Earthworm Jim 1+2

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  • dr_st
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    #3691

    Earthworm Jim 1+2 are rather unique, bizarre, hilarious and fun platformers of the nineties. I recently had the knack to replay them, and found lots of things in them and about them that I had not previously known.

    For PC you have the option of playing the DOS version of EWJ1, or the Windows Special Edition. The Windows version is more complete and the controls/physics are better, but the DOS version has its charm too. Just don’t try it with a gamepad, or you’ll go nuts.

    EWJ2 only has a DOS version, strangely, but it is more polished than EWJ1. Both games have great CD music.


    rnlf
    Keymaster
    Podcaster
    #4017

    I’d love to play it! I’ve only played EWJ2 on Mega Drive, but liked it a lot.


    fastwinstondoom
    Participant
    #8304

    Bump for Earthworm Jim, might not be the best platformer of all time… but it sure is the coolest!


    TigerQuoll
    Participant
    Podcaster
    #8307

    Earthworm Jim,
    The Soil He Did Crawl
    Earthworm Jim,
    A Super Suit Did Fall.

    Jim Was Just A Dirt Eating,
    Chewing Length Of Worm Flesh
    But All That Came To A Crashing end

    Groovy!


    DosDude
    Participant
    #8334

    This is a good one. Not just for ewj, but also to dive a little bit into shiny entertainment. Their games were always weird and awesome in the craziest ways.


    fastwinstondoom
    Participant
    #8366

    I second the previous post, Shiny was/is a criminally overlooked developer! I think they only made 3 games for dos tho, EWJ1+2 and MDK. MDK is definitely in the weird and awesome category!


    Martli
    Participant
    #8371

    That would be cool, half the Shiny team went on to make one of my all time favourite games The Neverhood, a (windows) game made entirely in claymation and with characters very much resembling Earth Worm Jim.


    DosDude
    Participant
    #8874

    One of my shiny favs definitely has to be the 3rd person action RTS hybrid “Sacrifice” (windows). The way you could mix and match units through different gods was quite interesting to say the least. Not to mention the gameplay.

    But to get back to EWJ: Please do an episode on it!


    JorgeYYZ
    Participant
    #8876

    The original poster (dr_st) mentioned something about the physics being different between the DOS and Windows versions. Can anybody (including the OP, of course) elaborate? I have never heard of such a thing before.

    I played a lot of EWJ1 on the Sega Genesis. I eventually got stuck in one of those bungee jump versus battle levels. I don’t know how far I had gone, but I remember the Junkyard, Hell, an Underwater base (that had a glass submarine thing), racing a space chicken, and the gooey bungee jumping fights. Reading the above sentence really says a lot about Shiny Entertainment and how interesting their choices for themes and levels are.

    I have never actually played any versions of EWJ2, but really loved MDK back in the day. The sense of humor in that game was very appealing to teenage me.

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