A Boy and His Blob

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A series of games about a young child who can coerce his gelatinous companion with jelly beans. The series was created by David Crane, known best for Atari and Activision treasures such as Outlaw and Pitfall!

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Screenshot from Nintendo DS Remake

The news of this remake for the Nintendo Wii comes hot on the heels of a similar project for the Nintendo DS, announced at E3 in 2005. It went by the same name, was developed by Skyworks Technologies, a team helmed by David Crane (Person) and Garry Kitchen (Person), and was thought to be published by Majesco Entertainment. The game had a drastically redesigned art style, and was set six years after the original, over which time the Evil Emperor of Blobolonia had been in exile on Earth building strength and hatching plans to enslave the population. Blobert then crash-landed his ship in search of The Boy, who after hanging out in the wrong, E-rated circles, had found himself "into pop music, and still into jelly beans". Features included fifteen different jelly beans and fifteen different levels with touchscreen-based inventory and map navigation, alongside a tutorial mode and blob customization. The game was rumored to be fully completed, but because of Majesco's poor financial situation, was in hiatus for the years that followed until it's subsequent cancellation in August 2007.

Another remake for the Game Boy Advance entitled A Boy and His Blob: Jelly's Cosmic Adventure was also scheduled for release in 2002, under development by Pipe Dream Interactive (Company), an alias used by Majesco's in-house development team as few had faith in their success and didn't want to soil their name as a publisher. It was also cancelled, but much sooner in the process.

Games

David Crane's A Boy and his Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia

1 December 1989

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David Crane's The Rescue of Princess Blobette

11 July 1991

Platforms/Game Boy

A Boy and His Blob (Game)

13 October 2009

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Franchise details

Name

A Boy and His Blob

Features

4 games

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First game

David Crane's A Boy and his Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia

Aliases

Characters

• Has characters: A Boy (Character), Blobert (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Cave (Location), Attic (Location), Blobolonia (Location)

Concepts

• Has concepts: Anthropomorphism (Concept), Unlockables (Concept), Can't Swim (Concept), Male Protagonists (Concept), Jump (Concept), A.I. Companion (Concept), Boss Fight (Concept), Vore (Concept), Boss (Concept), Cameo (Concept), Interspecies Duos (Concept), Sidekick (Concept), Hub World (Concept), Young Protagonist (Concept), Eating (Concept), Snakes (Concept), Shape-Shifting (Concept), Transformation (Concept), 2D (Concept), Hugging (Concept), Flip Screen (Concept), Birds (Concept), 8-bit (Concept), Press a Button, Say a Name (Concept), Bonus Stage (Concept), Puzzle Platformer (Concept), Waking Up at Beginning (Concept), Snail (Concept), E3 2009 (Concept), Slime Monster (Concept), Concept Art (Concept), Cancelled Games (Concept), E3 2005 (Concept), Original Soundtrack Release (Concept), Radial Menu (Concept), Same Name Reboot (Concept), Silhouetted 2D (Concept), Wii Classic Controller Support (Concept)

Objects

• Has objects: Blocks (Object), Rocket (Object), Bubble (Object), Ketchup (Object), Parachute (Object), Bed (Object), Bowling Ball (Object), Key (Object), Ladder (Object), Treasure Chest (Object), Spikes (Object), Anvil (Object), Umbrella (Object), Jelly Bean (Object), Power Line (Object), Platform (Object), Moai Head (Object), Portable Hole (Object)

People

• Has people: Sean Velasco (Person), David Crane (Person), Christopher Watson (Person), Robb Alvey (Person), Mark Van Hecke (Person), Alex DeMeo (Person), Jesse Kapili (Person), Frank Lam (Person), Garry Kitchen (Person), Joseph Sutton (Person), Kevin Tsakonas (Person), Larry Holdaway (Person), Matt Bozon (Person), Juan Sanchez (Person), Mark Bozon (Person), Rick Booth (Person), Marc Gomez (Person), Robert Koshak (Person), Paul Bishop (Person), Daniel Sadowski (Person), Pete Rosky (Person)