Earthworm Jim

Earthworm Jim is a play of Plate-forme of David Perry for Virgin Interactive, left on Megadrive, Super Nintendo, Game GEAR, Gameboy, Mega-CD and PC in 1994.

The play is very representative of the plays of David Perry on consoles 16 bits (see also Global Gladiators , Cool Spot and Aladdin ): animation extremely detailed and is successful and coloured and sought graphics. It is about the only play of David Perry on the consoles of this generation which is not drawn from an already existing license.

Gameplay

The player directs Jim , a Ver of ground which obtained a combination humanoïde which enables him to run, climb and draw with the weapons found during the play. The levels long, many and difficult and are intersected with Bonus training course S .

Characters

Jim: Jim is the main character of the play. He lived formerly on Earth as simple lombric but a one day that a corbel continued it, a combination lost since space fell to him above and he found himself intelligent, extremely and skilful. He is armed with a gun with plasma but can find others weapons. He can make the helicopter, whip and suspend himself with his head, make parachute and jump with the rubber band with Snot, his sticky friend.

Princess it be-what-sound-name-already?: It is a very sexy bee and sister of Maléfique Reine. Crushed by a cow in EWJ, it returns all the same in the second opus and fall in love with Jim. But she does not speak much and is enough… gourd.

Peter Puppy: At first sight, it seems a nice inoffensive dog but under the blow of the pain and contrariety, it is transformed into a gigantic sanguinary cerberus, true canine Hulk. He is the friend of Jim and more than one trouble will cause him!

Chuck & Fifi: Chuck is a drunkard sadistic, perverse, bad, dirty and aggressive alive in the City with the refuse. Perched in top of a chain, it balances all kinds of dirtinesses to the figures of the clandestine ones. As for its Fifi dog, monstrosity equipped with a chain, better is worth not to meet it under penalty of being transformed into pâtée…

Evil the cat: the cats are nice, soft and flexible, but not Evil. Living on the torrid Zut planet, Evil is protected by véreux lawyers having more than one turn in their bag and of snowmen executors. It is intelligent and vicious and makes use of its long claws to hack its victims, favoured by its nine lives. You will need nine times more chance than him to overcome it!

Major Mucus: Major Mucus is extraterrestrial viscous come from the sticky planet Phlegmon of which it is the monarche. He adores to make jump with the wire of snot while killing people. Jim with already have to make with him in a particularly dangerous part of jump to the rubber band and moreover, it is not fair-play! Its greater obstinacy is to make suffer Jim before drowning it in a bath of snot where its brain rests. Craignos.

Psychiatrist-Crow: This corbel is the worst enemy of Jim and the private hunter of premium of Maléfique Reine. Armed with sharp hooks, harpoon and other objects and which cut out in parts of butcheries, it is also provided with a dorsal jetpack in order to equalize Jim in the races with the asteroids. Its mission is to take again the cyber-costume and to return it to the Queen, while killing Jim, possibly.

Development team

  • Programming: David Perry
  • additional Programming: Nicholas A. Jones, Andy Astor
  • original Concept: Douglas TenNapel
  • Creation of the levels: Tomoharu Tanaka
  • Realizer of animations: Stimulating Michael Francis Dietz
  • : Edward Schofield, Douglas TenNapel
  • artistic Realizer: Nick Bruty
  • Lead Artist : Stephen Crow
  • Illustrations: Eric Ciccone, Mike Pilotti
  • Clean Up : Clark Sorenson
  • additional Illustrations: Flax Shen
  • Music and sound effects: Mark Miller
  • Realized by: Shiny Entertainment
  • Production: David A. Luehmann
  • Development tools: Andy Astor, daN Chang, Psychiatrist-Q, Rob Northern Computing
  • Thanks: Playmates Toys, Richard Dirtied, Becky Tran

Continuations

The play knew two continuations:

External bonds

  • Earthworm Jim FAN, all on the worm more removed from rim!

  • File on Earthworm Jim on the site Range Forever

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