Bob's making a consle?...

I just visited Jeff's site for some reason..  http://www.jeffgerstmann.net/ for anyone who doesn't know. The image caused me to have a flash back to Bob's game, for those who don't know what Bob's game is you missed out on some hilarity.  
 
On the site now there is some video with him screaming over 8-bit music about his handheld console that's gonna be super cheap you could just throw it away... 
 
http://www.bobsgame.com/   
 
Considering how long it's been since any real news from this I wonder what he's actually doing with his time. From the vid, I'll guess he's sorta nuts.  

" I'll guess he's sorta nuts.   "

whattttt

Oh Bob, you and your silly shenanigans. 
 
Edit: I can't remember if he just locked himself in his room or if he actually went on a hunger strike on top of that?

hes a crazy bastard but i kinda want to play his game and his console.....whats wrong with me

Wasn't he going to kill himself if Nintendo didn't allow him to put his game on one of their consoles or am I just dreaming?

Oh man, I remember this crazy guy. The funny thing is, the game looked sorta cool until you looked into the creator and how batshit insane he is.

I remember the Bombcast talking about Bob's game.  Funny stuff.

How hard is it really to get an SDK from Nintendo? 

Yep, Bob is still crazy.
 
I remember he said something at one point about porting the game over to the iPhone or something as a "fuck you" to Nintendo.  I wonder what ever came of that.

" How hard is it really to get an SDK from Nintendo?  "

I like the idea.  If he makes it I'll buy it for $10.  It'd be like the early days of portable game consoles where you'd get a lot of random 2D platformers instead of having games like call of duty being crammed onto it.

Yuuuuuu

" Wasn't he going to kill himself if Nintendo didn't allow him to put his game on one of their consoles or am I just dreaming? "

Oh yeah, Bob's new video is nuts. You kind of have to admire his complete insanity. Some of you guys seem to be under the impression that the guy was on a hunger strike, raided by police, etc. though, none of that stuff ever actually happened. It seemed pretty implausible at the tme and he's pretty much admitted since then that it was part of his ad campaign, and that he was simply playing the character of "Bob". In retrospect his chances of getting an SDK from Nintendo were always extremely low but it was a real shame that all his work went to waste, he's been working on porting his game since then but he's been a while without any noticeable activity.

I just hope this ad campaign is as good as the first one.

was there ever a way to play bob's game before?

Oh Bob, you so crazy. 
 
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Is it bad that I want to play Bob's game? Or get his console? 

Glad to see this guy's still kickin' around crazyland. Did any of you ever get around to playing his game?

He's not crazy. He's just a garden variety asshole who does shit like this for publicity. Way to play right into his hand.

If it wasn't apparent, the console thing is referring to the actual game in which the bottom screen is a game console you play via the touchscreen. 
 
So yeah. 
 
Maybe he'll actually release this thing as not a fucking demo for flashcarts at some point.

Holy crap, it's the guy from the first week of official news on giantbomb.

" @Green_Incarnate said:

" How hard is it really to get an SDK from Nintendo?  "

Nintendo actually has some strict policies when it comes to applying to become a licensed developer.  In addition to having evidence that you're a credible development house, you also need to have a certain amount of financial stability and an office space with a minimum standard of security, among other requirements.  What it boils down to is that Nintendo needs to know that you're a credible game development studio and not a fuckwit. For competent developers with solid business acumen, the requirements aren't necessarily terribly difficult to accomplish.  For some lone nut like Bob working out of his basement?  Uh, no. "

What was that?

This is all indeed true when it comes to getting the actual license to sell something on one of their consoles, although for the record, acquiring the actual software and hardware itself through alternative channels isn't particularly hard. 

 "the nD"

"give me your tired, your poor"

It's a really awesome concept. A cheap, simple 16 bit portable with an app store. If someone sane told me that, I'd be all over it. But this is Bob we're talking about, so naturally I'm sceptical. And by sceptical, I mean "I know that shit is never going to happen".

What's with the tards of yester-year coming back out of the wood work lately?  First Jack Thompson now this dude?   
 
I have to admit though... I'd much rather hear about him than Thompson.  At least Bob's saga was hilarious in all of its incoherent ramblings.  I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I just remembered the day Bob's live hunger strike stream showed nothing but a night vision cam of his completely destroyed room.  Just the thought of him going buck wild, smashing computers, and tables while ripping lights off the wall is absolutely hilarious.  All over not being able to release that stupid game on the DS...  And how can anyone forget Bob's slew of borderline death threats towards Reggie during his downward spiral?  Classic.  
 
Publicity stunt or not, that was great entertainment.  

Hell yeah!  B.O.B console will go hard!
 
  

I do like the idea itself, a $10 console. I'd imagine it'd come with a single game and you can't change the game. But then I know it's never gonna happen. 

" I do like the idea itself, a $10 console. I'd imagine it'd come with a single game and you can't change the game. But then I know it's never gonna happen.  "

As fun as his "I'm going slowly insane because Nintendo didn't give me a DS dev SDK" campaign was, it never made me want to play Bob's game. It'll probably be the same with his handheld 
 
Besides, a worthwhile handheld console for $10 has to be fiction. Scientific calculators sell for more than that.

Hold on a minute, you're telling me you people kept this idiot alive?  
Even the people who cut themselves for attention thinks this guy is too much

I love the fact that he included 'touchscreen' on the table of features to point out his console doesn't feature it. Guy is insane, just like his 'marketing'. 

Oh yeah. I remember this crazy guy. I wonder if Bob's Game ever came out on some decrepit corner of the internet?

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" @Green_Incarnate said:

" How hard is it really to get an SDK from Nintendo?  "

Nintendo actually has some strict policies when it comes to applying to become a licensed developer.  In addition to having evidence that you're a credible development house, you also need to have a certain amount of financial stability and an office space with a minimum standard of security, among other requirements.  What it boils down to is that Nintendo needs to know that you're a credible game development studio and not a fuckwit. For competent developers with solid business acumen, the requirements aren't necessarily terribly difficult to accomplish.  For some lone nut like Bob working out of his basement?  Uh, no. "