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Message: [QUOTE="bjork, post: 329430, member: 2227"] From Wikipedia: Westone, the developer of the series, owned the copyrights to each game in the series, while Sega retained the "Wonder Boy" and "Monster World" trademarks. This created a situation which allowed other game companies to publish ports of the games to non-Sega platforms under license from Westone, provided that they changed the titles to remove all references to "Wonder Boy" or "Monster World". [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Island_(video_game)']Adventure Island[/URL][/I] was [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Soft']Hudson Soft[/URL]'s adaptation of the original [I]Wonder Boy[/I] game for the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System']Nintendo Entertainment System[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX2']MSX2[/URL], originally released in 1986. Due to the popularity of the game's success on the system, Hudson Soft created a series of sequels with no involvement from Westone, retaining the same gameplay style as the original game. [/QUOTE]

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