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A Boy And His Blob Return

Posted by Zonk on from the jellybeans-for-the-win! dept.

Press the Buttons noted that one of the games slated for unveiling at this year's E3 is a handheld console remake of A Boy and his Blob. The classic tale of a jellybean eating blob and his nameless boy may be coming for either the DS or the PSP, or both. From the article: "In the company's E3 press release a number of games are listed for the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable, one of which is A Boy and His Blob. Which of the two systems the game is for isn't clarified (it could be one or both), but seeing as how Majesco tried to revive the series for the Game Boy Advance several years ago, I'm betting it's for the DS."

39 comments

  1. Oh, please no. by Crutcher · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This was one of the worst games ever. Please, please tell me this isn't true!

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    1. Re:Oh, please no. by Meagermanx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It would have been better without the crappy Blackthorne/Out of this World controls.

    2. Re:Oh, please no. by Elshar · · Score: 0, Troll

      Its not a troll, it really was one of the worst. Games. Ever.

      I'm trying to think right now of any game remotely worse than this one... Thinking.. Hmm... Nope, none.

      Even pong had more going for it. :)

    3. Re:Oh, please no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      please read the moderator guidelines for instructions.

      Concentrate on promoting more than demoting.

    4. Re:Oh, please no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fuck you, nigger.

    5. Re:Oh, please no. by krakelohm · · Score: 1

      Ya know the games were bad, but the concept kicked ass. Something about having to McGyver around stuff.

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    6. Re:Oh, please no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the music kicked ass though!!

  2. Played...and played and played... by tesseract5d · · Score: 1

    Did anyone ever 'beat' this game? I could never seem to finish it...i played it for WEEKS and it never ended.

    1. Re:Played...and played and played... by dhakbar · · Score: 1

      I never beat it either.

      I just went down, down, down... down, down down... ... and then, when it seemed like I was at the bottom of whatever cavernous 8-bit place I was in, there were more cliffs to umbrella float down, down, down...

    2. Re:Played...and played and played... by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 1

      I could beat it in less than an hour, maybe less than a half hour. I forget how you did it, but you get the rocketship bean, fly to the other planet, do some trivial dodging, then throw some beans at this boss. Really simple to do. Its not suprising the game is from the guy who made pitfall, as the levels are quite similar.

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    3. Re:Played...and played and played... by tesseract5d · · Score: 1

      I remember getting the rocketship, but I don't think I ever figured out how to make it work correctly. I never got to the other planet..*scratches head*

    4. Re:Played...and played and played... by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 1

      You need to be on the surface to launch the rocketship. When you get good at this game, its a sprint to get the rocketship bean, sprint back to the surface, then you fly to the 2nd planet. Now the 2nd planet is actually sort of fun, as you need to do some mildly entertaining side scroller.

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    5. Re:Played...and played and played... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You need to get the rocket ship (rootbeer?) jellybeans and the vitamin gun (tangerine?) jellybeans. Buy some vitamins from the store to kill the final boss on Blobonia.

      There's a glitch to kill most of the monsters on Blobonia. I won't get into it, but it can be beat in around 30 minutes.

    6. Re:Played...and played and played... by PhotoBoy · · Score: 1

      The NES or GameBoy version? I never played the NES version but I completed the GB one.

    7. Re:Played...and played and played... by jasonmicron · · Score: 1

      From TFA:

      "In fact, in the NES version one could skip the underground cavern portion of the game, go into the sewers for the bag of jelly beans that contained the lime bean needed to open a lock guarding the game's final (and only) boss.

      I'm gonna have to try that on my ROM. :)

      As a side note, I made it to the alien planet but I never got passed the floating candy canes.

    8. Re:Played...and played and played... by SlayerofGods · · Score: 1

      Wow same with me. I remeber playing this game way back when and playing to for hours on end but never could beat it.

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  3. Was announced for GBA years back... by terrisus · · Score: 1

    I'd love another game in the series.
    Still, it was announced years back for GBA, and it never happened. So, I'm not going to get too excited until it looks like it'll actually happen this time.

    1. Re:Was announced for GBA years back... by shoptroll · · Score: 1

      There was a follow-up on the original Game Boy. I remember there was an article on it in Nintendo Power. I can't remember the name of it though...

      Ah... here we go: A Boy and his Blob in... The Rescue of Princess Blobette

      http://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy/david-cranes -a-boy-and-his-blob-in-the-rescue-of-princess-blob et

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  4. Second screen useful by AuMatar · · Score: 1

    I could see a use for the touchscreen in this game. Use it for far more accurate placement of jellybeans.

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  5. Ketchup by oskard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any body got a root beer flavored jelly bean? Cuz we need some fireworks to celebrate the Blob's return!

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  6. Punch Bean Bug by Bozzio · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else use the Punch Bean Bug?

    Once you're on Blobolonia, set a hole right on the right edge of the screen, then run towards the hole and turn around before hitting it. If done right, you skid into the hole at the same time you switch screens. You then fall into the 'end game' sequence. You move around on a platform and check out credits and pics and stuff. When I did it all the graphics would be garbled.. it was the only way I ever "finished" the game. I think you need to do this on the second or third screen to the right on blobolonia.

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    1. Re:Punch Bean Bug by Bozzio · · Score: 1

      lol, I just did it again, and got stuck in the cage where the blob is caught.

      Apparently all it takes is having a hole at the left-most edge of a screen and sliding into it from the right. I have the hole on the 3rd screen (day light area) and run in from the left. If anyone wants, I can send them a savestate. Or am I the only one who loves finding bugs in old VGs?

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    2. Re:Punch Bean Bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Through this bug, you can read some of the developer's poetry about a cat rescue. It's horrible. Funny though.

    3. Re:Punch Bean Bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      send a save state to dragoon at drug.org ty

  7. Who cares? by Stonewolf57 · · Score: 1

    I played this game extensively a few years back, when I was in grade school, I think (okay more than a few years back), and as I recall it made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Not sure If I ever beat it or not, but I think not. Personally given my memories of it, I could care less if it comes out on DS or PSP.

    1. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      I think you'll find that you couldn't care less. Could implies that you care an unspecified non-zero amount, which is hardly an impression many people try to convey.

      I find this is a mistake often made by people with poor social skills, as they lack the interpersonal relationships with people who feel comfortable correcting them on this kind of thing. Basically your lunix and D&D crowd.

    2. Re:Who cares? by Stonewolf57 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Yeah the lunix crowd can actually spell Linux correctly and as far as I know there hasn't been an actual D&D crowd in several years. Aside from that actually listen to how the phrase is said sometime and you'll find that most people say 'Could care less.' So stfu, and go be Microsoft's unthinking little lapdog again.

    3. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seems to me if you couldn't care less, you must care so much that caring less is psychologically impossible for you. Meaning it's pretty important. Example: I couldn't care less about living, because I work at ensuring I survive every day.

      Check out alt.english.usage on this topic.

  8. I can dig it. by mrseigen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is one of the first gaming announcements in the past couple months to warm my black little heart. Too bad it's Majesco, but they can't screw it up that badly... can they?

    1. Re:I can dig it. by BenVis · · Score: 1

      I don't know... watch them turn it into a 3D first person shooter, where the only jellybean you need is the one that turns the blob into a gun. Sigh.

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  9. CINNAMON BLOBTORCH by swayze · · Score: 0

    Wow, hopefully this turns out well and doesn't end up a Ketchup Jelly Bean... this game used to frustrate the fuck out of me, but was fun at the same time.

  10. It's for the DS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The consoles that the games in Majesco's E3 lineup will be for were confirmed a few days ago. Namely, with regard to this Slashdot summary and not mentioning the other games, the new 'A Boy and His Blob' title will apparently be a DS game.

    GAF - News - E3: Majesco announces its lineup
    Nintendo Now - News: Majesco Unveils Their Arsenal

    It would appear that at least one of these sites seemingly did verify this.

  11. Damn it! by Lars+T. · · Score: 1

    "A Boy and his Blog returns. Handheld console" Hrrm - damn blogers are everywhere. Huh? D'oh!!!!

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  12. Is David Crane on board? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I know he of Pitfall and Activision's Decathalon fame (and some Atari 2600 games before that) created the first one...

    Did he have anything to do with the "new"
    Pitfall a year or so ago?

    What else has he done lately, if anything?

    Sorry for AC, just too lazy to create an account.

    1. Re:Is David Crane on board? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      look at this http://www.advergame.com/about/principals.asp

  13. The Marketing Opportunity by robbway · · Score: 1

    Think of the in-context marketing that is possible: Nike, Gatorade, Trojan.... What do you mean by, "I'm missing the obvious?" The Blob puts Jelly in his Belly!

  14. I thought i was the only one... by LukeTurner · · Score: 0

    I thought i was the only person to ever own this game... My mother bought it for me after I went through surgery in the early 90's... i played the crap out of it. I have beat the game, but not until a couple years ago (thank god for emulation). I'm looking forward to this.

  15. Oh great by jayhawk88 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey, this looks like a fun game, I'll try playing it!

    Hey this is pretty cool, you can make him turn into different things with different beans!

    Hey this is still cool, I'm making it pretty far!

    Hey look, these controls suck, my guy died because I was a nanometer off to the left!

    Hey look, flying enemies that are impossible to dodge! I think I'll keep trying to get past this 500 times and fail each time!