Geekback #11

A Boy and his Blob was a two-sided coin as a kid: on one side, you had a game in the same vein as Simon's Quest, where it was absolutely impossible to progress past the first 10 minutes of the game without a strategy guide. On the other side, you had a game where, given the right mindset, you could have hours of fun finding ways to kill the boy with random jellybean powers.

Every time I powered up the game, I always threw that blob a tangerine jellybean. That turns that little bastard into a trampoline, which you would typically use to bounce to higher ledges. I used it to bounce all the way into space....and then whistle, making the blob turn into his original form. The boy would fall hundreds of stories, unaware that his gelatinous companion has betrayed him to the blacktop.

This game happens to be getting a re-make for the Wii. It looks fantastic.