Old Man

The Old Man is the boss of Zeldabobo. He is one of the eight major antagonists in Abobo's Big Adventure.

Origin[]

The Old Man originally appeared in The Legend of Zelda for the NES. When Link enters a cave, the Old Man tells him "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this", and gives him a sword before disappearing. Several other old men appear across Hyrule.

In The Game[]

The Old Man serves as the boss at the end of the Zeldabobo dungeon, and has Princess Zelda being held captive. He is currently residing in a locked room that is being guarded by Aquamentus. A messager will tell Abobo that the Old Man "hates beef." Sometime later, you can get a beef powerup, from an underground side scrolling segment, which can be used to defeat the Old Man.

Once Abobo has the boss key to unlock the door and walk into his room, the Old Man powers up with a shield and the boss battle will start. He will attack Abobo for a while until he turns into two different forms, Old Man? and Old Giant respectively. After defeating his Old Giant form, Abobo will spin his head by the effect known as a "meat spin" into a wall that leads to the room where Princess Zelda is currently being held in, creating a crash and killing the Old boss in the process. It also gives Abobo access to the room as well. You can get Medals if you defeat him with either a sword or the beef powerup.

Attacks[]

The Old Man's first attack in his boss battle (outside of being protected by the shield) starts off with him getting out a magical book to spawn some enemies such as Choco Kisses, Octoroks, Skeletons, Tektites, Bob-ombs, Shy Guys, Ghosts, and Flurries, which will roam around the room until they're defeated by Abobo. His second attack is getting out a wand that summons two yellow homing projectiles that will immediately turn you into a snail for about ten seconds. His third attack is firing red lasers from a small glowing ring. His fourth and last attack is firing a homing stream of fireballs from a flaming candle. The Old Man is invincible as he is covered by a shield from four blue objects, but if Abobo destroys all of them, he will be able to now damage him.

After taking enough damage, the Old Man will split into three versions of himself, called Old Man?, that will move around and do a spin attack with their swords. After defeating them, the Old Man will drink a growth potion to transform into a giant version of himself, called the Old Giant, who will take many hits to defeat as lowering his health bar can take a while, due to it being very slow. He will occasionally gain invincibility frames during his attack to start up so he can cause rocks to fall down from the ceiling to the floor on flashing red and white Xs, however, you can easily avoid all of his attacks.

Trivia[]

His boss theme is the Truck Inside theme from the NES game, P.O.W. (Prisoners of War).
Prior to Abobo's Big Adventure, the Old Man appeared in a Newgrounds flash game called Kill Old Man from Zelda!!, which was a flash game made by IMockery, one of the creators and developers of Abobo's Big Adventure.