Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land
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System(s): Nintendo Switch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: M2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land (SEGA AGES ワンダーボーイ モンスターランド) is a conversion of the Sega System 2 arcade game, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, developed by M2 as the ninth entry in the Sega Ages lineup for the Nintendo Switch.
Contents
Gameplay
Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land features three gameplay modes to the player: Arcade Mode, Money Hungry Mode and Challenge Mode. Extra features include the ability to save and load game progress, and save replays of the player's sessions in the main game or Challenge Mode. The player may also change the game's region to Japanese or International.
Arcade Mode
Arcade Mode is the original version of the game as it was originally played in arcades. The player also has the option to enable Power Up New Game in this mode, which allows them to begin the game with the most powerful equipment acquired in the previous game session. High scores achieved in this mode will be uploaded to the Gold Rush Ranking.
Money Hungry Mode
Money Hungry Mode is essentially the original game, with the sole difference being that the player cannot use the Mashing trick (performed by mashing and repeatedly, or by holding in this version) to increase the value of gold hidden in various points around the game. Attempting to use Mashing in this mode will just give the player the standard value of gold.
Challenge Mode
In Challenge Mode, the player can compete for a high score in one of three challenges with their best scores being uploaded to an online leaderboard. These challenges are the same ones originally included in Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World. The challenges are:
- Sphinx Challenge Time Attack: The player must defeat the Sphinx as quickly as possible. The player has infinite Revival Potions for this challenge.
- Monster Castle Challenge Time Attack: The player must get through Monster Castle with the strongest equipment and defeat the Dragon as quickly as possible. The player has infinite Revival Potions for this challenge.
- Fire Ball Challenge Score Attack: Using an infinite supply of FireBalls, the player must get the highest score possible. The challenge ends if the player takes damage or runs out of time.
Production credits
- ORIGINAL GAME DEVELOPED BY: SEGA
- DLC VERSION DEVELOPED BY: M2
- Directors: Naoki Horii, Takaaki Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Matsuoka
- Planners: Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, Takaaki Hashimoto, Takayuki Komabayashi
- Programmers: Minoru Kubota, Jumpei Isshiki, Nobuhisa Shinoda, Makoto Harashino, Hiroshi Yoneyama, Tomohiro Takahashi, Hiroyuki Sawai, Koji Ando, Youichirou Watanabe, Kengo Takagi, Tetsuya Abe, Masayuki Fukui, Masaki Goto, Akira Saito
- Graphic Designers: Naoki Takahashi, Takuya Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Matsushita, Keisuke Koga
- Sound Designers: Tatsuhiko Kasuga, Sakuoki Kudo, Jane-Evelyn Nisperos
- Library & Tools: Jun Okada, Toshinori Yuuki (WAMSOFT), Go Watanabe (WAMSOFT)
- Opening Animation: Harukaze Namikai, Jane-Evelyn Nisperos
- Project Manager: Takehiro Kawachi
- Special Thanks: Kazuki Kubota
- Producer: Rieko Kodama
- Senior Producer: Kagasei Shimomura
- Supervisor: Yosuke Okunari
- Localization Coordinator: Jonathan Rodgers, Aya Suzuki, Tomohiro Saito, Tomokazu Kato
- SOJ Test Team: Akira Nishikawa, Osamu Sato, Isao Akiyama, Atsushi Hirano, Susumu Ookoshi, Daichi Sasaki, Kenji Takano, Jiro Kimura, Akitoshi Nishida, Daijiro Tsukahara, Hirokazu Takayasu, Yuko Morioka
- SOJ Quality Assurance: Tomoki Kaji, Kazuhiko Morii, Yasuyuki Hattori, Yuji Nakamura, Shunya Shimizu
- Software Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hiroki Osawa, Masaru Kobayashi, Makoto Nishino, Masato Shimamura, Colin Restall, Yoshitake Ohta, Yoichi Takahashi, Kazuki Ishizu, Hiroyoshi Takuma
- Product Manager: Koichi Hanatate
- Promotion: Risa Araki, Koji Uemura, Ikuo Ishizaka
- PR: Teruyuki Kaida, Jun Takemura
- Web Design: Noriko Sanda
- 1st Party Relation: Tetsuo Sasaki, Yoko Fukada
- CEO: Tatsuyuki Miyazaki
- President & COO: Ian Curran
- EVP of Publishing and Strategy: Hitoshi Okuno
- SVP of Publishing: Mitsuhiro Tanaka
- Senior Director of Corporate Planning: Kenya Numata
- Publishing Manager: James Low
- Forecasting and Research Analyst: Jiyang Xie
- Business Planning Analyst: Yuko Shimura
- Financial Analyst: Sawako Yamaji
- VP of Production: Bill Alexander
- Director of Production: Samuel G. Mullen
- Associate Localization Producer: Damian Mougakos
- Senior Manager, QA & Dev Support: Carl Chen
- Assistant QA Manager: Scott Williams
- Submissions Specialist: Justin HQ Phan
- QA Lead: Logan Sandefur
- QA Compliance Specialist: Rob Stone
- QA Testers: Lucas Amutan, Derrick Gutierrez, Dhani Hua, John Nieroski, Lyvon Phan Tran, Alli Watts
- Director of Marketing: Robyn Mukai Koshi
- Senior Marketing Manager: Sakura Minamida Harris
- Product Marketing Manager: Melissa Smith
- Associate Product Marketing Manager: Sara Chan, Mathew Roniss
- Product Marketing Specialist: Becky Li
- Senior PR Manager: Jacob Nahin
- Associate PR Manager: Jonathon Stebel
- PR Specialist: Zachary Reese
- Traffic Manager: Ann Namie
- Traffic Specialist: Kenichi Linus Morita
- Manager of Creative Services: Ayami Haruno
- Graphic Designer: Amy Shimoshige
- Production Artists: James Ferrell II, Rod Raymundo
- Senior Web Developer: James Kaneshiro
- Web Developer: Erik Nuber
- Web Designer: Ben Schilling
- Senior Media Producer: John Tubera
- Media Producer: Alex Limon
- Media Associate: Jerry Yongjin Song
- Senior Manager, Sales Operations & Administration: Nate Harris
- Sales Manager: Danny Miscevich
- Digital Promotions Manager: Michael Manzanares
- Sales Administrators: Connie Chinn, Leary Salupen
- Digital Operations Specialist: Lauren Welch
- Commercial Director EMEA: Simon Inch
- Senior Account Manager EMEA: Sam Sadeghi
- Senior Operations Manager EMEA: Linda Kershaw
- Product Marketing Manager EMEA: Melaine Brou, Katharina Bareiss
- PR Manager EMEA: Sarah M D Wellock
- Junior PR and Community Manager EMEA: Mitchell Lineham
- PR & Marketing Assistant EMEA: Sunil Kalotia
- Special Thanks: BEEP, Junichiro Takahashi, Katsumi Baba, Kensuke Kurimoto, Kohei Takiguchi, Masato Nishimura, Takuma Hatori, Shun Nakamura, Tetsu Katano, Sachiko Kawamura, Nobuya Ohashi, Takaharu Terada, Hitoshi Furukubo, Takayuki Iwasaki, Kazuhiro Matsuta, Chika Kojitani, Daisuke Tabayashi, Emiko Mikuni, Rei Aoyanagi, Yoshiaki Endo, Seiji Hayashi, Shinobu Yokota, Yoko Nakajima, Mayumi Ishimura, Genjiro Takahashi, Norihito Fukata, Sarina Okitsu
- Chief Producers: Osamu Ohashi, Eigo Kasahara
- Executive Producers: Haruki Satomi, Kenji Matsubara, Toshihiro Nagoshi
Magazine articles
- Main article: Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land/Magazine articles.
External links
- Official website (Japanese)
- Nintendo catalogue pages: JP, US, EU, AU
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://ec.nintendo.com/JP/ja/titles/70010000010213 (archive.today)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sega-ages-wonder-boy-monster-land-switch/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-27 19:00)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.fr/Jeux/Jeux-a-telecharger-sur-Nintendo-Switch/SEGA-AGES-Wonder-Boy-Monster-Land-1573212.html (archive.today)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Nintendo-Switch-Download-Software/SEGA-AGES-Wonder-Boy-Monster-Land-1573212.html (archive.today)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/SEGA-AGES-Wonder-Boy-Monster-Land-1573212.html (archive.today)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000016615 (archive.today)
Games in the Wonder Boy series | |
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Wonder Boy (1986) | Wonder Boy in Monster Land (1987) | Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (1988) | Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (1989) | Wonder Boy in Monster World (1991) | Monster World IV (1994) | Monster World Complete Collection (2007) | Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World (2012) | Arcade Archives Wonder Boy (2014) | Wonder Boy Returns (2016) | Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017) | Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (2018) | Wonder Boy Returns Remix (2019) | Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World (2021) | Wonder Boy Collection (2022) | Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection (2022) | |
Wonder Boy related media | |
Monster World Complete Collection Original Sound Track (2007) | Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Original Soundtrack Sampler (2018) | Wonder Boy Collection - Best Of Soundtrack (2023) | |
Wonder Boy V Monster World III Koushiki Guide Book (1991) |
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