A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a puzzle-platform game developed by Imagineering and published by Absolute Entertainment for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The video game was released in North America in 1989, in Europe by Nintendo in 1991 and in Japan by Jaleco in 1991. 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.
North American box art
David Crane was the chief programmer and designer of A Boy and His Blob.
David Crane is an American video game designer and programmer. Crane grew up fascinated by technology and went to DeVry Institute of Technology. Following college, he went to Silicon Valley and got his first job at National Semiconductor. Through his friend Alan Miller he learned about potential video game design work at Atari, Inc. and began work there in 1977.
David Crane, 2013
Crane assisted with building the operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers (Atari 800 pictured).
Garry Kitchen in 2013. Crane would work with Kitchen at several companies including Absolute Entertainment, AppStar, and Audacity Games.
