''Jelly Boy'' is a platform game developed by

Probe Software Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game publisher from Long Island, active from 1987 until filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on September 1, 2004. Through a series of acquisitions between 1990 and 2002, Acclaim built itself a large portfol ...

for the

Super Nintendo Entertainment System The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Eur ...

and Game Boy. It was published in Europe in 1995 by Ocean Software.

Gameplay

Jelly Boy puts the player in the control of a jelly baby with morphing powers. His quest is to find various items inside a factory so that the elevator doorman will allow him to meet the person in charge. The most important items are musical notes, which serve both as an extra life (at 100 notes) as well as a one-hit shield (after a collision, the notes are lost, and further collisions result in death).

Release

The game was planned for release on October 1994 on the Super Nintendo, but was delayed. A Sega Genesis version was cancelled. In July 2021, ''Jelly Boy'' was added to the Nintendo Switch Online classic games service.

Reception

In 1995, Total! ranked Jelly Boy 73rd on their Top 100 SNES Games writing: "On the surface this platformer seems basic but the challenge is big and it’s strangely gripping."

References

External links

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''Jelly Boy''
at Giant Bomb
Magazine review

1995 video games Europe-exclusive video games Platformers Probe Software games Game Boy games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Ocean Software games Cancelled Sega Genesis games Nintendo Switch Online games Video games developed in the United Kingdom {{platform-videogame-stub