A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia
A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia

A Boy And His Blob Trouble On Blobolonia

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Feed your friend a licorice jellybean and he turns into a ladder. Toss him an apple bean and he becomes a jack. Punch flavor? A hole, of course. A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is built on a run of groan-worthy food puns, and that sense of humor is exactly what makes it one of the most original ideas to reach the NES. It came from David Crane, the designer behind Pitfall!, working at Imagineering with Garry Kitchen, and it plays like nothing else from 1989.

You never fight directly. Instead, an unnamed boy and his shape-shifting companion, Blobert, pick their way through subways and caves beneath the Earth, and every obstacle is a question of which bean to throw and where. Blobert follows along behind, a whistle snaps him back into his natural form, and a ketchup bean calls him to your side (catch-up, naturally). Treasures and diamonds gathered underground buy vitamins at a drugstore, and those vitamins become ammunition for the VitaBlaster once the pair reach Blobolonia, a planet ruled by an emperor who lets his subjects eat nothing but sweets.

It is a slow, thoughtful game that rewards experimenting and punishes carelessness, and reviewers have always been split on it: some found the trial and error frustrating, while others loved the puzzle-box design. It won Best of Show at CES in 1989 and a Parents' Choice Award, spawned a Game Boy sequel in The Rescue of Princess Blobette, and was reimagined by WayForward for the Wii twenty years later. This NES cartridge is the strange, charming original that started it all, and a reminder of how much imagination designers squeezed out of a single button press and a pocketful of jellybeans.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1990
Publisher
Absolute Entertainment
Developer
Imagineering, Inc.
Players
Single player
About the game

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a 1989 video game developed by Imagineering for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game was published by Absolute Entertainment in North America and Europe and by Jaleco in Japan. A Boy and His Blob follows an unnamed, male protagonist and his shapeshifting blob friend on their adventure to save the planet of Blobolonia from the clutches of an evil emperor.

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