#aboyandhisblob

[knighteen87]

A Boy And His Blob: Trouble On Blobolonia for Nintendo Entertainment System. A game that I wanted try for a long time. I'm happy that I could find it recently. If I like it, I'll give it a try for Wii version also. #aboyandhisblob #davidcrane #puzzle #nintendo #NES #8bit #cartridge #retro #gaming #collection #videogame #videogames #game #games #retrogame #retrogaming #retrogame_feature https://www.instagram.com/p/BsciXm5lo7W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12na2x9rklzxf

[endergirl42-blog]

Little Martyn and Blob from the stream. Also sorry for crappy background. I can't drawn back ground for the life of me .

[nerdcoalition]

A Boy And His Blob Revisited

By Andy D. Wright (@theandydwright)

ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE GAMES I’ve ever come across in my gaming history is "A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia." The plot is simplistic in the way standalone games for Nintendo always are, and the mechanics are familiar to anyone who knows two dimensions better than three. Your duty (and I choose that word without accident) is to save a planet inhabited by blobs using only a bag of variously flavored jelly beans (this game came out in the early 90’s, and if anyone remembers, jelly bean flavoring technology was still in its infantile stages, so these beans were slight variations and mixtures of cherry and mint at best). Your only help was an overambitious, self-sacrificing snowman-looking blob who loved jelly beans and would alter himself into utilitarian shapes to help you on your mission. There are bouncing centipedes, falling cherry bombs, razor sharp stalagmites and stalactites, and bone crushing marshmallows to deter you, but the real enemy is you. The blob follows you with the same loyalty found in most fictional otherworldly characters, never questioning your actions (echoing the same relationship Neo and Trinity romanticized for the all too trusting in the Matrix films), and he will bounce to your feet in a hurry if you whistle for him. All the blob wants is freedom for his people and jelly beans. He’s there wherever you are and behind you when you need him to transform into a trampoline or blowtorch. The blob never shirks his duty. However, like any pre-adolescent with a desire for adventure and staying up too late, you can sometimes overthrow or toss away jelly beans, and when the blob misses out on a jelly bean (and he will always know when this happens) he frowns. I promise you this: thefirst time you see this happen, you will not feel bad at all but laugh, cruelly.

NOW YOUR MISSION IS CLEAR: Save Blobolonia or torture the blob at the expense of what a bag of jelly beans cost during the first Gulf War? Whether traversing the grassy fields of Blobolonia or the cavernous, treasure-filled world below the subway, you will find yourself struggling not to take your gaming and sexual frustrations out on the blob, who has done nothing wrong but put his faith in the wrong ambassador of Earth. The blob will never fight back and until your parents wake up, which they never do, there are no consequences to the boy’s actions. It is like a Nietzsche work, Milgrim experiment, and college debate final all rolled into one – succumb to sadistic pleasure through innocently evil means, or fight for the greatest honor, a good death.

FOR CHRISTMAS, my father bought me A Boy and His Blob: Trouble in Blobolonia for Nintendo, while he got my brother a generic MLB game. It was clear to me that he understood I would be different. I wasn’t quite sure how he knew because at the time I was very much into sports, just not good with names and faces. However, I lost myself in the imagination of early game programmers for hours even after owning a Sega Genesis. The game even inspired a remake 20 years later – I’m not sure if it was in apology or to satisfy a new generation of gamers’ evermore complicating and confusing sexual desires, because I never played it. The originality of the Nintendo version continues to loom over the heads of video game studios and their overly circumspect and cynical CFOs. A Boy and His Blob is dated, looks gross by contemporary standards, and a whole night wouldn’t be made of it, but it deserves one sincere shot before terrorizing an amorphous blob to combat one’s own inferiority complex. The gameplay keeps one intrigued as one tries to mentally form the bigger picture of the level frame by frame, hopefully dying only in places one doesn’t have to come back to or are completely walled off in the other three directions. Without any scrolling text or animated scenes as a precedent, your adventure will constantly beg the question, “what is all this treasure for?” But it’s treasure, and your natural greed keeps you going. Soon, you’ll begin to wonder what’s beyond the splendor of gold and diamonds, finding better re-playability than can be feigned by most current games. When one’s thirst for power in the craggy underworld of the city runs weary, the choice between continuing on with the mission and finding new ways to prove your power becomes most real. I assure you that when that fleeting gratification is gone, you will be back feeding your grotesque compatriot to contention whilst defeating subtle evil in a war that isn’t yours.

[rick179]

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[stellarvisionary]

So, after two rather short attempts at streaming earlier today, third time's the charm with A Boy and His Blob? http://twitch.tv/twolefthandsgaming #twitch #aboyandhisblob #twolefthandsgaming https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDofkcg913/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bjr8e209x2cs

[adriennoodle-blog]

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PowerOn 57 A Boy and His Blob: The Rescue of Princess Blobette - Gameboy - 1991 . . My 🔝 team : @inkedwasp @kptain_yoshi @mermaidceane @gameboydoctor @candyk74 @d.o.m.n.e.t.h . . #noodlecollection #poweron57 #aboyandhisblob #TheRescueofPrincessBlobette #gameboy #gameboylife #gameboyclassic #retrogaming #retrogamer #retrogames #gaming #instagame #instagames #ninstagram #videogame #videogamecollection #igersnintendo #videogames #retrocollective #retrocollectiveus #nintendofan #supermariobros #mario #mariobros #gaminglife #90s #80s #8bit #nintendo #movembergaming (à Midi-Pyrenees, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp7fo0UFcCU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=41vbyqthnpkv

[piercevonlowney]

When your trying to get a wedding planned but vintage video games and wine are major obstacles @thelovebugs2017 #segamegadrive #whereintimeiscarmensandiego #superbonk #aboyandhisblob #sunsetriders #wedding #manofhonour #bigkids #flashback #throwback #imsoold (at Cork)

[gameriff]

A Boy and His Blob, released in January 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. #aboyandhisblob #nintendo I remember renting this one and just not "getting" it. The game came with no instructions as a rental and the controls were not very intuitive. I think I'd like it today if I were to play it, and I intend to do so very soon. #retrogaming #nes #classic #gaming #nintendo #sega #90s #90sgames #1990s

[adriennoodle-blog]

The next PowerOn will be.../ Le prochain PowerOn sera... . . My 🔝 team : @inkedwasp @kptain_yoshi @mermaidceane @gameboydoctor @candyk74 @d.o.m.n.e.t.h . . #noodlecollection #poweron57 #aboyandhisblob #TheRescueofPrincessBlobette #gameboy #gameboylife #gameboyclassic #retrogaming #retrogamer #retrogames #gaming #instagame #instagames #ninstagram #videogame #videogamecollection #igersnintendo #videogames #retrocollective #retrocollectiveus #nintendofan #supermariobros #mario #mariobros #gaminglife #90s #80s #8bit #nintendo #movembergaming (à Midi-Pyrenees, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp6xBqpFH6-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hyr9nuixno5h