Wonderboy in Monster Land SE - The best version of an Amiga port by far?

When I was a wee lad spending all my money down at the Arcades, one such game I used to love was that fantastic platformer ' Wonder Boy ' designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa. It started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the adventure platformer with RPG elements ' Wonderboy in Monster Land ' that many of us know and love to this day. I myself mainly played it on the Amiga and although it was addictive as hell it suffered from being a straight Atari ST port with poor colours and long loading times. Thankfully our good friend Earok was on the case, as now he's released 'Wonderboy in Monster Land SE'; A special edition of that rather lackustre port!

Dragon Spirit SE - The first of many enhanced-tweaked Amiga games

It's the end of the week and nearly into the weekend so what better way to spend it, than playing another Earok tweaked or enhanced Amiga game known as ' Dragon Spirit SE '. This game was first released way back in 1987 by Namco as a top scrolling Dragon shoot em up and was ported over to many different systems such as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, Atari ST, X68000, PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and ZX Spectrum. Earok however has taken the original Amiga version, fixed both the Atari ST palette issues as well as minifying the Dragon that previously obscured part of the playfield, although he hasn't been able to improve the performance of the game because it still remains poor.

Wonderboy in Monster Land SE - Alpha Amiga enhancement of a retro platformer

When I was a wee lad spending all my money down at the Arcades, one such game I used to love was that fantastic platformer ' Wonder Boy ' designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa. It started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the adventure platformer with RPG elements ' Wonderboy in Monster Land ' that many of us know and love to this day. I myself mainly played it on the Amiga and although it was addictive as hell it suffered from being a straight Atari ST port with poor colours and long loading times. Thankfully our good friend Earok is now working on a ' Wonderboy in Monster Land SE ' version with more than just palette improvements.