Back اى بوى اند هيس بلوب: تروبل اون بلوبولونيا ARZ A Boy and His Blob German A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia Finnish A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia French A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia Galician A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia Italian ふしぎなブロビー ブロバニアの危機 Japanese A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia LLD A Boy and His Blob Swedish
| A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia | |
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| Developer(s) | Imagineering |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | David Crane Garry Kitchen |
| Programmer(s) | David Crane Rick Booth |
| Artist(s) | Jesse Kapili |
| Composer(s) | Mark Van Hecke |
| Series | A Boy and His Blob |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle-platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a puzzle-platform game developed by Imagineering and published by Absolute Entertainment for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The video game was released in North America in 1989, in Europe by Nintendo in 1991 and in Japan by Jaleco in 1991. 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.
A Boy and His Blob is a puzzle-platform game that puts the player in control of the boy; its gameplay revolves around feeding his blob companion different flavored jelly beans to alter its shape into various tools in order to overcome obstacles and traverse the game's world. A Boy and His Blob was designed and programmed by David Crane. Licensed by Nintendo in the summer of 1989, development began and was completed in an intense six-week period. Crane has described the game's overall concept of a boy accompanied by a morphing blob as unconventional and wanted to try his own hand at implementing useful tools for the player.
Critical reception for A Boy and His Blob has been mixed. Though most reviewers agreed the gameplay was original, some felt it was poorly executed. The game won the 1989 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) "Best of Show" and a 1990 Parents' Choice Award. A Boy and His Blob was followed by a sequel on the Game Boy titled The Rescue of Princess Blobette. After two failed attempts to bring the series to Nintendo's other handhelds over the years, a re-imagining of Trouble on Blobolonia was developed by WayForward Technologies and released by Majesco Entertainment on the Wii in 2009. That same year, the original NES game was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console service in North America and PAL regions.
- ^ Mean Machines staff (June 1991). "Nintendo Review: A Boy and His Blob" (PDF). Mean Machines (9). London, UK: EMAP. ISSN 0960-4952. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 19, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
- ^ Jaleca staff. 不思議なブロビー -ブロバニアの危機- [Mysterious Blobby: The Crisis of Blobania] (in Japanese). Jaleco. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2011.