Earthworm Jim: Difference between revisions
merging in PSP game |
|||
| Line 35: | Line 35: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|} |
|} |
||
===Cancelled Playstation Portable game== |
|||
''Earthworm Jim PSP'' is a [[List of cancelled video games|cancelled]] [[platform game|platform]] [[video game]] once in development by [[Shiny Entertainment]] and once to be published by [[Atari]]. It was going to be a retelling of the original ''[[Earthworm Jim]]'' game released for the [[Sega Mega Drive|Sega Mega Drive/Genesis]] and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], among other platforms. Atari released a variety of details relating to ''Earthworm Jim PSP''. They revealed a level resembling "New Junk City", as well as a level called "The Birds and the Bees", chronicling a war between the two factions. Earthworm Jim was also to feature two new moves which include "rocket boots" and the "Battery of the Gods", a power-up which would send Jim into a "super mode", in which he could fly, would be invulnerable, and could execute powerful melee combos. The game was to feature multiplayer support, where two players would be able to compete with each other for high scores. The game was to feature new characters, with only one being revealed called "Tapeworm Slim".{{fact|date=June 2007}} On [[18 June]], [[2007]], PSPFanboy stated on their website that they had contacted Atari and that it had been said that the game had been put on hold, probably due to Atari's financial difficulties, and it is unknown when work will be continued on the game again.<ref name="Earthworm Jim put on Hold">{{cite web|title=Earthworm Jim put on Hold|publisher=Joystiq|url=http://www.pspfanboy.com/2007/06/18/earthworm-jim-put-on-hold/|accessdate=2007-07-02}}</ref> |
|||
==Common elements== |
==Common elements== |
||
Revision as of 01:35, 24 April 2008
The 'Earthworm Jim series, is a console action-adventure game series.
Development
![[icon]](./wiki.php?slug=File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |
Shiny have also made references to Earthworm Jim in their later titles; their game Sacrifice features an earthworm-like god called James, and there were additional references in the game MDK. Over ten years after its original release, Earthworm Jim was the featured game in Nintendo Power's first ever edition of Playback. On the PC CD-ROM version of the game there is an Assets folder, containing a PC desktop theme and another folder named EWJ_DT00. This folder contains a picture of a boy wearing a white Snoopy shirt standing next to a screen, the words "Tin with 1,000,000 points in Activision's Laser Blast, from 1982." written in white at the top. The remaining file is a wave file 26 seconds long of someone cussing while playing Earthworm Jim, with increasing frustration due to repeatedly "getting hurt" on the game. The music for "What the Heck?" initially starts with the opening of the tone poem Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, but then quickly cuts to elevator music. In 1999, Interplay had plans to make several of its games into movies, with Earthworm Jim being one of them. Since then, no movie was ever made. Earthworm Jim 3D paid tribute to the original Earthworm Jim, by having Jim initiate a "Fridge Launch" in the first level, similar to how a "Cow Launch" occurred in the first level of the original. Unlike Earthworm Jim, which had a single cow occasionally fly by in the level background, five fridges were launched (six in the PC version). In the PC version, the first fridge falls on Jim in the intro (In the Nintendo 64 version, this fridge was replaced by an N64 logo). The other four fridges landed on characters just as Jim helped them out, with one fridge in each brain. Seeing the fridge for Fear is entirely optional. Humorously, the fridge in Fantasy missed its target, but a safe containing a Golden Udder inexplictably falls instead. The joke climaxes by having the final fridge fall on top of Jim in the game's ending.
Games
| Title | Year | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthworm Jim | Game Boy | ||
| Earthworm Jim 2 | Super Nintendo | ||
| Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy | Super Famicom | ||
| Earthworm Jim 3D
Released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana |
PlayStation |
=Cancelled Playstation Portable game
Earthworm Jim PSP is a cancelled platform video game once in development by Shiny Entertainment and once to be published by Atari. It was going to be a retelling of the original Earthworm Jim game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, among other platforms. Atari released a variety of details relating to Earthworm Jim PSP. They revealed a level resembling "New Junk City", as well as a level called "The Birds and the Bees", chronicling a war between the two factions. Earthworm Jim was also to feature two new moves which include "rocket boots" and the "Battery of the Gods", a power-up which would send Jim into a "super mode", in which he could fly, would be invulnerable, and could execute powerful melee combos. The game was to feature multiplayer support, where two players would be able to compete with each other for high scores. The game was to feature new characters, with only one being revealed called "Tapeworm Slim".[citation needed] On 18 June, 2007, PSPFanboy stated on their website that they had contacted Atari and that it had been said that the game had been put on hold, probably due to Atari's financial difficulties, and it is unknown when work will be continued on the game again.[1]
Common elements
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |
All the games in the series are platformer games with quirky humor.
Music
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |
Television series
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |
Future
Earthworm Jim 4 has been announced.
Reception
| Game | Metacritic | Game Rankings |
|---|---|---|
| Earthworm Jim (Game Boy Advance) | ||
| Earthworm Jim 2 (Game Boy Advance) | ||
| Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy | ||
| Earthworm Jim 3D |
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |
Earthworm Jim was rated the 114th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Powers Top 200 Games list.[6]
References
- ^ "Earthworm Jim put on Hold". Joystiq. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^ "Earthworm Jim". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ "Earthworm Jim 2". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ "Legend of Mana — PS". Game Rankings. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "Sword of Mana — GBA". Game Rankings. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ "NP Top 200", Nintendo Power, vol. 200, pp. 58–66, February 2006
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: year (link).