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Music

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A Boy and His Blob NSF (24 KB)

Codes/Cheats

AAULNGIA        1 life only
ZAULNGIE        Double lives 
GXXEOPVG        Infinite lives 
AAVKIPPA        Infinite Jellybeans
SXEEZAAX        Fast play
For the next code, in the underwater section, if you lose a life you 
may not be able to call your Blob, and therefore become trapped. 
If this happens, just reset and start again.
AVOGAEOZ        Invincible 
AVOPVGEI        Never take damage from enemies
APEUUIAA        Gives 10 Orange Jellybeans 
AONUSGAA        10 Lime Jellybeans
OONLOGZN        99 Licorice Jellybeans 
AUNLUGIP        Double Strawberry Jellybeans
TUNLNKAP        Double Cola Jellybeans
AKNUOGGX        Double Cinnamon Jellybeans
GXNUUGZP        Double Apple Jellybeans 
AVNUNGAL        Double Vanilla Jellybeans
ZPELNITA        Double Ketchup Jellybeans
AONLSGTE        Triple Coconut Jellybeans
APELUITE        Triple Rootbeer Jellybeans 
APEUSIAA        10 Vitamin A for Vita-Blaster
APEUNIAA        10 Vitamin B for Vita-Blaster 
APOLOIAA        10 Vitamin C for Vita-Blaster
SZXLXKSU + YYXLUGEY     Gives 101 of all starting Jellybeans

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Visitor Reviews

the blob!

By 8 Bit Junkie on 6/3/2006 9:36:03 PM

feed your blob ketchup jellybeans. Cute idea, too bad the graphics were short on cuteness.

Kind of cool

By Alex on 11/14/2003 8:55:51 AM

This game is a little strange, but the music is awsome. I would give it a 7 out of 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 the best and 1 the worst.

Think of the innovation

By Dean Carpenter AKA Hammie? on 7/27/2003 2:15:39 PM

I'll admit that this game is harder than necessary and is sort of boring, but think of what it took to make this game. It's as if Blob has artificial intelligence (Ever played Pacman2 for SNES?). It's an original. There's no other game like it (which may be a good thing). It's a great overall strategy/puzzle platform.

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Classic

By swanger on 6/11/2003 11:45:58 PM

I personally love this game, Because I have the NES Stradegy Guide for it, Easy gameplay and the blob reminds me of Kirby.

dont play with a white midget

By Shrink on 5/12/2003 2:11:48 AM

The blob following around smells like donkey feces which relates to the game. What a waste of freakin time this is.
my rating: 1/100

A Unique Game

By gaellienia on 4/18/2003 5:33:09 AM

One of the things that made this title unique was the fact that it was designed by an American company. This is one of the reasons it is so different from any of the other games out there. It is certainly no Zelda or Mario but it does deserve to be remembered.

boring

By seth on 4/2/2003 12:35:03 AM

this game is ridiculous i bought it thinking it was an ok game but it wasent at all. ctchy title and nice idea but not a good game to have.

Yeah yeah!

By David on 3/24/2003 1:42:12 AM

It remembers me memories from childhood. This game is unique, i would say. I liked the feeling to explore deep foreigner caverns and the Blob planet, finding treasures and jellybeans! This game need reflexion and playing experience to be beaten, but once you know the tricks, it takes a 45 mins to end it. Remember you need the "lime jellybean" to open the end boss stage, this blob key function is found this jellypackages through the game.

My rate 8.5/10

A game to play, but not to Buy

By Xor2086 on 2/21/2003 9:11:36 AM

I like de Idea a lot, it was very original, but since you came with all the Puzzles its not so fun to replay again... there was not adicional Challenge...

Anyways, the time you expend with your Blob is very Enjoyable

I liked it.

By Kristoff on 2/14/2003 8:47:30 PM

This game is bad.. the graphics, sound, and design just reek of cheapness.

But, I liked it.

Very strange.

Blobby = dum

By Steve Puke on 12/4/2002 8:58:50 PM

Who has blobs? That is garbage. Ever see a blob eat jellybeans? What! Who rights this garbage. I have played only one other game that is this dum and that game was A Boy and His Retarded Little Brother. But that game had a cool level where you were red.

Love, Steve Puke

A boy and his blob (too underestimated)

By Xpenguin on 11/15/2002 7:05:20 PM

Please people, give this game a chance. True, the graphics could use alot of help but the gameplay and game journey style is cool. Give this game a chance, getting the treasures underground may be boring but it gets better later on. But i also agree that this game is not the excellent type. I give this game 7/10

What a blob of maggot feces.

By ToddVania on 10/3/2002 12:23:16 PM

What the hell is this? The previous reviewer was right when he said this needed a strategy guide. This game is probably stupid even if it did have one, and judging from the shitty graphics, the ending probably isn't worth getting to in the first place. I do agree with other reviewers that the general idea was a good try, however. This poor kid and his blob just need more instructions. I traded this game for another Zelda in case the battery dies. That was all it was good for. 1 out of 10.

An early example of what would later be known as "games taht require Stradegy Guide".

By Ironman on 9/7/2002 3:09:17 PM

As the title states this is an early example of the classification of games that need stradegy guide. A game so hard as in you don't know what the hell you are doing or where the hell you are going that only a stradegy guide may help, and even then it might not be possible. I don't even know the main plot of the game. You have blob that follows you and changes depending on what jelly bean you give it (none of it helps though) and eventually you might make it to the end of the game. But what confuses me most about the game is when you give it the jelly bean that turns it into a rocket you end up in an orchard where there are bouncing apples. What is the point of this?

a boy and his blob

By angel garcia on 7/28/2002 2:47:22 AM

me encanto este juego es de los mejores para esta consola.

Just plain crappy

By QuickManX on 5/31/2002 12:02:11 PM

The idea of running around and feeding stuff to another object that followed you around to make it change its form sounded cool, until you played this peice of crap. First off, the graphics look like they were ripped from a 2600 game. At least the blob isn't solid-color. And you can never tell which jellybean does what, and plenty of times there's holes where you least expect 'em, so it relys mostly on chance. And ugh... Don't get me started on the music. And the enemies are few and stupid. I mean, what kind of enemy is a BOUNCING MARSHMALLOW, damn it?! In short, only buy this game if you need an extra paperweight or coaster for your coffee table.

A hit or miss that missed

By gnrchild on 3/19/2002 10:37:41 AM

Like many of these other reviewers, I agree that this game had what it took to be a great puzzle game, but blew it. When I first played it, I noticed the sappy plot, but I didn't let that get to me because many classic games have been built around worse. I'm not going to go into the plot here because if you're visitting this game site, you've probably played it before anyway. So I played the game, and was disappointed. The idea of feeding your blob jellybeans for different tools set the stage for an awesome puzzle game, and the idea of going underground was cool. But then I realized that half of the freakin' game is spent there. What's more, you don't really know what to do. You start out having to turn the blob into a hole in order to go under the subway, but of all of the spots where you can enter the subway, only a small few don't lead to sudden death. It keeps going on like that all the way down-either you land safely or you get screwed. It's more a matter of chance, you have to guess where to go and what to use, gamble your life with every turn. And with only 5 lives the whole first half, the odds are against. I'm not saying that the game's too challenging; I never back down from a game simply because of hard strategy. But there is no strategy here-only a game of trial and error. Aside from that, there really is no sound or varied music, and the enemies are scarce. The graphics aren't bad, but they could've been beter. All in all, this game sounds interesting, but I think anyone would be disappointed to play it.

A Boy and His Blob...great game!

By Brandon D on 2/6/2002 3:58:02 PM

A Boy and His Blob is a great game! One of my top ten favorite NES games. It may be alittle difficult to figure out what to do at first, but after experimenting with your options, you'll figure out what to do.

Great graphics for NES. Average sound. 100% for fun.

This game is different. You have to go underground to find treasures. The boy can turn his blob into tons of different objects in order to complete his mission (ladder, coconut, umbrella, a hole in the ground, trampiline, rocket, blow torch, etc.).

A Boy and His Blob

By Jason Girt on 2/3/2002 9:30:56 PM

I don't know, I thought the game was okay until this one part. It was the part where you had to get past the falling cherries. I could never do it, and it got somewhat frusterating. The game was semi-good until this part.

JUST PLAIN WEIRD

By Matthew Maas on 11/24/2001 3:24:59 AM

This game COULD HAVE BEEN great. It wasn't. 3.5 / 5

It could have been great because the concept is extremely original. You play as a nameless boy who traverses through underground caverns with your shapeless alien friend, Blobert. By feeding this blob jellybeans of different flavors, you can turn it (him?) into different things, which can help you solve puzzles. There is usually a cheesy pun associated with this transformation. For example, feed your blob a apple jellybean, and it will transform into a jack (get it?).

This sounds a lot more fun than it actually is, due to some major gameplay problems. Read on.

DIFFICULTY: Moderate to difficult. While the puzzles aren't that tough and the enemies are morons, the game is made much more difficult because of poor controls, few lives, and lack of save/continue options. The game is relatively short, so it is beatable with a walkthrough and with a lot of patience.

PLOT: In the 21st century (the future, in relation to when the game was made), a blob named Blobert travels from its home planet of Blobolonia to seek help. An evil emperor has seized control of the planet, and is forcing everyone to eat only junkfood. You agree to help this blob by travelling back to its home planet and killing the emperor with vitamins.
The major reason why this plot makes no sense is the way in which you must go about finding those vitamins. Apparently, in the future, vitamins are horrendously expensive, and you are forced to find burried treasure to pay for them. Fortunatley, there are caverns full of treasure burried under your subway (obviously) and these are easily obtainable with the help of your blob. Feed it jellybeans, and it will morph into various tools to help you find the treasure. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

GAMEPLAY: This is where the game really tanks. While the blob morphing concept is fun for about five minutes, the game is soon reduced to trial-and-error guessing. Unfortunately, there is little room for the ERROR part, since you only have five lives for the entire first half of the game and your supply of jellybeans is limmeted. There is no save/continue option, which means you must beat the entire game in one sitting. Puzzles aside, the actual enemy-dodging is incredibly poorly done. Most enemies are invincible (or regenerating) and they bounce around about a quarter of a millimeter from your head all the time. Fortunately, there are few enemies to deal with (at least in the first half of the game).
Control is atrocious. Your character always moves like he is walking on ice, which is especially annoying around ledges and enemies. Also, getting the blob into the right spot can be a major problem.
The worst part of the gameplay, however, is the fact that the entire first half of the game is wasted. This is the half played on Earth, devoted to finding treasure to buy vitamins. The thing is, you don't even NEED vitamins to beat the game. Very few enemies can actually be hurt by vitamins, and they are usually avoidable without them. In fact, the only thing preventing you from skipping the first half completely is the fact that one crucial flavor of jellybean must be found. You use this flavor only once in the entire game (but it is required), and you have to get through the entire network of caverns before finding any.

GRAPHIC: The graphics are below average, even for NES. Your character is highly pixillated. Enemies are colorless and unrecognizable. Your blob is semi-well-rendered, but how hard can it be to render a BLOB? Other characters are non-existant.
The backgrounds are the only good part of the game, graphics-wise. Unfortunately, the first half of the game is spent in underground caverns, where there are no backgrounds.

MUSIC: There are about two tunes which consist of about five repeating notes and sound exactly the same. Fortunatley, they are not TOO annoying.

SOUND: What sound?

LASTING APPEAL: Not much. The game is quite short (one hour, minimum), and there are no side-quests to bring you back to the game.

HIGHS: Original concept

LOWS: Poor graphics, poor sound, poor controls, trial-and-error puzzles, no save/continue, short

BOTTOM LINE: 3.5 is being very generous. Play it for a change of pace, but don't expect to be blow away.

Here have a jelly bean

By Dragon Chaser on 8/25/2001 12:54:37 AM

I remember this game. Man do I remember it. Sure it wasn't pretty or anything and you have to ask yourself what kind of drugs the creators of this game were on but you must give credit for originality. This game isn't for the action crowd, it's for the intellectual gamer which there still wasn't a lot of at this point in game history. Did I enjoy the game? For a while and then it was like as a previous reviewer put it "punishment" Still this game was original and different which is worth some points. a score of 3/5 I think is fair.

A Boy and His Blob

By BlakeB on 8/5/2001 9:33:42 PM

The reasons that most people hate this game are stupid reasons. Sure, having more than a few lives to beat the game with would have been good, and the addition of a few other things would have been nice but this game is still a great game.

I have no major problems with this game. The graphics are fine and I find the game rather innovative and fun. Sure, you aren't running around tearing through large groups of demon zombies with a machine gun but it's still fun. If you demand constant action, like some people who reviewed this game, you have no reason to buy A Boy and His Blob. But if you want a bit of strategy and adventure I recommend this game.

A Boy and His Blob has it's problems, nothing major, but if they would have been improved on this game would have been a 5. Overall this game is great and one of my all time favorite. It should be played by everyone diehard Nintendo

4/5

What a dismal game

By Josh Wilber on 7/5/2001 10:59:11 AM

I hated this game, I got it for my birthday and it was like a punishment. You are a person who cant get extra lifes or kill bad guys and you feed beans to a snowman who turns into spaceships!

A Blobby Fantacy

By MacCoder on 5/22/2001 4:02:49 PM

Boy doesn't have much of a name, "Boy". That's what you call him, even the blob has a better name: "Blobby" but I just call him blob. Boy isn't drawn the best, he looks a little pixelated. Blob wasn't drawn so bad, the background usualy looked comparatively nice.

Throuout the game your stuck with Blob. He isn't a beauty of sorts, but he is the most useful living creature that could ever exist. Feed him flavored jellybeans to make him turn into stuff, which helps you get through the game. If you are horrible at problem solving, then you will hate this game. For the thinkers out there, you will enjoy this game. It challenges your intelligence (I mean that in a good way). You have to decide what to turn Blob into to get through to where you want to go. Furthermore, you have to figure out what flavor jellybean to feed him to turn him into that object. You must go underground, collect treasures while avoiding monsters, then go back up to buy vitamins and save Blobonia. Unfortunatly you can not destroy the monsters in the cave, which is a real shame. After you get to Blobonia, your only goal is to get past screens and screens of monsters. The screens seem endless, and you only get 5 extra boys to get past the game. You can not gain more Boys, which is also a big bummer. After you finaly get past the whole game, the ending isn't much to look at. After all that work you would expect to at least see fireworks or something.
Even if you don't get through half the game, it gets boring quickly. A week after starting it, if you havn't beeten it by then the game will seem completely dull. If you want to go through it and have the most playing enjoyment possible - read a walkthrough.
That's it, bad for most gamers and neat for at least a while for great problem solvers.

Back to the days of the 2600

By Antoine Pijnenburg, the Netherlands on 2/7/2001 10:05:27 AM

Eeeek, a strange game, this one. When you first start it, it looks like you are back in the days that the Atari 2600 ruled the gaming scene ! Poor graphics, that is.......

Okay, enough about the graphics, what about the gameplay ? Well, it's worse...
You are a guy that runs around with a Blob. When you feed this Blob with a special candy, it turns into an object. Sounds cool, eh? Well, it is, but only for 15 minutes....Then you get irritated with the Blob, and you'll do ANYTHING to get rid of the stupid thing.
Which makes the game at least a little bit funnier........

Poor gameplay, poor graphics, ain't worth to put into your NES. A 1 out of 5.

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