Man, Boy and His Blob A takes me back—this Game Boy gem is all about tossing jellybeans at your blob buddy to solve puzzles. Feed him a licorice bean and he turns into a ladder, a vanilla one makes him a trampoline... sounds silly, but figuring out which bean does what while platforming is weirdly satisfying.

The princess rescue plot is classic 8-bit charm, but the real magic is how the blob reacts to everything. Sometimes he just stares at you blankly when you mess up the timing, which is hilarious. The later levels get brutal though—expect to redo sections a dozen times when your ladder transformation wears off mid-climb.

If you dig old-school trial-and-error platformers with a quirky twist, this one’s got personality for days.