A New "A Boy and His Blob" Game Announced (Late 2015 / Early 2016)

[Nz17]

Majesco has completed a major reorganization and announced a sequel to one of their beloved franchises.

The company, which has battled stock delisting for several years, recently replaced their CEO and has reduced to five full-time employees. Other company ventures have been shuttered as the company focuses on smaller digital titles. Most notably, Midnight City, the indie publisher who handled Costume Quest 2 and High Strangeness for Wii U and were slated to publish Fullbright Games's 2013 indie smash Gone Home, has been shuttered.

A letter to shareholders has indicated the first two titles to launch from the new Majesco would be a game called "Glue" and the next game in the A Boy and his Blob series. The titles are expected to launch within the next two fiscal quarters (six months) for "all next generation gaming consoles and in some cases, PC".

Source: https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/...cus-on-digital

Holy crackers, Majesco only has 5 full-time employees left at this point? My, what a fall from its height in the late 90's and early 00's when it was manufacturing Game Gears and GG games and publishing new game IP's on XBOX.

[FieryReign]

Damn didn't they manufacture some late Genesis and SNES games too? I had some of those cheapo cardboard Genesis games like Contra and Castlevania. How did they acquire Blob? I thought that was David Crane(overrated) and Absolute.

[Koop]

At least they are still in existence. Maybe they can climb back up if their releases gain enough traction. I never did play the Wii blob game though... I guess I am not helping the matter much lol

[T2KFreeker]

At least they are still in existence. Maybe they can climb back up if their releases gain enough traction. I never did play the Wii blob game though... I guess I am not helping the matter much lol

That's sad too because the Wii game was actually pretty solid. One of the titles that isn't total shovel ware on the Wii. A sequel, if the quality is up to the same standards, could be a good thing if people would just make the purchase anyway.

[celerystalker]

Damn didn't they manufacture some late Genesis and SNES games too? I had some of those cheapo cardboard Genesis games like Contra and Castlevania. How did they acquire Blob? I thought that was David Crane(overrated) and Absolute.

They were involved with the Genesis 3 and rereleases of games like Taz and X-men 2. The purchased publishing rights when they did the Wii reimagining of A Boy and His Blob, which was developed by WayForward. It was awesome, and loaded with atmosphere. The original game is a great concept that plays like shit. The Wii game was a tad too easy, but played a billion times better and had much more personality.

[FieryReign]

They were involved with the Genesis 3 and rereleases of games like Taz and X-men 2. The purchased publishing rights when they did the Wii reimagining of A Boy and His Blob, which was developed by WayForward. It was awesome, and loaded with atmosphere. The original game is a great concept that plays like shit. The Wii game was a tad too easy, but played a billion times better and had much more personality.

I could've sworn I read somewhere they rereleased the Star Wars games on Snes and Genny games with the cheap cardboard cases and black+white manuals?

Too bad that game was only on the crappy Wii. I enjoy a good puzzle platformer and dig alot of Wayforward's work.

Edit: Looks like the topic of Majesco rereleases has been discussed on this very forum multiple times. No wonder they were so cheap when I found them in Toysrus bargain bins back in the day. Guess that's something for the variant people to touch upon...

[Tanooki]

THQ re-released the Super Star Wars trilogy.

Majesco not only bought the rights to release/manufacture the Genesis 3 along with pushing out a bunch of new runs of their old best games, but they also did it with the Game Gear too, and the only way I thikn you could tell on the GG was that the start button color was slightly different. I have no idea if they redid the boards in there if they have a better capacitor or speaker setup or not considering how poor the Sega made one was. They also did do a bunch of the SNES re-releases of third party games too at the time they did the Genesis stuff. In both cases cheaper cardboard boxes, black and white manuals, very cheap labels that rub off without too much abuse to do it and not laminated either.

[T2KFreeker]

THQ re-released the Super Star Wars trilogy.

Majesco not only bought the rights to release/manufacture the Genesis 3 along with pushing out a bunch of new runs of their old best games, but they also did it with the Game Gear too, and the only way I thikn you could tell on the GG was that the start button color was slightly different. I have no idea if they redid the boards in there if they have a better capacitor or speaker setup or not considering how poor the Sega made one was. They also did do a bunch of the SNES re-releases of third party games too at the time they did the Genesis stuff. In both cases cheaper cardboard boxes, black and white manuals, very cheap labels that rub off without too much abuse to do it and not laminated either.

The Majesco Game Gear has a Black power Slider instead of the orange/Red one they used on the Sega ones. Also, the case the system is in is full on Black versus the super Dark Grey Sega used and the game Gear logo is completely white versus the one Sega used with the Red Green and Blue...Lastly, the screw in to fasten the Master gear converter has been removed as well. Also, the manufacturing label on the back says Majesco on it. The screens are much nicer on the Majesco units as well. Just so you know.

[SparTonberry]

THQ re-released the Super Star Wars trilogy.

Actually Nintendo re-released the first (as a Player's Choice game) and THQ published the latter two.