Also a
nintendo character, which resembled a giant
jelly/jello mould, with blinking eyes, bushy eyebrows and a big gaping mouth. Blargs come in many different
colours, including red ones that live in
lava pools, and blue ones that live in the
water. Blargs may actually be made out of the substance they live in, but this is just
idle speculation.
Blargs mainly appear in
yoshi's island, on the
super nintendo, but also have
cameos in other
nintendo games. In
yoshi's island they are drawn such that their facial expressions are a separate
sprite to the rest of their body, allowing the
cartridge's
superFX chip to
scale them to any size required of them. There is no way to
kill a blarg, but throwing eggs at them causes them to
disappear back into their pool for a short time.
While normally quite small, taking up about an eigth of the screen, there also exists the giant
Gargantua Blarg, a red blarg of
lava. Gargantua blarg takes up most of the screen, and has his own level in
yoshi's island. He also appears as a character later on in
tetris attack.