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2 | A 1996 AdventureGame for [=DOS=] [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]], developed by Haiku studios. |
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4 | The story is about the Blubs, a diminituve alien family who is going on a holiday trip throughout space. Unfortunately, they are being attacked by SpacePirates. After a chaotic chase, both of them crash on planet Earth, in a large wasteland near New York City. |
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6 | Now marooned far away from home with their ship wrecked to pieces, the Blubs are forced to spend some time here. First thing to do: find back missing parts of the ship so they can build it again to go back home. In the meantime, they need to thwart the plans of the pirates... |
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9 | !!This work provides examples of: |
10 | * BiggerOnTheInside: The Blub's washing-liquid-bottle home and the Bum's hair on his head. |
11 | * BumblingDad: Although he does prove to be more than that in "The Abominable Robin Blub". |
12 | %%* DownInTheDumps: Duh. |
13 | * {{Expy}}: The Blubs are basically expies of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. |
14 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:Nope, that "part" that Sonny Blub has found is just an old trashcan and the bum's earring is useless since the ship has already been built]]. |
15 | * InnocentBystander: The introduction shows a worker who is repairing a part of the Art/StatueOfLiberty. As the alien ships fly by, they distract him enough for him to fall down, presumably to his ''death''. |
16 | * JustLikeRobinHood: The third chapter is a retelling of the Myth/RobinHood story, with frogs and toads as the characters, except with the father from the Blub family as Robin. |
17 | * MadScientist: Spike creates a machine that can twist people's minds, so he uses them on Papa Blub and Grandma Blub - respectively turning them into a neurasthenic slob and a savage berserker. |
18 | * NoNameGiven: The family is called Blub, but none of the members are given an individual name. They are just referred to as their family status. |
19 | * SwallowedWhole: Papa Blub is swallowed by a fish when going fishing at a pond, and he finds King Richard inside. |
20 | * UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Let's hope you didn't lose the electrocuting hand. Because you'll need it to defeat the bad guy inside the bum's head. |
21 | * YouDirtyRat: The first villain that you have to defeat in the game is a sunglasses-wearing rat who steals a part of the ship. |
22 | * YourSizeMayVary: ''All the time''. This is especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} in the "Bum" chapter, where the Blub kids are about the size of a third of the bum's shoes but get suddenly small enough to walk inside his hair, being the same size as the lice. |
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