A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia — stories left

The game won the 1989 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) "Best of Show" and a 1990 Parents' Choice Award.

Crane stated that Blobert's design was heavily influenced by the characters Gloop and Gleep from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Herculoids.

A Boy and His Blob proved to be "one of the most played games at Nintendo" once it was submitted to the company.

Crane recalled the development process for Absolute's early games to be enjoyable, but explained that "under the rule of Nintendo, the publishing side of the game business was really tough", emphasizing how frequently game publishers went out of business in those years.

Thomas of IGN, who gave a more negative review of the game: "While the idea behind A Boy and His Blob was certainly unique, even praiseworthy, the execution of the concept didn't exactly make for a very fun game".

The game won "Best of Show" award for its debut at the 1989 CES.

The advocacy group Parents' Choice Foundation awarded A Boy and His Blob with a Parents' Choice Award in 1990 for "portraying 'Positive human values', 'High quality software', 'Intelligent design', and the 'Ability to hold the player's interest'".

After going 48 hours without sleep during the last 2 days of development, Crane travelled to the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago for a sales demonstration, and spent the night fixing bugs at his hotel.

The game was released just before Christmas 1989 as Absolute's first game on the NES.

A grape-flavored bean listed in the game's manual was only present in the version submitted to Nintendo.

The game was released just prior to Christmas in 1989 as Absolute's first game on the NES.

The game won "Best of Show" award for its debut at the 1989 CES.

Nintendo's management regarded this as a bug, so the grape bean was replaced with a ketchup bean, a "coffee candy" in the Japanese version.

The team had originally been in talks with a writer and producer of the Transformers animated feature about launching a video game of A Boy and His Blob at the same time as tie-in toys and a film.

The team was originally in talks with a writer-producer of the Transformers animated features to simultaneously launch the A Boy and His Blob video game with a tie-in toy and a film, but the plans never came to fruition due to deadlines and difficulty in dividing production resources into three ways between a game, toy, and film.

Nintendo's management regarded this as a bug, so the grape bean was replaced with a ketchup bean, a "coffee candy" in the Japanese version.

After going 48 hours without sleep during the last 2 days of development, Crane travelled to the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago for a sales demonstration, and spent the night fixing bugs at his hotel.

A senior management member of Nintendo viewed this as a bug, so Crane substituted the grape bean for a ketchup-flavored bean that would instead summon the blob (catch up) to the boy's location.

Crane recalled the development process for Absolute's early games to be enjoyable, but explained that "under the rule of Nintendo, the publishing side of the game business was really tough", emphasizing how frequently game publishers went out of business in those years.

A Game Boy Advance incarnation of the series titled A Boy and His Blob: Jelly's Cosmic Adventure was announced by Majesco in 2001, but was ultimately cancelled.

In 2022, an anonymous developer of this unreleased DS version, in concert with gaming preservation organization Gaming Alexandria and YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming?, released 2 builds of the game, one of which being the final build received by Majesco.

The team was originally in talks with a writer-producer of the Transformers animated features to simultaneously launch the A Boy and His Blob video game with a tie-in toy and a film, but the plans never came to fruition due to deadlines and difficulty in dividing production resources into three ways between a game, toy, and film.