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RayGamer99 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 10:08 pm Earthworm Jim is one of the surprisingly many original IPs that sprang up during the 90s but never took off for long, which is a shame, because this was a really great series! The first game, aptly titled Earthworm Jim, has really fun 2D platformer/run and gun gameplay, hilarious character designs and personalities (ranging from the nefarious Professor Monkey-for-a-Head to the beautiful Princess What's-Her-Name), and one of the best video game soundtracks the Genesis has to offer!

There's a wide variety of levels to explore, from the underwater world of Down the Tubes - which was patrolled by super muscular cats and had you fight Bob the Killer Goldfish (all you had to do to beat him was touch him to knock him off his pedestal and break his fishbowl, leaving him flopping on the ground) - to the bungee-jumping boss fight against humanoid mucus in Snot a Problem! In between most worlds, you'd even race against an anthropomorphic crow in a yellow spacesuit! You'll even launch a cow into space at the start of the game, only for it to land on the very princess you spent the entire game trying to get to in the game's ending. It's unsatisfying, sure, but it's really funny nonetheless! This was one of those games that knew it was totally absurd and turned it up to 11.

The first game was so successful that it got a sequel just a year afterwards and an animated cartoon show (and a hysterical one, at that) in the same year! So why didn't this GROOVY series take off like others did? Well, Jim's first foray into 3D was pretty bad, and his last game (as of writing this) was a cheap Game Boy Color sequel. Since then, Interplay Entertainment has left him on the scrap heap and has, to my knowledge, silently cancelled "Earthworm Jim 4," leaving the fate of our hero in a super-suit unknown but not looking good.

So yeah, Earthworm Jim, despite being a childhood favorite of mine, hasn't come back in two decades, and I highly doubt that he will return anytime soon. But until he does, I'll still be listening to one of the many banger songs that came from the game that started it all.

Earthworm Jim (Special Edition) - New Junk City

I know that this reference is really beating the deadest of dead horses as a Rayman fan, but I guess you could indeed say: "See you in Earthworm Jim 4!"

(yes, Big Rigs just got an even worse Steam port, YES you actually just read that, and Y E S its existence makes me want to erase humanity )

The Jonster wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 6:58 pm Sonic Adventure - Mechanical Resonance for Final Egg

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:00 pm Seems like the fourth game is stuck in vaporware hell with the Intellivision Amico...

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:00 pm I know that this reference is really beating the deadest of dead horses as a Rayman fan, but I guess you could indeed say: "See you in Earthworm Jim 4!"

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:00 pm Hopefully he'll have a triumphant return someday! At least we still have a few rather recent versions even if they're not all the best and the first game has joined the GOG preservation program!
And if people were crazy enough to bring back Bubsy and Big Rigs in this day and age, then I'm sure we'll eventually manage to bring the worm back from the dirt! (yes, Big Rigs just got an even worse Steam port, YES you actually just read that, and Y E S its existence makes me want to erase humanity )

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:00 pm

The Jonster wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 6:58 pm Sonic Adventure - Mechanical Resonance for Final Egg

One of my favourite level music in the Sonic series, and the second part is even better! It really rocks!

The Jonster wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 5:14 pm Rights such a great level! Here’s another one I like!

Sonic Adventure - Lost World: Danger! Chased by Rock!

RayGamer99 wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:50 pm At this point, I don't even think that thing is coming out, nor Earthworm Jim 4 with it. Honestly, it's not very often you see a gaming console that isn't a Nintendo thing, another PlayStation, or another Xbox.

RayGamer99 wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:50 pm

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:00 pm I know that this reference is really beating the deadest of dead horses as a Rayman fan, but I guess you could indeed say: "See you in Earthworm Jim 4!"

RayGamer99 wrote: Mon May 26, 2025 11:50 pm At this point, they've brought back stuff like Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Kao the Kangaroo (the latter of which I've shown some interest in), so how come they still haven't brought Jim - and Banjo-Kazooie, but that's a whole other can 'o worms (no pun intended) - back yet?

RayGamer99 wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 6:38 pm

The Jonster wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 5:14 pm Rights such a great level! Here’s another one I like!

Sonic Adventure - Lost World: Danger! Chased by Rock!

I like the tribal feel of this one, it really amplifies the sense of danger this song brings! Anyhow...

Sonic Adventure 2 - Final Rush (Highway in the Sky)

Teensies in Globox wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 9:19 pm
Exotic — Trabant.