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Virtual Console 〕|PAL=December 18, 2009}} |genre = Platformer, puzzle |modes = Single-player |platforms = Nintendo Entertainment System Virtual Console }} ''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. Critical reception for ''A Boy and His Blob'' has been largely 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 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. ==Gameplay== ''A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia'' is a platform-puzzle game. The plot involves a young boy and his alien blob friend on a quest to save the latter's home planet of Blobolonia, which has been taken over by an evil emperor who only allows his subjects a diet of sweets.〔 The boy and Blobert must traverse the subways and caves beneath the Earth and gain the necessary items before traveling to Blobolonia and defeating the emperor. They must evade dangerous obstacles like falling rocks, stalactites, and stalagmites, as well as deadly, snake enemies.〔〔 ''A Boy and His Blob'' is not a side-scrolling game, but rather presents the player with a series of single, interconnected screens. Despite being a platform game, the player-controlled boy is limited to simply running left or right. The player cannot jump or swim, and if the boy falls too long of a distance, he will die on impact.〔 Though the player directly controls the boy, Blobert is controlled by the computer AI. The player must rely on the shapeshifting blob to cross gaps, reach higher platforms, and overcome the obstacles and enemies.〔〔〔 Blobert can change into several different tools when the player feeds him flavored jelly beans. A licorice jelly bean, for instance, will change Blobert into a ladder, while an apple jelly bean will turn him into a jack.〔〔 Whistling at Blobert causes him to change back to his original shape and continue following the boy.〔 The player is encouraged to experiment with the jelly beans and their effects to navigate the puzzling game world.〔〔 Scattered throughout Earth's caverns are various treasures and diamonds that increase the player's score and can be used to purchase vitamins at a drugstore located within the game world.〔〔 Vitamins can be used in conjunction with a special "VitaBlaster" gun, which is in turn used on Blobolonia to complete certain tasks.〔 Also found on the map are extra jelly beans and peppermints, which increase the player's lives.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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