Business Bob Update

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124.9 KB
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4.00 / 5.00
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129 / 144
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Submitted By
Stak
Date
20 years, 1 month ago (Mar 02, 2004)
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Asher is quite mistaken, this game is really good.

As Business Bob, your job is to, well, get a job. After that, anything goes!

I've played the original version of this game, and it was good, as well. But Viovis's enhanced edition really rox0rz teh sox0rz!

Why is this not a Featured Game?

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5.00 / 5.00
Submitted By
Asher
Date
21 years, 1 month ago (Mar 15, 2003)
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I didn't like this game too much. It was too random with no real point and even with the graphical update it still doesn't make up for the not-so-interesting gameplay. It doesn't live up to its "business" name. I actually didn't even finish it, it was so boring.

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1.50 / 5.00
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MetroName
Date
21 years, 1 month ago (Mar 04, 2003)
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it didnt make much sense but it was very fun. i liked the tribute to robin. the graphics were flashy and that somehow added to it. i liked the characters too.

... this game is too random to say much else about it.

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5.00 / 5.00
Submitted By
Maullar_Maullar
Date
21 years, 3 months ago (Dec 27, 2002)
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I remember playing Robin Miller's classic Business Bob way back yore or something, when the plum blossoms opened up and the Vietcong were still carpet bombing my house.

But I digress. The original Business Bob, despite its yellow borders and lack of STK, had a certain charm. I can't quite place it. Perhaps the off-the-wall slapstick atmosphere. Perhaps the sheer lunacy of the Bob family. I honestly don't know.

Viovis's retooling of the game includes ass-kickular graphics and some nice tunes, as well as creative use of slimes and a few other nice programming tricks (that can sometimes cause lag, but oh well). Sometimes it borders on trippy, but it's all good. Yet, Viovis preserves the original Robin Miller charm.

I especially liked Viovis's idea to replace some object conversations with art boards with text for the speech. This inspired my idea to make a programming-less game.

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4.50 / 5.00

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