If you somehow managed to watch the video we've posted after the jump without reading this wall of text, you may be befuddled as to why we've posted a video of The Cure frontman Robert Smith gleefully vandalizing the Nintendo World store in NYC. Little do you know that the combat-booted troublemaker featured in the video is none other than Bob Pelloni, the jilted sole creator of Bob's Game, whom Nintendo is still refusing to sell a software development kit to. Gee, we can't imagine why.
Pelloni's assault on Nintendo World took place on "Stage 50" of his 100-day sit-in protest (the rules of which can apparently be bent to allow for a brief littering excursion). He and his accomplices plastered the store's walls in Bob's Game posters, covered the floor with business cards, and filled store shelves with mock-up game cases. Given this latest desperate attention grab, and the fact that his once-humble development blog currently shows Pelloni consorting with aliens, we're guessing he's exchanged his game development ambitions for fleeting e-lebrity status. What a shame.
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 10:27AM Negatron said
Stop with the artsy dreams in defense of this fool. The more i see people trying to
justify his actions the more i see how he FAILED at what his goal was. For the masses to play this on the DS.
His actions prior to the Nintendo store bullshit screwed him over. Once again the lock in, giving away execs emails etc...Is his game that EPIC compared to others?? Or is it because he made it on his own?
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justify his actions the more i see how he FAILED at what his goal was. For the masses to play this on the DS.
His actions prior to the Nintendo store bullshit screwed him over. Once again the lock in, giving away execs emails etc...Is his game that EPIC compared to others?? Or is it because he made it on his own?
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 2:08PM (Unverified) said
The free market does not operate on pity. Sorry. A lot of people have put a lot of passion into things that sucked before and failed miserably. Why's Bob such a genius for doing what crazy people have been doing for eons?
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 5:56AM fxpimp said
Someone should lock him and Luc Eternity Child's guy in a room together and throw away the key. They give us devs a bad name.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 6:12AM (Unverified) said
As long as Bethesda remains a development house, the crown jewel of being a bad developer will never be topped.
... Then again, my rabid hatred of Bethesda kind of gives me a bit of irrationality there. ^_^
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... Then again, my rabid hatred of Bethesda kind of gives me a bit of irrationality there. ^_^
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 7:59AM McWeen said
He's never going to get that dead cat meow.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 11:19AM (Unverified) said
Is this the sequel to Grandma's Boy? I was waiting for robot speak.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 11:14AM amnesia said
Nintendo just proved how cool they were. I mean, the staff were smiling, they let them have a bit of fun, and they probably removed the stuff once he was gone without making a scene.
Go Nintendo!!
Oh and what's with the Asian army? Don't get me wrong, I love Asian hotties but that was just wierd.
Go Nintendo!!
Oh and what's with the Asian army? Don't get me wrong, I love Asian hotties but that was just wierd.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 11:36AM nickux said
I think it's safe to say he was never going to get anywhere through the normal channels. He'd made several attempts to work with Nintendo the conventional way to no avail. They were ignoring him when he was going by the book and his protest was a way of getting support from people who would then go to Nintendo. I, for one, was really hoping Bob's Game would get a break. He worked so hard on it and deserves a chance.
I think now he's just going for broke with these antics. If he posted the .nds file himself I would pay for it through paypal and play it on my R4 because it's the best use of the homebrew chip I've ever seen.
I think now he's just going for broke with these antics. If he posted the .nds file himself I would pay for it through paypal and play it on my R4 because it's the best use of the homebrew chip I've ever seen.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 7:10PM ften said
When did 90's Trent Reznor put out a video game?
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 2:29PM (Unverified) said
Making A Shitty Game = Massive Asian Female Army
Hmm this gives me an idea!
Hmm this gives me an idea!
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 2:36PM Helloimbob said
Thank yuu for failing.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 2:36PM Teus said
im sorry but there is no conventional way for a person who isnt even in the game development industry to get nintendo or even sony or microsoft to allow him to release a official game for the ds or any other console/handheld
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 5:40PM (Unverified) said
He and Jeff Minter should go meet up and rub each others [failures]
Posted: Apr 11th 2009 5:42PM (Unverified) said
who paid the azn chicas to be in the film? & i wonder how much they cost...





