A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a 1989 video game developed by Imagineering for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The 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: Trouble on Blobolonia is a platform-puzzle game. The plot involves a young boy and his alien blob friend (named Blobert) 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.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2.4GHz / Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz or higher | AMD Athlon 7850 Dual Core Processor 2.8GHz / Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 1 GB RAM | 2 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows 7-32Bit or Windows 8-32Bit | Windows 7-64Bit or Windows 8-64Bit |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB or higher | Shader Model 3+ | NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB | Shader Model 3+ |
| Direct X | 9.0c | 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 3 GB available space | 3 GB available space |
| Game Analysis | A Boy and His Blob system requirements state that you will need at least 1 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 2 GB of RAM in your system. Provided that you have at least an AMD Radeon HD 4650 graphics card you can play the game. To play A Boy and His Blob you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium D 805. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 to play the game. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 3 GB of free disk space available. A Boy and His Blob will run on PC system with Windows 7-32Bit or Windows 8-32Bit and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions. | |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo @2.26 GHZMemory: 2 GBGraphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 @768 MB | |
| OS | OS X 10.10.2 or later |
| Minimum System Requirements | ||
| CPU | AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2.4GHz / Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz or higher | |
| RAM | 1 GB | |
| OS | Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17 | |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB or higher | Shader Model 3+ |
