A Boy and His Blob NES Game Review | Friday Night Arcade
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Aaron reviews the obscure puzzler A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia for the Nintendo Entertainment System this week on Friday Night Arcade.
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a 1989 video game developed by Imagineering for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The video 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.
A Boy and His Blob is a platform-puzzle game that puts the player in control of the boy; its gameplay revolves around feeding his blob companion different flavored jelly beans to change 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.
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I played this a lot as a kid till I got to figure out the puzzles. Eventually, it became a test of skill to not fall down or get hit by instakill enemies. But this was one of the first puzzle games I beat as a kid, and ai felt so proud ! I didn't really understand the story, but I got to go to the subway, caverns, have a little pet, and go to space, so yeah !
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing Emily!! Love hearing stories like this.
Friday Night Arcade I clicked this video in response to a You Tube ad. I appreciate the varied footage, in-game footage, and historical facts. The gimicky shows garner attention, but I figure shows like this better represent the likely future of gaming history shows, and better respects the source material.
I had this growing up. I remember buying it at Toys R Us in the bargain bin. I didn't 'get it' at all. I do remember using the umbrella to get past the shower of Cocoa Puffs. I remember thinking the controls sucked and that the game felt unfinished. Now that I know that this was from the same dude that did Pitfall, it makes sense. The control is a lot like that.
If Bloblonia ever entered a military alliance with The Easter Bunny, the sheer size of their jellybean supply would make such an alliance unbeatable.
Best ad I ever clicked on.
SpongeMattb Haha, I came from an ad too!
@@narata1541 Same
I got a ad about this channel and I’m happy as hell it was one of the very few ads I have ever looked at
Really enjoying this channel! Thanks for all the nostalgic feels!
Well narrated video, and I'm going to start playing this one soon!
+RetroHabit82 Hey thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, hold on here. Ghostbusters on the NES is a clunker, but on the C64 (or the Sega Master System)? Sir, it's _on_.
I was mistaken... was thinking of the NES version when I blurted that out :/
Nobody noticed that I mispronounced "Blobolonia" throughout the entire video lol?!
probably because nobody watched the whole video, lol, no offense, attention spans these days are running short.
+rellik187redrum That's fair lol.
I did notice you mispronounced tedious.
I did notice you mispronounced tedious.
Eh, that happens.
All the faults you listed were no big deal for me. I loved figuring this game out and it didn't feel annoying to start all over again. The game was full of secrets to uncover, so it kept me entertained for months while I had no new video games to play at the time.
**some notes:**
The boy doesn't stop on a dime, but that allows you to clear some small gaps with cartoon logic. He can run in mid-air for a little bit before falling. If you skid off a cliff and don't run back to the edge the boy will look down and then wave goodbye before falling to his doom.
The ketchup hint in the book refers to a very odd and obscure easter egg. If you manage to trick the blob into eating a ketchup jellybean he turns into a little brick wall. Originally the wall was tied to grape jellybeans, which were cut from the final game. Its purpose was probably to protect you from explosions, but that functionality isn't in the game anymore.
The game can be finished really fast using the skidding trick I mentioned but also a massive programming oversight where tossing a jellybean to the left side of the screen in Blobonia reveals the boss screen for a split second, which in turn gets rid of all the enemies (the game thinks you're on the final screen, so it doesn't load them.) Then you can breeze through to the end.
There are also some odd hidden screens in the game that you can find by dropping the punch jellybean on specific areas of Blobonia. You can see stuff like 3/4ths of a limerick. TCRF has the full limerick displayed.
I love this game. I had it growing up so it may be mostalgia but I love it to this day.
Loved the concept of this game as a kid. Had a lot of trouble playing it as kid.
Had this on the nes when I was a kid but I never really understood it, I don’t think I was aware the object of the game was to find treasure and vitamins. Sometimes I would just go to the blobs home planet right away but I didn’t figure out the gun thing and would die because of the exploding cherry bombs. I tried it again loads of times over the years but never got the point.
I played this with my mom when I was a kid. Somewhere between 5-8yrs old. So in the 90s. This and Ninja Turtles were our favorite games.
That music just calms my blood pressure . Happy memories.
Bonus points for appending to your video when you learned about the directional item cycling. Always cool when people go back and add the new stuff they found. I would've never guessed. I need to plug my NES back in.
I remember playing this game as a kid, and definitely didn't get to take off on rocket Blob. Haha. I perpetually got lost in the sewers, and the 5 live limit probably got me one too many game overs. Haha.
I loved this game as a kid. I rented it so many times, but never finished it. I did eventually return to it in college and finish. :)
Shoutout to that one Nintendo Power issue with Mario on the front that had the huge map of the caverns for this game. Made the exploration much more enjoyable for a little kid trying to scrape up enough cash for some vitamins.
I played this so much as a kid. Never made it very far though. It was fun but hard and also you had to figure everything out as you went. Although I did explore the home planet, not that I knew that was what it was. I just took the rocket to the left. I definitely didn't beat the game though that end boss is new to me.
this is definitely a flawed classic, but thats sometimes the charm in older games cuz nowadays everything is so precisely scewed for all players liking and convenience they tend to be same game with a different paint job. And when i got it at 4 years old i had no idea how to do anything nor even understood what to do with jelly beans until this teenager on my street baby sat me one night and for some reason knew the game quite well
Couldn't agree more... everything now is tailored to fit everybody, complete with a tutorial and they basically just hold your hand through most of the way. Something like this forces you to think and forces you to try to problem solve. Problem solving is a lost art in this day and age when you can just google everything.
"Get it? Keylime?"
Wow, I played that game decades ago and I never realized that.
There's a Wii version?? I'm going to have to look at that.
+peterplaysbass There is a Wii version and come to find out, there's even a slightly remastered version of the Wii version on XBox One... same game but XBox version is said to be the best one.
Friday Night Arcade My gaming budget (both time and money) limits me to one brand of hardware, and that's fine by me. I own every Nintendo console and nothing else. I'll be checking out the Wii version, though!
+peterplaysbass If you have a chance to check it out, let me know how it is! I'd be curious as well!
i have it
lol
Nice going on the Stay puff and Jabba the hut love child reference.Made me lol!!
0:35 "A new video game cartridge for your Atari..." heh no shlt eh...
Lol
Cool that David Crane did this! I actually like the C64 Ghostbusters game :)
Yeah, I had the C64 version mixed up with the NES version in my head when I was writing this... C64 version is pretty cool.
@@FridayNightArcade ah! that makes more sense now... the NES version is almost unplayable! The Atari 2600 port is not bad either.
1:00 OK who is loading a gun
Fantastic video! Your production value continues to go up every video. You do a great job! Looks like a descent game. I'll pick it up if I find it on the cheap. Take care man!
+Ian “AR-15” Wolfe Hey thanks for the kind words, Ian. They are much appreciated, sincerely. I just keep trying to learn as much as I can and improve every time out. It's crazy to go back and watch some of the older videos when I was just using that cheesy Logitech "came with the computer" microphone to record all of the voiceovers lol. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend!
+Friday Night Arcade No problem man! I watched the vid where you showed your video editing equipment and the old mic that you used in the past. You did the best with what you had ha ha!
+Ian “AR-15” Wolfe Thanks!!
First time watching you video entertaining I will tune in for some more keep up good work
hey thanks
Hey my aunt actually made cover art for this game!
I rented this a few times but never beat it. And I did not connect punch = hole to "hole punch" until this day. Man. At least "Key lime" made sense to 90s me.
I stayed up all night playing this at someone's house as a kid. I got to the last room with one life and no idea what to do. I started feeding him each jellybean in turn and picked cola. He turned into a bubble and popped. Game over.
Damn that was a good commercial. If the mattress wasn't so expensive
Kinda an arcade precursor to portal or something. Some neat puzzles here! Ill have to try to emulate this cause I love that blob/bean mechanic
Except it never came out in arcades???
@@ZigealFaust ok it came out on pc and I didn't know. You win! You get a big gold star. Do you feel good about yourself now? Hopefully
I always have this song in my head.
+Truth〉Fiction It never ends!
My absolute childhood right here!!! The nostalgia is unreal, I remember playing this game when I was young and making the blob turn into a rocket only to die soon after because of these white balls that would kill upon impact... Great memories glad I've still got the game somewhere at my mums haha
+Lee Burns94 Hey thanks for sharing this, Lee. That's hilarious... it is technically possible to go straight to Blob's homeworld without having collected any treasures. And a person could technically even just collect a few treasures and buy "just enough" vitamins to make it through the homeworld stage if you can make it through without wasting the ammo. It's crazy to think a game this puzzling could be beaten in under 10 minutes if you know where to go. Thanks for watching!
love this kind of review. not as avgn look alike as irate game. yet you got the same production quality as the nerd. Keep up the good work. I support your review.
+Sami Underhill Hey Sami, thanks for the feedback. Really not going for an AVGN vibe other than production quality so I sincerely appreciate you making that comparison. I do put a lot of effort into the production aspect of it so it's great when someone takes notice. I'm just an old guy who likes playing and talking about old games lol. Thanks for stopping by and checking out the channel - hope to see you again sometime.
I did play this as a kid and never could get very far. The brutal continue system and total guess and check game play was just too much for me. I eventually came back and beat it, but really didn't find it fun. Felt like a chore. This was back when I used to feel obligated to finish games.
That's fair - these types of games are definitely an acquired taste. Sometimes it's nice to just be able to play a game straight through without having to think about it too much.
I spent so much time "trial & erroring" that game to figure it out. I can't tell you how many times I asked myself "Why did I buy this?" I think I had a Nintendo Power with a map or I just memorized where not to die.
I played it when I was younger, I had no idea what I was doing
i got this later after i had read about it in Nintendo Power magazine, i read an article about Crane and his detest for guns in video games, I concur, there are too many games with guns, albeit the boy does get a vitablaster, the game is mostly a puzzle, which I like. I love the puns that help you figure out the jellybean code, i haven't played the newer versions, just the nes one, i like the 8 bit graphics of the nes vs other newer systems
Didn't realize that the C64 Ghostbusters was considered a clunker.
It's really not. I was thinking of the NES version. I goofed - sorry.
This game was fun. It's interesting how it can be beaten in under 10 min. but it took me hours back when it first came out.
+Adem Iscariot Yeah, it's funny how that works. I remember playing Shadowgate and it took me weeks to finally solve it, but then when you know where to go you can get through it in under 1-2 hours. Thanks for watching.
I too got pulled in by an ad. so aaron, the ads are working.
i actually liked the while trial-and-error, draw-a-map-on-notebook-paper element. it made me feel like i was as real treasure hunter.
+MyComputerSucks2 That's awesome.
Thanx thought I’d never find out what happened at the end of this damn game👍🏾
It can technically be beaten in under a few minutes. I've seen some crazy speed runs out there.
@2:00 speaking of making sewer exploration appealing, when the first TMNT movie (1990?) hit theaters, numerous articles began appearing in the papers of how police had to haul teens out of the sewer system because........yep, they naturally assumed the Turtles were down there.......in a city in western Canada 😐
When you feed him a ketchup he turns into a brick wall. It's hard to do though. I've never managed it.
Just found this channel and I love it
Thanks Blake!
To this day, nobody has done a speedrun / TAS of A Boy And His Blob (NES) where they deliberately collect every peppermint. Or even have them as any kind of focus. All that really exists, after all this time, are a zillion speedruns where they abuse the broken code, and a handful of legit runs where they collect all of the treasures and play the game legitimately. Nobody tries to collect *everything.*
no fucking way, this was one of my fav NES games and it was soehwat of an overlooked, obscure but really underrated game. Great choice with picking an innovative yet unheard of game that only real retro gamer's prob know about
Thanks, Sierra! Glad you enjoyed the video. It's definitely a quirky game that people either fondly remember or have no clue it existed.
Hey, why'd this appear as an Ad? I'm curious.
Well... in a perfect world RUclips would promote small channels and large channels equally, but sadly that is not the case. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to spread the word is through good old fashioned marketing.
@@FridayNightArcade I love that you sponsored your own channel.
Star Wars, Empire, Star Voyager, Blaster Master, Super Dodgeball, and finally Boy and His Blob are the only games I wish would’ve come on my mini NES! Of regrets in all my life biggest was trading in my NES collection for a SNES. I later traded that for a PlayStation to go to college with.
I own almost my full collection back but those few. Because I’d have to get a full NES again. And once got both Mini’s I ended up getting the one retro counsel always wanted last year. A GameCube. Because I wanted all the Star Wars games, finish Metroid, and try Smash Brothers Melee at last. Worth it!
That's awesome. I think there's a way to soft mod your NES Mini to where you can put more games on it.
Friday Night Arcade I’d seen someone post on gram they’d added games to their mini NES. I am almost tempted, but don’t want to mess up the open one I have and one still new in the box. I spent this week tracking down games my brother had on our Apple 2. I couldn’t believe I could remember all of them.
Also your video on Wing Commander was great! One of the most underrated games in all of the SNES era. Did you ever play the other game they made for SNES? It wasn’t a sequel, was hidden missions or something to that effect. I rented that all the time cause could never find a copy anywhere as a teenager.
That's funny -- I can't remember what happened yesterday but can remember games or specific things from games 30 years ago. I guess that stuff just gets implanted in your memories when you're a kid like that.
I did play it -- Wing Commander: The Secret Missions. It was awesome, just a continuation of the first one, pretty much exactly the same as far as gameplay. I used to rent both of them often. Tracked it down a year or two ago cheap at a mom and pop games shop down south when we were traveling.
great review!
Thanks!
I beat this as a kid, but I had a Game Genie. So the limit on lives didn't make it frustrating as it could be. It was terribly cryptic. I think I may have had a magazine tip sheet too. Haven't played any of the remakes, but games were so simple back then, that I thought this was a really unique and fun game.
Agreed - I love figure it out for yourself games and trying to test out what the developers put in. It forces you to use your imagination and problem solve. Good stuff.
Ya this was an interesting title, i personally did not care for it but for someone who doesn't have to many memories of it I was surprised to hear you say you rented it 3 times lol nice video =) ps i did not play the remake
this game looked like it was developed on Atari 7800 hardware and then ported over to NES.
i loved it as a kid but as an adult its a pain to figure out but i do still have the game.
It's definitely a little tedious... I give them credit for at least trying something unique though.
Lol the underpants gnomes business structure.
The similarities between this and Pitfall II are conspicuous almost to the point that the game feels like a spiritual successor. That's literally what I thought when I rented it back in the day.
guess price is right is losing its fan base since drew carrey is now reviewing NES games from 1989.
I know this was probably meant as an insult, but you just made me genuinely laugh out loud.
Not an insult at all. I like anyone who at one point was a vehicle for Deidrich Bader.
It’s a sadistic idea but I’d like to see this as a movie
It could be done... you could do the whole movie animated or have a mix like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
So once you know what you are doing how long does it take to beat?
+TITOWAJ 1-2 hrs if you know what you're doing. With no walkthroughs would probably take closer to 3-5 hrs.
Here's a tip I learned for recording tv screens, change your FPS to 60
no proob, I like yootoob
i noticed some of the sound effects in this game is the same as the ones in the simpsons games
The thumbnail looks like the blob has some big ol mammaries
My brother owned it. I would play it more than him. I did find it fun to explore. Never had beaten it. Do a review on the other Boy and his Blob.
+anthony orsini Thanks for sharing that, Anthony. I'll have to take a closer look at some of the other games in the series at some point. I definitely never could figure this one out as a kid... not until 20-some years later when I revisited it for the purposes of this review lol.
those controls... if you ran off a ledge at the right speed and tried to stop at the right time, the boy would float,look down then fall. like some bugs bunny stuff. remember that?
That's hilarious - it totally is like out of Bugs Bunny!
Its funny how all you did was say "Sega" and "Controversial" back to back and I immediately thought "NIGHT TRAP".
As flawed as this game might be, I still consider it one of Imagineering Inc's better games on the NES, along with Space Shuttle Project and Ghoul School. They also developed Ghostbusters II, The Simpsons games, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Swamp Thing though, so there definitely seems to be a lot of trial and error going on.
I wanted to enjoy Ghoul School with every fiber of my being, but even after hand mapping and hours of gameplay I could never make any sense of the layout of the game.
Love getting stoned and binge watching this channel
I really like the Wii game but couldn't stand this version.
+Abraham 123 That's understandable... Others have said the Wii game is pretty darn good as well compared to this. The NES version only had a 6-week development cycle and probably could have used some more time for polish. I never played it on Wii but want to give it a try sometime soon. Thanks for watching.
A super fun game, I really enjoyed the exploration and puzzle solving. The ending, I have to agree is a little lackluster. I rented the remake via gamefly but was a little disappointed by the lack of exploration. Too bad, really. It was a pretty looking game.
+tycho042 Thanks for sharing. I've heard mixed reviews of the remake. Definitely want to check it out myself sometime. Thanks for watching.
Possible precurser to Big Hero 6 xD
lol nice
My mom told me about this game, I had no clue what it was. That's how I found this video.
Nice!
i did play this game as a kid. don't make the mistake of feeding Blob a cola jelly bean while he's imprisoned. I thought he'd balloon out and break the cage, but it doesn't end well for him... :(
+Douglas Estep Ha! Good to know! Supposedly there is a way you can trick Blob into eating a ketchup jellybean too by getting him to eat a different bean and then quickly switch and throw a ketchup bean while his mouth is still open. I didn't try it but apparently something bad happens lol. Thanks for watching.
+Friday Night Arcade I remember trying trick Blob into a ketchup bean, don't remember if I was ever successful.
+Friday Night Arcade I remember trying trick Blob into a ketchup bean, don't remember if I was ever successful.
+Douglas Estep Now I wanna go back and try as well as try the balloon thing you mentioned lol.
it's actually Friday, this game was a wasted rental for me back as a kid.
+rellik187redrum Yeah, if you didn't know what the heck was going on it was an unfortunate waste of a weekend rental... this one and Simon's Quest fooled me a few times.
I can write what each jelly beans do or I can just screen shot your list and save myself the time
Now, they made a new one for the Xbox one.
I've heard the XBox version is actually quite good.
this would be good if it weren't an ad
I don't follow your logic.
Was this in the avgn room
+AgentJLT I wondered who kept beating on the door lol...
I love this game. It's so cute.
+Captain Comics That's a good word for it lol...
Looks fun
+BellaBehindAKidBehindACamera It's definitely unique... thanks for watching!
The sound effects sound like Bart Simpsons vs the Space Mutants.
+peterplaysbass lol I hadn't even thought of that but you are correct, sir.
Friday Night Arcade THat game is stuck deep in my mind, unfortunately.
+peterplaysbass lol... Now the machine requires hats! We need more HATS for world domination! ... ugh... Owned that game when I was kid.. allowance money wasted...
The Gameboy version is really tricky.
Really? I've never played it. Did you make it all the way through?
@@FridayNightArcade Gosh, no! Very difficult to figure out. It was also easy to get killed, since the boy is so frail. One hit from anything and you're dead.
And then we get the remake with short hops (which I don't mind)
Still haven't played the remake but heard good things. Glad modern gen kids got a chance to try it out.
Ok RUclips I finally clicked it after seeing it for about 46 times (I counted) are we done now?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not sure if I ever wanted to like a game more, or found one more frustrating
Thanks for sharing
how is this an add?
7:08 yea take that you bastids. Also you can instantly go to the blob world thing.
I played the wii version when I was little
+chicken permission nice... I've heard that version is pretty good.
and king hippo
I remember this!
I thought it was a Boy and His Ghost. Disappointed to realize that what I thought was a cute but sad ghost story is actually nonsense about a vitamin alien.
A Boy and His Ghost sounds way more compelling.
there was a Japanese vesion for the gameboy back in the day. lol
I only know this 'cause I found it one day... someone had thrown it away. I had it for a good while until my gameboy got stolen. :(
+masteralaric Whoa, if this one was confusing I can only imagine how it was like in Japanese on Game Boy lol. Sorry to hear it got stolen :/
Ima call this show Calm Video Game Nerd. CVGN.
+Higy gkgjg Somehow I don't think Higy gkgjg is your real name...
Here a suggestion for the next one this is a game I grew up with (no not top gun avgn already insulted it lol) do marble madness
+Xana Flowy Ahh yes, Marble Madness... will definitely take that one under advisement. Thanks for the suggestion!
i got this game. the boy and his blob would have been pretty cool if they were in smash bros. 4. think about it, the blob could turn into a bunch of things 2 help the boy when u fight with them. but i guess with ness and lucas, they dint want another little boy character. even though he had a blob with him. lols.
Someone get Shigeru on the phone...
1:11. I have that shirt :D
Nice!
mine is black
Wow that's what you look like.
👍👍🎮🎮📺📺
A face only the radio could love lol...
It has The Simpsons game sound effects,lol.
+K Llo lol yes... yes it does...