Dragon's Curse

"Adventure Island" redirects here. For the game from the Adventure Island series for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16, see New Adventure Island.

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TurboGrafx-16 PC Engine
Dragon's Curse
System(s): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, Virtual Console (Wii)
Publisher: Hudson Soft NEC Technologies
Developer: Westone
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-04-19 ¥5,3005,300 HC91035 US 1991 TGX020039 JP ▼ 2007-08-07 600pts600 US ▼ 2007-04-02 600pts600 EU ▼ 2007-03-30 600pts600 AU ▼ 2007-07-20 600pts600
Non-NEC versions Game Gear Master System

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Dragon's Curse, released in Japan as Adventure Island (アドベンチャーアイランド), is an adaptation of the Sega Master System title Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (minus the Wonder Boy branding) for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16. This port was published by Hudson Soft and developed by the same developers as the original game, Westone, making it related to Bikkuriman World and The Dynastic Hero.

In addition to confusingly using the "Adventure Island" brand for the Japanese release, this version was released in the territory before any version of the original Monster World II, due to some unfortunate circumstances. It should be noted that the Adventure Island series is known in Japan as "冒険島" spelled in Japanese, compared to the English spelling of this game. On the other hand, this version was released before Monster World III, so technically Japan got the games in order.

Because of the hardware jump, Adventure Island is a big improvement over the original Monster World II. The relationship is very similar to the two versions of Monster World III, but in reverse.

History

Legacy

Both the TurboGrafX-16's Dragon's Curse and Master System's Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap have been released on the Wii's Virtual Console service, despite being roughly the same game. Similar situations have occurred with Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair and The Dynastic Hero.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Dragon's Curse	Dragon's Curse
Japanese	アドベンチャーアイランド	Adventure Island

Magazine articles

Main article: Dragon's Curse/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

NEC Retro Average
Publication Score Source Raze 80 №10, p60

	80
Based on 1 review

PC Engine version

PC Engine, JP
Cover
Card File:AdventureIsland PCE JP Manual.pdf Manual

TurboGrafx-16 version

TurboGrafx-16, US
Cover
Card File:DragonsCurse TG16 US Manual.pdf Manual Jewel Case

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 8e71d4f3 MD5 65ea7bebc2ecaeda8cee373ff2a83534 SHA-1 01ad5bbd7316740409e01917c19494cb26173ff5	256kB		Card (JP)
✔	CRC32 7d2c4b09 MD5 55153240fe1d0076c4f759b82f2d7e3e SHA-1 39b382725e38d6303ae2b19f1cabbd96ca661b07	256kB		Card (US)

External links

• Dragon's Curse on Nintendo eShop: UK

References

Sega Retro has more information related to Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap