While WayForward’s A Boy and His Blob reboot was very celebrated, it wasn’t Majesco’s only attempt at reinventing the series. In 2005, a DS sequel taking place six years after the original game’s events was reportedly completed and set to come out in the fall. However, Majesco was at the height of its financial troubles, and the game was shelved.

Simply called A Boy and His Blob, the game was developed by Skyworks Technologies, a company formed in 1995 by the creators of the original A Boy and His Blob, David Crane and Garry Kitchen. Skyworks is best known for their work in pioneering advergaming, and they developed such Internet games portals as Candystand and ESPN Arcade.

Skyworks eventually started working with Majesco, who owned the A Boy and His Blob license, and began development on the DS sequel. The game featured a pretty heinous-looking art style, with the boy having rad spiky blond hair poking out of his totally rockin’ red cap. I guess it signified that he was a teenager now. It was still a 2D platformer, and of course, the blob ate jelly beans that changed his shape into useful tools. The touch screen was set to be used to view the map and select jelly beans.

The only previews of the came out of E3 2005, where, according to IGN, it was only 20% completed. Considering it was set for a late 2005 release, having it be that early in development at the time might have been one of the reasons for its cancellation.

Skyworks is still around today, having released a few DSiWare games in addition to their other work in the mobile gaming space. Crane and Kitchen left the company in late 2009. They both currently work in game development at MTV.

At the end of the day, we’ll never know exactly how the game turned out, if it was ever finished, or why Majesco chose to not publish it. It might have had to do with quality issues. It might not have. We don’t know. However, we do have this frightening fact sheet, courtesy of GameSpot:

The Boy from the original Blob Adventure is now 16 years old, into pop music and still into jellybeans. He still recalls the day six years ago that Blobert burst onto the scene and thrust him into a great adventure. But nobody ever believed his stories of defeating the Evil Emperor and saving Blobolonia, so he has moved on with his life. His plan to forget about the past are put on hold when one day, a spaceship crash lands and Blobert emerges, having returned to Earth to warn everyone that the Evil Emperor of Blobolonia has been in exile on Earth, of all places, building strength. He plans to enslave the population for some evil purpose and only the boy and Blobert can stop him.

Game Play Features:

• Feed Blobert over 15 different colored jellybeans and have him transform into different devices and enhancements like a ladder, trampoline, bomb, blowtorch and even a suit of armor for the boy.
• More than 15 different levels to tackle, packed with puzzles to solve and enemies to knock senseless
• Nintendo DS touch screen features to include jelly bean management and overhead map
• Customize your blob between levels at the candy shop to control your inventory of jellybeans and decide what beans you'll need for Blobert in the next level.
• Practice within the tutorial mode by making your blob jump through hoops and negotiate various obstacles