There were two arcade games that I had the luck to play when I was 7-8 y.o. at the beach that nowadays provoked a huge sense of nostalgia. One is definitely this (commonly more known as "Adventure Island") the other was another platform that ends up with a princess rescued with the hero in a carpet while being cheered by the city's crowd. No idea if I'll ever find out what game was, but for this I'm 100% positive it was my first approach.

How it was? Well, I got impressed positively by the nice graphics (which still looks great, especially for being a 1986 game where most of the times you would have NES/8-bit games or something), a little less impressed by how slippery it felt to play (only managed to get to the cloud level) and how fast the skate was.

It still looks a solid platform to me nowadays.