Hudson's Adventure Island (NES)

Hudson's Adventure Island was essentially a port of the arcade game Wonder Boy... except Wonder Boy was replaced with Hudson Soft's real life spokesperson Takahashi Meijin... who was renamed Master Higgins for the English release.

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Prerelease Info

Hidden Text#

Each version of the game contains the string

HECTOR

to check if the game was soft or hard reset.
This is likely a leftover of an earlier version of another game, Hector'87, which was also released by Hudson.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan	US	Europe

The Japanese version uses a different font for the font above the main title. The "TOP 00" message was also changed for the international releases, being above the Press Start Button message rather than below. The tile was also moved up, much closer to the score counter. The Press Start Button message was changed to Push Start and a "TM AND" was added before the Copyright text which in of itself was rearranged to give space to the Licensed by Nintendo message not present in the Japanese version.

The European release shortens the "Licensed by Nintendo of America Inc." text.

Ending#

Japan	International

The line "YATTANE TAKAHASHI!" ("You did it, Takahashi!") was removed from the ending screen in the international versions.

Revisional Differences#

Game Boy Advance#

The game was re-released twice for the Game Boy Advance in Japan. First as a Famicom Mini title released on May 21, 2004 then being included in the Hudson Best Collection Vol. 6: Boukenjima Collection released on January 19, 2006.

Famicom	Famicom Mini (GBA)	Hudson Best Collection (GBA)