Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair/Versions

Mega Drive
Published by Sega. Monster Lair was ported to home platforms relatively unscathed, although the Mega Drive version has entirely re-drawn graphics to better suit the hardware. The colors are less bright than the original arcade version. It’s missing two levels, and it has limited continues.

TurboGrafx-CD / PC Engine CD
Published by Hudson Soft. On CD-ROM² hardware, Wonder Boy III is very close to its arcade counterpart, but does not feature any parallax scrolling. It does, however, include a CD audio soundtrack with higher quality versions of the music tracks heard in the arcade. The nature of the CD-ROM format means there are also loading times. However, these are small prices to pay for a near-perfect port of what was then a new arcade game, something that was typically impossible at the time.