A Boy and His Blob preview (DS)

[Everlost_MI]

NintendoInsider (http://nintendoinsider.com/) has posted a preview (http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEElAlVuupJwHdRowx.php) of A Boy and His Blob that being developed for the Nintendo DS. The game is set in a 3D world and it will utilize the DS touch screen to select the jellybeans.

Here's a bit from the article regarding the history of the series.

In 1989, David Crane, the genius behind Pitfall on Atari 2600, unleashed an original NES game on the world -- A Boy and His Blob: Trouble in Blobonia, soon to become a cult classic. After a 1990 Game Boy sequel, the Rescue of Princess Blobette, the series died and, despite promise of a Game Boy Advance version that was soon cancelled, the Blob was never heard from again – until now. Over fifteen years later, A Boy and His Blob is finally getting another chance, with David Crane himself behind the sequel.

Wow, this is a blast from the past. I think I still have the NES cartridge in my collection.

[joruussuun]

Yes! I loved this game when I was a kid... ah... fond memories...

[netcraazzy]

I'm amazed they are making a new Boy and his Blob game. I really didn't think that game was very well known or popular. It was different though.

[TrackZero]

Yeah, the original seemed semi-popular, but I remember it was even a surprise to hear about the original GB sequel when they made it.

[bapenguin]

definitley a blast from the past. Bring on Master Blaster!

[TrackZero]

definitley a blast from the past. Bring on Master Blaster!

Except don't make all the parts in your ship ultra-hard this time.

[Heretic Machine]

I'm sorry... but I just found the original to be utter crap. I thought the novelty behind it was interesting, but the gameplay... Ugh...

[Kefkataran]

Perigon, the original probably did suck, but all I can remember is playing it a ton as a kid (long before I could really tell the difference between good and bad gameplay). I used to love this game. Let's hope this version of it isn't too bad, hm?

I'll second a call for Blaster Master (not, Master Blaster, although I'm sure this is what you meant).

[Blue]

This game was as easy for me as that dam level was in the TMNT game for the NES. Read: I sucked at it. Hard. I could never figure out what to do with half those beans I got and the blob would never eat em. Stupid blob. Maybe I'll buy this to at least make myself feel better in knowing I've at least gotten more intelligent with age. Of course, the minute I can't figure out why I have a ketchup bean, I'll snap the game in half.

[Kefkataran]

This game was as easy for me as that dam level was in the TMNT game for the NES. Read: I sucked at it. Hard. I could never figure out what to do with half those beans I got and the blob would never eat em. Stupid blob. Maybe I'll buy this to at least make myself feel better in knowing I've at least gotten more intelligent with age. Of course, the minute I can't figure out why I have a ketchup bean, I'll snap the game in half.

OH MY GOD!! The dam level in TNMT!! I remember that! I never could get past it and wasn't it like the second or third level in the stupid game? Ugh. There were a couple times I got past it, I know, but the vast majority of the time I played that game it was just me getting to the dam level, dying a lot, then quitting.

This whole thread is a total nostalgia trip.

[Blue]

OH MY GOD!! The dam level in TNMT!! I remember that! I never could get past it and wasn't it like the second or third level in the stupid game? Ugh. There were a couple times I got past it, I know, but the vast majority of the time I played that game it was just me getting to the dam level, dying a lot, then quitting.

This whole thread is a total nostalgia trip.

It was the second level. The third level was cake. I've never made it past the Giant Mouser at the end of the fourth level in all my years. To this day, I consider it my greatest gaming rival.

[Kefkataran]

I'm downloading a ROM of that this weekend.

[megatron666]

It was the second level. The third level was cake. I've never made it past the Giant Mouser at the end of the fourth level in all my years. To this day, I consider it my greatest gaming rival.

Ya, as a kid you really had to devout to some of those nes games to get past even the earliest levels. Anyone remember Ninja Gaiden 2 and that god damn wind? Or trying to do some wall jumps in the chemical plant level in Batman?

[Kefkataran]

I'm pretty sure I remember both of those. oh, man. Staying up past midnight with the volume all the way down hoping my mom wouldn't walk in on me playing. To be six again!

[Adewade]

GAH! STUPID DAM LEVEL!

I had a copy of it for my 386, and... yeah. Never got past that part. Ever. I tried it again a month or so ago (I have an old system running for the odd burst of Commander Keen or Captain Comic), and I'm still at a loss as to how anyone can get through there.

Gah.

[frederec]

Ya, as a kid you really had to devout to some of those nes games to get past even the earliest levels. Anyone remember Ninja Gaiden 2 and that god damn wind? Or trying to do some wall jumps in the chemical plant level in Batman?

That's funny. I remember once borrowing Ninja Gaiden 2 from a friend of mine and beating it that same day. I thought it was easy. Then again, that was a time in my life when once (and only once) I was able to beat Ninja Gaiden without dying. At all. That is my greatest achievement ever in videogames. Second to that is the one time I beat Tyson. Gah he sucked.

[DaedalusFolly]

Anyone play Goonies on NES? I had it and could never get past the beginning... if there was anything more after that.

[Blue]

Anyone play Goonies on NES? I had it and could never get past the begining... if there was anything more after that.

Yeah, there was actually the only one level. And, if there was more to it, I wouldn't know it. Anyone else think that games these days are almost too easy? It's not a matter of us (or me, in this case) getting better as we get older because I still get drop-kicked across the room when I play certain classics I couldn't even beat back in the day. What's with that? I still get hammered at Mega Man 2 and yet I can beat most current-gen offerings in less than a week. I have no idea how in the world I managed to beat some of the games I did and at the age of 8, no less.

[mister_slim]

Anyway, I've been enjoying some of the DS 2D stuff. It's nice to see some interesting new twists on 2D gameplay.

[Rommel]

Many games historians have noted that games, back in the day, were not just more difficult. They were, in fact, impossibile. This was due to the arcade mentality of sucking quarters from the players. once companies realized that people would buy more games if we finished our current ones things progressed in the opposite direction.

[ElectricMonk]

Many games historians have noted that games, back in the day, were not just more difficult. They were, in fact, impossibile. This was due to the arcade mentality of sucking quarters from the players. once companies realized that people would buy more games if we finished our current ones things progressed in the opposite direction.

you know, i'm really not so sure this is true. I remember getting my ass handed to me on most games back then, but it was really more of a childhood perception of the game. take case A) dragon warrior. i played the hell out of that game, leveled up to like 24 and was super nervous every time i pressed attack on the dragon lord. i'd be using herbs and stuff because i was too afraid to use healmore that would use up all my mp. but i went back and re-played it recently, finished the game at level 19 and it was no sweat. now i understand the gameplay behind it so it wasn't that big of a deal. after you get all the final armor and such there's pretty much no penalty for death at all.

take case b) ninja gaiden. i never played the original back in the day, but my friend loved the series and thought one of his crowning video game achievements was finishing the first ninja gaiden (because it resets back to the beginning of the last level if you lose on the end boss which was considered cheap and unfair). now that game took me a total of 3 hours to beat it after i unlocked it on ninja gaiden xbox. not a big deal.

i find in many games now that require jumping puzzles, if you just don't think about it, and realize that your characters jump length is optimized for each jump there is no difficulty behind them. but i can remember freaking out when i was 10, waiting for a moving platform to go by 100 times before jumping.

i never did have a boy and his blob the the premise for it was really cool, i remember reading about it in a video game tips thing with screenshots and stuff.