th or 7th level.
I once read a nintendo power-type magazine which reviewed this game as "medium" difficulty. The reviewer obviously did not play it to the end.
Adventure Island 2 & 3!
Never played this one, but was just chatting with a friend about games where you have to continously eat
Great review. Though you have to understand the gaming mentality of that decade, most games were not friendly or fun for all, games were made to challenge player and give them that adrenaline rush, and that orgasm(lol) of beating what it seemed impossible. That was an unique sensation far better than "fun", fun games didn't give that danger sensation and adrenaline. Later games lost it in order to be more popular, friendly and cash.
Ironically "cash" was also the reason why many of those games had an artificial and ridiculous level of difficulty. Most kids would only have 3 or 4 new games per year. They were quite expensive. And making the games freaking hard would make them last longer, because they still needed to be finished.
Hey beautyful girl hows.it going? I played a bunch of Hudson when I was little.
The character in this game is based off a Hudson employee by the name of Takahashi Meijin, known for his extremely fast thumb speed. There are videos that show how fast he can mash a button on a controller, the man literally doesn't need a turbo pad.
in my top 10 NES games (the trilogy)
Thís game os awesome!
Thumbs up for acknowledging how stupid the boss fights are. :)
The game feels like it have a lot of momentum, also your voice is very pleasant.
It's the weakest in the series of adventure island games I recommend part 2-3 or new adventure island for turbo grafx 16
Oh those are good but ao is the Snes Adventure Island. He was even in Sega Bomberman
I enjoyed this game as a kid. I remember completing it then. Since being an adult I added it back to my collection just a few years ago. You touched on some very valid points. I can't see myself completing it now. Its very challenging and the 32 levels is a beating that's for sure. Still this game has a place in my retro history.
i play this game every summer on my NES
This game is more like childhood's nightmare than entertainment.
The weird thing about Adventure Island is that it is pretty much the same game as the first Wonder Boy game on c64 and Master System.
That character has a weird mouth or mustache.
This was one of the first NES games I played when I bought a console in 1990. My gf's friend played Nintendo and this was one of her favorite titles so we started playing it. It is a very challenging game, for sure, and I've actually never beat it, one of the few games out of scores for the NES that I've never finished (also Star Wars, which is nearly impossible to beat without cheats). As far as hidden items go, here are my 2 cents...The first hit for the NES was Super Mario Bros., which had many hidden items. The first time I played it my immediate thought was "WTF?? How the actual fuck are you supposed to know those blocks are there??". I only knew because my gf had played before and knew where all the hidden items were. It was common in games then. it encouraged the player to explore the world. The challenge in AI, of course, is to explore while at the same time replenishing food and killing/avoiding enemies. I realized pretty quickly that the hidden eggs were almost always on the edge of a pit or cliff, so that saved some time (we also died a LOT looking for eggs). The Hudson Bee trick I didn't learn until later. Back in the pre-internet days the way to get game hacks was to read the few gaming magazines and books that existed at that time. I think once I got better at the game and knew where all the power-ups were I made it to level 8, but there was one jump I couldn't do. It was impossibly hard, and that's why I watched this video in the first place. But now that I've watched it it might be AI 2 I'm thinking of! I think I did finish this game. Anyway...thanks for the great video!
Thanks for watching
This game was designed for a cabinet, and insert a coin was always a wise choice
I'm with you on this one. Needlessly difficult games are not my cup of tea either. Platformers should ideally ramp up the difficulty the deeper you go. Not make you wonder why the developers hate you right out of the box. I was THIS close to buying it on the 3DS eshop till you were onto how hard it was. Not having certain information making it harder reminded me of playing the first Zelda game, which was way harder playing blind. As a side note, I've watched (and commented) on many of your videos, and am impressed with the quality of content you put out for as long as you have been doing this. That level of talent deserves to be commended. You did 2 videos of mean things you've read on here, ever considered showing and reading some of the positive?
Reading out a bunch of nice things people say about me seems a little self-absorbed.
I always felt like this game was someones attempt at Marios Cousin on crack. I enjoyed it myself. But it did feel like they were trying to both capitalize, and somehow..... improve of the Mario games while throwing in their own take on it. Not a bad idea. But..... I agree. Maybe a little too much thrown at you at once comparitvely.
Wonder Boy clone from the Sega Master System a year or two earlier. Wonder Boy colors look much better too.
This game is amazing and very difficult
Good review! What did you think about the music in the game? Not even worth mentioning, right? I think you would've had more fun with The Guardian Legend, and its music is fantastic :)
ShmupShmupPewPew The music was okay, I guess, it got quite repetitive. It's definitely not memorable like many other NES platformers.
I think I may play The Guardian Legend next, that's the one I wanted to win the vote :)
I played AI2 alot. Someone should do some ukelele covers of the music from AI2!
I might do that! Loved the ideia.
Oh god! I had that nightmare of a game. I may have reached half the game. It was too hard for kids. This easily could have been a rival to Super Mario Bros if it had better main character design, music control and a little bit more easy(at least continues). And the ability to get rid of the skate board at will. Hated that thing mostly.
I got the 3rd too which was better but I felt it surprisingly too easy after being used to the abuse of the first.
Every time I get the skateboard is goes terribly for me. Even in the 3rd game.
I grew up playing Adventure Island, because a friend had it, so I have more nostalgia for the game which definitely colors my opinion. I still enjoy it, but looking at it objectively, it is a pretty basic experience that is just really difficult because of the need to memorize everything. That said, a lot of 8-bit platformers relied on that same tactic, so it's not unprecedented, and at least the game has plenty of charm. I would agree that later games are better, because they add additional weapons, the ability to ride various kinds of dinosaurs, which also give the extra hit, and a bit more variety in the levels and boss fights.
Yeah you are right The Adventure Island 2 is good
i was wondering about the gameplay
I didn't like the look of the character.
Nope never beat it as many times as I rented it
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nice review. ive never been a fan of this game or had any desire to own it cause of the reasons you mentioned and im a fan of 'hard' games but the no continues thing is a bit too much of artificially hard aspect for me. i think some of the sequels are better though. its also interesting the games a rehash of the wonder boy series but what evs. maybe some time youll get to those other two games. think you'd dig rock n cats. guardian i have mixed feelings about but i get its charm. ever play puss n boots. weird game but i think id rather play that over this first adventure island. least its short and easy.
BenevolentDick I really don't understand the point of the hidden bee to let you continue - it seems like that should just be a part of the game. It's a strange way of gating or extending the gameplay. I'm sure I'll get to TGL and RK soon, I wanted to play all 3 games I put up for vote. I have not played Puss n' Boots, but I do really like shorter Nintendo games.
I played 1 and 3(as a kid) AD1 is on my list of non beated games :( AD3 instead was too easy XD or maybe I was already got used to masochist difficulty XD also 3rd had rideable dinosaurs... before Yoshi. Coincidence?
I didn't play this one, though I did play Wonder Boy, which doesn't seem to be too different from this. Speaking of which, out of all the Adventure Island games, Super Adventure Island II on SNES seems to be the best one. It's rather distinct as it emphasizes on adventure more than just straight up platforming. I've actually seen it labeled as a Mertroidvania, so that's definitely interesting.
I've never played Wonder Boy
i beat it. it wasnt easy
Meh it’s a classic
Avgn brought me here
Hi
Sega Wonderboy is so much better in graphic and music
This is a remake, or something, of Wonderboy for the Sega Master System.
This game is NES hard.
Wow
I'm giving a try to this game for the first time and I found no continue feature which I thought it was insane. Later I also checked the manual and noticed there was a continue option that activates finding a secret bee inside an egg and then pressing the DPAD and START during the main screen. What a bunch of bullsh*t!
It’s so stupid. I hate when such essential things are gated behind having to find some secret.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Yeah. Please review Adventures of Tom Saywer on NES
a great summer game! ;)
Hey Pam, did you ever play Princess Tomato In The Salad Kingdom? That was an obscure Hudson Soft game that I actually really enjoyed as a kid.
I haven't
I'm not sure how it has aged, but it's a chill puzzle game with a story, on the NES.
I'm gearing up to play this for the first time soon. It's fun going through retro games and seeing all the different channels out there and the different takes.
Farthest I got was 8 1 back in a day. My best result is 7 4 currently... It gets crazy starting at world 7... I did beat Wonderboy in a day, because it has continues...
I’m going on a binge of your videos .-.
This is one of my dad's favorite games, along with Tengen Tetris, Flipull and Solomon's Key
Are they all on the Nintendo
@@fidelsolis6070 yes all, but flipull. Dont know what the hell that is. Maybe he meant Pitfall?
@@Dikwili she meant pitbull
@@fidelsolis6070 idk. Doesnt seem right
Flipull is on the system, but it might be Japan only. Great game!
This game started in arcade it was awesome
at 0:06 How come you're shooting backwards while facing forward?
The sequels are much better. They have a stage select code, dinosaur friends, shorter levels and a boomerang to choose with the axe. This game does several things right, but it has not aged well. I've never been a fan of games that need you to enter a code to continue.
I remember playing this game. It's was hard but I already beat this game.
I'm wondering if some made a Metal Cover for the music of this game :P.
There’s a code you can use and start your progress where you left off in the game over screen
But yes, this game is fkn hard!
Ahhh... I've never beaten this one, only 2 and 3. This is perhaps the worst one of the bunch. Didn't really captivate my interest, tbh.
3 games my mom enjoyed were Rainbow Island, Bubble Bobble, and Adventure Island 2.
Adventure island, more like Secret island adventure. I never got very far in the first one. I loved the third one, the dino rides were awesome.
The third one does look better, never played it myself though
@@Cannotbetamed1 It's worth a shot I'd say, far superior game. I'm not sure how much it runs though.
Your voice is so sweet. I just subbed. Gorgeous. Can you also give a list of your favorite nes games?
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@@Cannotbetamed1 yayy thanks for replying to my comment however it's only top 5. I'm looking for games like adv island, wonder boy etc..that you just can't stop playing. Thanks ❤️
I loved this game as a kid, but would probably throw a controller if I tried to play it now.
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I’m sorry but back when these games were new you had 1 game and a lot of parents were like min no you can’t buy anther game if you haven’t finished that 1 and my dad if necessary would sit and watch me play for 3 hours making sure I didn’t cheat and he called skipping or warping levels cheating and only if I beat the whole game in front of him I could rent games 2 games a weekend weekdays were for school so with no picking up where you left off before you did the levels a lot
Adventure Island 1 is flawed - in particular the eggs and their rewards are too much of a guessing game in the later worlds - but I do think games like this need to be understood in the context of their day to help understand their design philosophies. You see this talked about a bit in the GameCenterCX episode, but the Hudson Bee being an easy to find secret - but a secret all the same - wasn't just to make the design more obtuse and difficult for difficulty's sake, but instead designed encourage players to just...play the game and just see how they do. It's not a design decision that makes much sense nowadays, especially for people that want continuous forward progression, but there is a logic to it, of playing and sharing secrets over brute force completion. And, of course, once you have the bee, you have infinite continues, and can use your lives to power through the checkpoints and learn each section. In that sense, the game does play fair with you. The remaining secrets in that context are more like schoolyard secrets than anything essential.
Not to mention, the difficulty is better thought out and tested than a lot of "hard" NES games, in the sense that its repeating structure really does train you to incrementally learn the layouts and get better. Consider 8-3 and the infamous "3 bats" Before you even reach that level, you still have a variation of the stage where only every other platform drops, then afterwards every platform, then finally every platform with the bats. If this was the first time hitting the sequence, it would be an absolute wall. But knowing the structure of platforms, and anticipating that there's going to be some extra step to fuck you up, 8-3 ends up building a little suspense even before you know what's coming. And this is true throughout the whole game. This design also has the advantage of helping the player learn or identify secrets from earlier stages to use in later stages in many cases. Obviously this is not a perfect thing - repeating level structure is still at best a dated way to construct a challenge or theme - but the fact that it is done in such a deliberate way does make me more inclined to forgive or even appreciate it. Hell the fact that every challenge did feel so deliberate and playtested is probably the reason why I beat it, despite being a very precise game to win.
Adventure Island is an official hack of wonder boy.
Personally, when I was a kid and got the chance to play this....I hated it. It was far too hard. Now, I enjoy the challenge but then, it was too much.
I actually forgot about Adventure Island till I googled up Island 3 and saw this video, thank you for highlighting the game, honestly, Island 3 was amazing, you should give it a shot.
Loved this game. Never was able to beat it as a kid, but it was a ton of fun to come back and finally beat it after so many years!
This was really cool! we love this series at BFG and play the original all the time. it is an incredibly challenging game due to length and lack of lives.. also thanks for the background story a lot of people you wont hear that from. and finally i thought we were doing pretty good on finding secrets and the secrets level but the Hunny Bee was a great bit of information that will really help. keep up the good work
Glad to help, thanks!
I have memories of playing part two I have seen super adventure Island II also but I did not even know there was a number one even if it sounds laughable
one of the most generic side-scrollers for the nes. the game boy ports at least had variety
+Majoras I haven't played the GB versions, though it seems like Adventure Island 3 on NES is much better than the first.
Cannot be Tamed true lol basically anything but the first one xD
This is a case of Skip the first one and just play the second game ...
Great review :) btw if u have time u should try the 2nd and 3rd sequel of the game :)
This was my whole family's fav game in the NES days
I was the only person in my family who used the NES but I also have fond memories of it. As far as getting Adventure Island, I actually got it on the Sega Game Gear. Decent game for its time.
@@111olbap I played it on an emulator the other day & I am terrible at it now
Lol it's funny you keep reviewing games I just bought or thinking of getting ! Felix, maniac mansion, Kirby I bought over the past few months, I don't have the first but I just got adventure island 2.... Also 3 is on its way in the mail right now. Keep the vids coming, you are so good!
beefcurtainz69 Thanks so much! I look forward to trying AI3, I hear it's much better
I've never cared for this franchise. Have you played the fourth one? It's the only one that mixes up the formula a bit. (Spoiler: It's still super boring.)
+Ryan Pennington No, this is the only one I've played. It didn't really compel me to try the others.
Great video, great channel, great series, we are attempting to do something similar, and I have fond memories of playing that game, I stress "playing" not beating, or winning, but it was a fun addition to my NES lineup.
Original Gamer Stevie Strow Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it.
The game is not hard, I beat it many times as a kid. Todays gamers suck at platformers.