Adventure Island III (NES, 1992) – Full Game (All Alternate Routes) Session 🏝️🦕🎮

Adventure Island III (NES, 1992) – Full Game (All Alternate Routes) Session 🏝️🦕🎮

🔔   / @nenrikigaming   🎮 Title: Adventure Island 3 / Adventure Island Ⅲ (in‑game title) 🕹 Platform Spec 🖥️ System: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 🌍 Region Label: NA 📄 Revision: Original 📅 Release: 1992-09 🏢 Publisher: Hudson 👾 Developer: Now Production 🎲 Genre: Action → Platformer ¹ 🧮 Score Profile ² ⭐️ Personal Score: A 🌐 Consensus Score: B (✓) 💬 Cultural Impact (Ψ): B– (▽) 📆 Historical Tier: B+ (✓) ✅ Completion Status: Full Game Clear (Alternate Route Set) ³ 🔥 Difficulty Profile 📈 Difficulty Curve: Gradual ⚙️ Perceived Global Difficulty: Reasonable 🧠 Play Mode: Focused Play 🎯 Intent: Documentation Adventure Island III (NES, 1992) 🎮 continues the side‑scrolling action of the series with Master Higgins 🏝️ on a quest to rescue Jeannie Jungle 👩‍🦰, who has been abducted by aliens 👾 and hidden across eight islands 🌴. Each island is guarded by a powerful boss 🐉, and Higgins must traverse multiple stages filled with enemies, traps ⚔️, and hidden eggs 🥚. These eggs contain weapons, items, and five dinosaur companions 🦕🦖—Taylor, Magma, Don‑Don, Classie, and Poley—each granting unique abilities such as swimming 🌊, flying ✈️, fire‑breathing 🔥, or rolling attacks 🌀. The player’s energy constantly depletes ⏳ and must be replenished by collecting fruit 🍎, milk 🥛, or meat 🍖, while special items like Honey Girl ⭐ or Time‑Stop ⏰ provide temporary advantages. A world map 🗺️ introduces branching routes, allowing alternate paths through the islands, though all converge on the same final battle ⚡ and ending 🎬. With its mix of precise platforming, resource management, and companion mechanics, the game refines the formula of its predecessors while adding variety and replay value. ¹ Adventure Island 3 is best understood as a classic side‑scrolling platform game. Players guide Master Higgins through a series of islands, running, jumping, and battling enemies while collecting items and hatching dinosaur companions that grant special abilities. Although it includes light exploration and a world map that adds a sense of adventure, its core remains the fast‑paced action and precise platforming that define the genre. ² Adventure Island 3 deserves a Personal Score of A because it is a remarkably solid and polished platformer, arguably one of the strongest entries in its series, though its late release in 1992 kept it from reaching A+ or S since contemporaneous titles on other systems were already pushing the genre further; the Consensus Score of B (✓) reflects how critics and communities generally saw it as competent but not groundbreaking; its Cultural Impact is B– (▽) since, while fondly remembered by fans, it never achieved the iconic recognition of Mario or Mega Man; and its Historical Tier is B+ (✓) because within the NES’s late cycle it stands as a technically refined and enjoyable platformer, but not one that redefined the medium or created a new structural lineage. ³ This playthrough of Adventure Island III (NES, 1992) focuses on the alternate A/B routes, which replace the standard paths rather than run alongside them. Because the game’s map forces players to choose one branch or the other, a full alternate‑route clear necessarily excludes the standard stages, even though both paths ultimately converge on the same boss battles and single ending. By showcasing the alternate routes in their entirety, this session offers a complementary perspective to the standard progression and highlights the variety of stage design hidden within the game’s branching structure. #AdventureIsland3 #AdventureIsland3NES Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Area 1-1 · Coastal Clash 01:52 Area 1-2 · Bottomless Pit 02:24 Area 1-A · In The Abyss 03:11 Area 1-B · Misty Haze 04:01 Area 1-6 · The Desolation 05:18 Area 2-1 · Bottomless Pit 05:59 Area 2-2 · Coastal Clash 06:38 Area 2-A · Oak Forest 07:31 Area 2-B · In The Abyss 08:08 Area 2-6 · Lost Woods 09:31 Area 3-1 · Oak Forest 10:10 Area 3-2 · Ice Cave 11:15 Area 3-3 · Perilous Plunge 11:50 Area 3-A · Misty Haze 12:23 Area 3-B · Coastal Clash 13:44 Area 3-6 · Bottomless Pit 15:22 Area 4-1 · Coastal Clash 15:57 Area 4-2 · Oak Forest 17:17 Area 4-3 · The Desolation 17:42 Area 4-A · Oak Forest 18:20 Area 4-B · Misty Haze 19:25 Area 4-6 · Shipwreck Salvage 20:57 Area 5-1 · Bottomless Pit 21:30 Area 5-A · In The Abyss 22:15 Area 5-B · Blizzard Peak 23:30 Area 5-6 · Fossil Lair 25:04 Area 6-1 · Bone Crossing 25:38 Area 6-2 · Ice Cave 26:18 Area 6-A · Bottomless Pit 27:42 Area 6-B · Perilous Plunge 28:42 Area 6-6 · Ice Cave 29:57 Area 7-1 · In The Abyss 30:35 Area 7-A · Coastal Clash 31:54 Area 7-B · Perilous Plunge 32:33 Area 7-6 · Thunder Clash 34:04 Area 8-1 · Fire Gorge 34:45 Area 8-2 · Oak Forest 35:20 Area 8-3 · Shaft of Darkness 36:06 Area 8-A · Bottomless Pit 36:51 Area 8-B · Coastal Clash 38:02 Area 8-6 · Double Eruption