One of the better Mario knockoffs produced in the 1980s was Hudson's Adventure Island. It featured a fat guy named Master Higgins doing the same sort of running and jumping that Mario did in his games ...

Adventure Island II took the original Adventure Island's somewhat tedious straightforward platforming and fleshed it out, becoming the foundation for a solid series. Years before Yoshi first crammed a ...

A mysterious tropical paradise known as Adventure Island is the setting for this side-scrolling action game. The evil Witch Doctor has kidnapped Tina, the true love of Master Higgins. To save her, you ...

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If you've been looking through the Virtual Console lineup in search of a side-scroller that plays more like Sonic the Hedgehog than Super Mario Bros., then the TurboGrafx-16 version of New Adventure ...