Quote Originally Posted by Xexyz View Post
I'm wrong, I don't know where I got the idea Westone developed the original Adventure Island. Hudson Soft just got permission to make an adaptation of Wonderboy for the NES. As far as the Sega ports on the Famicom/NES and PC-Engine/TG-16 go, the simple answer is 3rd parties. I guess maybe if Hudson Soft wanted to pay Sega royalties like Sunsoft did with their various Sega arcade to Famicom ports, they could have just kept the game as a straight port of Wonderboy, but I don't really know.
Sounds right. If I recall... Shinobi was on NES but not Famicom.