Noby Noby Boy: An oddly charming video game

Noby Noby Boy, an online community game by the creator of the popular Katamari Damacy Keita Takahashi is unlike anything you've ever played. The main object in the game is to play around with the worm-like character called BOY and make him stretch to absurd lengths so that his counterpart GIRL can also stretch and unlock new levels.

If that sounds like something you or your kids would like to play, please read on to learn more about this strange but addictive video game for kids of all ages.

In Noby Noby Boy, the player controls a worm-like quadrupedal character referred to as BOY. On the PS3 controller, the left analog stick moves the front of BOY while the right stick controls its back. By moving both ends in opposite directions, the player can stretch BOY's abdomen to great lengths. The player may then maneuver Boy around its environment to interact with stationary objects like houses or AI-controlled characters such as barnyard animals.

The player accumulates points by how much they stretch during gameplay. These points can be submitted online via a character called SUN to another character called GIRL. Points submitted online by players to GIRL will be added cumulatively, causing Girl to stretch and unlock new levels.

Starting from Earth, Girl has now stretched to the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter and will proceed to several other planets, each unlocking new playable environments for BOY to stretch in.

Note: The Noby Noby Boy team initially expected players to take between one to two weeks of cumulative play time to reach the Moon but it was reached on February 23, 2009, just four days after release. Mars was reached on May 23, 2009 and Jupiter was reached on November 20, 2009.

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Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy is back with an even more weird and wonderful game. Whereas the Katamari games are all about rolling around and crashing over items to make your ball bigger, Noby Noby Boy is about slithering around and gobbling everything up, as well as stretching to gain extra length. Watch the trailer below to see it in action.