Adventure Island — stories left

Riding on the popularity of Takahashi Meijin and the Famicom boom, it sold explosively, and cumulative shipments in Japan reached 1,050,000 copies.

Also, while the Wonder Boy series from the 2nd title onward developed as the Monster World series on arcades and Sega hardware, the Takahashi Meijin no Boken Jima series developed on its own on the PC Engine and Nintendo hardware, following the system of the 1st title, Wonder Boy.

A port of the 1st title of the Famicom version.

When it was taken up on GameCenter CX, it was announced at the start of the programme that it was the first game that could not be finished in the test play carried out before recording, and Section Chief Arino gave up at 7-1 after playing for 14 hours.

Released by Hudson on 1994-6-24, it is the last Famicom title licensed by Nintendo.

In addition to the standalone Famicom Mini re-release of the first game, all four games were re-released in a compilation for the Game Boy Advance titled Hudson Best Collection Vol 6: Bōken Jima Collection, released in Japan on January 19, 2006.

Takahashi Meijin also appears in the sport mobile game Gachapin & Mukku no Dai Undoukai ("Gachapin & Mukku's Big Sports Day") in 2008, and crosses over with Katamari franchise in the mobile game Takahashi Meijin and Katamari Damacy in 2010.

GameSpot said Adventure Island was a "fast-paced, challenging platformer".

The game is a port of Wonder Boy, developed by Escape (later Westone Bit Entertainment, now bankrupt) and released by Sega as an arcade game in 1986. With the characters replaced and the title changed, it was released for the Family Computer and the MSX on 1986-9-12.

However, the developer had already signed away ownership of the Wonder Boy name and characters to Sega, so Hudson created a new protagonist modeled and named after Hudson Soft's spokesman Takahashi Meijin.

The staff praised it for the fact that its challenge comes from quality level design and not low quality.