The Wonder Boy series has sort of a complicated history. Several different franchises have claimed at least one of the series' titles, including Wonder Boy, Monster Land, and even Adventure Island. The Wonder Boy games were always confined to Sega platforms, which is probably why they didn't catch on like Adventure Island did.
I didn't own any Sega consoles when I was growing up, and in the U.S., that places me squarely in the majority. Nintendo had a stranglehold on the video game console business in the late '80s, and the company controlled somewhere around 90% of the market when Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap was first released on Sega's Master System in 1989. I never got a chance to play the original, so I don't have any nostalgia for the title. Fortunately, a good game will hold up on its own merits no matter how old it is.
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