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Fan Creates Monster World, AKA Wonder Boy, Role Playing Game
January 25th, 2018 
Carl Williams The number of times I can count that an action game was remade into a role-playing game is low. Nintendo did it with Super Mario RPG and SNK did it with Samurai Shodown RPG. Other than those two examples I am out of references. While Monster World RPG is not an official release, it is […]
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New Wonder Boy Dragon’s Trap Developer Diary Released
December 6th, 2016 Carl Williams The second developer diary for Wonder Boy Dragon’s Trap has been released. Find out about the musical score and the people making it.
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Wonder Boy Returns Relaunches Classic Franchise on Steam for Windows
September 23rd, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, hang with me here. The Wonder Boy series has been around the world many times over, especially during the 16-Bit era. Most notably to North American gamers this game is familiar under a couple of names. One is Monster Lair for the Turbo Grafx-16 CD-ROM, which not a lot of gamers shelled out the […]
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New Game: Wonder Boy to Make Return to Gaming in 2015
January 31st, 2015 Carl Williams The Wonder Boy, and Monster World, games are a cherished piece of gaming that retrogaming fans know all too well. This is a series that has a storied history with Sega, Hudson and a few other key players. The problem with this series is that it is confusing as all get out (Wonder Boy V: […]
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Final Fantasy IV Advance Brings WonderSwan Title to Game Boy Advance – December 12th, 2005 – Today in Video Game History
December 11th, 2020 Carl Williams Final Fantasy IV Advance may seem like a weird name for a Final Fantasy entry, but it is not. The reason it is titled as such is because this is a port of the Bandai WonderSwan Color version of the game. Think of it as Square Enix and Nintendo pulling a WWE move by changing […]
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Wonderboy – The Dragons Trap release date announced
March 28th, 2017 brianhedley If anyone remembers Wonder Boy III: Monster World on the Sega Genesis, then you are in for a treat. It was known as Wonder Boy III: The Dragons Trap on Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear, but due to such machines fading at the time, sales probably were not as good as they should […]
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WonderSwan Color Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Translated to English
December 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the start to a classic franchise that is seemingly lost to history. What was once a leader in the role-playing game (RPG) genre is now all but forgotten by most gamers. That is if they knew it at all in the first place. The WonderSwan Color is […]
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WorkBoy Long Lost Nintendo Game Boy Accessory Discovered
December 26th, 2020 Carl Williams The WorkBoy is a curiosity of accessories. This device was intended to fill a gap between gaming devices and computers. Like how, in Japan at least, Nintendo had a keyboard, modem, etc available for their NES console. Unfortunately, this add-on was not going to feature online connectivity of any kind. That would limit what you […]
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WonderSwan Color Makes Debut in Japan – December 9th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
December 8th, 2020 Carl Williams The WonderSwan Color is one of many portables that we never got in North America. This is actually the second iteration of the WonderSwan, a portable originally released in March 1999. As the name would suggest, Bandai added color to this version, similar to Nintendo’s release of the Game Boy Color in 1998. Sadly, there […]
