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Adventure Island II

Title	Adventure Island II
First release	1991
Developer	Now Production
Publisher	Hudson Soft
Platforms	Game Boy, NES / Famicom
Genre	platformer
Also known as	Great Takahashi's Adventure Island III · Adventure Island 2
Players	1 player
Co-op	No
ESRB rating	E Everyone
Releases	NES / Famicom: 1991-02-01 (NTSC-U) Game Boy: 1993-02-01 (PAL)
Wikidata ID	Q1584331

Collecting food is essential to prevent Master Higgins from dying when his starvation bar hits zero. Players navigate eight perilous islands to rescue Tina, utilizing power-ups like a skateboard to increase movement speed or various weapons to fight off monster minions. Allied dinosaurs can also be found to assist during the quest through these side-scrolling platforming levels.

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Wikidata (Q1584331) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0

REG-Vault (nes/adventure-island-ii) · last updated 2026-10-12 · descriptions CC BY-SA 4.0

TheGamesDB (1023) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only

TheGamesDB (107829) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only

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Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (7): Source: REG-Vault (upstream not stated) · © Hudson Soft · internal use only. REG-Vault page

Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Hudson Soft · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (5): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Hudson Soft · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

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Videos

Adventure Island II (NES) Playthrough

NintendoComplete · NES / Famicom version · longplay · 2:15:08auto-matched
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