The SNES had superior color and sound to the Genesis. Why would they release the inferior version on VC??? Are we also going to get the inferior Genesis versions of Street Fighter II as well???

crescentfresh

@Mike Fahey: wonder who that woman is??? I also wonder who is driving you from Phoenix to Blizzcon.......;P

Dionyza

At least its the mega drive version!

(the SNES version sucked)

plutoknight

LAWLS

"You guys have better food, better women (with notable exceptions!), and better VC games. Next World War we're staying home.

Unless of course we start it."

AlanR

The Earthworm Jim games are both coming to Good Old Games for $5.99 (together). Just buy that, plug in a 360 game pad, and use XPadder to configure the controls. Easy!

Though if you don't have a 360 controller, I guess it's more expensive!

guitarzan2k5

@Mike Fahey:
Wah... oh right.
You mean best women exceptions, not exceptions with european women. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

fadecy

Ugh, I guess this means no SNES versions on VC. lame.

NukaCola

wtf??? They have to get this game in North America ... I have been waiting for this since the Virtual Console was released and I bought my g/f points just so i could play this game. I'm gonna go insane if this isn't released soon.

insane1220

@teh_joe: I gave up on envying Japan when my envy manifested itself as a giant tentacle monster and destroyed Tokyo.

Mike Fahey

@Đipic:
It's subconcious.

What did he mean as with exceptions then?
It wasn't a genral with exceptions, the ! hinted that he was poking fun at something.

fadecy

@fadecy: Actually that was covering my ass in case a certain American woman took offense. ;)

Mike Fahey

@fadecy: I see your link and raise you a [en.wikipedia.org]).

For every good dish there's ten bad ones :p.

I'm kidding of course. It's a matter of opinion. But still, blood pooding and pig offal?

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

You guys have better food, better women (with notable exceptions!), and better VC games.

wait, i thought you were talking about Europe and not Japan? ;)

teh_joe

I have still have the cart of Earthworm Jim myself, not to mention a rom of it on my computer but I would soo buy it if it gets released here on the VC.

Yes, I do like throwing my money away. :(

Đipic

@fadecy: Wha... how did you manage to get that out of his statement? What I find even more bizarre is that you think any man who finds unshaven armpits unattractive a pedophile.

Đipic

Hope this will present our soil-crawling hero to new generations.

Am I the only one that wants a new game (2Dish, for the love of God! 3D was the lamest thing ever!)? If not, an HD remake (again, in 2D with 2D animation, as cartoony as it was always meant to be!!)

Earthworm Jim Re-Soiled!

Rod_F

I dropped acid one night in college and played and beat Earthworm Jim 2. I think that may go down as one of the most messed up nights of my life.

penetraitor

When i was a little kid me and my brothers rented shining forces two, and the catridge was messed up so you couldnt save at all. We played it for 2 days straight in shifts, got pretty far as i remember too past the part where u fight on the giant chessboard. Then we all fell asleep on the floor and mom came along and "bloop" shut of the sega. Wen we woke up and told her what she had done she went out and bought us a copy of the game. I got a great mom.:)

Thejamielynch

Genesis and not SNES? That's odd. I vastly preferred every interplay game on the SNES for sound alone.

dynendal

Man, I want a new Earthworm Jim game. With handdrawn graphics and complete voice over. David Perry, get cracking!

Poison

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.:
[en.wikipedia.org]

CURRY! Yorkshire puds! etc, etc.

fadecy

Oh Shining Force II how I loved you. I always used some code where you could name every character in the game before starting a new file. I wonder if that will still work. To this day I have no idea what their actual names are haha.

YorickB

'better women (with notable exceptions!)'

Was that a joke at some european women with hair under their arms?

Oh yeah I forget, manly men like girls that look like 13 year olds.

Anyways... YAY earthworm JIM... I have that on a disce for pc, don't need to install it or anything. Not great to play with a keyboard though.

fadecy

Better food? Sorry, fried pigs blood does not constitute food.

Although having earthworm jim does make me jealous. Even if I too own the cart.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

Well for those of us not in Europe, Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 are up on gog.com for PC.

Pantsman

@Tempestora: That sounds like Wild 9, which came out for the PSX (and originally was going to come out for the Sega Saturn, which was canceled the month it started getting advertised as such in the magazines). It had the byline right on the cover, "Torture Your Enemies", and like EWJ, had character designs by Doug TenNapel. It was okay, but nothing to write home about.

What WOULD have been worth writing home about would have been a new EWJ using the Wild 9 engine. That would have been fun.

relic1980

@AlanR:

Ahem,
Your lot stayed at home for most of both world wars.
You really are terrible allies, even when you do get going you have a habit of bombing us instead of the enemy.
>;-)

Weirdwolf

Are you implying that instead of invading other countries for Oil Resources, you plan to secretly invade the entire continent of Europe and bugger off with all our woman and food? What would we survive on? Oh yeah, our superior Beer...:) (Yes, Beer is so important it deserves a capital 'B')

shufflemoomin

I have the Sega CD version of this. Has frequent loading times (picture of EWJ loading a truck ^_^) but it also has better music and a new level (featuring that loveable, uh, whatever it was thing named Big Bruty). I recall the Genny version having a level the SNES version didn't have as well.

Just one of a number of great games for the Sega CD that didn't involve FMV...

relic1980

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.:

A true black pudding is wonderful, unfortunately it really needs to be home-made, some of the shop bought stuff is terrible.
Do knock "offal" until you try it, don't forget that a lot of French cuisine,(arguable the pinnacle of food,) includes it and is from other places renamed with a French name.
If anybody thinks they don't eat offal they have not eaten a hamburger or sausages. The difference is that we at least know what we are eating.

Weirdwolf

I remember reading Games magazines when I was still a young sprog. Everyone seems to have fond memories of David Perry, but I remember him being an prime suspect when it came to over hyping new releases.

I also remember a game he made that I've to this day never played, but involved using psychic powers to throw people at fatal environmental hazards, and each level began with a free fall ala MDK/MDK2

I would love to play Earthworm Jim again. I would settle for watching the cartoon though.

Tempestora

While I enjoy playing Earthworm Jim on my trusty SEGA, it would be nice to have it on my Wii.

Screw Europe, USA wants it now.

...I guess I'll go back to playing my XBLA Duke Nukem.

Boba.Fett

Yyyyeah, no. You're forgetting that we Europeans are getting inferior, squashed, 1/5th slower versions of all but a very, very few Mega Drive, SNES and NES games. I'd rather have to wait a week longer for a full-speed, full-screen version of the game.

The worst part of this was when I felt all proud for completing Super Ghouls & Ghosts, and then discovered that they'd nerfed the difficulty on the European version. Damn you, PAL!

MrPerson

@crescentfresh: I disagree...on the Genesis it also SOUNDED better. The SNES version's audio was kinda broken, missing a ton of sound effects. Same is true of EWJ2.

DorkimusPrime

Earthworm Jim, yeah, great, that's ni--HOLY SHIT SHINING FORCE II!!!!!

DorkimusPrime

@Weirdwolf: We've improved! Now we know exactly what we're doing when we bomb you instead ;)

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

@Weirdwolf: I know. I'm teasing (mostly) I'm second generation Scottish. Have you seen some of the shit we eat?

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

I wish they would complete the remake for the PSP...

Marduk

Earthworm Jim 1+2 will also come out on GOG.com (Good Old Games) next week for 5.99$.

I think I'll save my Wii points this time around (I have more Freespace - pun intended - on my PC).

ClementXVII

"You guys have better food"

In what capacity?

Mommar

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.: Fried pigs blood is fucking amazing.

-Hairball-

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.:

Haggis, wonderful stuff, deep fried mars bars and Irn Bru not so much.

Weirdwolf

@-Hairball-: We are talking about blood-pudding right? Ye, that stuff is the best. I eat with strawberry jam though which might be a bit unorthodox. You either love it or hate it though. On a side note, where are you from? Thought we just ate that stuff in Scandinavia.

SS Ymer

I wonder why someone would think of british food when the "better european food" is mentioned ?

Hey, it was about the good food - not the equally bad ( or even worse ) cuisine than the american.

Golwar

This might be the only time I've ever seen an American say that Europe has better food.

ajnewman

I really miss the Shiny creativity. Good old times...

Gambly

It was, I wiki;d it later (at work) and you were correct! Wonderful!

That only leaves vague memories of an RTS game with Mechs in released around 97/99 that I still can't remember.

But at least I've got one!

Tempestora

Groovy!

Winterbringer

Shining Force II is easily one of my top 5 Gen games. It was so Epic.

lunarcore

@DorkimusPrime:

I was making kind of a blanket statement in this case. It's very possible that in this instance, the Genesis version was superior. Overall though, if a game was released for both systems, the SNES version generally had crisper colors, and superior sound.

crescentfresh

Earthworm Jim 1 & 2 have the greatest soundtracks of any game. They also have amazing art.

Zenrick2.0

@Mike Fahey:
You summoned Cthulhu to destroy Tokyo? õ_õ

Combichristoffersen

@Deathcrazy:
day*

Deathcrazy

Eathworm Jim was the best back in the it needs to come to the VC

Deathcrazy

@dynendal: The music on the SNES versions of EWJ was a little better, but they had almost no speech. Which was odd, considering speech on the Mega Drive sounds like "GFFFFFY".

Kirbysuperstar

@YorickB: It worked with Shining Force I on the Virtual Console, and generally that stuff is ported over as well, so I hope to be renaming my ninja rat in the near future!

gramblor

... better women?

Mr Fahey, have you ever met Amy Winehouse?

Google Image the name and you'll see what I mean.

FanBuoy

@shufflemoomin: Damn right it does! :D

This is definately good news (the VC stuff) Can´t wait to download em :D

Rimfrost

Screw you, Fahey! You Anti-European-VC-ist!
"Boohoohoo, I'm Fahey and I have to pull out a physical cartridge to play Earthworm Jim."

Protector one

@FanBuoy: The day we use Amy Winehouse as a representative for British women is the day I lose all faith in humanity.

Nosignalinput

oh my god i can't wait till these are released in the states.

FlapDangerous